Midstream Reading Series

When: Thursday July 7, 2016, 7:30–8:30pm.    

Where: Blue Moon building,  corner of 39th and (3820) East Lake. Upstairs. Entrance just west of the Blue Moon coffee house; up the stairs and to the left. Not wheel-chair accessible. Plentiful street parking.

 Best to arrive 10-20 minutes early to get coffee and food/dessert from the Blue Moon, and to be seated by 7:30 so we can begin on time. And, the venue will easily hold about 30; after that, standing or floor-sitting room only. The early bird gets the seat. Please occupy the close seats first. Be an up-front person.

Original poems and stories read/performed by their creators:

Jim Bohen, Lucia May, John Wenstrom, Jasmin Ziegler  

 

Special Song Prelude 6:45-7:15  Jess and John Wenstrom have been playing and singing country and Appalachian songs together for as long as Jess can remember (John being Jess’s dad). Their current name for their band is 39 Brackets. 

 Before and after: The Blue Moon, downstairs, has coffee, sandwiches, desserts. Merlin’s Rest, a bar/restaurant 3 blocks west, has a full bar, good food, a late hours kitchen, reserved seating..

For further information:David Shove shove001@umn.edu     651-636-5672

Please Come!

THURSDAY April 9, 2015 at 7 p.m.

Green Room at Orchestra Hall

1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403

an off-site event during the AWP Convention

 Writing Through Grief: A Panel Discussion with contributors to the anthology The Widows’ Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

Panelists: Lucia May, Judy Bebelaar, Helen Ruggieri, Kristine Shorey

Evening Street Press announced the May 1, 2014 publication of Blond Boy by Lucia May, finalist for the Helen Kay Chapbook Poetry Prize. (link to press for orders, also available from http://www.Amazon.com)

Blond Boy describes a lesser-known Nazi program and the long arm of its brutality. It is a family memoir in poems.

 Praise for Blond Boy:

“Lucia May writes without any sentimentality whatsoever… she compresses enormous emotion into tense spare lines to create poetry that is fierce and true.”

–Keith Maillard, author of The Clarinet Polka

“Blond Boy is a tough, intense collection. It is blunt in its truth-telling, and ambitious in its range. I won’t forget these poems.”

–Deborah Keenan, newest books published in 2013 are From Tiger to Prayer and so she had the world.)

“Lucia weaves…poetry that is brutally honest while being “bathed in the light” of forgiveness, showing grief and loss unsentimentally, with a glance, a gesture, an image that glows vividly on the page.”

–Linda Back McKay, author of The Next Best Thing and Out of the Shadows: Stories of Adoption and Reunion

“…a story well worth telling…it comes wonderfully alive in all its mesmerizing details. These memories will dance in our minds for a long time.”

–Mary Logue, author of Hand Work and Trees

“Lucia May writes exquisite poetry that shines light in the darkness.”

–Robert O Fisch, author of Light from the Yellow Star: a Lesson of Love from the Holocaust

New poems published in the June issue of Moon Magazine: