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When We River: IN-NA-PO Poets & Hydro-Poetics
Friday, February 9, 2024
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Native relationships with water involve complex cultural beliefs. Likewise, Indigenous Hydropoetics has many tributaries. This panel will begin with a collaborative video poem and then consider how cultural traditions and place-based experience influence poetic form and content. We will discuss our efforts to write with rather than about water—to enter into dialogue on the ways reciprocity informs our writing, living on and off the page, including as eco-activism and multi-media expressions.
Participants
Annie Wenstrup received her MFA in creative writing from Stonecoast (Summer 2022). She's a Smithsonian Arctic Studies Fellow and an Indigenous Nations Poetry Fellow. She serves on the Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference Advisory Committee.
Kimberly Blaeser, past Wisconsin poet laureate and founding director of Indigenous Nation Poets, holds the Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College. Anishinaabe from White Earth Nation and emerita professor at UW-Milwaukee, she also teaches at IAIA. Her most recent book is Ancient Light.
Kalehua Kim is a Native Hawaiian poet living in the Seattle area. Currently pursuing an MFA through the Rainier Writing Workshop, she is a 2023 winner of the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, and Ōiwi, A Native Hawaiian Journal.
Aimee Inglis is a citizen of the Osage Nation born and raised in Anaheim, California, near the Santa Ana (Wanaawna) River. She is an MFA student at IAIA and a 2023 fellow with In-Na-Po. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Under a Warm Green Linden, Anaheim Poetry Review, and Poetry Northwest.
Casandra Lopez, a Chicana/Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseño writer, is the author of the poetry collection Brother Bullet. A CantoMundo fellow and Headlands and Hedgebrook resident, she teaches at UC San Diego.
