University of Minnesota
Weisman Art Museum
333 East River Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States
Free and open to the public.
Hear from first-time authors as they read from their debut volumes of fiction and poetry and discuss the path to publication. Caitlin Bailey is the author of Solve for Desire, which won the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. Maureen Aitken is the author of The Patron Saint of Lost Girls, winner of the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. And Donte Collins, the inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of Saint Paul, recently published the poetry collection Autopsy.
Presented by the Edelstein-Keller Writer Series and the Creative Writing Program. Readings are free and open to the public; no reservations necessary. Book signing after the reading.
Caitlin Bailey
Caitlin Bailey is the author of Solve for Desire, a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and winner of the 2017 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, selected by Srikanth Reddy.
Inspired by the mysterious and intense relationship of the Trakl siblings, Solve for Desire is a keening exploration of desire between brother and sister, poet and subject, the living and the dead.