A Celebration of Minnesota Poetry in Honor of Poet Laureate Joyce SutphenApril 17, 2012 at 7:30–9:30 p.m.

Join us for a celebratory reading in honor of Minnesota's Poet Laureate, Gustavus Professor Joyce Sutphen.

The list of Minnesota poets who will read from their works at the event includes:

• Candace Black, assistant professor of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato; author of a book of poems titled The Volunteer; has had more than 50 poems published in various magazines; recipient of the Loft-McKnight Award for Poetry and a Jerome Foundation Fellowship.
• Phil Bryant '73, professor of English at Gustavus; author of three books of poetry including Sermon on a Perfect Spring Day, which was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award in 1999; his work has been published in numerous publications including The Iowa Review, The Indiana Review, The American Poetry Review, and Nimrod.
• Rebecca Fremo, associate professor of English at Gustavus; two poems published in the anthology County Lines; her work has appeared in publications such as Water~Stone Review, Poetica Magazine, and Tidal Basin Review.
• Matt Rasmussen '98, visiting assistant professor of English at Gustavus; his poems have appeared in publications such as Gulf Coast, Dislocate, and Water-Stone Review; recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant; founding co-editor of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press.
• John Rezmerski, professor emeritus of English at Gustavus; author of numerous poetry books and chapbooks including Breaking the Rules: Starting with Ghazals, Counting Sheep, 22 from TOTU, and What Do I Know?; named Poet Laureate of the Minnesota League of Poets; his poems have appeared in more than 100 publications including CrazyHorse and the Wall Street Journal.
• Richard Robbins, professor of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato; author or co-editor of seven books of poetry including Other Americas, Radioactive City, and Untested Hand; about 350 of his poems have appeared in publications such as CrazyHorse, The Nation, and The North American Review; winner of numerous awards including the Bellday Poetry Prize and the Louis Hammer Memorial Award.
• Richard Terrill, professor of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato; author of two books of poetry including Almost Dark and Coming Late To Rachmaninoff, which won a Minnesota Book Award in 2003; National Endowment for the Arts fellowship winner; his poems have been widely published in publications such as Nimrod, South Dakota Review, Connecticut Review, and many others.

The event is free and open to the public.