September 26, 2012, Wednesday - Kathleen Jesme & Kate Lynn Hibbard at The Loft

Tme:  7:00pm

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

Kathleen Jesme & Kate Lynn Hibbard

Kathleen Jesme will read from her latest collection Meridian and Kate Lynn Hibbard wil share work from her recent book Sweet Weight.

About Meridian:

Winner of the Tupelo Snowbound Award, Meridian is a meditation on the death of a mother, measuring the hours and reflecting on how experience collapses and elongates time, creating a lens through which we can look at how we’re connected and separated. The poet asks – is music our best refusal to accede to the irrationality of death?

About Sweet Weight:

In this remarkable second collection, Kate Lynn Hibbard has brilliantly created a lexicon of arguing and art, religion and women's lives. In precise language and varying forms, Hibbard digs into the meaning of words, loss, and love in he keen observations of flowers, neighbors, birds, condoms, snow, and parents. Not afraid of traditional forms, the detritus of sex, or a stray pantless Barbie, Hibbard's poems shimmer with heat like a car stalled on the side of a summer freeway, surprise with their fresh images, such as comparing an artichoke to Marilyn Monroe. Spontaneous and researched, pruned yet wild, edited but honest, wise but playful, this book celebrated the generosity of the female body, our joyous but flawed gardens, our unresolved and naked pasts.

Kathleen Jesme is the author of three previous collections of poetry, The Plum-Stone Game (Ahsahta, 2009); Motherhouse, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize (LSU, 2005); and Fire Eater (Tampa, 2003). She holds an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College.

Kate Lynn Hibbard is the author of Sleeping Upside Down (Silverfish Review Press 2006) and Sweet Weight (Tiger Bark Press 2012), as well as the editor of When We Become Weavers: Queer Female Poets on the Midwestern Experience (Squares and Rebels 2012).  She teaches writing and women’s studies at Minneapolis Community and Technical College and lives in Saint Paul with her partner Jan and many pets.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC