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Search - List of Books by 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.
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
Song for Discharming Right of Way
Books By Denise Sweet more less Songs for Discharming , Greenfield Review Press.Days of Obsidian, Days of Grace , with Adrian Louis, Al Hunter, and Jim Northrup, 1994,Poetry Harbor PressKnow 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: WisconsinReinventing 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.
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