Open Book
1011 Washington Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
This event is free and open to the public.
Join Erika Meitner and Elizabeth Metzger at Open Book for a reading and conversation of their latest work, Assembled Audience and The Going is Forever.
Erika Meitner
Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Useful Junk; Holy Moly Carry Me, which won the National Jewish Book Award in poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Copia; and Ideal Cities, a 2009 Nati
Elizabeth Metzger
Elizabeth Metzger is the author of The Going Is Forever and Lying In, as well as The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She has published two chapbooks, Bed and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.
These poems are deeply generous to the reader, serious and playful, alchemizing and liberating.”—Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful and Goldenrod
The seventh collection by award-winning poet Erika Meitner, Assembled Audience explores what it means to be human in an increasingly precarious world.
A collection of “oracular, crystalline, and utterly original” poems wrestling with a life’s shifting social structures and the multifaceted totality of the self (Maggie Millner).