Some of the most creative aspects of poetry writing is making good use of images and metaphor. These can be the keys to unlocking your own imagination, as well as that of your reader. We will look at how a few master poets used images and metaphor such as Pablo Neruda, Tomas Tranströmer, and Jim […]
The Birchbark Books Reading Series concludes it's seventh season of readings on Wednesday, June 1 at 7:00 p.m. Readers will be James D. Autio, Sharon Chmielarz, Kasey Payette, and Lynette Reini-Grandell Curated by Michael Kiesow Moore and Ardie Medina, the Birchbark Books Reading Series features new, emerging, and established writers quarterly September through June. For […]
The longest running series of its kind in the nation, Intermedia Arts’ Queer Voices reading series has been creating a safe space for LGBT writers and audiences to explore the day-to-day material of life without internal or external censorship for nearly a decade. Curated by Andrea Jenkins and John Medeiros.
When we say we want peace in the world—peace in our own lives—what do we mean? In this workshop we will use writing to explore these questions. The workshop will include short readings, opportunities for writing, and discussion to consciously explore the nature of peace and how we can bring it into our lives. There […]
The Birchbark Books Reading returns Wednesday, October 12 at 7:00 pm to begin our 8th season of readings. Reading will be James Bettendorf, Leslie Matton-Flynn, Venessa Fuentes, and Linda LeGarde Grover. Curated by Michael Kiesow Moore and Ardie Medina, the Birchbark Books Reading Series features new, emerging, and established writers quarterly September through June. For […]
All are invited to a free anniversary party on Thursday, Oct. 13, 6-9 p.m., at Open Book (1011 South Washington Avenue, Minneapolis) that will feature drinks, appetizers, presentations, guest speakers, dessert and coffee – all to celebrate 30 years of being the Twin Cities GLBT community library! The evening will include a book fair with author signings.
I will be signing books at the iconic Twin Cities Book Festival sponsored by Rain Taxi. Look for me at the Nodin Press table at 2:00 pm.
Artist Brandon Kuehn will give an artist talk on his solo exhibition, The Paranormal Art Project, then the Twin Cities Paranormal Society will lead a ghost hunt in the haunted Soap Factory building, all of which can provide grist for writing. We will write in this space, and end the evening with an impromptu reading. […]
Meet and greet local authors! Buy their books!
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 Saint Paul Almanac will hold a release party for the latest edition of the Saint Paul Almanac: On a Collected Path at the Black Dog Café on Thursday, April 6, at 7 p.m. This eleventh edition has a new look with new Saint Paul stories like the ones that have gained the Almanac its national reputation for curating authentic […]
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). […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]