Callling Back the Spirit: an evening of Native American Poetry (Sep 19)

Westminster Performing Arts Series

Calling Back the Spirit: an evening of Native American poetry 

with Anthony Ceballos, Rosie Peters, and Louise Waakaa’igan

hosted by Wendy Brown-Baez

Join us for a powerful, enlivening evening of deeply personal poems of loss, trauma, resilience, and joy, reflecting with tender and heartbreaking honesty on individual experience and Indigenous roots. Each poet will perform work that in essence calls back the spirit for healing and connection with our Mother Earth and with each other. 

The reading begins at 7:00 PM on September 19 and is followed by a reception.

To purchase tickets: Westminster Preforming Arts Series

www.westminstermpls.org/worship/music/wpas

Anthony Ceballos (Ojibwe) lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and can be found penning staff recommendations at Birchbark Books & Native Arts. In 2022 he was part of the inaugural Indigenous Nations Poets retreat in Washington DC. He has been published in Yellow Medicine Review, Water~Stone Review, and the recent anthology Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance, among others. He is a first generation descendant of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. His book Glassful of Prayer is forthcoming from Trio House Press in October.

Rosetta “Rosie” Peters (Dakota) is a Minnesota-based poet, author, public speaker, storyteller, and activist, and has performed her poetry at The Loft, The Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, Icehouse, Penumbra Theater, Stillwater Prison, The Hook & Ladder, MacPhail Center for Music, among others, usually with live musical accompaniment by composer / musician JG Everest. Her poems were published in Yellow Medicine Review. She is the recipient of a 2020 MN State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals grant and a 2021 MRAC Next Step Grant. In 2022, Peters + Everest recorded and released a chapbook album of original pieces entitled “The Hummingbird’s Dance”. She is of Yankton, Crow Creek, and Oglala descent.

Louise K. Waakaa’igan is an enrolled member at Odaawaa-Zaaga’iganiing in northern Wisconsin. Her first chapbook, This Is Where, Aquarius Press, was published in 2020. She is also the first-place winner of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop’s Broadside Competition (2016). Louise was an Art For Justice Fund Grantee. Her work appears in PEN America: The Sentences That Create Us, 21 Mythologies, The Moon Magazine, Night Colors, 27th Letter, Words in Gray Scale, and Doors Adjacent. 

Wendy Brown-Baez was the 2023-2024 artist-in-residence at Westminster Presbyterian Church and the creator of Writing Circles for Healing. She is the author of Threading the Gold, poems written during her residency.