What the Chickadee Knows with Margaret Noodin

Margaret Noodin received an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English and Linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is currently a professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she also serves as the director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education. 

 She is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature and Weweni (Wayne State University Press, 2015), a collection of bilingual poems in Ojibwe and English. Her poems and essays have been anthologized and published in New Poets of Native Nations, Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Poetry, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Water Stone Review and Yellow Medicine Review. She is co-editor of The Papers of the Algonquian Conference and is an advocate for education and community engagement through relevant research and teaching.
Note: After our "conversation close," after Margaret's reading, our post-show chit-chat with Margaret about language evolution and sharing with the next generation was so interesting that we kept it in the show! Enjoy.
Her latest book, What the Chickadee Knows is available in September 2020 from Wayne State University Press. https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/what-chickadee-knows