Short Story Night
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Featuring comedy, trivia, and yes, even literary discussion, Short Story Night is the perfect book club for people who don't have time for a book club!
Read the short story before the event. Copies of the story can be found on the second floor of the Neenah Public Library.
"Leaving Paradise" by Kimberly Blaeser.
Kimberly Blaeser will join the group in person!
Kimberly Blaeser, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets and past Wisconsin Poet Laureate, is the author of six poetry collections including Ancient Light, Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance, and Copper Yearning. Blaeser’s honors include a 2026 O. Henry Prize, the 2026 Science and Literature Award from the National Book Foundation, 2025 Poets & Writers’ Writer for Writers Award, Hayden’s Ferry Review’s Indigenous Poets Prize, The Masters Review Short Story Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. An enrolled member of the White Earth Nation who grew up on the reservation, Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist, a Professor Emerita at UW–Milwaukee, and an MFA faculty member at Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in the woods and wetlands of Wisconsin and, for part of each year, in a water-access cabin near the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness following poems, photos, stories, and river otters—sometimes all at once. Her debut collection of fiction, Red Ants, is forthcoming from Counterpoint Press in October 2026.
Read the short story before the event. Copies of the story can be found on the second floor of the Neenah Public Library.
"Leaving Paradise" by Kimberly Blaeser.
Kimberly Blaeser will join the group in person!
Kimberly Blaeser, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets and past Wisconsin Poet Laureate, is the author of six poetry collections including Ancient Light, Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance, and Copper Yearning. Blaeser’s honors include a 2026 O. Henry Prize, the 2026 Science and Literature Award from the National Book Foundation, 2025 Poets & Writers’ Writer for Writers Award, Hayden’s Ferry Review’s Indigenous Poets Prize, The Masters Review Short Story Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. An enrolled member of the White Earth Nation who grew up on the reservation, Blaeser is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist, a Professor Emerita at UW–Milwaukee, and an MFA faculty member at Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in the woods and wetlands of Wisconsin and, for part of each year, in a water-access cabin near the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness following poems, photos, stories, and river otters—sometimes all at once. Her debut collection of fiction, Red Ants, is forthcoming from Counterpoint Press in October 2026.
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Where is it happening?
Lion's Tail Brewing Co., Lion's Tail Brewing, 116 S Commercial St, Neenah, WI 54956, United States
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Host or PublisherNeenah Public Library
