Denise Sweet

Denise Sweet is an Anishinaabe poet and a holds a doctorate in Humanistic Studies. She taught creative writing, literature and mythology, at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, but retired in 2009. She also taught a travel seminar in the Yucatán Peninsula and Guatemala involving fieldwork among the Mayan peoples. Sweet was named the Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2004-08.

Awards

• Diane Decorah Award for Poetry
• Posner Award for Poetry
• Woman of the Year Award from the Wisconsin Women's Council.
• Outstanding Woman of Color Award from the University of Wisconsin system
• Native Writers' Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Poetry

Online Poetry

• Song for Discharming
• Right of Way

Books by Denise Sweet

• Songs for Discharming, Greenfield Review Press.
• Days of Obsidian, Days of Grace, with Adrian Louis, Al Hunter, and Jim Northrup, 1994,

Poetry Harbor Press

• Know By Heart, 1992.

Anthologies

• Nitaawichige: Selected Poetry and Prose by Four Anishinaabe Writers, with Jim Northrup, Marcie Rendon &, Linda Legarde Grover, Poetry Harbor.
• Stories Migrating Home: Anishnaabe Prose, Kimberly Blaeser (Editor),

Loonfeather Press: Wisconsin

• Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America,

Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird (Editors), W.W. Norton.

• Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival,

(Sun Tracks Books, No 29) University of Arizona Press.

• Women Brave in the Face of Danger: Photographs of and Writings by Latin and North American Women, Margaret Randall, Crossing Press.

References

• Governor Doyle Appoints Denise Sweet Poet Laureate of Wisconsin
• Denise Sweet becomes Wisconsin's poet laureate
• Denise Sweet will be a wonderful Poet Laureate from The Middlewesterner
• Denise Sweet Wisconsin Poet Laureate
• Outstanding Women of Color In Education Awards, Univ. Wisconsin System
• Sweet's Faculty page

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