EVENTS

A celebration of new work created as artist-in-residence.
April 26th @ 7:00 PM in person free and open to the public
Westminster Hall
Westminster Prebyterian Church
1200 Marquette S Mpl MN 55403
free parking in underground parking garage
www.westminstermpls.org

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Westminster Reading Series
curated by artist-in-residence Wendy Brown-Baez

May 3 @ 7:00 PM
featured poet Sagirah Shahid followed by open mic

Sagirah Shahid is a Black Muslim poet from Minneapolis, MN. Sagirah is recipient of awards and fellowships, including from the Loft Literary Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Twin Cities Media Alliance, Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art and Muslim Advocates. Her poems and prose are published in Mizna, Winter Tangerine, Puerto Del Sol, Rain Taxi, Juked, Prose Online, Parhelion, About Place Journal, and elsewhere. Sagirah is a poetry editor for Overtly Lit.

All are welcome to share poetry or prose. Please limit your performance to 5 minutes.

Westminster Presbyterian Church in the recreation room

National Poetry Month celebrated at Westminster

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Kick Off Open Mic on Jan 21 with featured poet
Michael Kleber-Diggs

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Feb 19th 2nd open mic with featured poet David Mendez

March 8th: 3rd Open mic reading with feature poet Chavonn Williams Shen

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photos courtesy of Orlando Diaz, Monica Del Castillo, Ned Haggard,

Laurie Benson, and George Colburn

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My performances cross the boundaries between cultures, between emotional

and transcendent states, between the spiritual and the sensual, and

between poetry and theater. In the Bay Area Express, Natasha Nargis wrote:

"She works the room with maximum theatricality, drawing those who are

transfixed on the drama before them into her vivid, vibrant world."

My style has been described by Stefen, a Berkeley muralist, as "more like a dance"

as I unfold my heart to show the world a reflection of its own beauty.

My hope is that we realize we are not alone,

and my inner landscape affirms that when I perform.

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Cuba and Jerusalem, bursting with life and history and humanity, seemed to erupt into the room. Others, about pain and grief and loss, sunk their hooks into us, touched something deep inside. The energy and empathy of her poems was infectious, and it got us all. --Gabrielle Santiago, Patrick's Cabaret

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