2025 Summer Workshop Program
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$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
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What ghosts or longings do we chase in our writing? Can writing become a means of moving toward the reverence, enlightenment, healing, or sacred centering we desire? Participants will engage with texts by writers such as Linda Hogan, Danusha Lameris, Kim Stafford, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Ada Limón. Using writing exercises and prompts, as well as short nature and art explorations, this workshop will encourage class members to push their writing, to see it as a site of search, a tool of transformation. Participants will generate new work and have an opportunity to workshop one piece.
Biography
Kimberly Blaeser
, past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets, is the author of works in several genres. Her poetry collections include Ancient Light (2024), Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance (2020), and Copper Yearning (2019). An enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist. She is an MFA faculty member at Institute of American Indian Arts and Professor Emerita at UW–Milwaukee. Blaeser’s honors include the Zona Gale Short Fiction Award, Hayden’s Ferry Review’s Indigenous Poets Prize, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas.
