The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library's Fireside Reading Series: Michael Kleber-Diggs

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - 7:00pm
Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library
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Saint Paul, MN N/A
United States

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. 

Poetry

Worldly Things

By 
Michael Kleber-Diggs

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. “Let’s create folklore side-by-side,” he urges, asking us to aspire to a form of nurturing defined by tenderness, to a kind of community devoted to mutual prosperity. “All of us want,” after all, “our share of light, and just enough rainfall.”

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