Please join Native American Initiatives for an evening with Kimberly Blaeser. The event will feature readings from published works of poetry and will also debut new works. The dramatic performance will include scenes from a play debuting at the Menominee Nation in Wisconsin in 2012.
Kimberly Blaeser (Anishinaabe) is a poet, playwright, and essayist, and is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa tribe. She earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame, and her personal and academic interests include Native American oral tradition, colonization, and decolonization.
Blaeser’s poetry collections include Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry; Absentee Indians and Other Poems; and Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishnaabe Prose. Her fiction publications include The Oxford Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction by Native Women in the United States; Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing; Blue Dawn, Red Earth: New Native American Storytellers; and Earth Song, Sky Spirit: Short Stories of the Contemporary Native American Experience.
Sponsored by Native American Initiatives