Poetry Day at Art in Motion with Marlin Jenkins

Second annual Poetry Day 
is the 14th of May
This is a family-friendly and free-to-attend event but bring cash to purchase poetry books from the feature poets! Poetry readings, feature poet, family-friendly writing workshops and activities, and an open mic!

SCHEDULE 12:30 to 3:30 pm

Join Lyricality’s Tracy Rittmuller and Nichole Borg to write a poem! You can drop into this event and is suitable for all ages.

Award-winning poets Nicole Borg and Tracy Rittmueller will offer artful activities on “the poetry of place” using inspiration from Central Minnesota poets and the landscape/nature surrounding Art in Motion on the Wobegon Trail to help drop-in visitors ages 8 – 88+ create their own small poems and poetry fragments.

Opening Statement by MC Tracy Rittmuller

Poetry Reading and Presentations:

Micki Blenkush

Anja Would

Nicole Borg

Sydney Lo

Marlin Jenkins

Open Mic and Meet and Greet

Marlin M. Jenkins was born and raised in Detroit and is the author of the chapbook Capable Monsters (Bull City Press, 2020). A graduate of University of Michigan’s MFA program, his poetry has been given homes by Kenyon Review, Indiana Review, TriQuarterly, Waxwing, Iowa Review, and New Poetry from the Midwest; his fiction has been given homes by The Rumpus, Passages North, and the anthology Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction. In Michigan, he worked as a bookseller, a Lecturer at the University of Michigan in the English Department Writing Program, and a teaching artist in Ann Arbor and Detroit. He currently lives and teaches in Minnesota.