through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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https://reentrylab.org/better-things/

The ReEntry Lab is an organization working to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration to a community that’s ready to receive them.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota…

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Light refreshments will be served; masks are required at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social and are available on-site. This is a free event.

Better Things is a series of events sponsored by the ReEntry Lab, in partnership with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW) and Moon Palace Books.

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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 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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…and most recently, in McSweeney's Volume 78. He was on the editorial team of We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word, published by Haymarket Books. He is a Vietnamese American, a Minnesotan, and a father.

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