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Bella Luna Studios at the Wolf House is pleased to host an evening with Kate Lucas and friends to celebrate Heart of the Lonesome Galaxy.Doors at 7
Reading starts at 7:30
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kate-lucas-launch-with-otte-fernandez-williams-shahid-and-vandenberg-tickets-629601313477
The event is free with a tip jar to support the Art and artists
Seating is limited.
Lucas' Heart of the Lonesome Galaxy (CutBank Books, March 2023) contain poems about dark matter, both literal and metaphorical, but also about seeing and not seeing, especially the light that is also always there. The book was a runner-up in the CutBank Chapbook Contest, run by the University of Montana MFA Program in Creative Writing.
The poet Leslie Harrison, author of Displacement and The Book of Endings, writes that Kate Lucass luminous poems search high and low but mostly very high indeed, across space and time, for story, explanation, meaning. They apply the rules of one realm to the actions of another in a kind of stubborn hope and persistence. They make metaphors into hard-won truths. These poems see clearly and care mightily.
Kate will be joined by poets & writers Timothy Otte, Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, Sagirah Shahid and Katrina Vandenberg, who will read from their work.
Timothy Otte is the author of the chapbook Rebound, Restart, Renew, Rebuild, Rejoice (Lithic Press, 2019), a mentor with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, and writer of a newsletter called Stanza Break about poetry in translation and books outside of a publicity cycle. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Loft Literary Center Mentor Series and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Otte lives in Minneapolis and works as a children’s bookseller.
Sherrie Fernandez-Williams earned her MFA in Writing from Hamline University. She is a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Author of Soft: A Memoir, Fernandez-Williams has published in journals including New Limestone Review, Aquifer: The Florida Review, and Duke University Press, among others. Her essays can be found in anthologies including, We are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, How Dare We Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse, and The Poverty and Education Reader. Her book of poems, Goddess of the Whole Self, is forthcoming in 2023. She co-curates the Queer Voices Reading Series with LM Brimmer in collaboration with Quatrefoil Library and Hennepin County Libraries in Minnesota.
Kate Lucas is the author of Heart of the Lonesome Galaxy, a runner-up in the CutBank Chapbook Contest, published by CutBank in Spring 2023. Her full-length poetry manuscript In This Light was a finalist for the Milkweed Editions Ballard Spahr Prize in 2022, and other work has appeared in Copper Nickel, The Pinch, Sundog Lit, Midway Journal, Lumina, and 111O. A former assistant poetry editor for Water~Stone Review, Kate is the recipient of a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, a fellowship from the Loft Mentor Series, and nominations for Best New Poets and Best of the Net. Kate has held residencies at Dickinson House and Artist at Pine Needles of the Science Museum of Minnesota and was selected to attend the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2022. She writes for hire and teaches poetry, writing, and yoga in Minneapolis.
Sagirah Shahid is an African American Muslim poet, arts educator, and performing artist from Minneapolis, MN. She is a recipient of awards, fellowship, and residencies from the Loft Literary Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Twin Cities Media Alliance, Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art and Muslim Advocates, Strive Publishing, Wisdom Ways, Nicollet Lanterns, and 826 MSP. In 2021 Sagirah was co-curator of the City of Saint Paul’s Sidewalk Poetry project and is a writer-in-residence with the Write Like Us program. When she isn’t creating art, Sagirah celebrates her life exploring poetry with the student-writers of Unrestricted Interest, a writing program and consultancy dedicated to supporting neurodivergent learners through creative writing. Sagirah’s children’s activity book Get Involved in a Book Club! is available at Capstone Press.
Katrina Vandenberg is the author of two books of poems, The Alphabet Not Unlike the World and Atlas, and co-author of the chapbook On Marriage. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The American Scholar, Orion, Post Road, Poets and Writers, and other magazines. She has received fellowships from the McKnight, Bush, and Fulbright Foundations; been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference; and held residencies at the Amy Clampitt House, the Poetry Center of Chicago, and the MacDowell Colony. She is the poetry editor of Water~Stone Review and a professor in The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Bella Luna Studios at the Wolf House MPLS, 3359 Tyler St NE,Minneapolis,MN,United States
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