Nina’s Cafe, St. Paul, MN

June 3 (7pm) with Brett Ortler and contributors to Knockout

Printer’s Row Book Fest, Chicago, IL

June 6-7 (10am)

Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN

June 10 (7pm) Performance for Kulture Trust!: An Evening of Mixed Arts to Benefit Kulture Klub

Kachemak Bay Writer’s Conf. Homer, AK

June 12-14 Faculty reading, workshops

Bryant-Lake Bowl, Minneapolis

July 1 (7pm) with Julie Johnson, flute

Poet’s Fest, Minnetonka, MN

July 7 (TBA)

Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA

July 16 (7pm)

Bryant-Lake Bowl, Minneapolis

Sept 2 (7pm) with Julie Johnson, flute

Chippewa Valley Book Festival (TBA)

Sept 23 (7:30pm) with Valzhyna Mort and Marilyn Taylor

About reading with other poets and at concert venues, Todd says:

“A group exhibition is always more interesting than a one-person show, and the same is true of poetry. Artists are in dialogue with one another—we all are—and it’s invigorating to be part of that, both for artists and audiences.”

Stage

On

Idaho Review

Hawk & Whippoorwill

The Splendid Table, public radio

Alaska Quarterly Review

Georgia Review

American Life in Poetry (syndicated)

Poets & Writers article (June/July 2009)

Poetry Magazine

Willow Springs (Summer, 2009)

“Verse and Converse” at Nina’s Cafe, St. Paul

Todd Boss is the poet laureate of Nina’s Cafe, just upstairs from Garrison Keillor’s Common Good Books at Selby and Western in St. Paul. With support from the bookshop, he organizes “Verse and Converse,” a poetry reading series featuring poets reading round-robin style.

Upcoming dates are at left. To date, the series has featured:

Join the mailing list by contacting Todd with your e-mail address: toddbosspoet(at)mac(dot)com.

Ethna McKiernan, Carol Connolly, and Kevin FitzPatrick at Nina’s Cafe.

Katie Leo

Ann Linde

JoAnne Makela

Ethna McKiernan

Freya Manfred

Leslie Adrienne Miller

Jim Moore

Riki Kolbl Nelson

Tim Nolan

Brett Ortler

G. E. Patterson

Wang Ping

William Reichard

Joshua Rivkin

Karen Sandberg

Thomas R. Smith

Richard Solly

Madelon Sprengnether

Joyce Sutphen

Marie Sheppard Williams

Katrina Vandenberg

Connie Wanek

Greg Watson

Karen Herseth Wee

Bryan Thao Worra

Anya Achtenberg

Emily August

Daniel Bachuber

Emily Bright

Sharon Chmielarz

James Cihlar

Carol Connolly

Lightsey Darst

Mary Moore Easter

Andrea Een

Heid Erdrich

Kevin FitzPatrick

Terri Ford

Brett Foster

Dobby Gibson

Cindra Halm

Susan Thurston Hamerski

Phebe Hanson

Margaret Hasse

Tish Jones

Deborah Keenan

Ted King

Patricia Kirkpatrick

John Krumberger

Ed Bok Lee

Jim Lenfestey