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Building bridges between writers & other artists leaving incarceration and arts & literary communities ready to receive them. Based in Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minnesota. [ reentrylab.org ]
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ICE is active in south Minneapolis today-
Multiple cars cruising around East Phillips, Midtown Phillips.
Meanwhile, signal is having issues, so folks should be outside!
See ICE? Form a crowd and get loud.
Let neighbors know if ICE is nearby by making noise.
February 3, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Tonight (2/3/26) at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social: I know Isha and Heid are incredible, and am excited to hear more from the others too. The "Better Things" lineups are always so cool, pulling from many different corners of the Twin Cities literary landscape:
reentrylab.bsky.social ReEntry Lab @reentrylab.bsky.social · 22d
Please join us on Tuesday, February 3rd, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books, for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring five fantastic artists: Ari Tison (Bribri), BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.

Each featured artist will take five minutes to share work. …

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Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, February 3rd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Ari Tison, BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.
February 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Isha Camara (she/her) is a Gambian-American poet and visual artist from South Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Masters at Randolph College in Creative Writing. Her work has been featured in MUZZLE Magazine, Poets.org and…

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Photograph of Isha Camara, a dark-skinned Black woman. In this photo she is wearing a black top, dark denim pants, and a patterned black-and-white hijab. She is seated in front of a red background. Her eyes are surrounded by colored stars and she has a serious expression, looking directly at the camera. Text slide bearing words "For more: follow @reentrylab. better-things.org. reentrylab.org" and logos for the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment. Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, February 3rd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Ari Tison, BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.
January 21, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Author of nine books of poetry and prose Heid E. Erdrich (she/her) is a curator and teacher. Erdrich edited the anthology New Poets of Native Nations and co-edited the newly published Boundless: Abundance in Native American Art and Literature. She served as the inaugural Minneapolis Poet…

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Photograph of Heid E. Erdrich, a light-skinned Ojibwe woman. In this photo, taken outdoors in front of a blurry winter background, she stares at the camera, and wears long reddish, brown, and white hair; a maroon turtleneck; long beaded earrings; and a slight smile. Text slide bearing words "For more: follow @reentrylab. better-things.org. reentrylab.org" and logos for the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment. Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, February 3rd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Ari Tison, BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.
January 19, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey (he/him) is a 46-year-old Indigenous father. He is the principal and owner of Amik Agabow Consulting, LLC, as well as a community organizer with TONE UP and an inaugural fellow with the Just Lead Fellowship. …

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Photograph of Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, an Indigenous man with medium-brown skin. In this photo he has a slight smile and is wearing glasses and an earring, a haircut with very short sides and a long curly top, and a mustache and soul patch. Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey (he/him) is a 46-year-old Indigenous father. He is the principal and owner of Amik Agabow Consulting, LLC, as well as a community organizer with TONE UP and an inaugural fellow with the Just Lead Fellowship. He is working hard for systematic change and liberation for self and community. Text slide bearing words "For more: follow @reentrylab. better-things.org. reentrylab.org" and logos for the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment. Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, February 3rd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Ari Tison, BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.
January 17, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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BakiBakiBaki (they/them) is an Afro-indigenous multidisciplinary artist who believes freedom lives at the crosscurrents of art and spirituality. Through zines/self publishing and puppetry BBB leads community workshops, …

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Photograph of BakiBakiBaki, an Afro-indigenous person with medium-brown skin. In this photo they are wearing a jean jacket and a particolor vest, long twining braided hair, a knit white cap, and a wide smile; they are holding up index and middle fingers of their left hand. BakiBakiBaki (they/them) is an Afro-indigenous multidisciplinary artist who believes freedom lives at the crosscurrents of art and spirituality. Through zines/self publishing and puppetry BBB leads community workshops, builds moments of expression, and crafts both personal and community altars. They have worked with institutions like the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and The Walker Art Museum as well as is an artist in residence at Public Functionary. Text slide bearing words "For more: follow @reentrylab. better-things.org. reentrylab.org" and logos for the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment. Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, February 3rd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Ari Tison, BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.
January 15, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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Ari Tison (Bribri) (she/her) is an award-winning poet and the author of YA hybrid poetry & prose novel Saints of the Household (FSG/Macmillan), winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Amelia Walden Award, and a finalist for the William C. Morris Award.

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Photograph of Ari Tison (Bribri), an Indigenous woman with light brown skin. In this photo she is wearing long black straight hair, a long-sleeved black shirt, and white pants; she is seated and leaning forward, right elbow on knee, resting her chin on her right palm, half-concealing a half-smile. Text slide bearing words "For more: follow @reentrylab. better-things.org. reentrylab.org" and logos for the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment. Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, February 3rd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Ari Tison, BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.
January 13, 2026 at 10:01 AM
reentrylab.bsky.social
Please join us on Tuesday, February 3rd, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books, for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring five fantastic artists: Ari Tison (Bribri), BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.

