Workshop | Politics of Poetics: Heid E. Erdrich
October 26, 202411:00 am - 12:30 pm
This event takes place at the Center for Native Futures.
About the Event
Politics of Poetics is a series of readings and workshops that highlights influential contemporary poets whose practices traverse the political through writing, teaching, and activism. Poet Heid E. Erdrich gives an intimate poetry workshop at the Center for Native Futures. Registration for the workshop is required.
Later, Erdrich joins artist Andrea Carlson for a conversation.
About the Poet
Currently the inaugural Minneapolis Poet Laureate, Heid E. Erdrich is the author of numerous collections, including the forthcoming Boundless: Indigenous Abundance in Literature and Art, due out from Amherst University Press in 2025; Little Big Bully (Penguin, 2020); Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media (Michigan State University Press, 2017) and four other collections. She has also edited New Poets of Native Nations (Graywolf Press, 2018). Erdrich has received two Minnesota Book Awards, as well as fellowships and awards from the Library of Congress, National Poetry Series, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Loft Literary Center, First People’s Fund, and others.
Erdrich has taught writing for decades, both as a professor and in community mentorships. She has visited dozens of colleges and universities, libraries, and tribal and cultural institutions as a guest speaker and teacher. Most recently, Erdrich served as the 2022 Elliston Writer-in-Residence for University of Cincinnati, and she taught a term in Native American and Indigenous Studies at Dartmouth College. Her keen interest in visual poetics and ekphrasis arises from her interdisciplinary art and curatorial work. Erdrich has produced short films and installations, and has curated dozens of exhibitions of Native American art.
Funding
Event
This program is made possible with funding from the Poetry Foundation. The Poetry Foundation recognizes the power of words to transform lives and works to amplify poetry and celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience, and share poetry.
Exhibition
Lead support for Chicago Works | Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons is provided by R. H. Defares and the Zell Family Foundation.
Major support is provided by Newcity, Charlotte R. Cramer Wagner and Herbert S. Wagner III of Wagner Foundation, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Generous support is provided by the Sandra and Jack Guthman Chicago Works Exhibition Fund.
Additional support is provided by Bockley Gallery, the Jessica Silverman Gallery, and D. Elizabeth Price and Lou Yecies.
This exhibition is supported by the MCA’s Women Artists Initiative, a philanthropic commitment to further equity across gender lines and promote the work and ideas of women artists.
Chicago Works | Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons is part of Art Design Chicago, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art that highlights the city’s artistic heritage and creative communities.
