indigeneity

Michael Wasson reads poems primarily from his first full-length collection, Swallowed Light (2022), which inhabits both the fragmented self and the tensions of language and history experienced by Wasson's Nimíipuu community. Part of the Distinguished Visitors in Creative Writing Series, this reading was originally given with Jennifer Elise Foerster.

Jennifer Elise Foerster reads from The Maybe-Bird (2022), her third book of poetry. Her poems and commentary center on themes of poetry as deep listening, layered voices, and created forms that expand and circle back on themselves. Foerster closes with two short poems in Mvskoke. Part of the Distinguished Visitors in Creative Writing Series, this reading was originally given with Michael Wasson.

Kimberly Blaeser reads from Ancient Light (2024), her sixth poetry collection, which reflects on the effects of colonization and searches for ways that all people can survive, heal, and thrive. Blaeser closes with several poems from an earlier collection, Copper Yearning (2019), as well as one uncollected poem. Throughout, major themes include water, kinship, witnessing to loss, and solidarity in community.