Matt Mauch is the author of two books of poetry, If You’re Lucky
Is a Theory of Mine, which was the 2012 open-reading period
selection by Trio House Press, and Prayer Book (Lowbrow Press). A
Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant recipient, Mauch
teaches in the AFA in Creative Writing program at Normandale
Community College and hosts the annual Great Twin Cities Poetry
Read.
Jefferson Hansen is the author, most recently, of the short story
collection Cruelty (BlazeVox). His selected poems is entitled Jazz
Forms (Blue Lion). He holds a Ph.D. from the SUNY-Buffalo
Poetics Program, where he studied with Robert Creeley and Charles
Bernstein.
Wendy Brown-Báez is a writer, teacher, performance poet and
installation artist. Wendy is the author of a poetry CD Longing for
Home, a full-length collection Ceremonies of the Spirit (Plain View
Press, 2009) and chapbook transparencies of light (Finishing Line
Press, 2011). She has published both poetry and prose in numerous
literary journals.
Evelyn Klein is a freelance writer/teacher/artist. Born in Berlin,
Germany, she spent her formative years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and
came to the Twin Cities area as a young adult. She led a poetry group
at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis for seven years and then
taught writing there and at Century College in White Bear Lake. She
now lives in Woodbury, Minnesota.
Mary Stein Mary Stein is the assistant editor of Conduit and will
soon teach through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Her
work can be found in various journals and has been nominated for
New Stories from the Midwest. She received her MFA from
Vermont College of Fine Arts and is currently working on
completing a collection of stories as well as a chapbook of even
shorter stories.
The League of Minnesota Poets Presents:
Poets In the City
April 26th-27th 2014
Featuring keynote:
Matt Mauch
Guest Speakers:
Closed and Open Form - Jefferson Hansen
Nepotism doesN’t work: oN submittiNg - Mary Stein
Writing to heal - Wendy Brown-baez
poetry as memoir - Evelyn klein
April 26th
First Lutheran Church
1555 40th Ave
Columbia Heights, MN
8:30 am – Registration
9:00 to 10:00 am – Board meeting (auxiliary room)
9:00 to 10:00 am – Open mic
10:00 to 10:50 am – Breakout Sessions
Writing to Heal: Wendy Brown-Baez
When Nepotism Fails; Insights and Commiserations on the
Submission Process: Mary Stein (auxiliary room)
11:00 to 12:30 am – Keynote Matt Mauch
12:30 to 1:30 – Lunch
(The League Board Meeting continued if necessary)
1:30 to 2:30 – Poetry Critique: Peter Stein & Evelyn Klein
2:30 to 3:30 – Breakout Session II
Closed and Open Form: Jefferson Hansen
Poetry as Memoir: Evelyn Klein (auxiliary room)
3:30 to 4:30 – LOMP General Meeting and Door Prizes
April 27th
Holiday Inn Express
2715 Long Lake Rd
Roseville, MN
10:00 to 11:30 – Poetic Activities
100 Ways to Read a Poem (Executive Suite)
Poetry Cut-ups (Breakfast room)
Sakura Restaurant & Bar
The Lowry Building
350 St. Peter St.
St. Paul, MN
12:30 to 2:30 – The League of Minnesota Poet’s Past reading
with open mic to follow
(open to the public)
Holiday Inn Express
2715 Long Lake Rd
Roseville, MN
4:30 to 5:00 – Hotel check in
5:00 to 6:30 – Dinner*
Augsburg College – Anderson Music Hall
2211 Riverside Ave
Minneapolis, MN
7:00 to 9:00– The Great Twin Cities Poetry Read
(open to the public)
* Dinner will be on your own, but we have the banquet room
reserved at Green Mill in the Roseville Mall.
We will arrange carpools in the lobby of the hotel at 5:00 to Green
Mill, then to Augsburg, and back to the hotel after The Great Twin
Cities Poetry Read