Schedule

Arts of the Earth Festival–Reading
April 27, 2019, 2 pm
Bemidji State University
Bridgeview Room
Lower Level, Hobson Memorial Union

https://www.facebook.com/events/358548581391852/

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2nd Saturday Hap at the Nemeth Art Center
May 12, 2018, 6:00 PM
Nemeth Art Center
301 Court Ave.,
Park Rapids, MN

https://www.facebook.com/events/157678165042850/

I will be reading poetry, Simon Zornes and and Amanda Standalone will be performing music, and there is an open mic for anyone who wants to share their talents!

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Keynote Address
October 15, 2016
League of Minnesota Poets
Fall Gathering
1:30 pm.
Arrowwood Lodge
6967 Lake Forest Rd
Baxter, MN 56425

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Reading and Book Signing
December 19, 2015
Reading: 1-1:30 pm
Signing: Noon-2 pm
Beagle and Wolf Books and Bindery
112 W. 3rd Street
Park Rapids, MN

I’ll be reading from my new work, published, unpublished and from this anthology, which will be available for purchase:

RiverofEarth

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Cracked Walnut Literary Festival 2015. Father’s Day Reading
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Eat My Words Bookstore
1228 2nd St NE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55413
3:00 pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/1451182465172492/

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AWP Conference Panel: Byte by Byte: Teaching Creative Writing Online

Room 200 H&I, Level 2
Saturday, April 11, 2015
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

Five writers—who teach online in a public university, a community college AFA, an arts nonprofit, and in private BFA and MFA low-residency programs—offer a candid and guided tour of the online creative writing classroom. Stops on the circuit: cleaning out the correspondence course feel; using technology for web-based fine arts studios and readers’ salons; maintaining trust, establishing community, setting boundaries; and nourishing creativity and improvisation. Ample audience engagement.

Moderator: Cass Dalglish writes fiction and prose poetry and studies Reiki energy practice. Published books include Nin, Sweetgrass (Minnesota Book Award finalist), and Humming the Blues, a jazz poetics interpretation of Enheduanna’s “Song to Inanna.” She is director of Augsburg College’s MFA program.

Wendy Call is author of No Word for Welcome, co-editor of the anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide, and translator of Mexican poetry. She teaches in Goddard College’s low-residency BFA in Writing, at Seattle’s Richard Hugo House, and through many community venues.

Athena Kildegaard is the author of three books of poetry: Rare Momentum, Bodies of Light (a Minnesota Book Award finalist), and Cloves & Honey. She teaches at the University of Minnesota, Morris.

Kathryn Kysar is the author of two books of poetry, Dark Lake and Pretend the World, and she edited Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers. A previous AWP board member, she chairs the creative writing program at Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Minneapolis.

LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a poet and teacher from northern Minnesota. She has published in a variety of journals and anthologies, and her full-length poetry collection was a finalist for the Midwest Book Award for Poetry. Muhm has taught online for the Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, since 2011.

AWP Conference Website: CLICK HERE

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POETRY SLAM
February 13, 2014
7 pm
American Legion, Downtown Bemidji.

Come and hear some great music, some great poetry and the least-slammy poet on the planet participating in a slam (me). I’m assured this slam is open to the quiet lyric. There is American-Idol-style judging for cash prizes, I’m told. Should be fun!

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Reading: Kathryn Kysar and LouAnn Muhm

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Sept. 20, 2013
7:00 refreshments, 7:30 reading
Nemeth Art Center
301 Court Ave.
Park Rapids, MN

Admission is free, all ages are welcome.

Kathryn Kysar is the author of two books of poetry, Dark Lake and Pretend the World, and she edited Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers. She has received fellowships from Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, the Minnesota State Arts Board, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Kysar recently served on the board of directors for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and teaches at Anoka-Ramsey Community College and the Loft Literary Center and lives with her family in St. Paul

Kathryn Kysar is the recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is funded, in part, by the Minnesota State Legislature from the State’s arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on Nov. 4, 2008.

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Workshop–“Inviting the Muse”

Sept. 21,2013

9am-noon

The Talking Stick Book Release Celebration

Blueberry Pines, Menahga, MN

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Reading and Artists’ Talk: Incantation Bowls, Reimagined

LouAnn Muhm and Tiffany Besonen will discuss their Minnesota State Arts Board granted project to create contemporary versions of ancient Babylonian Incantation Bowls. The two will discuss the original 6th-8th century bowls that were the inspiration for the project, and tell about how they came up with the idea. Muhm will read the poems that she has written to allay fears, and Besonen will discuss her process in creating bowl sculptures from sewing pattern paper and inscribing them with Muhm’s poems.

June 21,2013
3-4 pm
Nemeth Art Center
301 Court Ave.
Park Rapids, MN

Admission is free, all ages are welcome.

LouAnn Muhm is the recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is funded, in part, by the Minnesota State Legislature from the State’s arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on Nov. 4, 2008.

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Radio Show –March 22, 2013 6-8 pm, CST

The Beat Cafe, KAXE Radio

The Beat Café will include poetry and jazz, in the tradition of the Beat movement of the 1950s and -60s. Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen will be the featured reader, and she’ll be joined by area poets Nikki Anderson-Weir, Dean Brooks, Mark Christensen, Anna Ingalls, Erin Lynn Marsh, LouAnn Shepard Muhm, Marsh Muirhead, Charlie Pulkrabek, CarolAnn Russell, and Anthony Swann. The jazz group ivoTrio (Jon Dallas, piano; KC Johnson, drums; Pat Downing, bass) will provide the music.
Listen live at KAXE.org

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May 10-11, 2012

Great Twin Cities Poetry Read Road Show in Bemidji, MN
Reading and Workshop

Reading –Friday May 11th, 2012
Matt Mauch, Paula Cisewski, Sean Hill and LouAnn Shepard Muhm
5:30 to 7:00pm
Headwaters Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
522 America Ave.
Downtown Bemidji
Workshop –Saturday, May 12
Sean Hill and LouAnn Muhm “Past Inspiration: Using Historical Research in Poetry and Creating Found Poems from Historical Documents.” 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Bemidji Public Library Conference Room – 509 America Ave.
Downtown Bemidji

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER

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September 24, 2011–Art Leap Reading, Nemeth Art Center

Readings of Ekphrastic Poetry (poetry written in response to artwork) by the participants of LouAnn Muhm’s poetry-writing classes.

Poetry-writing students of LouAnn Muhm will be reading poetry based on the artwork on exhibit at the Art Center as part of Park Rapids’ Art Leap.

2:30-3:30 pm
Nemeth Art Center
301 Court Ave.
Park Rapids, MN

August 28, 2011–Sunday Classics at the Y

Cocktail Hour, Dinner, and Readings by LouAnn Shepard Muhm and Kathryn Kysar

Beagle Books and the Y-Steak House have teamed up for some very special Sunday events! Ticket holders will be treated to an evening of good food and entertainment. Tickets are $30 and available at Y-Steak House and Beagle Books, or by calling 218-732-4565.

The Y Steak House
19431 US 71
Park Rapids, MN

June 18, 2011–Teen Workshop

Teen Writing Conference at The Loft

3:15 – 4:30 p.m.

A Rose is a Rose is…Not Always a Rose: Metaphorical Thinking in Poetry

Learn to think metaphorically! Students will look at and discuss poems that employ metaphor, create and discuss their own metaphors and then use what they’ve learned in a variety of new poems. Students will then have the opportunity to share their poems with the group and get feedback. Participants will also learn about publishing venues for teens and receive information on contests and writers’ groups that are open to young writers.