Readings
Fox is the author of Because Why and The First Flag, both published by Coffee House Press. She's a program consultant for the Friends of the Hennepin County Library, a contributor to the multi-author arts and culture blog Montevidayo, and with John Colburn she co-images the Center for Visionary Poetics. She also serves as a doula.
Juliet Patterson is the author of The Truant Lover, winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and Dirge, a chapbook recently published by Albion Books. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous magazines including 26, American Letters & Commentary, Arts & Letters, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Knockout, New Orleans Review, Rain Taxi, and Verse. Her recent awards include the 2011 Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize in Non-Fiction, 2010 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, a 2012 Minnesota Emerging Writer’s Grant, as well as grants from Minnesota State Arts Board and a fellowship from the Minneapolis-based Institute for Community and Cultural Development.
Host Paula Cisewski's second poetry collection, Ghost Fargo, was selected by Franz Wright for the Nightboat Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Upon Arrival (Black Ocean), of the chapbooks How Birds Work and Two Museums, and the co-author, with Mathias Svalina, of Or Else What Asked the Flame. A liberal arts instructor and a Jerome Grant recipient, her poems appear regularly in literary magazines such as A Handsome Journal; H_NGM_N; Forklift, OH; failbetter; We Are So Happy to Know Something; BOMB; Everyday Genius, and REVOLUTIONesque.
