Poet, editor, curator, and teacher has spent decades bringing poetry into public life and creating opportunities for other artists.

Officially: it is spring. Does that mean we can finally put our winter coats and scarves away? Time will tell. Until then, until we know for sure the snow has gone for good, let’s just count …

Communities in the Minneapolis area have been devastated by anti-immigration activi… John Burke needs your support for Donate to the ICE Relief Community Fund

Big Animal Productions Kaleidoscope of Love Art Mobilization Saturday, Feb 28 @ 1:00pm Powderhorn Park MPLS Urgent call for participants: NOW IS THE TIME TO SHO

The first time I visited the African American Museum at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. was 2017. I had just been elected to the Minneapolis City Council, the first Black, out Transwoman in the …

This is a place where some creatures, when gassed and shoved, bloom with butterflies and song, where jelly dongs rain down upon our enemies and where a censored snow sculpture melts and resolves in…

For thousands of years before ICE made the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building the home base for their sweeping immigration roundup, this place has been known to the Dakota people as Bdote, where…

This is a place where some creatures, when gassed and shoved, bloom with butterflies and song, where jelly dongs rain down upon our enemies and where a censored snow sculpture melts and resolves in…

A firsthand account of Minneapolis under ICE’s Operation Metro Surge, detailing federal intimidation, civilian abductions, and the city’s organized, peaceful resistance.

Join us for an evening of poetry, conversation, and civic imagination as The Loft hosts Poets Building Community, a special gathering of Poets Laureate from across Minnesota. This event is the culmina...

YouTube video by The Museum of Modern Art

Happy April, and Happy National Poetry Month. Since my dormant love of poetry was reignited, I’ve found it so refreshing and inspiring to read beautiful collections each year and share them with you.H...

Acclaimed writer Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe, enrolled at Turtle Mountain) will visit MAM for a special reading. Erdrich is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Little Big Bully (Penguin, ...