Each featured artist will take five minutes to share work. …

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Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, February 3rd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Ari Tison, BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.
January 13, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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Coming up Tuesday at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social: I'll be facilitating a short workshop on "narrative interventions," a space to think creatively about our stories, but ALSO the concrete projects that can propel those stories, that create space for them to “live” in the world. Plus an open mic!
reentrylab.bsky.social ReEntry Lab @reentrylab.bsky.social · Dec 9
Please join us on Tuesday, January 6th, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books (@moonpalacebooks.bsky.social), for our next Gathering and Open Mic. This gathering will feature a narrative interventions lab, facilitated by Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre (@guante.info), hosted by @davigray.bsky.social….

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Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a gathering for social change. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, January 6th, 2025, 7 pm.” Main section of flyer reads, "Narrative Interventions Workshop followed by Open Mic, facilitated by Kyle 'Guante' Tran Myhre."
January 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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If one of your New Year's resolutions is to support independent media, here is a comprehensive list of independent newsrooms.

This thread features 72 publications – almost all of which are nonprofit or worker-owned – with various ways to support their reporting.
harmscommitted.com Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Dec 19
🌀Source List🌀
Here is the current source list of independent journalism for Harms Committed. This thread provides additional information about each source, along with ways to support them.
19th 404 Media +972 Appeal Assigned Media Atlanta Community Press Collective Baltimore Beat Bellingcat Block Club Chicago Bolts Breach Briarpatch Capital & Main Capital B Chicago Reader City Common Dreams CounterPunch Declassified UK Documented Drug Data Decoded Electronic Intifada El Tecolote Filter Frontier Grist Handbasket Hell Gate ICT IndigiNews Injustice Watch Inkstick Media Inquest Intercept In These Times InvestigateWest Investigative Journalism Foundation LA Public Press Left Voice Mainlander Maple Marshall Project MLK50 Mobtown Redux Mondoweiss Narwhal News From The States New York Focus Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Press Progress Prism Prison Journalism Project ProPublica Real News Network Ricochet Media Rover Scalawag Searchlight New Mexico Shelterforce Solitary Watch Street Roots Street Sense Media Texas Observer Texas Tribune TRiiBE Truthout Tyee Type Investigations Unicorn Riot Unraveled Verite News Xylom
December 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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A powerful anthem about keeping the flame of hope and resistance alive, by Carsie Blanton, a musician and activist who took part in the recent aid flotilla to Gaza:

#SkyFundathon2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=azTu...
Little Flame live at Tractor Tavern
YouTube video by Carsie Blanton
www.youtube.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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“The rate of deaths per year in the correctional facilities has been on the rise even though the number of people being held in the prisons has declined, the records show. Last year the death count hit 144 — the highest number in the past seven years.”
December 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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malaclypse.bsky.social
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

We fail that test so badly.
December 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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A highlight from this 2025 recap thread; and for people interested in how words/art/culture can support movement work:

Join us Jan 6 at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social for a "narrative interventions lab" in collaboration with @reentrylab.bsky.social. More info: reentrylab.org/better-things
guante.info Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · Dec 28
"I don’t have a family without immigrants and refugees. The word family means nothing to me when it doesn’t include trans people, when it doesn’t include people with disabilities. Words like justice, peace—they are empty when they don’t include Palestinians."

My words at June's MN #NoKings rally:
“no kings, all bricks”
Full text of the poem that KTM/Guante shared at the St. Paul No Kings protest on June 14, 2025.
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December 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
reentrylab.bsky.social
Please join us on Tuesday, January 6th, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books (@moonpalacebooks.bsky.social), for our next Gathering and Open Mic. This gathering will feature a narrative interventions lab, facilitated by Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre (@guante.info), hosted by @davigray.bsky.social….

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Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a gathering for social change. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, January 6th, 2025, 7 pm.” Main section of flyer reads, "Narrative Interventions Workshop followed by Open Mic, facilitated by Kyle 'Guante' Tran Myhre."
December 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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After a full year of work, this book is out! Cooking in Maximum Security, compiled by Matteo Guidi, is our latest Half Letter Press book and it's beautiful. How do people in Italian prisons cook? This book will show you their recipes and tools used to make them. halfletterpress.com/cooking-in-m...
The cover of the book Cooking in Maximum Security by Matteo Guidi, with black ink on "Grout" paper. A pencil drawing by Mario Trudu shows a fantasy cooking device. From the back cover: Cooking in Maximum Security was compiled by Matteo Guidi, working with people detained in the high surveillance sections of Italian prisons, through a continuous exchange of letters between 2009 and 2013. This book explains the methods and strategies prisoners use to cook in their cells with few available resources. Making kitchen tools before one can even begin to gather ingredients is a priority in this cookbook. In addition to identifying the necessary utensils, this book also describes how to construct them. Simple objects acquire a whole new value. A broom handle becomes a rolling pin, shoelaces tie rolled bacon for curing, and the cupboard or stool becomes an oven. Even the heat from an old cathode ray tube television helps dough for pizza and bread to rise in the cold environment of a prison cell. The recipes themselves, for all kinds of classic Italian pasta dishes, sauces, meat preparations, and pastries, reveal a whole new level of skill and ingenuity when the reader learns how they are made in defiance of the discouraging experience of detention.
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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✨COMING UP!✨
Please join us on Tuesday, December 2nd, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books, for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring five fantastic readers: Tyra Payer, Jen Bowen, Fong L., Sun Yung Shin, and Bao Phi, followed by an open mic.

