Kimberly Blaeser

Kimberly 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, including Copper Yearning, Apprenticed to Justice, and Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance. An Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist, Blaeser is an enrolled member of White Earth Nation who grew up on the reservation. A Professor Emerita at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2024 Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College, and MFA faculty member for Institute of American Indian Arts, her accolades include a Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. Her book Ancient Light is forthcoming from University of Arizona Press in 2024.

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"When Her Body is a Battleground" 
This was also the featured poem for the Reverse Ekphrasis Art Show, a special project and show hosted in 2024.