Event Category: Reading & Signing

Author Stephen Strom at Colorado State University

When: Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Time: 5-8 p.m., MDT

Where: Colorado State University Student Center, 1101 Center Ave. Mall, Fort Collins, CO

Stephen E. Strom will be part of a feature panel discussion for the 75th Anniversary of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac at CSU’s Lory Student Center. Strom will be joining other speakers in discussing “the importance of people, land and animals in effective conservation.”

This in-person event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the event page.

About the Forging a Sustainable Southwest:

Forging a Sustainable Southwest introduces readers to four conservation efforts that provide insight into how diverse groups of citizens have worked collaboratively to develop visions for land use that harmonized sometimes conflicting ecological, economic, cultural, and community needs. Through the voices of more than seventy individuals involved in these efforts, we learn how they’ve developed plans for protecting, restoring, and stewarding lands sustainably; the management and funding tools they’ve used; and their perceptions of the challenges that remain and how to meet them.

 

Poet Kim Blaeser Reads at Milkweed Books in Minneapolis

Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Time: 6-7 p.m., CDT

Where: Milkweed Books, 1011 Washington Ave. South, Suite 107, Minneapolis, MN

Kimberly Blaeser, will give a talk and read from her book, Ancient Light, at Milkweed Books in Minneapolis. Joining her in conversation is Kenzie Allen. Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist enrolled at White Earth Nation. She is professor emerita at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an Institute of American Indian Arts MFA faculty member.

About the book:

Elegiac and powerful, Ancient Light uses lyric, narrative, and concrete poems to give voice to some of the most pressing ecological and social issues of our time.

With vision and resilience, Kimberly Blaeser’s poetry layers together past, present, and futures. Against a backdrop of pandemic loss and injustice, MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), hidden graves at Native American boarding schools, and destructive environmental practices, Blaeser’s innovative poems trace pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal. They celebrate the solace of natural spaces through sense-laden geo-poetry and picto-poems. With an Anishinaabe sensibility, her words and images invoke an ancient belonging and voice the deep relatedness she experiences in her familiar watery regions of Minnesota.

Poets Denise Low and Kimberly Blaeser in San Francisco

Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Time: 7 p.m., PST

Where: Bird & Beckett, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco

Poet Denise Low will read from her book, House of Grace, House of Blood: Poems, and Kimberly Blaeser will read from her book, Ancient Light, at San Francisco’s at Bird & Beckett. Poet Kim Shuck will also read from her work. Low is a former Kansas Poet Laureate and a founding board member of Indigenous Nations Poets. Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist enrolled at White Earth Nation. She is a professor emerita at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an Institute of American Indian Arts MFA faculty member.

This in-person event is free and open to the public.

About House of Grace, House of Blood:

Intertwining a lyrical voice with historical texts, Low brings fresh urgency to the Gnadenhutten Massacre. In 1782, a renegade Pennsylvania militia killed ninety-six pacificist Christian Delawares (Lenapes) in Ohio. Those who escaped, including Indigenous eyewitnesses, relayed their accounts of the atrocity. Like Layli Longsoldier’s Whereas and Simon Ortiz’s from Sand Creek, Low delves into a critical incident of Indigenous peoples’ experiences. Readers will explore with the poet how trauma persists through hundreds of years, and how these peoples have survived and flourished in the subsequent generations.

About Ancient Light:

Elegiac and powerful, Ancient Light uses lyric, narrative, and concrete poems to give voice to some of the most pressing ecological and social issues of our time. With vision and resilience, Kimberly Blaeser’s poetry layers together past, present, and futures. Against a backdrop of pandemic loss and injustice, MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), hidden graves at Native American boarding schools, and destructive environmental practices, Blaeser’s innovative poems trace pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal. They celebrate the solace of natural spaces through sense-laden geo-poetry and picto-poems. With an Anishinaabe sensibility, her words and images invoke an ancient belonging and voice the deep relatedness she experiences in her familiar watery regions of Minnesota.

