You’re Invited to the Party! – Saint Paul Almanac’s Launch of the Carol Connolly Initiative for Almanac Poets and Writers
September 30, 2021
Come celebrate and honor the legacy of Carol Connolly, St. Paul’s first Poet Laureate. Join Saint Paul Almanac at the University Club of Saint Paul to launch the Carol Connolly Initiative for…
Carol Connolly Initiative for Almanac Poets and Writers
September 9, 2021
“Somewhere in this city, someone is working on a poem full of hope and resolve…” — ”Poem for the State of the City, April 21, 2009” by Carol Connolly …
Seeking a creative writer and a visual artist to lead a storytelling contest!
August 6, 2021
Saint Paul Almanac, in collaboration with the University of St. Thomas, is looking for one creative writer and one skilled visual artist to curate and develop a storytelling contest. “The…
Art by Demont Peekaso Pinder
I Wish
By Allysza Castile ● September 16, 2019
Last night I woke up out my sleep and I cried for you. I tried to hold it in, but my tears just flowed like an endless river that would…
West Saint Paul
By Roberto Sande Carmona ● September 16, 2019
Tengo un headache. Maybe it’s the combinación de lenguas en my head, on the billboards (espectaculares, dice mi abi), y en las conversations of people pasando por Cesar Chavez Street.…
Art by Christopher E. Harrison
Pet
By Kurt Schultz ● September 14, 2019
Kinda clammy, kinda wet, the goldfish kinda needs a vet. A little pale and looking ill, the doctor thinks she needs some pills. The pills won’t do, get a knife,…
Art by Ta-coumba Aiken
When Words Are Not Enough
By Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen ● September 13, 2019
For Philando Castile, his family, and our community He was no one to me, but never no body Yet in an instant he became every body Every body sacrificed Every…
Art by Moriah Pratt
Philando Castile
By Norita Dittberner-Jax ● September 13, 2019
In that Cathedral atop the highest hill in Saint Paul, we gathered for Philando. He came on a white catafalque drawn by horses, his coffin carried up the hill by…
Art by Sandra Menefee Taylor
If I Declare the Obvious
By Kayla Gray ● September 11, 2019
After Ada Límon’s “The Conditional” What if you stayed a little longer? What if you told the afterlife to shove it? What if I picked up the phone to your…
Art by Tom McGregor
Glass Womb
By Rebecca Frost ● September 11, 2019
In the crystal hothouse to escape the cold I am here, at last. Wrapped myself in gray wool, blue parka, scarf, mittens, galoshes. Tissue in my pocket. Slipped just once…
Art by Susan Solomon
Alzheimer’s Lament
By Georgia Greeley ● September 11, 2019
Right this moment, in this place, Mother doesn’t know me, her daughter; yet she is still glad to see me and talks gaily. She is happy and cared for. Right…
Art by Kristi Abbott
Listening
By Tim Nolan ● September 11, 2019
I learned about listening from my grandmother Ruth who allowed great silences to live and breathe in a conversation. She then would say the most apt thing, having thought about…