Wendy Brown-Baez
Writing for Healing: words to light our way
Events & Appearances
Sept 19 / 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Calling Back the Spirit: an evening of Native American poetry
with Anthony Ceballos, Rosie Peters, and Louise Waakaa’igan
hosted by Wendy Brown-Baez
Join us for a powerful, enlivening evening of deeply personal poems of loss, trauma, resilience, and joy, reflecting with tender and heartbreaking honesty on individual experience and Indigenous roots. Each poet will perform work that in essence calls back the spirit for healing and connection with our Mother Earth and with each other.
Westminster Presbyterian Church
1200 Marquette Ave, MPLS
free underground parking
The reading begins at 7:00 PM and is followed by a reception.
Tickets: Westminster Performing Arts
Anthony Ceballos (Ojibwe) lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and can be found penning staff recommendations at Birchbark Books & Native Arts. In 2022 he was part of the inaugural Indigenous Nations Poets retreat in Washington DC. He has been published in Yellow Medicine Review, Water~Stone Review, and the recent anthology Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance, among others. He is a first generation descendant of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. His book Glassful of Prayer is forthcoming from Trio House Press in October.
Rosetta “Rosie” Peters (Dakota) is a Minnesota-based poet, author, public speaker, storyteller, and activist, and has performed her poetry at The Loft, The Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, Icehouse, Penumbra Theater, Stillwater Prison, The Hook & Ladder, MacPhail Center for Music, among others, usually with live musical accompaniment by composer / musician JG Everest. Her poems were published in Yellow Medicine Review. She is the recipient of a 2020 MN State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals grant and a 2021 MRAC Next Step Grant. In 2022, Peters + Everest recorded and released a chapbook album of original pieces entitled “The Hummingbird’s Dance”. She is of Yankton, Crow Creek, and Oglala descent.
Louise K. Waakaa’igan is an enrolled member at Odaawaa-Zaaga’iganiing in northern Wisconsin. Her first chapbook, This Is Where, Aquarius Press, was published in 2020. She is also the first-place winner of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop’s Broadside Competition (2016). Louise was an Art For Justice Fund Grantee. Her work appears in PEN America: The Sentences That Create Us, 21 Mythologies, The Moon Magazine, Night Colors, 27th Letter, Words in Gray Scale, and Doors Adjacent.
Wendy Brown-Baez is the host for the evening. She was the 2023-2024 artist-in-residence at Westminster Presbyterian Church and the creator of Writing Circles for Healing. She is the author of Threading the Gold, poems written during her residency.
Saint Paul Almanac 20th Anniversary
Kicks off with a Book Launch Party!
Oct 16 | 7:00-9:00 PM
Saint Paul Almanac Launch Party for Vol 14: Illumination
The Wilder Foundation
451 Lexington Parkway North, Saint Paul, MN 55104
651-280-2402
presenting poets folaṣade adesanya, Katie Bendickson, Stephani Booker, Maggie Lorenz, Kait Quinn, Debra Stone, Thomas Strong, Kenneth Vigne, Louise Waakaa'igan, Vx Wenham, and Isla Zimmerman
Free and open to the public with cake, books for purchase, and music by Kevin Washington and RA SPIRIT.
Free but RSVP required: https://tinyurl.com/mt9hndpj
All are welcome!
Saint Paul Almanac Reading Series: Illumination
Oct 29 |6:00-8:00 PM
Next Chapter Booksellers
38 S Snelling Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55105
presenting Bella Aase, Cristeta Boarini, Martin Devaney, Annamary Herther, Margaret Hasse, Sook Jin Ong, Mary Kay Rummel, and Hedy Tripp
Nov 4 | 6:00-8:00 PM
Boneshaker Books
2002 23rd St Minneapolis, MN 55404
presenting d. d. costandine, Jameelah Crawford, Pete Heiden, Kathryn Jackson, Julie Martin, and Will Neuenfeldt
Free but please RSVP, tickets open Oct 17: https://shorturl.at/DImIP
Nov 16 | 1:00-3:00 PM
Stories from Saint Paul Almanac
Sumner Library Hennepin Public Library
611 Van White Memorial Blvd, Minneapolis MN 55411-4120
presenting folaṣade adesanya, Stephani Booker, Holly Day, Betsy Leach, Bryana Saldana, Debra Stone, Joey Vossen, and Clarence White
Nov 22| 5:00-7:00 PM
Red Balloon Bookshop
891 Grand Ave St. Paul, MN 55105
presenting Mary Ann Boe, Kathleen Kimball-Baker, Sara Dovre Wudali, Bergen Christoffer Eibs, Peggie Carlson, Eviah Jackson, Isaac Sonquist, and Grace Xiong
Nov 29 | 1:00-2:30
Hosted by Wendy Brown-Baez
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87271555113
presenting Julie Gard, Peter Heiden, Bob Komives, Pacyinz Lyfoung, Caris Uşoară, Wendy Brown-Baez reading for Elizabeth Hawes, Ngoc Bui reading for Lyn Cramer, Davi Grey reading for Jesse Powell, and Shahani Windom reading for Lawrence Johnson
Dec 6 | 2:00-4:00 PM
Stories from Saint Paul Almanac
Saint Paul Public Library-Rondo Community
461 N Dale St., Saint Paul, MN 55103
presenting Katie Bendickson, April Bryant, Elizabeth Carls, Catherine Grotenhuis, Margaret Lovejoy, Robert McClain, LaVonne Moore, Mary Turck, and Theresa Nix
Dec 9 | 6:00-8:00 PM
Storyline Books at Union Depot
214 E 4th St, St Paul, MN 55101
presenting Jenna Carlson, Louis DiSanto, Donna Isaac, David Mendez, DeAnne Parks, Gordon Shumaker, and Susan Spindler
Coffee drinks for purchase
Dec 17 | 7:00-9:00 PM
Saint Paul Almanac Reading Series: Illumination
Special Sidewalk Poets Night at Poets & Pints
Sisyphus Brewing Company
712 Ontario Ave W, Minneapolis, MN 55403
presenting Murph Dawkins, Amy Klimoski, Mindy Johnson, Anne Sexton, Mary Schulz, and Vx Wenham
Drinks available for purchase
Dec 21 | 2:00-4:00 PM
Saint Paul Almanac Reading Series: Illumination
Solstice Reading
American School of Storytelling
1762 Hennepin Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55403
presenting Alyssa Berry, Mary Christine Kane, Evelyn Klein, Thomas Strong, Beth Voigt, Pamela Wynn, and James Zimmerman
Jan 31 | 1:00-3:00 PM
Saint Paul Almanac Reading Series: Illumination
Westminster Presbyterian Church
1200 Marquette Ave Minneapolis, MN 55403
presenting Wendy Brown-Báez, Tara Flaherty Guy, Mike Hazard, Raymond Luczak, John Medeiros, Sara Wilcox, and Kenneth Vigne
Finale celebration with coffee and cake
“Illumination is as beautiful and moving an anthology as I have ever encountered. In poems and prose, in paintings and photos, it contains the stories, testimonies and images of what actually makes America great—our diversity of voices, our love for our families, our neighbors and our communities, the ways we overcome prejudice and hate. In these troubled times, this essential anthology will give you hope and courage. “ —David Mura, author of The Last Incantations and The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American