A Gathering + Open Mic
Please join us on Tuesday, December 3rd, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books, for our next gathering, at which we will talk about some podcast episodes featuring reentry-related topics, including experiences and obstacles that writers leaving incarceration encounter. We may also spend some time rolling poems for the MPWW poetry gumball machines. Conversation and activities will be followed by an open mic period, when anyone can share their work. This gathering, and the open mic afterward, will be hosted by Erin Sharkey and Louise Waakaa’igan.
There’s an event on Facebook, or you can add it to your Google Calendar or download an ICS file to add it to other calendars.
Before we gather, we’ll listen to a few individual podcast episodes.
Poetry Unbound podcast. Episode: Reginald Dwayne Betts, Essay on Reentry. (on Apple Podcasts) (on Spotify)
Us & Them podcast. Episode: Us & Them Encore: Re-Entry. (on Apple Podcasts) (on Spotify)
Ear Hustle podcast. Episode: Transitional. (on Apple Podcasts) (on Spotify)
Snap Judgment podcast. Episode: Kissing the Concrete. (on Apple Podcasts) (on Spotify)
Spotify playlist with all four episodes.
Please show up even if you don’t manage to catch all (or even any) of the podcasts – the conversations have been consistently enlightening and engaging, and our main agenda is always connection. This is not a space to check boxes! Your unique insights and experiences are valuable, and we’d love to have your presence.
Better Things is a series of events sponsored by the ReEntry Lab, in partnership with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW), the Longfellow Community Council, and Moon Palace Books, with funding from the City of Minneapolis‘s Partnership Engagement Fund.
The ReEntry Lab is an organization working to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration to a community that’s ready to receive them. You can learn more about its mission, volunteer to help, and sign up for the newsletter at reentrylab.org.
* 5×5 format inspired by the 555 Reads series, developed by Elizabeth R. Tannen.