October 14, 2017
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Minnesota State Fairgrounds
Saint Paul MN

David Oppegaard (Breakneck Cove, 2016) has a new collection, The Town Built on Sorrow, out from Flux.  

The collection was recently reviewed in The Pioneer Press.  You can read more about it here.

Jason Magabo Perez (Phenomenology of Superhero, 2016) has a new collection, This is for the Mostless, from WordTech Editions.  

The book is available on Amazon.

September 29, 2017
7:00 pm
Artista Bottega
937 7th Street West
Saint Paul MN

October 27, 2017
8:00 pm
Cedar Cultural Center
416 Cedar Avenue South
Minneapolis MN

There is a letter, hand written, faded,
smeared and crumpled up, tucked in a book,
glued beneath endpaper, snuggled
into a hollow oak, abandoned
in an ivy tree, encrypted in cypher   ...

We're excited to announce the publication of a new poetry collection Crossing the Waters (Nodin Press) by poetry editor Norita Dittberner-Jax.

Author Ron Arias (My Life as a Pencil, 2015) was recently announced as the winner of the 2016 Peace Corp Award for his fiction collection The Wetback and Other Stories (Arte Publico).  

You can read more about the award here.

And if you want to get a copy of the award winning book, you can buy it here.

safe in a moat of bone until
the invasion    ...
 

These two little girls are naked in the sun. One stands in the galvanized steel washtub, pouring water from a jug onto her sister’s shoulders. (They must be sisters: look at their ease with each other, and their similarly tangled curly hair.) The younger sister is crouched, bowing her head, allowing the water to flow over her skin. It is summer (of course). ...