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Related Events at Open Book during The Face of Poetry exhibition:
Please join us for these exciting events at Open
Book. Unless noted otherwise, events are free and open to
the public. Please call or email Brian Bergee for more details
on any of these events, (612) 215-2572; bbergee@openbookmn.org
February
Milkweed Editions releases Black Dog Night: Contemporary
Vietnamese Poetry, edited by Nguyen Do and Paul Hoover,
with contributions from twenty one poets.
Friday, March 7
Pre-reading reception 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Before the opening festivities, take in MCBA's book-inspired
installation art exhibition, "Situations," and peruse
the poetry collections and poetic artist's books to be found
at The Shop at MCBA. Featured work will include Laurel Poetry
Collective publications and the 2007 Winter Book vispoeologee,
an anthology of visual literature and concrete poetry.
Refreshments will be served.
Friday, March 7, 7:00 PM
The Face of Poetry Grand Opening Event with local
personalities reading their favorite poems. Featured guests
include Secretary of State Mark Ritchie; Guthrie actress and
children’s book author Isabell Monk; photographer Wing
Young Huie; actress/singer Regina Marie Williams; Nate Dungan,
lead singer for Trailer Trash; Tony Zuccardi, singer for Romantica;
Star Tribune columnist CJ; Cynthia Gehrig, President,
The Jerome Foundation.
Sunday, March 9, 1:00 - 4:30 PM
Poetry and book-making workshop for youth in grades
1 - 4. Presented by The Loft and Minnesota Center for Book
Arts. Cost is $55/$50 for Loft or MCBA members.
Call 612-215-2587 to register.
Friday, March 14, 7:00 PM
Rafael Campo Reading. The Loft Mentor Series in Poetry
and Creative Prose present poetry mentor Rafael Campo reading
from his work along with program participants Emily Freeman
(fiction) and Emily Lloyd (poetry). Rafael Campo teaches and
practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School
and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is
the author of five collections of poetry, including most recently
The Enemy.
Sunday, March 16, 1:00 - 4:30
PM
Poetry and book-making workshop for youth in grades
5 - 8. Presented by The Loft and Minnesota Center for Book
Arts. Cost is $55/$50 for Loft or MCBA members.
Call 612-215-2587 to register.
Thursday, March 20
Pre-reading reception 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Join MCBA in celebrating poets Louis Jenkins and Robert Bly
at a pre-reading reception in our gallery. Jenkins and Bly
are both past authors of MCBA Winter Books: a collection of
Jenkins's prose poems, Distance From the Sun, was
published in 2004 and received the Minnesota Book Award in
Fine Press. Bly penned Saturday Nights in Marietta in
1999, and his work also appears in 2005's There is No
Other Way to Speak. Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, March 20, 7:00 PM
Poets Freya Manfred and Louis Jenkins reading from
their new collections of poetry. Freya Manfred is the author
of several collections of poetry and the memoir Frederick
Manfred: A Daughter Remembers. Louis Jenkins is Poet
Laureate of Duluth and the author of several collections of
prose poems. The poets will be introduced by Robert Bly. Presented
by Third Thursday Publication Series.
Wednesday, March 26, 7:00 PM
The Voice of Poetry. Minnesota writers read poems
in a variety of languages, including Korean, Swedish, Japanese,
Yiddish, Vietnamese, Spanish, and others.
April
Milkweed Editions April releases:
Hallelujah Blackout, a new book
of poems by Alex Lemon. From the celebrated author of Mosquito,
searing new poems “that let you see through all the
gristle to our real faces.”
With Mouths Wide Open: New and Selected Poems by
John Caddy
River of Words: Young Poets and Artists
on the Nature of Things edited by Pamela Michael, with
an introduction by Robert Hass. This book of poems and artwork
by young poets is a collaboration between Milkweed Editions
and the California nonprofit organization, River of Words.
Friday, April 4, 7:00 PM
Barrie Jean Borich Reading. The Loft Mentor Series
in Poetry and Creative Prose presents nonfiction mentor Barry
Jean Borich reading from her work along with program participants
Polly Carden (poetry) and Pallavi Dixit. Barrie Jean Borich
is the author of the memoirs Restoring the Color of Roses
and My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage.
Saturday, April 5, 11:00 AM
“Reading Outside Yourself: Publishing Poetry Today.”
Join poetry editors from Coffee House Press, Graywolf
Press, and Milkweed Editions for a discussion of contemporary
poetry publishing.
Thursday, April 10, 7:00 PM
Noni Benegas Reading. The Loft and the University
of Minnesota's Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality
Studies present Argentine Spanish Poet Noni Benegas. Noni
Benegas is a major voice in Spanish poetry and the recipient
of numerous international prizes. Benegas is also a noted
translator, literary critic and champion of Spanish women's
poetry. Burning Cartography is her first full collection
of poetry to be translated into English.
Sunday, April 13, 1:00 - 4:30
PM
Poetry and book-making workshop for teens in grades
9 - 12. Presented by The Loft and Minnesota Center for Book
Arts. Cost is $55/$50 for Loft or MCBA members.
Call 612-215-2587 to register.
Thursday, April 17, 7:00 PM
Katrina Vandenberg, Todd Boss, and Katie Leo reading
from recently published poetry collections. Presented by Third
Thursday Publication Series.
Friday, April 18, 7:00 PM
An evening with poets Mary Jo Bang, Matthea Harvey, and Fanny
Howe. Mary Jo Bang is the author of five collections
of poetry including Elegy and Louise in Love.
Matthea Harvey's third collection of poetry is Modern
Life. Fanny Howe is the author of more than 20 books
of poetry and prose and recipient of the 2001 Lenore Marshall
Poetry Prize for her Selected Poems. Presented by
The Loft and Graywolf Press.
Saturday, April 19
“Day and night. True and false. Life and death. Black
and white.” Join MCBA for the opening of "Black/White
[and Read]", a striking exhibition of artists' books
exploring text, shadow, space, structure and imagery without
the use of color. Artists were challenged by curator Gloria
Helfgott to use only black and white to communicate their
histories, memories and narratives, "akin to asking a
writer to use only nouns and verbs and eliminate the 'color'
of adjectives and adverbs." Opening reception 6:00 -
9:00 PM, free and open to the public. Refreshments will be
served.
Friday, April 25, 7:00 PM
Heid Erdrich Reading. The Loft Mentor Series in Poetry
and Creative Prose present poetry mentor Heid Erdrich reading
from her work along with program participants Rebecca Kanner
(nonfiction) and Marie Olofsdotter (poetry). Heid Erdrich
is the author of the poetry collections Fishing for Myth,
which won the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry and
The Mother's Tongue and co-editor of Sister Nations,
an anthology of Native American women's writing. Along with
her sister, author Louise Erdrich, she founded Birchbark Books
Press.
Saturday, April 26, 8:00 PM
Equlibrium: Spoken Word Series presents Ishle Park. Ishle
Park is a Korean American woman born and raised in Queens,
New York. She has been published in numerous anthologies,
including The Beacon Best of 2001 and Best American
Poetry 2003. She was featured on Russell Simmons Presents:
Def Poetry Jam and appeared on the NAACP Image Awards reading
a tribute poem to Venus and Serena Williams.
Monday, April 28, 7:00 PM
Poetry Reading and Discussion. The Loft and Rain
Taxi, in collaboration with the Poetry Society of America,
present a reading and discussion with poet to be announced.
The Face of Poetry
A photographic exhibition and accompanying public events
March 7-April 30, 2008
Open Book
1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis
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