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

Poet and prose writer Kimberly Blaeser will read from past and current work. Formerly the Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Blaeser is the author of five poetry collections including Copper Yearning, Apprenticed to Justice, and Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance. A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor and MFA faculty for Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, Blaeser is founding director of In-Na-Po—Indigenous Nations Poets. Santee Frazier, visiting faculty in poetry in the MFA for Poets and Writers, will moderate a Q&A following the reading.

For registration and more information, follow this link to the event page:

https://fac.umass.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=ASA22&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=