Both reading and open mic will feature ASL interpretation.

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Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, December 2nd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Tyra Payer, Jen Bowen, Fong L., Sun Yung Shin, and Bao Phi. Text slide bearing words "For more: follow @reentrylab. better-things.org. reentrylab.org" and logos for the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment. Photograph of Bao Phi, an Asian-American man with a black goatee and mustache. In this photo, he is standing in a wintry landscape with an orange sunlit cloudscape; he wears a blue coat, multicolored scarf, sweater, and hat, and black-framed plastic eyeglasses. His expression is fierce.
December 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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I have a few ideas! @guante.info might have more too

All the Threads Between Us: The Power of Poetry Clubs, Writing Circles, Open Mics, and Other Collective Efforts (Zine) guante.info/2024/04/18/p...

Something to Share with Friends and Neighbors Asking “What Do We DO?”
guante.info/2025/03/04/a...
All the Threads Between Us: The Power of Poetry Clubs, Writing Circles, Open Mics, and Other Collective Efforts (Zine)
A collection of tips, tools, and resources for people looking to start poetry clubs, writing circles, or other collective efforts.
guante.info
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Isha is also one of the best poets I know, and just got accepted into the winter residency for Tin House; in order to actually be able to go, though, she is trying to raise some money via commissions for her visual art.

Get headshots, birthcharts, more: artistree.io/theicedraws
guante.info Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · Jan 23
my friend Isha Camara made this design based on a line from one of my songs: "there is no light at the end of this tunnel / so it's a good thing we brought matches"

the song's a free download too: guante.bandcamp.com/track/matche...
a purple hand holding a yellow/orange star, plus the text "there is no light at the end of this tunnel, so it's a good thing we brough matches" - kyle tran myhre, guante.info + Isha Camara's artist stamp
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Kwaneta & Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause collaborated on a three-part series on menopause, incarceration, and the climate crisis for Scalawag.

Part 1: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/cool...

Part 2: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/the-...

Part 3: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/10/burn...
October 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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chriswblackwell.bsky.social
Angela Davis calls Ending Isolation (out Sept 20) “a rekindling of our abolitionist impulses at a critical moment.”
📚 Preorder: www.amazon.com/dp/0745351271

#AngelaDavis #EndingIsolation #SolitaryConfinement #PrisonAbolition #BookRelease
September 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
reentrylab.bsky.social
Bao Phi (he/him) is a spoken word artist, poet, writer, and children's book author. His work can be found in two books of poetry both published by Coffee House Press, four children's books, all published by Capstone, and in anthologies such as Octavia's Brood, A Good Time for the Truth,…

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Photograph of Bao Phi, an Asian-American man with a black goatee and mustache. In this photo, he is standing in a wintry landscape with an orange sunlit cloudscape; he wears a blue coat, multicolored scarf, sweater, and hat, and black-framed plastic eyeglasses. His expression is fierce. Text slide bearing words "For more: follow @reentrylab. better-things.org. reentrylab.org" and logos for the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment. Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, December 2nd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Tyra Payer, Jen Bowen, Fong L., Sun Yung Shin, and Bao Phi.
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Please join us on Tuesday, December 2nd, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books, for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring five fantastic artists: Tyra Payer, Jen Bowen, Fong L., Sun Yung Shin, and Bao Phi, followed by an open mic.

Both reading and open mic will feature ASL interpretation.

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Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, December 2nd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Tyra Payer, Jen Bowen, Fong L., Sun Yung Shin, and Bao Phi.
November 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Tyra Payer (they/them) is a member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe tribe, from Belcourt North Dakota. Tyra is a writer and entrepreneur who has a background of storytelling and Indigenous food systems. Outside, you can find Tyra vending at the farmers market or in the garden.

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Please join us…

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Photograph of Tyra Payer, a Native nonbinary person with short dark hair. In this photo they are wearing yellow earrings, a black button-down shirt, and a wide smile. Text reads: Tyra Payer (they/them) is a member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe tribe, from Belcourt North Dakota. Tyra is a writer and entrepreneur who has a background of storytelling and Indigenous food systems. Outside, you can find Tyra vending at the farmers market or in the garden. Text slide bearing words "For more: follow @reentrylab. better-things.org. reentrylab.org" and logos for the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment. Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, December 2nd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Tyra Payer, Jen Bowen, Fong L., Sun Yung Shin, and Bao Phi.
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM