The University of Arizona Press
Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Time: 11:30 a.m., EST
Place: Kray Hall, Poet’s House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282
Kimbery Blaeser, author of Ancient Light: Poems, joins Chris Hoshnic and Elise Paschen at the panel discussion “Translational Migrations: Indigenous Languages and Bilingual Poetics” at Kray Hall in New York City. This Poet’s House Indigenous Poetics forum is free and open to the public. Blaeser is a former Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of In-Na-Po, Indigenous Nations Poets.
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.
