Poetry at St. John’s

The Ann Hutt Browning Poetry Series

November 5th at 3:00 PM

Co-Sponsored with The Massachusetts Arts Council

Cheryl Savageau

CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS

Cheryl Savageau is an Abenaki poet, memoirist, storyteller, and visual/textile artist. Her latest book, Out of the Crazywoods, isa memoir thatnavigates her experience of living with bipolar/manic depressive illness. She has three books of poetry, Mother/Land, an “unhistory” of the Northeast; Dirt Road Home, which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; and Home Country. Her children’s book, Muskrat Will Be Swimming, was a Smithsonian Notable Book and won the Skipping Stones Award for children’s environmental literature and the Wordcraft Circle’s Best Children’s Book of the Year award. She has won Fellowships in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program. In her fourth residency she was MacDowell’s Isabella Gardner Fellow for 2022. Savageau has mentored Native writers through Wordcraft Circle of Native Poets and Storytellers, and was awarded Mentor of the Year in 1998. She has taught workshops through Gedakina, and is former editor of Dawnland Voices 2.0. Her work has appeared most recently in Yellow Medicine Review, The Cape Cod Review, and in Ghost Fishing: An Eco Justice Anthology. She teaches Indigenous literatures, speculative fiction, and creative writing at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. Her visual art has been exhibited throughout New England, including the Abbé Museum in Bar Harbor; in the exhibit “Awikhigan: Evoking Inigenous Stories and Landscapes” at Shakespeare and Company; and is currently on view in the “Momentum” exhibit at Brown University.