Denise Sweet
This event is the Nadine St. Louis Memorial Poetry Conversation 2024.
Poems and conversation with Bayfield’s current Poet Laureate, Denise Sweet, moderated by Max Garland.
DENISE “DEE” SWEET (Anishinaabe, White Earth) is Faculty Emerita, having taught Humanistic Studies, Creative Writing, and First Nations Studies for the UW-System. A publishing poet, her books of poetry include Know By Heart, Songs For Discharming, Days Of Obsidian, Days Of Grace, and Nitaawichige. Her poems have appeared in Sinister Wisdom, Women Brave in the Face of Danger, Another Chicago Magazine, Akwekón, Yellow Medicine Review, When The Light Of The World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through to name a few. She has received awards for her work as a writer and as an activist, including the 4-year appointment as Wisconsin’s second Poet Laureate (2004-2008) and she is currently serving as Poet Laureate in Bayfield, WI where she now resides.
