Marianne CombsChaun Webster, co-owner of Ancestry Books in Minneapolis, has been wrestling with the shooting of Michael Brown, the ongoing upheaval in Ferguson, and the history of violence on black and brown people in the United States. Read more →
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MN Poetry
A retrospective of the poetry of Jim Moore is coming out in September, titled “Underground: New and Selected Poems.”
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Driving around the Twin Cities today, you may see billboards with the words #Haikus4Gambia, accompanied by just that – a haiku. This consciousness-raising poetry project is the brainchild of IBé, a.k.a. Ibrahim Kaba, a local spoken word artist and computer programmer. It celebrates the 49th anniversary of Gambia’s independence from British rule. IBé organized 49 different Read more →
Lightsey Darst lives at that wonderful intersection of art — and art.
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