Hi!
I hope folks can come to this special library reading--support public libraries (and their support of writers!)--
I'll be reading a lot of new work, including a new longer series called Kingdom of the Light, Kingdom of the Dark, a persona poem in the voice of Satan--a meditation on the nature of authority and post-lapsarian eros. Plus it will be a balmy 18 degrees on Thursday--why not celebrate with some poetry?
Come keep me company.
Here are the details:
1558 West Minnehaha Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104
651-642-0293
branch.hamline@ci.stpaul.mn.us
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Five weeks of readings by some of Minnesota's acclaimed authors. Coffee, cookies, and cider provided
by Ginkgo Coffeehouse.
Supported by Micawber's Books and the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library.Thursday, February 21 at 7 p.m.
Throughout Skirt Full of Black, Sun Yung Shin uses her cultural dualities as a Korean adoptee to create a new language for traversing the minefields of identity. Each poem in her resonant collection reveals the very personal consequences of the political, social and economic forces at work in the life of every adoptee.
Here was/is the rest of the series!
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Thursday, January 31 at 7 p.m.
Poet, musician, essayist - Bill Holm is one of a kind. In Windows of Brimnes, his most ambitious book to date, he repairs to his cottage in Iceland to reflect on the state of our country today and what we might learn from the land of his ancestral roots. |
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Thursday, February 7 at 7 p.m.
Lise Erdrich’s first collection of stories, Night Train, offers a sharp-humored and powerful glimpse into rural communities and contemporary American Indian life and culture. Set in the small towns and reservations of northwestern Minnesota and western North Dakota, her lightning-quick tales capture the moment when the pressures of daily life collide with the insidiousness of history. |
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Thursday, February 14 at 7 p.m.
In search of contemporary Asian America, celebrated photographer Wing Young Huie - the only member of his family not born in China - traveled with his wife, Tara, through nearly forty states to explore and document the funny, touching, and sometimes strange intersection of Asian American and American cultures. Looking for Asian America illustrates their rich and surprising journey across the United States. |
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Thursday, February 21 at 7 p.m.
Throughout Skirt Full of Black, Sun Yung Shin uses her cultural dualities as a Korean adoptee to create a new language for traversing the minefields of identity. Each poem in her resonant collection reveals the very personal consequences of the political, social and economic forces at work in the life of every adoptee. |
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Wednesday, February 27 at 7 p.m.
Mary Logue returns to her acclaimed Claire Watson series with Maiden Rock, a tragic, personal follow up to Poison Heart. Claire’s daughter Meg is struggling with depression - after an all-night high school Halloween party, Meg’s best friend was found dead of an apparent suicide at the foot of Maiden Rock. Now Claire is faced with a growing trend in her rural town - meth labs, doped-up teenagers, and young girls just looking for a way to escape their small-town lives. |