When Mother Took Her Hair Down – Sigrun Susan Lane
Sigrun Susan Lane’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a collection of poems about her immigrant family and their origins in Iceland. In her conversation with curator Kathleen Alcalá, they discuss Icelandic folklore such as the little people, the influence of Icelandic poet Jakobína Johnson on her life, and the importance of poets in Icelandic society. “They’re really admired and looked up to because they continue the tradition of the sagas, which is Iceland’s great contribution to literature . . . and so people are valued for that. The Rimur are valued for their work.”
Music by Greg Kramer, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
