Words can’t quite fully capture the activity, oddity, and awe that is everywhere around us, but poet Kimberly Blaeser makes a gorgeous attempt in her poem “my journal records the vestiture of doppelgangers.” The three stanzas overflow with an exuberance of colorful creatures — from checked loons and flitting mayflies to a “blissful beaver” and a “red squirrel swimming (yes! swimming)” — and with love — love of the natural world, of looking, of language, of the language of looking, and of being present for such everyday wonders. We invite you to subscribe to <a href="https://poetryunbound.substack.com">Pádraig’s weekly Poetry Unbound Substack</a>, read the <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-padraig-o-tuama">Poetry Unbound books </a>and his newest work, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/kitchen-hymns-p-draig-tuama/4f2a036b5d746205?aid=10066&ean=9781556597107&listref=books-by-padraig-o-tuama&next=t">Kitchen Hymns</a>, or <a href="http://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/">listen to all our Poetry Unbound episodes</a>. Kimberly Blaeser, former Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of In-Na-Po, Indigenous Nations Poets, is a writer, photographer, and scholar. Her poetry collections include <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/copper-yearning-kimberly-blaeser/92760433bf0ca4e0?ean=9781513645612&next=t&aid=10066&listref=featured-on-the-poetry-unbound-podcast">Copper Yearning</a>, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/apprenticed-to-justice-kimberly-blaeser/9a4bd9da0782785d?ean=9781844712816&next=t&aid=10066&listref=featured-on-the-poetry-unbound-podcast">Apprenticed to Justice</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/RESISTER-EN-DANSANT-IKWE-NIIMI-RESISTANCE/dp/B084DGPVVJ">Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance</a>. Recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist enrolled at White Earth Nation. She is a professor emerita at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an Institute of American Indian Arts MFA faculty member.<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FMDnhzCPxq1_Xf9mOW5ZZc0Oj7pUUWM5sFr7jGxCZpY/edit?usp=sharing">Find the transcript </a>for this show at <a href="http://onbeing.org">onbeing.org</a>. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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