The University of Arizona Press
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2024
Time: 3:30 pm, CST
Where: Sky Room, 16th floor of Holmes Student Center, Northern Illinois University, 340 Carroll Ave., DeKalb, IL
Ojibwe poet Kimberly Blaeser will read from her book, Ancient Light at Northern Illinois University.
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.
