Denise Sweet is faculty emerita at UW-Green Bay. She is the author of Know By Heart and Songs For Discharming and a co-author of Days of Grace and Nitaawichige. Songs for Discharming won both the WI Posner Award for Poetry and the Diane Decorah Award awarded by the North American Indigenous Writer’s Circle of the Americas. She is Anishinaabe (White Earth).
Sweet’s poetry and fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals such as Cream City Review, Calyx, Sinister Wisdom, Yellow Medicine Review, Another Chicago Magazine. In 2006 the International Crane Foundation commissioned Sweet to author a poem for the organization— eventually titled, “All The Animals Came Singing.” Additionally, her poem, “Constellations,” is part of a permanent installation at the Midwest Express Center in Milwaukee. In 2004, she became Wisconsin’s second Poet Laureate.
Her most recent book, Palominos Near Tuba City: New and Selected Poems was released in April 2018 by Holy Cow! Press (Duluth, MN)