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Thursday, January 30, 2025, 7:00 pm

Tom Sanders Memorial Reading: Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Nation)

at the University of Arizona Poetry Center

1508 E. Helen St., Tucson, AZ 85719

Cost: Free

Amerind is proud to be one of the sponsors of this event.

The 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.

Kimberly 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.”

An 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.

In addition to the in-person reading, most Reading & Lecture Series events are streamed live on the poetry center’s website.

Her 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.