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.

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