Kathryn Kysar and Jim Moore, two of the Twin Cities’ best poets, share their work at Magers & Quinn at 4:00 pm.

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From her Saint Paul kitchen to the historical shores of Lake Superior, from a rock outside of Bagdad to a clothing factory in Guangdong, Kathryn Kysar constructs and reconstructs a world in poems that confront our false sense of safety and explore the inequities and fissures in women’s lives.

“The spirited poems in Kathryn Kysar’s Pretend the World radiate a lyric vitality as they explore the world of nature, motherhood, sexuality, and celebrate the lost bounty of the past.”–Dorianne Laux, author of Smoke and What We Carry

Kathryn Kysar is the author of two books of poetry, Dark Lake and Pretend the World, and she edited Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers. She has received fellowships from Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, the Minnesota State Arts Board, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Kysar recently served on the board of directors for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and teaches at Anoka-Ramsey Community College and the Loft Literary Center and lives with her family in St. Paul.

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“Jim Moore writes of history, of love, of pain, of the intimate revelations of a consciousness alive to itself.”–C. K. Williams

Jim Moore is the author of six collections of poetry, including Invisible Strings, Lightning at Dinner, The Freedom of History, and The Long Experience of Love. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, the Nation, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Threepenny Review, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and in many other magazines and anthologies. He teaches at Hamline University in Saint Paul.