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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Kimberly Blaeser
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin the Amerind in Tucson\nThursday, January 30, 2025, 7:00 pm\nTom Sanders Memorial Reading: Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Nation)\nat the University of Arizona Poetry Center\n1508 E. Helen St., Tucson, AZ 85719\nCost: Free\nAmerind is proud to be one of the sponsors of this event.\nThe Tom Sanders Memorial Reading  ( https://poetry.arizona.edu/tom-sanders-memorial-reading )is an annual presentation in the Poetry Center’s Reading and Lecture series. Established by the generosity of Tom’s friends in 2017, this event features writers who were former students at the University of Arizona, writers who were formerly or currently members of the University of Arizona faculty, writers with strong ties to Southern Arizona, or University of Arizona Press authors. This year, The Poetry Center is proud to present Kimberly Blaeser.\nKimberly Blaeser, poet, photographer, and scholar, is past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets. She is the author of six poetry collections including Ancient Light, Copper Yearning, and Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance. Her photographs and picto-poems have appeared in exhibits such as “Visualizing Sovereignty,” and “No More Stolen Sisters.”\nAn enrolled member of White Earth Nation, Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist whose accolades include a Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. Blaeser is an MFA faculty member at Institute of American Indian Arts and Professor Emerita at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.\nIn addition to the in-person reading, most Reading & Lecture Series events are streamed live on the poetry center’s website ( https://poetry.arizona.edu/live ).\nHer title, Ancient Light, Poems, published by Uof A Press, is now available at the Amerind Museum Store for $18. Call 520-586-3666 for a copy.\n \n
URL:https://www.amerind.org/events/poetry-reading-with-kimberly-blaeser/
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LOCATION:1508 E. Helen St., Tucson, AZ.
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