Kimberly Blaeser: "Apprenticed to Justice"

The Poem of the Week is Kimberly Blaeser’s “Apprenticed to Justice,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2002-2003 issue (Volume IV, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review. This poem also is the title work of her new book of poetry, Apprenticed to Justice (Salt Publishing, 2007).

Kimberly Blaeser is the author of two previous books of poetry, Absentee Indians and Other Poems (Michigan State University Press, 2002) and Trailing You (Greenfield Review Press, 1994), winner of the First Book Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, as well as a critical study, Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996). She also edited Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose (Loonfeather Press, 1999).

Blaeser’s poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Reinventing the Enemy's Language (W.W. Norton), Sister Visions (Minnesota Historical Society Press), The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection by Aboriginal Women (Sister Vision Press), Native American Songs and Poems (Dover Books), and Unsettling America: An Anthology of Multicultural Poetry (Penguin). She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

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