Hazel & Wren & Maeve’s Sessions Present:

A Poetry Reading with: Caitlin Bailey, Sarah Certa, Sarah Fox, Matt Rasmussen, and Jeffrey Skemp

Join us for this night of diverse poetry, wordy contests, sass, and vintage writing prompts on Poetry Row in Northeast Minneapolis!

Thursday, July 11 at 7:30 pm
Maeve’s Café, 300 13th Avenue NE, Minneapolis

Caitlin Bailey served as an Assistant Poetry Editor for Water~Stone Review in 2012 and 2013. Her work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bateau, Paper Darts, Carolina Quarterly, Poetry City, USA, Vol. 2, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Hamline University in St. Paul.

Sarah Certa holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poems appear in The Bakery, Country Music, and anderbo, among others. She is a freelance photographer and Social Media Wrangler for H_NGM_N. Find her online at Tumblr.

Sarah Fox is the publisher of Fuori Editions and teaches poetry and creative writing in schools and literary centers throughout Minnesota. She has received a Minnesota State Arts Board grant and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bush Foundation. Poems from Because Why have appeared in Bloomsbury Review, Jacket, jubilat, Verse, and other journals.

Matt Rasmussen‘s poetry collection, Black Aperture, was selected by Jane Hirshfield as the winner of the 2012 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and was published by Louisiana State University Press in May 2013. Rasmussen is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, The Corporation of Yaddo, the Loft Literary Center, the Jerome Foundation, Intermedia Arts, the Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota, and the McKnight Foundation. Rasmussen is also the author of a chapbook, Fingergun (Kitchen Press, 2006), and is the co-founder of the independent poetry press Birds, LLC. He teaches literature and creative writing at Gustavus Adolphus College and lives in Robbinsdale, Minnesota.

Jeffrey Skemp is a poet, performer and photographer. He is currently a member of Bosso Poetry Co., a collective of poets and musicians. Skemp is the recipient of grants from Intermedia Arts and the Jerome Foundation and has been published by Spout, MNartists.org, Midway Journal and others. His debut music and poetry album SPENT was released in June, 2011.