Blue Heron Coffeehouse | 162 W 2nd St.

On October 3rd, poet Mary Moore Easter will read from her work at the Blue Heron Coffeehouse. This First Tuesday Laureate Writers Series event is co-sponsored by the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest and the Blue Heron Coffeehouse. The reading will be followed by a book signing and then an open mic. Bring some of your work to share. This event is free and open to the public.

Mary Moore Easter has published four books of poetry: Walking From Origins (chapbook, 1993), The Body of the World (Minnesota Book Award Finalist, 2019), Flutes of Our Bones (2020), and Free Papers—Poems Inspired by the Testimony of Eliza Winston, a Mississippi Slave Escaped to Freedom in Minnesota in 1860 (2021). She has also published a memoir, The Way She Wants to Get There—Telling on Myself (2022) that chronicles her life as a dancer and choreographer as well as a poet. Her poetry speaks “the language of dance.” Learn more.