Please join us for a conversation with these two nationally-recognized writers about interdisciplinary practices and collaborations. Both poets have engaged in several inter-arts projects, including Laura Tohe’s libretto and Kim Blaeser’s photography and picto-poems, among others. Each also will read some of their poems during the conversation. Woodland Pattern Book Center will be present to sell books for the authors to sign.<\/p>\n
Kimberly Bleaser<\/strong>, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, is a past Wisconsin Poet Laureate, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets, an MFA faculty member at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and a Professor Emerita of English at UW-Milwaukee. She is currently a Vassar College Tatlock Fellow and the 2024 Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College. A recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, Blaeser is the author of six poetry collections, including\u00a0Ancient Light<\/em>, published this past January by The University of Arizona Press.<\/p>\n Laura Tohe<\/strong>\u00a0is Din\u00e9, Sleepy-Rock People clan, and born for the Bitter Water People clan. She is Professor Emerita with Distinction at Arizona State University and is the current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate. A multiple award-winning writer, Tohe’s published work include\u00a0Making Friends with Water<\/em>\u00a0(chapbook);\u00a0No Parole Today<\/em>, a book on boarding schools;\u00a0Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community<\/em>, co-edited with Heid Erdrich;\u00a0Tsey\u00ed Deep in the Rock<\/em>, in collaboration with photographer Stephen Strom; and\u00a0Code Talker Stories<\/em>, an oral history book with the remaining Navajo Code Talkers. \u00a0The Phoenix Symphony commissioned Tohe to write the libretto for\u00a0Enemy Slayer, A Navajo Oratorio<\/em>, which made its 2008 world premiere in France as part of the Phoenix Symphony\u2019s 60th anniversary.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Special Collections, 51ÁÔÆæ Libraries, and made possible as part of\u00a0the Woodland Pattern Book Center series\u00a0<\/em>Native Writers in the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0Century, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Please join us for a conversation with these two nationally-recognized writers about interdisciplinary practices and collaborations. Both poets have engaged in several inter-arts projects, including Laura Tohe’s libretto and Kim Blaeser’s photography and picto-poems, among others. Each also will read …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"tags":[36,31],"tribe_events_cat":[56,52,75,51,49],"class_list":["post-42992","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-events","tag-special-collections","tribe_events_cat-arts-and-culture","tribe_events_cat-faculty-and-staff","tribe_events_cat-front-page-event","tribe_events_cat-students","tribe_events_cat-uwm-campus-events","cat_arts-and-culture","cat_faculty-and-staff","cat_front-page-event","cat_students","cat_uwm-campus-events"],"yoast_head":"\n