Please join us for a reading from poets D. E. Green and Heather Dubrow.

D. E. Green's Jumping the Median is a book-length collection of poetry that, though each poem can stand on its own, speaks with the distinctive voice of a middle-aged bisexual man in a long-term relationship, musing, often wryly, on memory, love, and mortality. The poems and the collection have been well received at readings across the Twin Cities and have contributed to the author's growing presence on the local literary scene. Whereas Jumping the Median includes a mix of formal poems and free verse, Green's Catastrophizing in Catastrophe is an online chapbook of formal poems--haiku, sonnets, pantoums, ghazals, villanelles, and sestinas--written just before and during the pandemic. They dwell on the seasons, our traumatic times, and the resilience that keeps us going.

Lost and Found Departments, Heather Dubrow’s second full-length collection of poetry, focuses on what is sometimes called found poetry, in this case poems developing from and often playing on signs and phrases form everyday locations such as drugstores and train stations. Like her other volumes of poems, it includes a wide range of writing—for example, some of the work is in traditional forms like the sonnet and ghazal while some is free verse, some is humorous and some far from that, and certain entries are prose poems. Its subject matter also varies, encompassing, for example, monologues apparently spoken by Shakespeare characters, love poems, meditations on education, and lyrics about art, architecture, and about writing itself. Her scholarly books engage with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, especially Shakespeare and poetry, and with poetics, particularly the lyric.