The community is invited to attend the premiere event of the 12th year of Verse Like Water: The visiting poet program of Central Lakes College, happening at noon on Sept. 27 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. The event is free and open to the public. Featured will be poets Valzhyna Mort (Belarus), Ilya Kaminsky …

Verse Like Water, the visiting poet program of Central Lakes College, presents American poet Kevin Young at noon on Friday, April 28 in the Chalberg Theatre, CLC Brainerd campus. The event is free and open to the public.  Young is one of the leading writers of his generation. He has …

Verse Like Water, the visiting poet program of Central Lakes College, presents Dr. Athena Kildegaard at noon on March 27 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. The event is free and open to the public.   Kildegaard is a Minnesota poet and director of the Honors Program at the University of …

Verse Like Water: The visiting poet program of Central Lakes College presents Romanian-American poet Maya C. Popa at noon on April 14 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. A book signing and craft talk will follow this free literary event.   Popa teaches poetry at New York University and celebrates …

Verse Like Water, the visiting poet program at Central Lakes College, presents Chris Abani, an acclaimed novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright, at 12pm on Nov. 16 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. Book signing and craft talk to follow.  Born in Nigeria to an Igbo father and English mother, Abani …

Verse Like Water, the visiting poet program of Central Lakes College, presents Pulitzer Prize winning writer Forrest Gander, an internationally known poet, novelist, essayist and translator.  Community members are invited to the free poetry reading at noon on March 21 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus or via livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDX5ukBGRAk 

Verse Like Water: the visiting poet program of Central Lakes College presents poet, actor, and novelist Kwame Dawes at noon on November 19 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. This live event will be followed by a book signing and craft talk.   The community is invited to attend this free event in person …

Verse Like Water: The visiting poetry program of Central Lakes College presents Chinese-American poet Jenny Xie at noon on October 29 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. The event is free and open to the public.   Xie is a professor at Bard College, and her book “Eye Level” earned the Walt Whitman Award. This literary event …

Central Lakes College’ Verse Like Water program is hosting poet Valzhyna Mort for a free virtual reading at noon on April 27. The link for viewing is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO1Uy8pbqEU. Mort, born in Minsk, Belarus, made her American debut in 2008 with the poetry collection Factory of Tears, co-translated by the husband-and-wife team …

The community is invited to Central Lakes College’s Verse Like Water event with Irish Poet Pádraig Ó Tuama. The free event will be live streamed at noon on April 6 at https://youtu.be/X9mbm03Bm5c. Ó Tuama is a theologian, conflict resolution mediator, and the author of four volumes of poetry, Daily Prayer with …