Support Your Local Poets

Did you know that both St Paul and Duluth have designated poets laureate? On January 27, you can hear them both at Magers and Quinn. (Minneapolis doesn't have a poet laureate. Don't get David U started...)

Carol Connolly is poet laureate of St. Paul. In conjunction with SASE, Carol runs monthly readings at the University Club and is a regular columnist for Law and Politics Minnesota. She is the author of the much praised and much reprinted poetry collection Payments Due.

Barton Sutter, Duluth’s poet laureate, teaches at the University of Wisconsin at Superior. His most recent book of poetry is Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey. Two of Bart’s other books, Cold Comfort and My Father’s War, have been published by the University of Minnesota Press.