Appearances

Event Information:

  • Sat
    28
    Nov
    2020

    WFOP (Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets) Calendar Reading

    2:00-4:00pm CSTOnline

    Hosted by Milwaukee Public Library

    Join us on November 28th at 2pm for the 2021 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Annual Calendar Reading. Members from the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets will read poems that will appear in their annual calendar.
    After registering, you will receive an email with a link and phone number to join the program.
Kim at Returning the Gift Festival, 2012 in Milwaukee, Indian Summer Stage.

Kim at Returning the Gift Festival, 2012 in Milwaukee, Indian Summer Stage.

 

Past Events

Event Information:

  • Fri
    04
    Dec
    2020

    Songs at the Confluence: Indigenous Poets on Place

    7:00 pmOnline

    “Songs at the Confluence: Indigenous Poets on Place,” Digital Poetry Event, December 4th, 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