August 1, 2014, Friday - BOWER: Éireann Lorsung, Katrina Vandenberg, and Ben Weaver at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave S

BOWER: Éireann Lorsung, Katrina Vandenberg, and Ben Weaver

A midsummer night's dream of words and music, featuring Éireann Lorsung, Katrina Vandenberg, and Ben Weaver.

Éireann Lorsung is the author of Music For Landing Planes By (Milkweed, 2007), Her Book (Milkweed, 2013), and Sweetbriar (dancing girl press, 2013). Recent poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Burnside Review, Colorado Review, and Women's Studies Quarterly. She is now at work on a novel about archives and earthquakes, pieces of which can be found in Two Serious Ladies, DIAGRAM, Bluestem, and Mandala. She edits 111O and co-runs MIEL, a micropress (miel-books.com).
 
Katrina Vandenberg is the author of The Alphabet Not Unlike the World (2012)  and Atlas: Poems (2004), both published by Milkweed Editions. With poet Todd Boss, she is the co-author of the chapbook On Marriage (Red Dragonfly Press). Her essays and poems have appeared in The American Scholar, Blackbird, Poetry Daily, The Southern Review, Orion, The Iowa Review, The Sun, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poets and Writers, Post Road, and other journals, as well as several anthologies, including Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry (Borealis). She is an Assistant Professor in the MFA and BFA Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University.

Ben Weaver is an American singer-songwriter. His albums include, "El Camino Blues," "Living in the Ground," which was recorded in one five-hour-session, "Hollerin' at a Woodpecker," which, released in 2002, was critically acclaimed in Britain and the United States, including being named No.3 Americana album of the year by Mojo magazine, "Stories Under Nails," and "Mirepoix and Smoke." He is also a poet and fiction writer whose short story, "Humanesque," was included in the 2009 anthology Amplified: Fiction from Leading Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Blues and Folk Musicians, and whose poem "Devastations" won the 2009 What Light Grand Jury Prize.