Poetry Publications

Poetry Anthologies from the Last Ten Years

Other Poetry Publications

“Poem on Disappearance.” Living Nations, Living Words: A Map of First Peoples Poetry, curated by Joy Harjo, Library of Congress, 2020. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020785226/  and https://www.loc.gov/ghe/cascade/index.html?appid=be31c5cfc7614d6680e6fa47be888dc3&bookmark=Map

“About Standing (in Kinship).” Poetry Magazine. Forthcoming 2020.

“Minobaamadizi,” A Plague of Poetry: 50 days of Poems, ed. by Hugh McMillan, Scotland.  Thursday, 28 May 2020.
https://pestilencepoems.blogspot.com/2020/05/poems-from-backroom-73-kimberly-blaeser.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR2xfaBKPtKf4YT8RaOj5AlGZ8iF-JlqFoKjrfAVBm3ERHR50JViFE7FGw0

“The Way We Love Something Small,” Poem-a-Day. Academy of American Poets. April 8, 2020. Web.
https://poets.org/poem/way-we-love-something-small?fbclid=IwAR1mTGDecz3Twelv5eLl22i_0qmbB_4fFFaeCZVH0NG2PckXNPZDg09k9z4

Two Poems, “All, Alone,” & “Oh, Sheltering Bodies.” “Hope, Anger, Inspiration, & More for Each Day.” Black Earth Institute. Web. https://blackearthinstitute.org/all-alone-oh-sheltering-bodies/?fbclid=IwAR33C2nV-p2V55_ITGGbWK7qHv4MumFWk8HVOgAsjgqDQwlgSFq-BrqM6_o

“A Water Poem for Remembering.”  Poem of the Week. Split This Rock. The Quarry. March 13, 2020. Web.
https://www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database/poem/a-water-poem-for-remembering?fbclid=IwAR2TnYRYOCnpn5_dEa607I5Gv_4gBLHjuPCvM2KAF6KIo1pa3K3xU8z1JAs#

“A Quest for Universal Suffrage,” Project 19: The Poetry. NYC: New York Philharmonic, 2020. Web.
https://nyphil.org/~/media/pdfs/publications/1920-Project19-PoetryBook-2

Haiku, in The 20 Poems Project, forthcoming. Installation May 2020, Print forthcoming.

Poem in Hungarian, “2019 április 12/April 22, 2019.” Translated by Gábor Gyukics. Deák + garden: Literary-cultural portal. May 16, 20202. Web. http://deakkert.dfmvk.hu/hu/vers/gyukics-gabor-muforditasai?fbclid=IwAR0cR4blP6nk8QDySFRJiX77fXr0iIzx3LxwcihHUqyveahvC8R72kFo6to

Two Poems & One Picto-Poem, Poems “Rosetta Stone, Two” and “The Dignity of Gestures” & Picto-Poem “Eloquence of Aki.” About Place Journal: Dignity as an Endangered Species in the 21st Century.  Ed. Pam Uschuk, Cindy Fuhrman, & Maggie Miller.  May 2019. Web. https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/dignity-as-an-endangered-species/

Three Collaborative Poems (Kimberly Blaeser & Amber Blaeser-Wardzala), “4 Years, 471 Miles Later,” “Choose a Side in the War,” & “The Timbre of Astral Voices.” Jet Fuel Review.  , Issue 17, Spring 2019. 153-55. Web. https://www.jetfuelreview.com/uploads/5/9/9/4/59942345/jfr_issue_17_spring_2019-pz.pdf

Collaborative Poem & Feature (Kimberly Blaeser & Margaret Noodin), “Taproot,” Underbelly. Issue 6, Spring 2019. Web. https://www.underbellymag.com/blaser-noodin

Two Poems, “‘Because We Come From Everything’” and “Of Eons and Epics.” Kenyon Review Online, March/April 2018. Web. https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2018-marapr/selections/kimberly-blaeser-763879/

Three Poems in French Translation “Ikwe-niimi: Résister en dansant (Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance), “Manoominike-giizis,” “Les mots d’après (After Words).”  Translation by Béatrice Machet.  Levure littéraire.  (Numéro 14, 2018). Web.
http://levurelitteraire.com/kim-blaeser/

Two Poems, “When We Sing of Might” & “Wellspring: Words from Water.” “New Poetry by Indigenous Women.”   Ed. Natalie Diaz.  Literary Hub (February 13, 2018). Web.
http://lithub.com/new-poetry-by-indigenous-women/.

