May 14, 2012, Monday - Heid E. Erdrich, Kris Bigalk & Elizabeth Austen Readings at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

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

Heid E. Erdrich, Kris Bigalk & Elizabeth Austen 
 
Come to the Loft on May 14th to hear Heid Erdrich, Kris Bigalk, and Elizabeth Austen read from their most recently published works.

Heid E. Erdrich Winner of a Minnesota Book Award in poetry for National Monuments, Heid E. Erdrich has authored four books of poems. Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. Heid frequently teaches as a visiting scholar at colleges, universities, libraries, and arts and cultural organizations. She also works with visual artists and directs an Ojibwe language press. Her current projects are a cookbook from the indigenous foods movement and a collaborative multi-disciplinary show called Artifact Traffic. Her new book is Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems.

Kris Bigalk is the author of the poetry collection Repeat the Flesh in Numbers.  Her poetry also appears in the poetry/photography anthology Open to Interpretation: Water's Edge; She directs the creative writing program at Normandale Community College, and was awarded Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants in Poetry in 2010 and 2012.

Elizabeth Austen is the author of Every Dress a Decision (Blue Begonia Press, 2011) and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Goes Alone (Floating Bridge Press, 2010) and Where Currents Meet (Toadlily Press, 2010). She spent her twenties working in the theatre and writing poems. A six-month solo walkabout in the Andes region of South America led her to focus exclusively on poetry. She has served as the Washington state “roadshow poet” and produces literary programming for NPR-affiliate KUOW 94.9. She makes her living at Seattle Children’s Hospital, where she also offers poetry and journaling workshops for the staff.