Join us for an afternoon of poetry and music with Thomas R. Smith, Ardie Medina and the Asiginaak Singers, and Michael Kiesow Moore with cellist Lars Krogstad Ortiz. Suggested donation $10, but no one turned away

The Birchbark Books Reading Series continues its 8th season of readings on Wednesday, November 9. Reading will be Naomi Cohn, Donte Collins, William Reichard, and Gwen Westerman. Curated by Michael Kiesow Moore and Ardie Medina, the Birchbark Books Reading Series features new, emerging, and established writers quarterly September through June. For more, see http://www.michaelkiesowmoore.org/birchbark-books-reading-series/

The first annual Highland Holiday Book Fair is the place to get your holiday shopping done for all the readers on your list! All local authors will be featuring their books and will be present to personally sign them.

Join us for a reading from Wendy Brown-Báez' Writing Circles: Words to Light Our Way: a portable writing workshop and author reading and Q&A with Michael Kiesow Moore and LouAnn Shepard Muhm

The BRIDGES Reading series is intended to bring together writers across genres and cultural backgrounds to express themselves, but also build links to each other. Featured writers are: Michael Kiesow Moore, La Donna Sanders Redmond, Lynette Reini-Grandall, John Medeiros, Sequoia Nagamatsu and Heidi Czerwiec.

Join us as the Martin Lake Poetry Workshop launches its new 2016 poetry Anthology.

The Birchbark Books Reading Series returns on April 26 after taking a winter break. Please join us! Margaret Hasse has published five books of poems: Stars Above, Stars Below (New Rivers Press); In a Sheep’s Eye, Darling (Milkweed Edition); Milk and Tides (Nodin Press); Earth’s Appetite (Nodin Press); and most recently, Between Us (Nodin Press). Her honors and awards include the New Rivers Press’ Minnesota Voices prize, Milkweed Editions’ Lakes and Prairies competition, and the poetry award of Minnesota Independent…

Our 8th season of readings concludes on May 10 a 7 pm. Reading will be Nora Murphy, Choua Yang, Taiyon J Coleman, and Ronald P. Leith.

The Birchbark Books Reading Series begins its 9th season of readings on September 27. Reading with us will be Todd Boss, Sharon Chmielarz, and Marcie R. Rendon. Please join us!

This class is about using playful techniques to inspire new writing. Working with external prompts we’ll make found poems, bricolage poems (a type of found poem using multiple sources), and use images and objects as inspiration, especially from art in the galleries. Students can expect to write during class and share work with one another. You will leave with several new poems started and creativity ignited. (3 Thursday nights, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm)

October brings a first for the Bridges reading series at Barnes & Noble HarMar Mall: All readers are participants in the Martin Lake Poetry Workshop founding in 2016 by guest host Michael Dean. Beginning with some writing friends, the workshop now has over 1,000 participants. I will read with fellow participants of the Poetry Workshop.

The Fall season of readings for the Birchbark Books Reading Series concludes on November 1. Reading will be Heid E. Erdrich, David Lawrence Grant, Linda LeGarde Grover, and Thomas Redshaw. Co-hosts for the series are Michael Kiesow Moore and Ardie Medina.

I will join other authors in the current copy of Water~Stone Review for a launch party. Water~Stone Review is a literary annual published by the The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University. 

How do you hold light in the darkness? Can "peace" be such a light, and if so how? There are perhaps fewer words more used, for who does not want peace for themselves or the world? But what does peace actually look like? Through writing we will consciously explore what peace is. Writing is a powerful tool for understanding ourselves and the world; writing can even change how we relate to both ourselves and the world. Participants will pull from…

The 6th annual tribute to John Lennon (on his birthday) and the Beatles. Organized by Thomas R. Smith and featuring poetry and music by him and his friends. Free! Come and sing along! River Falls Public Library, 140 Union St, River Falls WI 54022

The spring season of readings for the Birchbark Books Reading Series begins on March 28 at 7:00 pm at the Bockley Gallery (near Birchbark Books). Reading will be Diane Wilson, Anthony Ceballos, Susan Power and James P. Lenfestey.

Greg Watson will host a reading with me, Michael Kleber-Diggs, and Norita Dittberner-Jax followed by an open mic.

I will be a featured author for the North Hennepin Reading Series. The reading is free and open to the public.

The spring season of readings for the Birchbark Books Reading Series continues on April 18 at 7:00 pm at the Bockley Gallery (near Birchbark Books). Reading will be contributors from How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse edited by Sherry Quan Lee Curated by Michael Kiesow Moore and Ardie Medina, the Birchbark Books Reading Series features new, emerging, and established writers quarterly September through May.

Join us for a reception of the Crossings at Carnegie Poet-Artist Collaboration, where artists create works of art based on selected poems. My poem, "And the Prophet Spoke to Me Last Wednesday," was selected for an artist to create a painting. We will read our poems, and the artists will discuss the works they made. The exhibit runs March 26 - April 26.

I will host the Cracked Walnut 2018 Lit-Fest reading with the theme of "Allen Ginsburg."

The Ramsey's Braggarts Morris Men - the "official" Morris Dance team for Birchbark Books - will dance again for Indie Book Day!

The Literary Lights Reading Series celebrates Poetry Month at Blue Harbor Center for the Arts. Joining me for my reading will be cellist Lars Krogstad Ortiz to present some of our collaborative work together.

Poet and spoken word artist Eric McKendry is hosting a reading of League of Minnesota Poets.

I will teach my workshop "Playdate with Words" as part of the Banfill-Locke  BLCA 3rd Annual Writers Workshop. This year's theme is "Tending the Word Garden." Do you want to write a poem but don’t know where to begin? This class will be all about finding playful, fun ways to start new writing. Expect writing prompts and fun activities to activate your imagination. You will leave with several new poems started and creativity ignited.

A poetry writing workshop. The beating heart of a poem could be said image. When we explore image we dive into the deep nature of symbol, and use the tools of simile and metaphor to express the deeps. In this writing workshop we will examine these waters and then take some swims into the waters ourselves. Don’t worry, though. A lifeguard will be posted.

Join me as Red Bird Chapbooks celebrates the launch of "Fierce Lament", fearing the work of 30 poets, writers, artists, and activists addressing the challenges of our time. The evening starts with readings from the book followed by a dance party.