“Words on Yearning.” “Touching the Transcendent: Faithful Poems.” Faith ND.  Ed. Josh Noem, (July 2017). Web. http://faith.nd.edu/s/1210/faith/interior.aspx?sid=1210&gid=609&pgid=10746 (feature intro & link to poem)
http://faith.nd.edu/s/1210/faith/interior.aspx?sid=1210&gid=609&pgid=36664&cid=72052&ecid=72052&crid=0&calpgid=10746&calcid=25903 (poem text).

“The Texture of Hatching.” Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar 2018. Ed. Richard Swanson & Ed Werstein. Eau Claire: Documation, LLC, 2017. 28. Print.

“These Small Turns of Memory.” Brain Mill Press Celebrates Poetry Month 2017.  Ed. Christina Kubasta, Web. 
http://www.brainmillpress.com/bmp-celebrates-poetry-month-2017/ (for feature cover) http://www.brainmillpress.com/kimberlyblaeser/voices/national-poetry-month-2017/small-turns-memory/ (for poem text).

“Rattle.” Letterpress Broadside. Design Gaylord Shanilec.  St. Paul: Midnight Paper Sales, 2016. Print.
http://www.midnightpapersales.com/broadsides.html (Link to Image of Broadside, 7/7/16).

“Cadastre, Apostle Islands.” Imagine Our Parks with Poems. The Academy of American Poets, (November 2016). Web.  
www.poets.org/poetsorg/imagine-our-parks-poems (Link to Feature Site), www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/cadastre-apostle-islands (Link to Poem).

“Dispersion: A Treatise.” Poem for UWM 60th Anniversary, September 2016. Web.
http://uwm.edu/60thanniversary/anniversary-poem/ (Link to Page).

“Of Fractals and Pink Flowering.” MMoCA (Madison Museum of Contemporary Art) Exhibit & Collection Poetry Speaks: Wisconsin Poets Animate, Celebrate, and Deliberate the Value of the Arts.  Madison: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, April 2016.  np. Print. Reprinted by Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, August 2016. Web. http://www.wfop.org/2016-poetry-speaks/ (Feature Link), https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55cdd4d7e4b0dc6eee4156d4/t/57b8d16febbd1a60cf762dc7/1471730031779/Kimberly+Blaeser.pdf(Link to Poem).

“Winter Aurora.” Eat Local, Read Local.  UW-Milwaukee Creative Writing Program, 2016. Print.

“A Litany of Other.” Excerpt in Yahara Prairie Lights.  Ed. Jerry McGinley. 2016. Web.
https://yaharaprairie.wordpress.com/2016/06/11/from-a-litany-of-other-by-kimberly-blaeser/

“After Words.” Letterpress Broadside Design, Wendy Vardaman.  Middleton, WI: Cowfeather Press, 2016. Print.

“Pica.” The Municipality. 114.4 (April 2016)  33. Print.  Also in “Poetry for Creative Economy Week.” Arts Wisconsin. Web. http://www.artswisconsin.org/actioncenter/creative-economy-week/creativeeconomyweekpoetry/#blaeser (Link to Feature & Poem).

“Manoominike-giizis.” Reprint in Letterpress Broadside. Design, Daniel Goscha; Handmade Paper, Debra Jircik.  Rhinelander, WI: Mill Paper and Book Arts, 2015. Print.

Two Poems, “Mochi, Prisoner of War” & “Estate of Chief Black Kettle (1813-1868).” Common-Place: The Journal of Early American Life, “Stories of Native Presence and Survivance in Commemoration of the 151st Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre.”  Ed. Billy Stratton,  16.1 (Fall 2015). np. Web. http://common-place.org/book/stories-of-native-presence-and-survivance-in-commemoration-of-the-151st-anniversary-of-the-sand-creek-massacre/ (Link to issue).

Three Poems, “Another Intimation,” “A Subjectifixation Cento for Two Voices,” and “Fire, After Fire.” Celebrating April Poetry Month, 2015, Woodland Pattern Book Center, April 30, 2015. Web.  https://woodlandpattern.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/april-poetry-month-day-30-wisconsin-poet-laureate-kimberly-blaeser/

Two Poems & Blog Post, “Another Way to Say: Please Stand,” & “Eloquence of Earth” in Blog Post “Holders of the Light,” Mujeres Talk, ed. Theresa Delgadillo, (May, 2014). Web.
https://library.osu.edu/blogs/mujerestalk/2014/05/13/holders-of-the-light/ (Link)

 “Dictionary for a New Century,”Mujeres Talk, ed. Theresa Delgadillo, (January 2014). Web. https://library.osu.edu/blogs/mujerestalk/2014/01/14/dictionary-for-a-new-century/

“BWCA Gourmet,” in Poetry and Food are a Nice Pair, ed. Anne Schamberg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 1. 2014. Web. http://archive.jsonline.com/features/food/poetry-and-food-are-a-nice-pair-b99232454z1-253414361.html

“Surveyor, 1849,”in “Beyond the Water’s Edge” Exhibit, Goodman South Branch Library Madison (November- December 2013) & various sites in Wisconsin throughout 2014.

