Heid Erdrich: There’s No Such Thing as Native American Poetry

Distinguished Visiting Professor in Liberal Arts Heid E. Erdrich reads new work from her National Poetry Series Award-winning poetry manuscript Little Big Bully, which is forthcoming from Penguin-Random House in 2020. Erdrich will also present on New Poets of Native Nations, the recent anthology she edited for Graywolf Press, and the 2018 all-indigenous issue of Poetry Magazine that she edited.

Heid E. Erdrich is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. She is an author of  eight books of poetry and prose and is an interdisciplinary artist. Her poemeos (poem films and videos) created in collaboration with Elizabeth Day, Jonathan Thunder and Trevino Brings Plenty, have won Best of Show and Best of Fest awards. Heid has curated dozens of art exhibits focused on Native American artists. In 2016, she was a contributing artist to the Creative City Challenge award-winning public art project Wolf and Moose by Christopher Lutter-Gardella. Heid has collaborated with Rosy Simas Danse since 2016, and she has contributed to works choreographed by Ananya Dance, Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theater, and others. Heid has written plays produced by Pangea World theater. She performs her poetry across the country, sometimes collaborating with musicians, visual artists, and dancers. Her first exhibit as a featured artist is Skew Lines, May 2019, created in a dual residency with Rosy Simas for SooVac gallery in Minneapolis.

The University of Minnesota Morris Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Liberal Arts was established through the generous support of a private donor.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 7:00pm to 9:00pm

John Q. Imholte Hall, 109
600 East 4th Street, Morris, MN 56267

Event Type

Lecture, Presentation

Audience

Open/Public, Campus-Community, Students, Faculty/Staff, Alumni, Prospective students

Cost

Free and open to the public. No ticket required.

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