10/07/2026
Our popular poetry series continues this Saturday, Oct. 10 at 7pm! Celebrate autumn at our cozy ArtScraps store with an evening of art, poetry, and light refreshments.
Our October reading features poets Nicole Borg, Greg Watson, and Sara Dovre Wudali.
Register for free at artstart.coursestorm.com/course/free-fall-poetry-series-healing-and-restoration1
Nicole Borg is an Alternative Ed and English teacher. Her poetry collection All Roads Lead Home (Shipwreckt Books, 2018) is like a poetry road trip. She is Senior Editor of the League of MN Poets’ Agates. Her longstanding love affair with both poetry and horror has spawned her monthly newsletter Alter Ego. Currently, Nicole is at work on her horror manuscript, set along the lovely, haunting Mississippi River.
Greg Watson is the author of twelve collections of poetry, most recently The Shape of Your Absence, published by One Subject Press. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and has been featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. He is also co-editor of The Road by Heart: Poems of Fatherhood, published by Nodin Press.
Sara Dovre Wudali is a writer, editor, and arts educator living in Saint Paul. She was a Poetry Fellow in the Loft Mentor Series and has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. Her poems and essays have been published or are forthcoming in literary journals and anthologies such as North American Review, Poet Lore, Rhino, Blood Tree Literature, and Hairstreak Butterfly Review. She is the co-editor of the chapbook, All You Need is One Avocado and co-author of the chapbook The Sweet. She is a founding member of the poetry collective The Poetry Bus, a mentor with the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop, and the poet-in-residence at Café Marguerite. Dovre Wudali grew up on a farm in southwest Minnesota, where the wind blows through the cottonwoods and box elder bugs rule. Learn more at saradovrewudali.com.
Patrick Cabello Hansel curates the ArtStart poetry series. His titles include The Devouring Land, Quitting Time and his latest Breathing in Minneapolis, which deals with the challenges that the city faced during 2020-2021. He has published poems and prose in over 90 journals and won awards from the Loft Literary Center and MN State Arts Board.
