In honor of national poetry month, River City Books sponsored an open-mic poetry night last night at the Contented Cow. (The Raven has more in his blog post, Poetry Gods Are Swooning.) Among the people reading their poems were my daughter, Gilly Wigley (left center) and Andrea Lovoll. Click the photos to enlarge and see the poetry album for 15 more.
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Representative Journalism
Locally Grown has been chosen to test an innovative project called Representative Journalism (RepJ). Bonnie Obremski is the RepJ reporter/journalist currently assigned to Northfield.See the complete listing of all her stories here, most current ones first.
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Bruce Anderson
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Bill Ostrem
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David Bly, State Rep. 25B
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Ross Currier, NDDC Exec. Director
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Kevin Dahle, State Senator, D25
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Bruce Morlan/Politics and a Pint
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League of Women Voters Northfield
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Calendar of events via Northfield.org
- Collectible, give-able (and even usable) art.
- Northfield Tennis Association annual meeting and tennis mixer on Monday
- YMCA Messy Play (2 & 3-5 yr olds)
- Northfield Area Land Use: A Panel Discussion and Update (Focus on St. Olaf)
- MOMS Club of Northfield, MN - Monthly Meeting
- Skating Spirit Night - All Welcome
- Authors Visiting River City Books During Winter Walk
- St. Olaf Bookstore book signing: State Fair
- Carleton to Host Annual Craft and Custodial Bake Sale
- Waffle Dinner - Band Fundraiser
- St. Olaf Bookstore book signing: The Book of Ages
- The Sweeter Sdie of Amy's Bread: Cakes, Cookies, Bars, Pastries and More from New York City's Favorite Bakery
- View the stars at Carleton's Goodsell Observatory Friday, December 5
- Cannon River STEM School Open House
- Come One, Come All: Easy Entertaining with Seasonal Menus book signing at St. Olaf Bookstore
- Tales of the Road: Highway 61 book signing at St. Olaf Bookstore
- Jon Manners Serves Up Rocks & Salt
- Potluck Paradise and Utterly Otterly Day book signings at St. Olaf Bookstore
- YMCA Kids Morning at the Y
- St. John's Grief Support Group
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There was another poetry reading in town last night:
http://monkeyread.wordpress.com/
or
http://tinyurl.com/29v2p7
Or better yet, Jerry, the permalink of your blog post.
Who woulda thunk? Poetry permeates rural MN!
[...] to add. Plus, some anouncements on other poetry events in the offing. But in the meantime check out Griff Wigley’s post at Locally Grown. Great stuff. Thanks, Griff. Explore posts in the same categories: [...]
Yep, it was a terrific night for poetry fans in Northfield. If you didn’t make it to open-mike poetry night — thanks for your great coverage, Griff — I have added the first of an expected three (short) audio file to RCBlog:
http://rivercitybooks.wordpress.com/2007/04/22/stephanie-walker/
Enjoy.
Cool… audio poetry reading on two different blogs, River City Books and Monkey See, Monkey Read. You guys rock!
And I see Tiny’s Dogs is having a poetry reading this week. Poetry. The new porn!
The gratification continues, Griff. I have added more audio to a post that includes links to the NAG poetry event this week as well as news about a new poetry book club in town.
Plus, my sources tell me negotiations are under way for another open-mike poetry night at The Cow. It was so popular the masses want more.
Everybody’s a poet — don’t you know it?
[...] Local poets rock downtown (6) [...]
To follow up my tantalizing earlier post on this topic — I know a lot of folks have been up nights waiting — River City Books and The Cow are, in fact, teaming again on another Open-Mike Poetry Night later this month.
Hopefully, Gilly and others will again take the stage and read from their fine work.