ONLINE: Kimberly Blaeser, Santee Frazier, Angie Trudell Vasquez, Joaquin Zihuatenejo

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John Fisher

Kimberly Blaeser, a professor at UW-Milwaukee and 2015-16 Wisconsin poet laureate.

Former Wisconsin poet laureate Kimberly Blaeser (pictured) and current Madison poet laureate Angela Trudell Vasquez will be joined by Joaquin Zihuantanejo and Santee Frazier (director of the Institute of American Indian Arts Low Residency MFA program) to mark Indigenous People's Day. Blaeser writes with intimacy of the lives of Native Americans and of the natural world. Vasquez is a longtime social justice activist and poet of witness, as well as a poet of play and of place. Join this Wisconsin Book Festival event on Crowdcast.

press release: This reading by alumni, mentors, and the current director of the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program is a gathering of poetic voices who all identify as Indigenous. This reading will be as diverse as it is enthralling. These poets, who come from all parts of the country and the state of Wisconsin, have committed themselves to the act of rewriting the literary landscape by proving that Indigenous poetics is both vital and vibrant. Spend Indigenous People's Day with current city of Madison Poet Laureate, Angela C. Trudell Vasquez; former Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Kimberly Blaeser; Joaquin Zihuantanejo, winner of the Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize for Poetry; and Santee Frazier, award winning poet and current director of the Institute of American Indian Arts Low Residency MFA Program as they read from their latest collections. This will be an evening to remember. 

Join the event at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/wbf-indigenous-poetics. Before the event begins, you will see a countdown and the event image.