Join us for an inspiring afternoon of poetry readings from three talented local authors.

Matt Mauch is the author of Bird~Brain (forthcoming), If You’re Lucky Is a Theory of Mine, Prayer Book, and the chapbook The Brilliance of the Sparrow. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Conduit, H_NGM_N, DIAGRAM, Willow Springs, The Los Angeles Review, Forklift, Ohio, Sonora Review, Water~Stone Review, and on the Poetry Daily and Verse Daily websites. Mauch leads the editorial staff of Poetry City, USA, an annual collection of poetry and prose on poetry, and lives in Minneapolis, where he teaches in the AFA in Creative Writing program at Normandale Community College.
 

Mary Austin Speaker is a poet and book designer. The author of The Bridge (Shearsman, 2016) and Ceremony (Slope Editions, 2013), in addition to several chapbooks, she runs a small book design studio in Minneapolis, where she also edits and designs Society Editions, a new publication project about poetry and power. You can find more about Mary's work here. 

Rachel Moritz is the author of Borrowed Wave, a finalist for the 2015 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, and Sweet Velocity, forthcoming from Lost Roads Press in 2017. Her poems have been published in American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, TYPO, and Volt. She lives in Minneapolis, where she publishes an occasional chaplet series from WinteRed Press and reviews for Scout Poetry.