This month's Third Tuesday reading, hosted by St. Paul poet laureate Carol Connolly, features an array of local writers. Mary Moore Easter, Margaret Hasse, William Jack, Patricia Kirkpatrick, Tim Nolan and Greg Watson will all read and then autograph books after the program, which is to be held in the historic and impressive University Club in St. Paul.
Easter is a poet, dancer, singer and retired Carleton College professor. She has received a Loft Creative Nonfiction award and an Anderson Center residency, and her poetry has appeared in Turtle Quarterly.
Hasse, a poet, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and is a Minnesota Book Awards finalist.
Jack is the author of "To the Devil," a satirical novel about the Cold War, and a new memoir, "The Little Russians: An Ailing Father's Letters to his Children."
Kirkpatrick, who teaches at Hamline University, is a widely published poet and the poetry editor of Water-Stone review.
Nolan is a Minnesota Book Awards finalist. His poetry has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, the Nation and Ploughshares and has been read on Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac."
Watson's poetry also has been read on Keillor's show. He's been published in the Seattle Review, Poetry East and Tulane Review.
The event begins at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Third Tuesdays are sponsored by Public Arts St. Paul and are free and open to the public. The University Club is at 420 Summit Av., St. Paul.
