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Gretchen Marquette hosts Milkweed poets Caitlin Bailey and Chris Santiago at Poetry in the Park alongside Diane Seuss, Sumita Chakraborty, Roy Guzmán, and Michael Torres.
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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.
Chris Santiago
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.
Tula: a ruined Toltec capital; a Russian city known for its accordions; Tagalog for “poem.” Inspired by the experiences of the second-generation immigrant who does not fully acquire the language of his parents, the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry paints the portrait of a mythic homeland that is part ghostly underworld, part unknowable paradise.