“Winter Transfigurations,” Chanzen Museum of Art Bridge Poetry Series. Web.
http://www.chazen.wisc.edu/about/multimedia-center/publications/bridge-poetry-series-mar-13/

“What You Like About Birds,” Verse Wisconsin, Issue 109 (July 2012). Web.
link to issue: http://www.versewisconsin.org/issue109.html 
link to poem: http://www.versewisconsin.org/Issue109/poems/blaeser.html

Two Poems, “Again the Night” and “Tincture.” Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics.  Ed. Dean Rader.  7 (2009).  138-39. Print.

“Apprenticed to Justice.”  Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing.  Eds. Diana Garcia, Frances Payne Adler, Debra Busman.  Tucson, AZ: U of Arizona Press, 2009,  57-59. Print.

“MIA, Foreign and Domestic.” Birthed from Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War.  Ed. Marijo Moore.  Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 2008. 146-48. Print.

“20 September.” Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar 2009.  Ed. Kathy Dodd Miner & Nancy F. Rafal. Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.  Dodgeville, WI: Inkwell Printers, 2008. 84. Print.

Two Poems, “Tornado’s Fourth Wall,” “Manoominike-giizis.” Future Earth. 1 (2008).  16-18. Print.

“Manoominike-giizis.” Eat Local, Read Local Broadside Series.University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Creative Writing Program. Spring 2008. Print.

Three Poems, “Family Tree,” “Fantasies of Women,” “Refractions.” Force Majeure: Utan Kayu International Literary Biennale.  Ed. Eko Endarmoko, Ian Campbell, Wikan Satriati.  Jakarta, Indonesia: Kalam & Langgeng Gallery, 2007.  335-47. Print.

Six Poems, “Red Lake,” “The Spirit of Matter,” “These Oaths We Take,” “Ode to Uncles,” “Housing Conditions of One Hundred Fifty Chippewa Families,” “Goodbye to All That.” Yellow Medicine Review.  Ed. Guadalupe Solis. 1 (2007).  31-32, 38-45. Print.

Three Poems, “Remembrance of Years,” “Housing Conditions of One Hundred Fifty Chippewa Families,” “This Dance.” To Topos Poetry International: Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry. Ed. Allison Hedge Coke.  9 (Fall 2006).  89-97. Print.

“The More I Learn of Men’s Plumbing.” Cream City Review: 30th Anniversary Issue.  Ed. Phong Nguyen. 30.2 (Fall 2006). 32. Print.

“Housing Conditions of One Hundred and Fifty Chippewa Families.” Harvest International, No. 33 (Fall/Winter 2006-2007).  12-15. Print.

Six Poems, “MIA, Foreign and Domestic,” Stories of Fire,” What We Learned from Red Lake,” “Some Kind of Likeness,” “Grace of Crossings,” Resisting Shape or Language.” Pembroke Magazine.  Ed. Jesse Peters. 38 (Fall 2006).  7, 112-19. Print.

“Apprenticed to Justice.” Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: An Anthology of the American Indian Holocaust.  Ed. Marijo Moore.  New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006.  370-73. Print.

“Stories of Fire.” Cold Mountain Review.  Ed. Christopher Teuton. 34.1 (Fall 2005)  20-22. Print.

“What We Learned from Red Lake.” Yakhhika-látuhse.  Ed/ Jim Stevens.  Oneida, WI: Oneida Nation Arts Program, 2005.  6. Print.

Two Poems, “Dictionary for a New Century” and “What They Did by Lamplight.” Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Poets do Housework.  Ed. Pamela Gemin.  Iowa City: U of Iowa Press, 2005.  16-18. Print.

“Tightrope.” Freelunch: A Poetry Miscellany. 32 (Winter 2004). 23. Print.

Six Poems, “Apprenticed to Justice,” “Family Tree,” “Where I Was That Day,” “Recite the

Names of All the Suicided Indians,” “Rewriting Your Life,” “Haiku Seasons,” “your old lost

Loves.” Other Voices International Project.  Ed. Roger Humes.  Vol. 7, 2004. Web. http://www.othervoicespoetry.org

“In the Tradition of the Peacemakers.” Saint Benedict’s Magazine.(Summer 2004). 22. Print.