Poet Kim Blaeser in Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Date: Friday, October 25, 2024

Time: 6:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m., CDT

Where: Dotters Books, 307 S. Barstow St., Eau Claire, WI

Former Wisconsin Poet Laureates Kimberly Blaser, author of Ancient Light, and Max Garland, author of Into the Good World Again, will speak and read poetry as part of Dotters Book’s “Poets In Conversation” event. Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist enrolled at White Earth Nation. She is a professor emerita at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an Institute of American Indian Arts MFA faculty member. Garland was born and raised in western Kentucky. He received numerous fellowships and an inclusion in Best American Short Stories. He is currently Professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

This event is hosted by Chippewa Valley Writers Guild. Books will be available for purchase. This in-person event is free and open to the public.

About Ancient Light:

Elegiac and powerful, Ancient Light uses lyric, narrative, and concrete poems to give voice to some of the most pressing ecological and social issues of our time.

With vision and resilience, Kimberly Blaeser’s poetry layers together past, present, and futures. Against a backdrop of pandemic loss and injustice, MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), hidden graves at Native American boarding schools, and destructive environmental practices, Blaeser’s innovative poems trace pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal. They celebrate the solace of natural spaces through sense-laden geo-poetry and picto-poems. With an Anishinaabe sensibility, her words and images invoke an ancient belonging and voice the deep relatedness she experiences in her familiar watery regions of Minnesota.

Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan Discussion Panel in Tucson

When: Monday, November 4, 2024

Time: 10 a.m., MST

Where: Copper Room, Pima County Historic Courthouse, 115 N. Church Ave, Tucson

Stephen E. Strom will speak about his book, Forging a Sustainable Southwest: The Power of Collaborative Conservation and Pima County’s Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. Strom will be joined by Karen Simms, Division Manager with Pima County’s new Conservation Lands and Resources Department, and Julia Fonseca, now retired from the County’s Office of Sustainability and Conservation.  The panel will be moderated by Larry Fisher, adjunct professor at the University of Arizona’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment. This free event is co-hosted by the Cienega Watershed Partnership and Pima County Conservation Lands and Resources. Forging a Sustainable Southwest will be available for purchase, and the author will be signing books.

About the book:

Forging a Sustainable Southwest introduces readers to four conservation efforts that provide insight into how diverse groups of citizens have worked collaboratively to develop visions for land use that harmonized sometimes conflicting ecological, economic, cultural, and community needs. Through the voices of more than seventy individuals involved in these efforts, we learn how they’ve developed plans for protecting, restoring, and stewarding lands sustainably; the management and funding tools they’ve used; and their perceptions of the challenges that remain and how to meet them.

Arizona Book Launch for Rafael Martínez’s “Illegalized”

Date: Friday, October 18, 2024

Time: 6-8 p.m., MST

Where: ASU Chandler Innovation Center, 249 E. Chicago St., Chandler, AZ

Rafael Martínez will launch his book Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States, on Friday, October 18, at Arizona State University Chandler Innovation Center. He will read from his work,  and books will be available for purchase and signing; the event is free and open to the public.

About the book:

Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States takes readers on a journey through the history of the rise of undocumented youth social movements in the United States in the twenty-first century. The book follows the documentation trail of undocumented youth activists spanning over two decades of organizing. Each chapter carefully analyzes key organizing strategies used by undocumented youth to produce direct forms of activism that expose and critique repressive forms of state control and violence. This inquiry is particularly generative in relation to how immigrant bodies are erased, contained, and imagined as “aliens” or “illegal.”

Los Angeles Book Launch for Rafael Martínez’s “Illegalized”

Date: Friday, November 8, 2024

Time: 6-8 p.m., PDT

Where: ASU California Center, 1111 S. Broadway Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA

Rafael Martínez will launch his book Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States, on Friday, November 8, at the Arizona State University (ASU) California Center.  Martinez will be in convesation with Jennifer Najera, Associate Professor in Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside (UCR). Books will be available for purchase and the author will sign books; the event is free and open to the public. The book launch is presented by ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, UCR English Department, Global Latinidades Project, and UCR Ethnic Studies Department.

About the book:

Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States takes readers on a journey through the history of the rise of undocumented youth social movements in the United States in the twenty-first century. The book follows the documentation trail of undocumented youth activists spanning over two decades of organizing. Each chapter carefully analyzes key organizing strategies used by undocumented youth to produce direct forms of activism that expose and critique repressive forms of state control and violence. This inquiry is particularly generative in relation to how immigrant bodies are erased, contained, and imagined as “aliens” or “illegal.”

