Words Like Water – An ART WEEK 2022 Project

In conjunction with the City of Marquette Art Week 2022 theme of “Water”, the Foundation created a public art project: 5 signs on the city’s Cultural Trail. Each sign will have art by U.P. artist, Christopher Schmidt and a poem by poets: Kimberly Blaeser, Michelle Menting, Margaret Noodin, Keith Taylor and the current Upper Peninsula Poet Laureate, M. Bartley Seigel.

Click on the sign to hear the poem

The Art Week Water Poem "Hydroreality: My List of Water Words Grows" by Kimbery Blaeser
Hydroreality: My List of Water Words Grows by Kimberly M. Blaeser
Art Week Water poem, The Cathedral, by Michelle Menting
This Cathedral by Michelle Menting
Anakwadoon/Wind Water is a Water poem for Art Week 2022 by Margaret O'Donnell Noodin
Aanakwadoon / Wind Water by Margaret O’Donnell Noodin
Lake Superior is a Water poem for Art Week 2022 by M. Bartley Seigel
Lake Superior by M. Bartley Seigel
Three Springs is a water poem by Keith Taylor for Art Week 2022
Three Springs by Keith Taylor

Artwork by Christopher Schmidt

Kimberly M. Blaeser is a poet and founding director of In-Na-Po, Indigenous Nations Poets
Kimberly M. Blaeser
Margaret O’Donnell Noodin is Professor of English and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Margaret O’Donnell Noodin
M. Bartley Seigel is the current U.P. Poet Laureate.
M. Bartley Seigel
Michelle Menting is a poet who teaches at Univ of S. Maine.
Michelle Menting
Keith Taylor is a poet who has authored or edited 18 books and chapbooks.
Keith Taylor

Click the photo to learn about the poets

City of Marquette Art Week 2022 Locations

This activity is supported by the MICHIGAN ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL administered by Central Upper Peninsula Planning and Development and the with additional support by Superior Watershed Partnership and the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, the Superiorland Library Cooperative and donations to the U. P. Poet Laureate Foundation.