Will you be needing something fun at mid-semester or mid-autumn? Consider this suggestion: Bring Heid E. Erdrich to your institution! Author of four collections of poems, a play, and essays, as well as a curator of contemporary indigenous fine art from her region, she is also publisher of an indigenous language press. You can see her brief vita at www.heiderdrich.com. Heid regularly gives talks, presentations, workshops, and author visits at colleges, libraries, art centers, book festivals and community centers. She is available this Oct.-Nov, as well as Jan. and April of 2012. Take a look at her essay for PicturingAmerica at: http://www.programminglibrarian.org/
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