Background
Sweet, Denise H. was born on May 14, 1952 in St. Paul. Daughter of Herman F. Brown and Patricia Ann Sweet.
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Songs for Discharming
(Poetry. Native American Studies. Winner of the North Amer...)
Poetry. Native American Studies. Winner of the North American Native Authors First Book Award and The Diane Decorah Award for Poetry. These pages take us on a rich and fascinating journey, transporting us through history on memory's voices, singing a new vision of the familiar. Though her subjects vary from a visit to the mission at White Earth to parking a car, Denise Sweet brings freshness to each. The poems leave markers where they have touched us, places we will return to to remember the startling beauty of a phrase, the quiet wisdom of a story, the good humor of our poet companion. She carries us to the brink of discovery; her words push us over -- Kim Blaeser, author of TRAILING YOU. This poem began five hundred years ago / this morning when I traced the numbers / of generations of our grandchildren, / Mr Columbus. The great -great-great-greats / of oppspring that discovered you (The 500-year-old Poem). Densie Sweet is an Anishinaabe enrolled at White Earth, and a professor of Humanist
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Denise H. Sweet
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Education
Bachelor, University Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1987. Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1987.
Career
Director conferences & institutes University Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1985—1989.
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Songs for Discharming
(Poetry. Native American Studies. Winner of the North Amer...)
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Songs for Discharming
Membership
Member of Wisconsin Indian Education Association, Native American Faculty Association, Entrepernuers of Color.
Connections
Married Richard William Panek (divorced 1989). Children: Damon Mikel Panek, Vaughn William Panek.
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Political Party
Green Party