January 10, 2014, Friday - Mentor Series: Peter Campion at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Mentor Series: Peter Campion

The 2013-2014 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents poetry mentor Peter Campion reading along with program participants Sandra Evans (poetry) and Steven Lang (fiction).

Peter Campion received his BA from Dartmouth College and his MA from Boston University. His collections of poetry include Other People, The Lions, and El Dorado (due out in fall of 2013). He has also written monographs and catalog essays for the painters Joseph McNamara, Terry St. John, Mitchell Johnson, Kim Frohsin, and Eric Aho. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Fellowship, he currently teaches at the University of Minnesota.

Sandra Evans is a poet and educator living in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with her husband, two elderly dogs, and occasionally, her two grown children. She has an MFA in Poetry from Hamline University where she also served as assistant poetry editor for Water~Stone Review and an adjunct instructor. Her writing has appeared on What Light and in rock, paper, scissors.

Artist and writer Steven Lang received his BFA from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. In 2012, he was a resident artist at Elsewhere, a living museum set in a former thrift store in downtown Greensboro, NC, and was a participant in the 4th season of CSA—Community Supported Art, sponsored by mnartists.org and springboardforthearts.org. He has recently exhibited at Rosalux Gallery, Soo Visual Arts Center, and the Walker Art Center's Walker Shop. His short story, "Tandem," was included in the recent Milkweed Editions anthology Fiction on a Stick.