Pumpkin Spice? Nah.
October readings and books and so on and so forth and so it goes (h/t Kurt Vonnegut)
Fairly quiet month as of now, but expect some hot news around This Body, This Fruit (the play) in the Very Near Future 👀.
Have you watched my video collab yet? It’s only two and change minutes long, but it’s amazing! Check it out!
Somehow I forgot to mention (or maybe I said something, but I definitely forgot to add it to my website, now rectified) you can buy a chapbook with three of my poems in it! It’s the 2025 BuckSlam Team chapbook, Herd That! Volume 1 (2025), available from BuckSlam MN (contact page on website, or DM them on Instagram, or show up at a slam, or… this stuff is hot, you gotta seek it out like buried treasure 😉).
This month’s Better Things is an amazing lineup; I’ll be co-hosting with Louise Waakaa’igan 🤩. As usual, we’ll be at Moon Palace Books, first Tuesday of the month (October 7th) at 7pm. Reading is followed by an open mic, both with ASL interpreters!
I’ll be reading poetry (15 minutes’ worth 💖) at the Midstream Reading Series along with Emily August, Kathryn Kysar, and Debra J Stone. The reading’s on Thursday, October 9th, at Unity Church-Unitarian (732 Holly Avenue, Saint Paul 55104) — use the Holly Avenue entrance; the reading is upstairs in the Robbins Parlor.
No registration necessary, but you can add it to your calendar with this QR code.
This is early, and I’ll include it in next month’s newsletter, too, but I’m leading a Poetry Re-Vision workshop on November 11th, 6pm, at the Liberal Arts Engagement Hub over at the University of Minnesota as part of the ReEntry Lab residency at the Hub.
This is my single-session poetry revision workshop—I’ve also got a full four-week version (available to host, HMU 😉). You can register for this workshop, as well as a Speculative Nonfiction workshop led by Erin Sharkey, at tally.so/r/w20DlD (or scan the QR code below).
The St. Paul Almanac is throwing a Book Launch Party for the 20th Anniversary Edition, Volume 14: Illumination on October 16th at 7pm at the Wilder Foundation in North Saint Paul. I don’t have work in this volume, but I was part of the editing team putting it together and I’m proud of the work we did 😁.
Tickets are free but almost gone—you can get them at eventbrite.
The can’t-miss reading of the year, Beyond Bars: Voices of Incarceration, is October 25th, 7-9pm, at the Klas Center, Kay Fredericks Room (3rd Floor), at Hamline University, 1537 W Taylor Ave, St. Paul 55104. I highly recommend going in person, if you can, but there’s also a Zoom option, for which you’ll need to register.
There’s more coming—there’s always more 😅—but this seems like enough for now. Hope to see you somewhere around the multiverse!