Please join poets Jane Dickerson, Marie Rickmyer, and Rita Moe as they read from their respective books and new work.

Jane Dickerson “found” the title to her most recent book in a letter written by Ken Kesey following the death of his teen-aged son Jed. In Phoenixbirds, she writes about losses in the natural world, the mysteries of birds, experiences in the Deaf world, and her West Virginia roots & family.

Marie Rickmyer, the author of On the Verge, is both a poet and craft chef. Her poetry and cookbook promise to warm hearts and toes while melting ice off our eyelashes and fingers.

As poet Jim Moore has said, the poems in Marie’s new book are “both heart-breaking and inspiring.”

A poet, a protestor, & a native of Minneapolis, Rita Moe remembers when ice was what we pestered the milkman for when he made his morning deliveries. Rita earned an MFA from Hamline University, where she developed a fondness for writing in various poetic forms. She’s the author of Findley Place: a Street, a Ballpark, a Neighborhood and Sins and Disciplines.

Light refreshments will be served.

If you can, please bring a non-perishable food item for the Keystone Community Food Shelf in St. Paul.