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Online – Let’s Animate! Poetry Craft Talk and Workshop with Heid E. Erdrich
Join the Minnesota Humanities Center for an engaging and interactive online poetry craft talk and workshop! Featuring her most recent collection, “Verb Animate,” this workshop will be led by esteemed writer and the first poet laureate of the City of Minneapolis, Heid E. Erdrich.
In this session, participants will dip into creative activities using poems and prompts from “Verb Animate.” Heid will also read poems from this collection and share more about its creation; each poem included arose from a collaborative act with another poet or artist. Whether you are a seasoned poet or just beginning, don’t miss this opportunity to write and learn more about community centered, collaborative poetry.
Blood Wolf Moon at Magic City Books
On Tuesday, April 15, we’ll be at the Tulsa Historical Society & Museum to celebrate the release of Elise Paschen’s newest poetry collection BLOOD WOLF MOON, an exploration of her identity and Osage roots. This free event will start at 7pm and is open to all!
Elise Paschen's Blood Wolf Moon Book Launch
Celebrate Elise Paschen’s book release for Blood Wolf Moon and Poetry guest editor Esther Belin’s special March issue on Diné Poetics. Osage artists June Carpenter and Lydia Cheshewalla will also give artist talks.The presentation will be followed by a reception.
POWER LINES FROM THE POETS:
“ 𐓧𐓪 ̄ 𐓡𐓪 ̋ 𐓱𐓘 lǫǫhóohtą We thunder
𐓡𐓣 ̋ híi while our teeth
𐓣́𐓟 íe talk.”
—Elise Paschen, 𐓷𐓘𐓧𐓟́𐓺𐓟/Waléze/Stationery
Kimberly Blaeser at Milkweed Books celebrating Creature Conserve
Milkweed Editions in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Press present Creature Conservation hosted by Claire Wahmanholm, featuring Charles Baxter, Kimberly Blaeser, and Sean Hill.
The event will feature readings from the new collection Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation out with University of Minnesota Press out on January 21. Claire Wahmanholm will then host a panel that centers on craft and art activism for creature conservation.
Heid Erdrich - Minneapolis American Indian Center Poet Laureate Celebration
Heid Erdrich - Minneapolis American Indian Center Poet Laureate Celebration
Kimberly Blaeser Reading with Elise Pachen & Kenzie Allen
Kimberly Blaeser Reading with Elise Pachen & Kenzie Allen
Center for Indigenous Futures,
56 W Adams St,
Chicago, IL
Kinsale Drake book launch at Milkweed Books with Heid E. Erdrich
IN PERSON: KINSALE DRAKE BOOK LAUNCH WITH HEID E. ERDRICH
Please join us as we welcome debut poet KINSALEDRAKE to Milkweed Books to read from her collection The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket. She will be joined by Minneapolis Poet Laureate HEID E. ERDRICH.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket traverses the Southwest landscape, exploring intricate relationships between Native peoples and the natural world, land, pop culture, twentieth-century music, and multi-generational representations. Oscillating between musical influences, including the repercussions of ethno-musicology, and the present/past/future, the collection rewrites and re-rights what it means to be Indigenous, queer, and even formerly-emo in the…
Kimberly Blaeser - Reading & Conversation with Kenzie Allen
Kimberly Blaeser Reading & Conversation with Kenzie Allen.
Milkweed Books,
1011 Washington Avenue South, Suite 107,
Minneapolis, MN
Kimberly Blaeser - Talk/Reading, “Art and Indigenous Flourishing
Kimberly Blaeser - Talk/Reading, “Art and Indigenous Flourishing,”
Museum of Wisconsin Art,
205 Veterans Ave.,
West Bend, WI
Kimberly Blaeser - Keynote Reading. Eau Claire University Inter-Tribal Student Council
Kimberly Blaeser - Keynote Reading. Eau Claire University Inter-Tribal Student Council
Heid Erdrich Group Reading at Moon Palace
Moon Palace Books - Group Reading with Heid Erdrich & Sarra-bration
Gerald Vizenor & Kimberly Blaeser - Inaugural Reading & Lecture
Gerald Vizenor & Kimberly Blaeser Inaugural Reading & Lecture,
Pillsbury Hall 412,
310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN
Chippewa Valley Writers 12-Hour Writing Retreat with Kimberly Blaeser
Chippewa Valley Writers 12-Hour Writing Retreat with Kimberly Blaeser,
The Forage, Eau Claire, WI.
9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Kimberly Blaeser - Reading
Kimberly Blaeser - Reading - Dotters Books, Eau Claire Wisconsin
Kimberly Blaeser - Virtual Reading, Third Act Wisconsin, “Climate Justice.”
Kimberly Blaeser - Virtual Reading, Third Act Wisconsin, “Climate Justice.”
Kimberly Blaeser - Writing Workshop "Poetry of Spirit and Witness,"
Kimberly Blaeser - Writing Workshop "Poetry of Spirit and Witness," Björklunden, Baileys Harbor, Door County Wisconsin
Kimberly Blaeser - Indigenous People’s Day Readings
Readings, Indigenous People’s Day with Wade Fernandez, Colin & Friends Concerts, Door County, WI.
Owamni/Falls Festival come Build-a-Poem with Heid!
Owámni: Falling Water Festival, a celebration of indigenous Minnesota cultures. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, October 12, 2024 at Mill Ruins Park and Water Works Park.
Owámni is what the Dakota called the area at St. Anthony Falls. It means, “whirling or falling water” in the Dakota language, making it an appropriate name for this festival along the Mississippi River.
This free, family-friendly event is co-presented by the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board and the St Anthony Falls Heritage Board to celebrate indigenous Minnesota culture with music, art, food, and more!
Kimberly Blaeser - Reading, Panel, & Workshop; “Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference”
Kimberly Blaeser - Reading, Panel, &Workshop; “Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference,” Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, University of Arizona, Tempe, AZ
Thursday, October 10, 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm: Reading
Friday, October 11, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm: Indigenous Narratives Now Panel (with Sherwin Bitsui, Debra Magpie Earling, and Deborah Taffa)
Saturday, October 12, 10:30 am - 11:45 am: Workshop, “Please Ban this Poem: Writing in a Time of Censorship”
Heid Erdrich Book Signing
Heid Erdrich Book Signing
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Trio House Press Rain Taxi/Book Festival
Kimberly Blaeser - “Languages of The Land,” - Write On, Door County Gala
Kimberly Blaeser - Keynote Reading, “Languages of The Land,” Write On, Door County Gala
Build-a-Poem with Heid
Come Build-a-poem with Heid Erdrich
All My Relations Arts on Franklin