"A Definitive Guide to the Twin Cities" is a creative guide to the Twin Cities through poetry and prose. See the Twin Cities through the eyes of 38 of its finest writers--this is the only guide that steers you on an emotional as well as a physical level through the streets and alleys of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.

A Definitive Guide to the Twin Cities

Literature & Fiction

Colburn, John

Filkins, Michelle

Watercott, Chris

Poetry

Spout Press

Poetry. I'M RIGHT HERE is a new collection of experimental short fiction by Minnesota author Tony Rauch. Rauch paints a surreal landscape of lurid sex, secret agents, Scott Baio, ostriches, and professional wrestling—each story building on the last to give a bizarre, off-balance commentary on the isolation, loneliness and chaos of modern urban society.

i'm right here

Rauch, Tony

Poetry. Is it a cocktail guide for poets? A poetry anthology for bartenders? This strange hybrid contains poetry, cocktail recipes and artwork in one sleek package, and features work by many of the bright lights of the next generation of American poetry. Includes poems by Kim Addonizio, Stephen Burt, JoAnna Rawson, Sheila E. Murphy, Matt Hart, Joanna Fuhrman, Carolyn Hembree and more.

Lush: A Poetry Anthology and Cocktail Guide

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

"Beware" contains twenty poems by 86 year old poet Lucille Broderson. Her poems are both fierce and delicate, filled with longing and wisdom. If she writes from the perspective of age, it is an age ablaze with passion, filled with as many questions as answers.

Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces

Literary

The Book of Arcana: Tomorrow's Stone Age Cosmology Today

Little,Jeffrey

Spout Press gets authors to "blink" in this unique anthology of sudden fiction.  "blink" is a gathering of thirty-eight authors, united by their ability to use a moment to stand for the whole—creating forty-one short stories of under one thousand words each.  Authors represented in the anthology include nationally-known writers Jim Heynen, Jonis Agee and Jim Northrup.

Blink : Sudden Fiction by Minnesota Writers

Miles, Margaret

United States

Poetry. On Kirsten Dierking's collection of poems NORTHERN ORACLE: "Kirsten Dierking's poems often focus on the small things, the unnoticed natural world around her, 'the unknowable swimmers' in the water beneath the canoe, or the realization of the 'glorious spirit' inside a wild flower. It is this seeing that gives her poems their joy. But it is the unflinching realization that 'you love things that can't help leaving' and that, 'you can't stop/ yourself becoming/ all the white,/ expressionless snow' that gives the poems their strength"--Louis Jenkins.

Northern Oracle

Dierking, Kirsten

Poetry. Emily Graves' BALLAD OF THE BREATHLESS consists of themes divided into five parts entitled Learning the Art of Motion, Wings of the Engine, A Rare Moment In Which We Are Entirely Permeable, Thirsting for the Big Scrub, and This Wall Has Several Exits. She actively collaborates with artist Jessica Dickinson whose art appears in the collection. In Graves' work, "there is a muscularity of language, a density of image that takes the reader inside experience"-Julia Landsman. Emily Graves' travels to Central America, Europe, Thailand, the U.K., and South America have informed much of her later work. She received a BA from the Honors Program at the University of Minnesota and an MA from New York University.

Ballad of the Breathless

Graves, Emily

Fiction. Edited by John Colburn, Michelle Filkins, and Margaret Miles. In its most soulful incarnation, what actually transpires in the vastness of the northern plains? The forty-one short stories gathered for this collection, each less than 1,200 words, form a wide-rangingand occasionally confounding answer to this question. It's the middle of a long, hallucinatory winter, and you're writing a story. Anything can happen. Then it does. These are stories of loneliness, betrayal, ghosts, lost dogs, fantastic job applicants and men who want to light each other on fire. The thirty-nine authors explore the strobe-flash intensity of sudden fiction, beginning in medias res and ending at the edge of today's cliff. It's quite probably the feel-good book of the season, right down to the hummingbird cover. Contributors include Alan Davis, Dessa Wander, Diane Glancy, Jay Orff, Lon Otto, Pat Cumbie, Ray Gonzalez, Sun Yung Shin, and many more.

blink again: sudden fiction from the upper midwest

Contemporary

Poetry. In her third book of poems, Kirsten Dierking explores the way our everyday desires shape themselves into the miraculous, like "antlers branched in sprays of bone against the sky." In selecting Dierking's work for a McKnight Artist Fellowship, three-time National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson wrote, "I found these slight, reticent poems tender and thoughtful. They demonstrate the virtue of withholding, showing that sometimes less is definitely more." TETHER is an exploration of fluid, unseen grace as it manifests around us, building an uncanny and potent now.

Tether

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