Reading and
signing with Heid E. Erdrich, the author Curator of
Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media and five collections of poetry from
Michigan State University Press.
Heid E.
Erdrich writes from the present into the future where human anxiety lives. Many
of her poems engage around the visual work of contemporary artists who, like
Erdrich, are Anishinaabe. (the autonym for a group of culturally related
indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States that include the Odawa,
Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oji-Cree, Mississaugas, Chippewa, and Algonquin peoples).
These poems
recognize how our love of technology - and how the extraction industries on
indigenous lands that technology requires - threaten our future and obscure the
realities of indigenous peoples who know what it is to survive apocalypse. Despite how little communications technology
has helped to bring people toward understanding one another, these poems speak
to the keen human yearning to connect as they urge engagement of the image, the
moment, the sensual, and the real.
We will be on
hand to sell books before and after the event.