Kim will be on Wisconsin Public Radio's Central Time speaking with Rob Ferrett and Veronica Rueckert about her new appointment to the post of Wisconsin Poet Laureate.  Start listening at 3:30 to hear outgoing WPL, Max Garland!

Kim will reading at this high school Poetry Out Loud competition along with poets Ching-in Chen, Tobias Wray, and Peter Burzynski.

Installation, Reading and Reception: Official installation of the new Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser and recognizing the outgoing Wisconsin Poet Laureate Max Garland.

Poetry and music performers: Kimberly Blaser, WI Poet Laureate; Clayton Strasburg, Milwaukee singer-songwriter performing with Emily Hall; Rev. William Gimbol, writer.
Doors open at 5 p.m. Free admission.

In this special evening of poetry, members of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFoP); Wisconsin's Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser; Madison’s Poets Laureate, Sarah Busse and Wendy Vardaman; and other invited poets will read original works inspired by Eric and Heather ChanSchatz: 22nd Century.

You too are encouraged to share your vision(s) of the city through Twitter using #writeyourmadison. All tweets sent by February 15 will contribute to a group collage poem that will be performed at the event. Write Your Madison is a digital place-making project by Madison's Poets Laureate and Cowfeather Press that invites collaboration and conversation through poetry about Madison. Learn more at Cowfeather Press.

Poets Respond to Madison is organized in conjunction with Eric and Heather ChanSchatz: 22nd Century and the artists’ project, Madison: A Cooperative Almanac, by MMoCA’s education department in partnership with the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFoP) and Madison’s Poets Laureate.

MMoCA Nights admission $10/Members free.

The annual Arts Day Legislative Breakfast, at the Central Library, featuring:
o Keynote speaker Randy Cohen, Vice President for Research and Policy at Americans for the Arts in Washington, DC, on the power, benefit and impact of the arts locally and globally.
o Wisconsin’s new Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser reads from her work.
Arts Day 2015 | March 11, 2015
Wisconsin’s biggest day for the arts and creativity!
Learn more at www.artswisconsin.org/arts-day-2015/

Panel Presentation with Gordon Henry & David Stirrup. "Native Subjects: Euro-American Impositions and Subjectifixations on the Life, Culture, and Thought of Indigenous People"

Reader's Theater Performance of Kim's Plays, "This Dance Among Dances" and "Woodpecker's Love Song" directed by Ryan Winn and including performance by Kim's daughter, Amber.

Thursday, Mar 19, 2015
Walworth County Arts Council's Quarterly Luncheon
Grist Mill • 2645 Main Street • East Troy
Gather 11:30, Lunch 12:00 Noon, Reading 12:45

Classroom Visits during the Day. Evening Festival Event 5:00 - 8:00 pm. to include Live Music, Food, Local Writers, and a Reading by Kim.

Poetry Reading with Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kim Blaeser
Date: Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

Q & A: 4:00 p.m.

Reading: 5:00 pm

Location: Moore Lounge,
Pearsons Hall

Sponsored by: Weissberg Program for Human Rights

Contact: Chris Fink, Betsy Brewer, finkc@beloit.edu, brewere@beloit.edu

Join the event at: https://bit.ly/3lo3hYI. Before the event begins, you will see a countdown and the event image.

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.

Celebrating the new Norton anthology of Native Nations Poetry: "When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through."

For more details: https://thedairy.org/events/our-songs-came-through-a-night-of-indigenous-poetry/

This event will include various Wisconsin Laureates of cities and/or the state performing poems in watery settings. Among those who will share poems are Kimberly Blaeser, Margaret Rozga, Karla Huston, Angela Trudell Vasquez, Marilyn Taylor, and Lisa Vihos.

To attend or for more information, follow the link:

https://www.meadpl.org/more-water-poems-virtual-program

Register and learn more: writeondoorcounty.org or call us at 920.868.1457

For information: https://mcusercontent.com/3ddc00032f030cd2af9df4180/files/020644b7-0d5f-4825-b9a8-f10f48f65651/CraftOfWriting_Complete.pdf

In our sheltering during the coronavirus, place has taken on greater significance. This workshop looks at the character of places, public and private, and how we as poets might represent their changing dynamics. Whether writing of distance and absence, of sites of resistance, or more intimately of nature or family spaces, the subjects and methods or our poetry involve new challenges. This workshop will use prompts and exercises to encourage a deeper gathering of materials for writing place and will offer comments on and illustrations of significant craft elements.

Register and learn more: writeondoorcounty.org or call  920.868.1457

For more information: https://mcusercontent.com/…/020…/CraftOfWriting_Complete.pdf

Reading and Panel Discussion with Editors and Contributors, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, November 19th, 7:30 PM (Anishinaabe Eastern Time), Michigan State University, Contact henryg@msu.edu for info on how to register for this ZOOM event.  Featuring Meg Noodin, LeAnne Howe, Tacey Atsitty, Gwen Westerman, and Kimberly Blaeser.

Hosted by Milwaukee Public Library

Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series Reading, University of Oklahoma, December 3^rd, Digital Event. Open Mic, 6:30 p.m. CST; Reading begins 7 p.m. CST

Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2444128792556309

“Songs at the Confluence: Indigenous Poets on Place,” Digital Poetry Event, December 4^th, 7 p.m. Eastern (6 Central, 5 Mountain).

Curated by In-Na-Po, Indigenous Nations Poets. Sponsored by Tippet Rise Art Center and Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.  The evening's program will include short films by emerging and celebrated Indigenous poets, in which they will read their own work and recite other poems from the anthology.

Readers will include Kimberly Blaeser (Anishinaabe–White Earth Nation), Jake Skeets (Diné), Brandy Nalani McDougall (Kanaka Maoli), Sy Hoahwah (Yapaituka Comanche and Southern Arapaho), Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota) and M. L. Smoker (Assiniboine and Sioux). Poems by the late poets Adrian Louis (Lovelock Paiute), b: william bearheart (Anishinaabe–St. Croix), and Louis Little Coon Oliver (Mvskoke) will also be performed.

A discussion between LeAnne Howe (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) and Jennifer Foerster (Mvskoke (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma), two of the anthology's editors, will also be featured, as well as video of Tippet Rise's inspiring landscape and musical programs.

The program on December 4 will stream on YouTube, the Tippet Rise website, and the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation website. We hope you can make it!

https://tippetrise.org/news/december-4-songs-at-the-confluence-indigenous-poets-on-place