North Hennepin Community College
7411 85th Avenue North Grand Hall (CBT 195)
Brooklyn Park, MN 55445
United States
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP’s are required and can be made here.
Minnesota State Write Like Us is proud to present best-selling author, essayist, and social critic Kiese Laymon for a free public reading and interview at North Hennepin Community College on Thursday, September 29 at 6:30 pm. Laymon will read from his creative work, followed by an interview by award-winning author Michael Kleber-Diggs.
If you are unable to attend in-person, it will also be available for online live-streaming. Register here for the live-stream access: https://tinyurl.com/KieseLaymonWebinar2022.
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.
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, the poems of Worldly Things offer needed guidance on ways forward—toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics.