"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--Deborah Bernhardt, Jim Johnson, and William Stobb--will select twelve winning poems to be posted, one … Continue reading Call for Entries
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Via the Caustic Cover Critic come these illustrations for a Folio Society edition of Joe Simpson's mountain-climbing memoir Touching the Void. They're by Geoff Grandfield, and there's a lot more of his work on geoffgrandfield.com.Folio Society books are not readily available in bookstores, but you can get them through the society's website.--David E
And Cyndi Lauper Calls Her Lawyers
Minneapolis' own Amazon Bookstore Coop is getting a new moniker. It will be known henceforth as True Colors Bookstore.The name change is the result of amazon.com's 1999 trademark infringement lawsuit against the store's previous owners. Although the bookstore kept its name then, the settlement stipulates that any subsequent owners may not use the old handle.Details … Continue reading And Cyndi Lauper Calls Her Lawyers
Musings from Magers and Quinn 