A woman with long curly hair is captured in black and white, gazing to her right. She is wearing earrings and a dark top. The background is blurred, showing a hint of trees and a path, giving an outdoor setting.
Literary Arts Institute

Kimberly Blaeser

November 15, 2016

Kimberly Blaeser, College of Saint Benedict class of 1977, is the current Poet Laureate of Wisconsin. She is also a professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she teaches Creative Writing and Native American Literatures. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Apprenticed to Justice, Absentee Indians and Other Poems, and Trailing You.Blaeser is Anishinaabe, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, and grew up on the White Earth Reservation in northwestern Minnesota. She is the editor of Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry.Blaeser is currently at work on a collection of “Picto-Poems” which combines her photographs and poetry.