Celebrate National Poetry Month with three Minnesota poets; open mic poetry reading to follow

Join Greg Watson, Michael Kiesow Moore, Norita Dittberner-Jax, and Michael Kleber-Diggs for an evening of poetry. Bring your own poem to read and share.

To celebrate Poetry Month in April at Common Good Books, we will be hosting poets and inviting you to read your own work.  We will have the typewriter available for writing and poems can be posted on the front window. In addition PIP art popups will happen around town. Keep an eye on Common Good Books facebook page and PIP art popup Instagram. #PIPartpopupPOETRY2018 and #npm2018 or #nationalpoetrymonth18

Michael Kiesow Moore is the author of the poetry collection What to Pray For (Nodin Press). His work has appeared in several books and journals, including Among the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience, Water~Stone Review, Saint Paul Almanac, The Talking Stick, and A Loving Testimony: Losing Loved Ones Lost to AIDS. Michael has received awards for his writing, nominations for the Minnesota Book Award and Pushcart Prize for poetry, and he founded the Birchbark Books Reading Series. When he isn’t drinking too much coffee, Michael can be found dancing with the Ramsey’s Braggarts Morris Men.

Norita Dittberner-Jax is an award-winning poet who has been published widely in small press. She will be reading from Crossing the Waters, her fifth collection of poetry, published by Nodin Press in 2017. Norita is one of the poetry editors for Red Bird Chapbooks.

Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet and essayist. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s, Poetry City, North Dakota Quarterly, Paper Darts, Water~Stone Review, and a few anthologies and collaborations. He is a past Fellow with the Givens Foundation for African-American Literature, a past-winner of the Loft Mentor Series in Poetry, and a 2018 recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Michael lives in Saint Paul with his wife, Karen, and their 16-year-old daughter.

Greg Watson is a CGB regular and a poet who has an adorable daughter who, thank goodness, loves books.  He curated the poets for this reading.