34 In an essay by Kimberly M. Blaeser, he is described as an author who has devoted his career to upsetting the status quo, deconstructing.
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Kimberly M. Blaeser
American poet
Kimberly M. Blaeser (born 1955) is a Native American poet and writer enrolled in the White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.
She was the Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2015–16.[1]
Background
Kimberly Blaeser was born in 1955 in Billings, Montana. Being of German and Anishinaabe Heritage, she grew up the White Earthreservation.
In 2024 she will take up an appointment as the Lois and Willard Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College.
Ojibwa poet and critic.Career
Blaeser was named Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2015–2016 on January 7, 2015, by the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission.[1] She resides in rural Lyons Township, Wisconsin. Blaeser works as Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she teaches Creative Writing, Native American Literature, and American Nature Writing.
Her first book of poetry, Trailing You, was awarded the 1993 Diane Decorah First Book Award from the Native Writers' Circle of