Public Functionary
1500 Jackson St. NE,
Northrup King Studio 114, 1500
Minneapolis, MN 55413
United States
This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Free Black Dirt, Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, and We Are All Criminals.
Please join editor Erin Sharkey and contributors Bino, Michael Kleber-Diggs, and katie robinson in collaboration with Free Black Dirt, Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, and We Are All Criminals for a very special event!
Books will be sold from Moon Palace Books.
Erin Sharkey
Erin Sharkey is a writer, arts and abolition organizer, cultural worker, and film producer based in Minneapolis.
Michael Kleber-Diggs
Michael Kleber-Diggs’s debut collection of poems, Worldly Things, won the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He was born and raised in Kansas and now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. His work has appeared in Lit Hub, the Rumpus, Rain Taxi, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Water~Stone Review, Midway Review, North Dakota Quarterly and a few anthologies. Michael teaches poetry and creative non-fiction through the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop.
A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.