(U of MN) Writing Retreat: Cry of the Loon, 2008. See more here.

217 Lind Hall: I can't tell you how many classes I had in here as an undergraduate. Now, I'm back, but on the other side of the table. Intro to C.W. 2008.

The Loft Literary Center holds a poetry conference, featuring Martin Espada and Linda Hogan.

Also of interest: a panel on the poetry of witness, with local poets Bao Phi, Jim Moore, Jude Nutter, and Mike Rollins.

This time, it's Whitman: as a part of the Minneapolis Unconvention, a protest against the Republican National Convention, a collection of us are reading parts of Song of Myself outside the art museum on the Minneapolis campus.