The University of Arizona Press
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.
