Verb Animate by Heid E. Erdrich

Pre-order and reserve your copy now - this limited edition book releases on December 1, 2024.

Verb Animate: Poetry, Prose, and Prompts for Collaboration explores the nuances and joys of Erdrich’s artistic collaborations with Twin Cities choreographers, visual artists, digital artists, and others. Poems generated from these collaborations are paired with reflections on the experience of collaboration and prompts for readers to use to generate their own poetry in relation to art. Art from Jonathan Thunder, a frequent collaborator with Erdrich, appears on the cover and in the book.

Heid E. Erdrich has authored seven books of poetry, a non-fiction work on Indigenous foods, and she edited New Poets of Native Nations anthology for Graywolf Press. Heid’s forthcoming book Verb Animate combines poetry and prose. Her honors include a National Poetry Series award, the Bobbit Prize from the Library of Congress, a Native Arts and Cultures National Fellowship and other awards. She is the inaugural Minneapolis Poet Laureate. Heid is Ojibwe, enrolled at Turtle Mountain. 

Books will ship December 1, 2024