Anishinaabe Poetry: Two Native American Poets

Presented as part of Not Part Of (2-18 July), the complementary ‘fringe’ to the Manchester International Festival, which celebrates our creative city.

Kimberly Blaeser teaches Creative Writing and Native American Literature at the University of Wisconsin. Of Anishinaabe ancestry and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, she is the editor of Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose and has three published collections.

Gordon Henry is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University. His first novel, The Light People, won an American Book Award and his work has appeared in journals and anthologies in the US and Europe. He is an enrolled member of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota.

Central Library Committee Room, Thursday 2 July, 1-2