Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kim Blaeser will present a reading and talk at the Lake Geneva Public Library on Wednesday, March 23, at 6:30 p.m.
Blaeser will share key pieces from her current creative collection of “Picto-Poems,” which combine nature and wildlife photographs with her acclaimed poetry. Blaeser often takes her photographs while on nature expeditions, and her “Picto-Poems” explore intersecting ideas about native place, nature, preservation, and spiritual sustenance. Blaeser has been deemed “a brilliant naturalist” by critic Tom Gannon, and her program will be given in honor of Wisconsin’s greatest naturalist, author Aldo Leopold. The free program is sponsored by the Friends of the Lake Geneva Public Library.
Blaeser is of Anishinaabe ancestry and is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and a native of White Earth Reservation in northwestern Minnesota. She appreciates the opportunity to live with her family in the woods and wetlands of rural Wisconsin in Lyons Township.
Author of three collections of poetry: Apprenticed to Justice, Absentee Indians and Other Poems, and Trailing You, Blaeser’s work creates harmonies between the vibrant natural world and the resonant human imagination.
Blaeser was also the editor of Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry.
Blaeser was appointed as Wisconsin Poet Laureate for the 2015-2016 term and is a Professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she teaches Creative Writing and Native American Literatures.
In selecting Blaeser, the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission praised her passion for the arts and her ability to reach broad audiences through poems that explore her Native culture, poems of place and community, poems of witness, family poems, poems centered in women’s experience, and poems with a sly sense of humor.
For more information, call the Lake Geneva Public Library at (262) 249-5299 or visit www.lakegeneva.lib.wi.us.
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