Kimberly Blaeser at Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2024

Time: 4 p.m., CST

Where: Boswell Books Milwaukee, 2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Kimberly Blaeser, author of Ancient Light, will be featured in a poetry reading and conversation with James Crews at Boswell Books Milwaukee. This event will celebrate the edited volumes from Crews, that include Blaeser’s poetry. Blaeser will also read and poems from her book. Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist enrolled at White Earth Nation. She is a professor emerita at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an Institute of American Indian Arts MFA faculty member.

This in-person event is free and open to the public.

About the book:

Elegiac and powerful, Ancient Light uses lyric, narrative, and concrete poems to give voice to some of the most pressing ecological and social issues of our time.

With vision and resilience, Kimberly Blaeser’s poetry layers together past, present, and futures. Against a backdrop of pandemic loss and injustice, MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), hidden graves at Native American boarding schools, and destructive environmental practices, Blaeser’s innovative poems trace pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal. They celebrate the solace of natural spaces through sense-laden geo-poetry and picto-poems. With an Anishinaabe sensibility, her words and images invoke an ancient belonging and voice the deep relatedness she experiences in her familiar watery regions of Minnesota.

“Frontera Madre(hood)” Book Launch in Las Cruces, New Mexico

Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Time: 5-7 p.m., MDT

Where: Isabel Crouch Readers Theater, New Mexico State University, 1317-1467 International Mall, Las Cruces, NM, and online via Zoom.

Editors Cynthia Bejarano and Maria Cristina Morales celebrate their new book, Frontera Madre(hood): Brown Mothers Challenging Oppression and Transborder Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border with a panel of contributors at New Mexico State University. Panelists include Bertha Bermudez Tapia (NMSU), Paula Flores Bonilla (Cd. Juárez community activist), Paola Isabel Nava Gonzales (border artist), Taide Elena (Border Patrol Victims Network), and Marisa S. Torres (SDSU and UCSD).  Other book contributors attending the event will be available for questions during the Q&A component of the presentation, and during the reception to follow.

The University bookstore will sell the book at the reception. This event is free and open to the public.

Presentations will be in English and Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation available in-person and for zoom audience members.

About the book:

The topic of mothers and mothering transcends all spaces, from popular culture to intellectual thought and critique. This collection of essays bridges both methodological and theoretical frameworks to explore forms of mothering that challenge hegemonic understandings of parenting and traditional notions of Latinx womxnhood. It articulates the collective experiences of Latinx, Black, and Indigenous mothering from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Thirty contributors discuss their lived experiences, research, or community work challenging multiple layers of oppression, including militarization of the border, border security propaganda, feminicides, drug war and colonial violence, grieving and loss of a child, challenges and forms of resistance by Indigenous mothers, working mothers in maquiladoras, queer mothering, academia and motherhood, and institutional barriers by government systems to access affordable health care and environmental justice. Also central to this collection are questions on how migration and detention restructure forms of mothering. Overall, this collection encapsulates how mothering is shaped by the geopolitics of border zones, which also transcends biological, sociological, or cultural and gendered tropes regarding ideas of motherhood, who can mother, and what mothering personifies.

Poet Kim Blaeser in West Bend, Wisconsin

Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Time: 10:30-11:30 a.m., CDT

Where: Museum of Wisconsin Art, 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend, WI

Kimberly Blaeser, will give a talk and read from her book, Ancient Light, for the “Art and Indigenous Flourishing” event at the Museum of Wisconsin Art. Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist enrolled at White Earth Nation. She is professor emerita at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an Institute of American Indian Arts MFA faculty member. This in-person event is free and open to the public.

About the book:

Elegiac and powerful, Ancient Light uses lyric, narrative, and concrete poems to give voice to some of the most pressing ecological and social issues of our time.

With vision and resilience, Kimberly Blaeser’s poetry layers together past, present, and futures. Against a backdrop of pandemic loss and injustice, MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), hidden graves at Native American boarding schools, and destructive environmental practices, Blaeser’s innovative poems trace pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal. They celebrate the solace of natural spaces through sense-laden geo-poetry and picto-poems. With an Anishinaabe sensibility, her words and images invoke an ancient belonging and voice the deep relatedness she experiences in her familiar watery regions of Minnesota.

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