Authentic Voice: A Writing Workshop

Kimberly M. Blaeser, past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of In-Na-Po—Indigenous Nations Poets, is a writer, photographer, and scholar. She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Copper Yearning, Apprenticed to Justice, and Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance. Her photographs, picto-poems, and ekphrastic pieces have appeared in exhibits such as “Visualizing Sovereignty,” and “No More Stolen Sisters.”

Blaeser, an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist, is an enrolled member of White Earth Nation who grew up on the reservation. A Professor Emerita at UW–Milwaukee and MFA faculty member for Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, her accolades include a Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas.

Blaeser lives in rural Wisconsin; and, for portions of each year, in a water-access cabin near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota. Her book, Ancient Light, is forthcoming from University of Arizona Press in 2024. LEARN MORE

Haymarket House is located at 800 W. Buena Avenue in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. There is limited, free parking in the building’s parking lot accessible via Clarendon. There is also free street parking nearby and parking for a fee at nearby Walter Disney Magnet School on Clarendon and Belle Plaine about a block away. The 146, 151, and 36 buses stop nearby. The CTA Red Line at Sheridan or Wilson is about 7 blocks away.

Haymarket House does not have a COVID-19 vaccination or masking policy. However, visitors are highly encouraged to wear masks.

This event is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.