Please join us for a poetry reading and conversation with Jim Moore and Kate Lucas in celebration of Jim’s new book, ENTER. About the book, Rebecca Morgan Frank writes in Literary Hub, “In his signature lucid and wry voice, Moore acknowledges suffering while making room for joy and for moments of peace. These poems offer shelter to readers and, in summoning poets like Rilke and Tsvetaeva, remind us that poetry’s tenderness can be repaid in tenderness.” A reception with coffee, tea and treats will follow. Free and open to all.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS IN-PERSON ONLY, NOT AVAILABLE ON ZOOM.
JIM MOORE is the author of more than 10 books of poetry, including Prognosis (2021), Underground: New & Selected Poems (2011), Invisible Strings (2011), Lightning at Dinner (2005), and Enter, published by Graywolf in May 2025. He has won many awards for his writing, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Minnesota Book Awards, and grants from the Bush Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Loft, and the McKnight Foundation. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, American Poetry Review, Harper’s, and many other journals. Jim taught in the Hamline University MFA Program and was often a visiting professor at Colorado College. He lives in Minneapolis and Spoleto, Italy with his wife, the photographer JoAnn Verburg.
KATE LUCAS is the author of the poetry chapbook Heart of the Lonesome Galaxy (CutBank Books, 2023), a runner-up in the CutBank Chapbook Contest of the University of Montana MFA Program. Her full-length manuscript, In This Light, was a finalist for the 2022 Milkweed Editions Ballard Spahr Prize, and her poems have appeared in a number of journals. A former assistant poetry editor for Water~Stone Review, Kate has received grants and fellowships from Dickinson House, Pine Needles of the Science Museum of Minnesota, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Loft Mentor Series. She has been a practitioner at Dharma Field since 2014.
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