A few weeks ago, we talked about the Twin Cities’ very first Cookbook Club (for which there are only a few spots left; email ranellek@gmail.com, or go here to sign up).
Read more: Coming soon: The Twin Cities’ very own cookbook club
A resurgence of the world’s most concise, and perhaps most complex, literary form has led to the Subtext Poetry Book Club, which will take place on the second Sunday of each month at 3:00pm. The first book of poetry to be shared, read, and discussed will be Heid E. Erdrich’s Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media.
As described by the publisher, Erdrich “…writes from the present into the future where human anxiety lives. Many of her poems engage ekphrasis around the visual work of contemporary artists who, like Erdrich, are Anishinaabe. Poems in this collection also curate unmountable exhibits in not-yet-existent museums devoted to the ephemera of communication and technology. A central trope is the mixtape, an ephemeral form that Erdrich explores in its role of carrying the romantic angst of American couples. These poems recognize how our love of technology and how the extraction industries on indigenous lands that technology requires threaten our future and obscure the realities of indigenous peoples who know what it is to survive apocalypse. Deeply eco-poetic poems extend beyond the page in poemeos, collaboratively made poem films accessible in the text through the new but already archaic use of QR codes. Collaborative poems highlighting lessons in Anishinaabemowin also broaden the context of Erdrich’s work. Despite how little communications technology has helped to bring people toward understanding one another, these poems speak to the keen human yearning to connect as they urge engagement of the image, the moment, the sensual, and the real.“
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