Untitled Haiku. Modern Haiku: An Independent Journal of Haiku and Haiku Studies. 35.2 (Summer 2004). 10. Print.

Three Poems, “Drawing Breath,” “Fantasies of Women,” and “Seasonal.” Third Coast Review.(Fall 2003).  27-32. Print.

Four Poems, “Family Tree,” “Fetal Disposition,”  “Haiku Seasons,” and “Recite the Names of All the Suicided Indians.” Imaginary (Re-) Locations: Tradition, Modernity, and the Market in Contemporary Native American Literature and Culture.  Ed. Helmbrecht Breinig.  Tuebingen, Germany: Stauffenburg, 2003. 11-18. Print.

Two Poems, “Refractions,” “Indian in Search of an Entourage.” The Cream City Review. 27.1 (Spring 2003).  29-30. Print.

“From Memory’s Daybook.” Notre Dame Magazine.(Spring 2003). 90. Print.

“Apprenticed to Justice.” Valparaiso Poetry Review: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.IV.1 (Fall/Winter 2002-2003). Web. www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/v4n1.html

“Resisting Shape or Language.” Studies in American Indian Literatures.14.2 & 3 (Summer/Fall 2002).  99-100. Print.

“Shadow Sisters.” Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community. Ed. Laura Tohe and Heid Erdrich. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002. 10-13. Print.

Two Poems, “This Guy Back Home” and “Twelve Steps to Ward Off Homesickness.” Free Lunch. 27 (Winter 2001). 19-21. Print.

Collaborative Poetry Project, Contributor to ROUNDDANCE 2001, a multi-authored poem created and displayed on-line, performed and distributed on CD-ROM. http://asongbird.com/hello-world-2/

“Where Vizenor Soaked His Feet.” Cream City Review. 25.1 & 2 (Summer 2001).  127-28. Print.

“Family Tree.” Rosebud.  21 (2001).  62-63. Print.

“Kitchen Voices.” My Home as I Remember.  Ed. Lee Maracle & Sandra Laronde. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2000.  25-29. Print.

Four Poems, “Living History,” “Where I Was That Day,” “Rewriting Your Life,” and “Rituals, Yours—and Mine.” Nothing But the Truth.  Ed. John Purdy & Jim Ruppert. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 2001.  435-41. Print.

Two Poems, “letter, from one half mad writer to another,” and “This Guy Back Home.” Rampike: Aboriginal Perspectives. 11.2 (2000).  55.

“The Last Fish House.” South Dakota Review: Native American Writers 2000.  38.1 (Spring 2000).  93-99. Print.

Excerpt, “Alaskan Mountain Stories.” Spirit of the Center. XII 4.  Pembroke, N.C.: Native American Resource Center, 2000.  1.  Print.

“Y2K Indian.” Wisconsin Academy Review. 46.1 (Winter 1999-2000).  51-52. Print.

Two Poems, “Studies in Migration” and “Those Things That Come to You at Night.” Reprinted in Gatherings: The En’owkin Journal of First North American Peoples, Vol. X, A  Retrospective of the First Decade.  Ed. Greg Young-ing and Florence Belmore.  Penticton: British Columbia: Theytus Books, 1999.  51, 102-04. Print.

Two Poems, “Recite the Names of All the Suicided Indians,” “Lament.” Luna: A New Journal of Poetry and Translation.  Ed. Ray Gonzalez. 1.1 (Spring 1998).  161-66. Print.

“Rituals, Yours–and Mine.” Reinventing the Enemy’s Language.  Ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.  113-16. Print.

Four Poems, “Students of Scat,” “Don’t Burst the Bubble,” “Twelve Steps to Ward Off Homesickness,” “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?” Gatherings: The En’owkin Journal of First North American Peoples, Vol. VIII; Shaking the Belly, Releasing the Sacred Clown.  Ed. Joyce B. Joe & Susan M. Beaver.  Penticton: British Columbia: Theytus Books, 1997.  21, 35-36, 37-38, 64-65. Print.

“Absentee Indians.” The Cimarron Review, Ed. Michael Wilson,  121 (October 1997). 105-06. Print.

Two Poems, “Studies in Migration,” “Meeting Place.” Gatherings: The En’owkin Journal of First North American Peoples, Volume VII; Standing Ground: Strength and Solidarity Amidst Dissolving Boundaries.  Ed. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm & Jeanette Armstrong.  Penticton, British Columbia: Theytus Books, 1996.  31-32, 89. Print.

