"What Light" is looking for Minnesota poets. Please submit up to three short poems, maximum 50 lines or 300 words each, as attachments to poems@mnartists.org. You must be a resident of Minnesota and a member of mnartists.org to enter. Our judges--Maria Damon, Patricia Kirkpatrick, and Carol Muske-Dukes--will select twelve winning poems to be posted, one … Continue reading Call for Entries

Matt is a self-described "31-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut" who quit his job to travel around the world. And when he gets there, he dances and dances and dances. You can read about it on his blog. I'm sure by now someone has emailed you his video, but if not:Why am I telling you this? Because … Continue reading Actually Literary

The New York Times' Paper Cuts blog recently recounted a trip to Barcelona. Included was this shot of Dave Eggers' What is the What. Careful observers--or just those of us who read the comments section of the posting--will notice that these copies are actually in different languages.--David E