Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library
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Saint Paul, MN N/A
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VIRTUAL EVENT. Free and open to the public. Central Time.
Join The Fireside Reading Series, one of The Friends’ longest-running and most popular events, for a virtual reading with Michael Kleber-Diggs, author of Worldly Things. Register here!
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.