Take a Chance on the Open Mic
It is a truth impossible to acknowledge that open mics, even in possession of a good audience, must get off to a rough start. On Hazel & Wren’s Words at WAM.
The Search for the Literary Mecca
What bookish type hasn’t had a fleeting fancy of moving to New York? The so-called Book Capital of the World, the city is legendary for its literary history. In today’s New York, scores…
Not Just GLBT Literature
Beyond the Pure: Queer Voices Annual Pride Reading June 21, Minneapolis Central Library Award winning poet John Medeiros cuts right to the chase. “Minneapolis has a really good literary queer community,” he says….
The Fruits of Tentacular Talent
Paper Darts, vol. 3: A Magazine of Lit + Art Available at Mager’s and Quinn Booksellers or direct from paperdarts.org $12.00 If any given Minneapolitan were to encounter the startlingly beautiful three headed…
In the Literary Colosseum
Literary Death Match Sunday, June 5, at the Aster Café, Northeast Minneapolis Poetry Reading. Open Mic Night. Writers’ Salon. For readers and writers the mention of events like these evokes an incomparable excitement,…