“Anza Borrego, 1995.”  Native American Songs and Poems: An Anthology.  Ed. Brian Swann.  New York: Dover Books, 1996.  32-33. Print.

“your old lost loves.” The Cream City Review. 19.2 (Spring 1996).  94-95. Print.

Three Poems, “Imprints in Blackfeet Country,” “Cerca de Aqui,” “Rituals, Yours–and Mine.” Steam Ticket, A Third Coast Review.  I (Spring 1996).  4, 10, 22-23. Print.

“old stories we tell ourselves when a blizzard is coming.” News from the Sloughs. 1.8 (December 1995). 28. Print.

“In the Tradition of the Peacemakers.” Saint Paul Pioneer Press. 26 August 1995. D10. Print.

“In the Tradition of the Peacemakers.” Full Court Press. 3.5 (October 1995).  7. Print.

Five Poems, “Meeting Place,” “Those Things That Come to You at Night,” “Where I Was That Day,” “Living History,” “On the Way to the Chicago Pow-Wow” Dreaming History: A Collection of Wisconsin Native- American Writing.  Ed. Mary Ann Doan & Jim Stephens. Madison: Prairie Oaks Press, 1995.  8-10, 69-71, 93-94, 103, 107-08. Print.

Four Poems, “Native Americans vs. The Poets,” “Where I Was That Day,” “Living History,” “Trailing You.”  Returning the Gift.  Ed. Joseph Bruchac. Tucson: U of Arizona Press, 1994.  42-47. Print.

Three Poems, “your old lost loves,” “Ice Tricksters and Shadow Stories,” “Where I Was That Day.” Sustaining the Forest, the People, and the Spirit.  Ed. Denise Sweet and J. D. Whitney. Keshena, WI: College of the Menominee Nation Press, 1995. 12-16. Print.

“Certificate of Live Birth.”  Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry.  Eds. Maria Mazziotti Gilliam & Jennifer Gilliam.  New York: Penguin, 1994.  337-38. Print.

Two Poems, “Speaking Those Names” and “Living History.”  Durable Breath: Contemporary Native American Poetry.  Eds. John Smelcer and Don Birchfield.  Anchorage: Salmon Run Press, 1994.  30-32. Print.

“Night Tremors.” Wildfire; Volume One: Inner Weavings.  Ed. Peter Whalen. Milwaukee: The Mixed Bag, 1994. Print.

“Those Things That Come to You at Night.” Gatherings: The En’owkin Journal of First North American Peoples, Volume V; “Celebrating the Circle”: Recognizing Woman and Children in Restoring the Balance.  Ed. Beth Cuthand & William George.  British Columbia: Theytus Books, 1994.  43-44. Print.

Two Poems, “Rituals- Yours, and Mine,” “Surviving Winter or Old Stories We Tell Ourselves When a Blizzard is Coming.”  Nebraska English Journal: Native Heritage. Ed. Carter Revard. 38.2 (1993).  53-56. Print.

“Trailing You.”  Dreams & Secrets.   Ed. Judy Woodburn & Jane Kermsreiter.  Milwaukee: Woodland Pattern Book Center, 1993.  78-80. Print.

Three Poems, “Living History,” “Certificate of Live Birth: Escape From the Third Dimension,” and “Sewing Memories.”  The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women.  Ed. by Connie Fife.  Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1993.  33-47. Print.

Two Poems, “Speaking Those Names,” and “Ice Tricksters and Shadow Stories.”  Gatherings: The En’owkin Journal of First North American Peoples, Volume IV, Re-Generation: Expanding the Web to Claim Our Future.  Ed. Don Fiddler.  British Columbia: Theytus Books, 1993.  11-12, 238-40. Print.

“Trailing You.”  Studies in American Indian Literatures. Series 2, 4.4 (Winter 1992). 16 -17. Print.

“Where I Was That Day.”  Gatherings: The En’owkin Journal of First North American Peoples, Volume III, Mother Earth Perspectives: Preservation Through Words.  Ed. Greg Young-Ing. British Columbia: Theytus Books, 1992. 173-75. Print.

Two Poems, “Road Show,” “Trailing You.”  Akwe:kon Journal.  IX.1 (Spring 1992).  41-42. Print.

“On the Way to the Chicago Pow-Wow.”  Northeast Indian Quarterly. VIII.3 (Fall 1991). 18. Print.

Four Poems, “Living History,” “Asphalt the Odd Perfume of Summer,” “On the Way to the Chicago Pow-wow,” “Alaskan Mountain Poems: Transfiguration.”  Loonfeather.  Fall/Winter 1991. 12-16. Print.