Open Book Target Auditorium
1011 South Washington Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
IN-PERSON. Free, registration required.
Join The Great Northern and Milkweed Editions for an in-person event celebrating Michael Kleber-Diggs and his debut poetry collection Worldly Things. Masks and proof of vaccination against COVID-19 are required. Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register here!
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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.