Kofi Bobby Hickman was an artist in residence in Jennifer Bangoura’s writing class at Gordon Parks High School. The following piece was compiled from the writing of students in that class and is formatted to use as a group performance or dramatic reading. Kofi was...
Can you tell that the days are getting shorter? I think we had better do something about it, capture them in the vision of our mind’s eye before they fade into night. But even though Saint Paul sleeps, stuff happens at night, too. Even in our Minnesota short-evening...
This week marks the grand opening of SubText Books in its new downtown space and this month’s Lowertown Reading Jam, “ArtTransForms.” A friend and former bookseller made me think of the importance of what we are doing in our community with art and literature. She said...
During the summer of 1980 between my sophomore and junior years at Hamline University, I worked as a telephone operator on the 3 to 11 p.m. shift on the last existing cord board in Saint Paul, at the downtown Radisson Hotel. The toggles and cords were mounted...
Featuring Ardie Medina ♦ Eric McKendry ♦ IBé Kaba ♦ Venus de Mars ♦ Morgan Grayce Willow ♦ Michael Kiesow Moore and a special collaborative, participatory poetry-making experience! Lowertown Reading Jam will be presented on Wednesday, June 24, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m....
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