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Tulsa City-County Library’s biennial Festival of Words, a celebration of the richness and variety of indigenous cultures, will take place Saturday, March 2, at Hardesty Regional Library’s Connor’s Cove, 8316 E. 93rd St.

The free, daylong festival will feature the presentation of the Festival of Words Writers Award, which will be presented to poet Laura Tohe.

Tohe (Diné, Tsénahabiłnii, Sleepy Rock People clan, and born for the Tódich’inii, Bitter Water clan) has published several volumes of poetry including “Making Friends with Water” and “No Parole Today,” as well as the oral history “Code Talker Stories.”

She has also written the libretto for the Mark Grey composition, “Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio,” which was commissioned by the Phoenix Symphony. A recording of the piece is available on the Naxos label. A professor emerita of Arizona State University, Tohe also served as Navajo Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017.

A book signing will follow the presentation of the award, which is a $5,000 honorarium and an engraved crystal book.