University Club
420 Summit Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55102
United States
IN-PERSON EVENT. Central Time.
Join Patricia Kirkpatrick, Anthony Ceballos, Laurie Hertzel, and Heid Erdrich for a reading and Winter Solstice celebration. The University Club requires masks and vaccination. More details here!
Patricia Kirkpatrick
Patricia Kirkpatrick is the author of Blood Moon as well as Odessa, which was awarded the first Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry and the 2013 Minnesota Book Award. Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Loft Literary Center, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She has taught writing at many colleges, most recently in the University of Minnesota MFA program. She lives in Saint Paul.
Compassionate, contemplative, occasionally wonderstruck, Blood Moon is a moving work of moral introspection.
A grim prognosis, brain cancer, leaves the speaker in this collection fighting for her life. The winner of the 2012 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry creates from loss a dreamlike reality: Odessa, “roof of the underworld,” a refuge at once real and imagined, resembling simultaneously the Midwestern prairie and a mythical god-inhabited city.