Kathryn Kysar performs selections from her poetry CD Pretend the World

An
evening of poetry as you’ve never heard it before.

Recorded
at Wild Sound Studio in Minneapolis in June 2014 with producer Steve Kaul, Pretend
the World features a plethora of performers, including Minnesota Poet
Laureate Joyce Sutphen and renown soprano Maria Jette. Kysar will perform
selections from the CD with readers Shane Blegen, Hawona
Sullivan Janzen, Elaine Kenny, Anna George Meek, Sheila O’Connor, Sun Yung
Shin, Ka Vang, and special musical guest jazz clarinetist Sean Egan

Kysar
received a 2013 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant to make the
CD of
poetry from her book Pretend the World that
was published in 2011 by Holy Cow! Press.

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Kathryn
Kysar is the author of two books of poetry, Dark Lake and Pretend the World,
and she edited the anthology Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers.
She has received fellowships and residencies from the Anderson Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, the Minnesota
State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the
Oberholtzer Foundation. Her poems have been heard on A Writer’s Almanac and
have appeared in anthologies such as To Sing Along the Way and Good Poems,
American Places. She co-chairs the creative writing program at Anoka-Ramsey
Community College, writes book reviews for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and
teaches creative writing classes at Hamline University and the Loft Literary
Center. Her latest project was a collaborative CD of poetry from Pretend the
World.

More
information about Kathryn Kysar at www.kathrynkysar.com.