Monday, March 5, 2012
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Readings begin at 7:00 p.m.
Social Hour to Follow
A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
Meet Kelsy Connell, Director, and Rebecca Olson, senior editor, of this prestigious and beautiful national magazine to learn about the journal’s history, as well as submission policies for pieces of art and writing. Hear local writers Kristin Laurel, Margaret Hasse and Cass Dalglish read their work published by CALYX. Individual issues and subscriptions to the journals will be on sale. Refreshments served. Event is free and open to the public.
A forum for women’s creative work—including work by women of color, lesbian and queer women, young women, old women—CALYX Journal breaks new ground. Each issue is packed with new poetry, short stories, full-color artwork, photography, essays, and reviews. CALYX Journal is known for discovering important writers, such as Julia Alvarez, Paula Gunn Allen, Olga Broumas, Natalie Goldberg, Barbara Kingsolver, and Sharon Olds, among the more than 4,000 writers published during our first 35 years. CALYX was the first to publish the artwork of Frida Kahlo in color in the U.S. In 1980 CALYX also featured work by the Nobel Laureate poet Wislawa Szymborska – the first English translations of her work published in the U.S.
With poet Margaret Hasse as emcee.
Free. Refreshments, socializing and book signing.
February 9, 2012
Poets
Athena Kildegaard is a lecturer at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Her two previous books, both from Red Dragonfly Press, are Rare Momentum and Bodies of Light. She received the LRAC/McKnight Fellowship for 2011 and has been a recipient of grants from the Lake Region Arts Council and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her poems have appeared widely in such journals as Mid-American Review, Cream City Review, Malahat Review, Faultline, The Seattle Review, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere.
Cary Waterman is the author of five books of poems. Her most recent collection, BOOK OF FIRE, was published by Nodin Press in 2011. A previous collection, WHEN I LOOKED BACK YOU WERE GONE, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Her poems are included in the anthologies Poets Against the War, Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Days to the Present and 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry. In 2009, she received second place in The Common Ground poetry contest. Recent publications include The New Guard where she was a finalist in the poetry contest. She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Bush Foundation and is a past recipient of the Loft McKnight Award of Distinction for Poetry. She has had residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland. She teaches creative writing at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
Artists
Mike Conroy
Terri Behren FeldmanUpcoming
April 12, 2012
Philip S. Bryant – Stompin’ at The Grand Terrace: A Jazz Memoir in Verse (Blueroad Press)
Kathryn Kysar – Pretend the World (Holy Cow! Press)
June 14, 2012
Richard Broderick – Rain Dance (Parallel Press)
Maryann Corbett – Breath Control (David Robert Books)
Free admission to all events
All readings feature two poets reading from their most recent books and new work, with poet Margaret Hasse as emcee.
Complimentary wine and cheese will be served at events.
All seats are given on a first come, first serve basis.
Events held at:
ArtStart ArtGallery
1459 St. Clair Avenue, St. Paul
Directions:
From I-94 take the Snelling Avenue exit south to St. Clair Avenue.
Turn left at the intersection of Snelling and St. Clair Avenue and go two blocks east. The building is on the north corner of St. Clair and Pascal.
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