Cheryl Savageau

Cheryl Savageau (born April 14, 1950) is a poet of Abenaki descent. She writes often about Native American people and places in New England, where she has lived much of her life, as well as about working-class people, and feminist and queer issues.

Early life and education

Savageau was born in central Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Clark University and a facilitator at University of Massachusetts, Boston.^[1]

Awards

Savageau's awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, residencies at the MacDowell Colony, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her second book, Dirt Road Home.^[2]

Her work appeared in AGNI.^[3]

Also a visual artist, she has exhibited her quilts,^[4] paintings and other works^[5] at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, the University of New Hampshire, and elsewhere.

Publications

Poetry

• Home Country. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books. 1992. ISBN 9780914086949.
• Dirt Road Home. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press. 1995. ISBN 9781880684306.
• Mother/Land. London: Salt Publishing. 2006. ISBN 9781844712694.^[6]

Children's books

• Muskrat Will Be Swimming. Rising Moon. 1996. ISBN 9780873586047.

See also

References

1. "Osher Lifelong Learning Institute". University of Massachusetts Boston. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
2. "Faculty and Staff: Cheryl Savageau". Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. University of Massachusetts-Boston. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
3. "Cheryl Savageau". 6/2010. AGNI. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
4. "Cheryl Savageau". "We're Still Here": Contemporary Indigenous New England Artists. University of New Hampshire. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
5. "Cheryl Savageau". "Invisible/Visible": Emerging Contemporary New England Native American Art. University of New Hampshire. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
6. "'All This / Is Abenaki Country': Cheryl Savageau’s Poetic Awikhiganak". Studies in American Indian Literatures. 3 22: 1–25. Fall 2010. doi:10.1353/ail.2010.0013. Retrieved 16 March 2013. Savageau’s newest book, Mother/Land, appeared in 2006 in Salt Publishing’s Earthworks series, edited by Janet McAdams; this will put her even more visibly in the company of such esteemed poets as Carter Revard, Diane Glancy, and Heid Erdrich.

Further reading

• Cluff, Michael (Fall 1995). "Review of Dirt Road Home". Studies in American Indian Literatures 7 (3): 83–86.
• Parker, Robert Dale (Summer 2010). "A Review Essay on Recent American Indian Poetry". Studies in American Indian Literatures 22 (2): 75–85.
• Senier, Siobhan (Fall 2010). 'All This/Is Abenaki Country': Cheryl Savageau's Poetic Awikhiganak. Studies In American Indian Literatures 22. pp. 1–25.

External links

• Cheryl Savageau at the Poetry Foundation
• Cheryl Savageau at Native American Authors, Internet Public Library
• Cheryl Savageau at Library of Congress Authorities, with 5 catalog records