Wednesday, June 24, 2015: Michael Kiesow Moore and Morgan Grayce Willow present “ArtTransForms” at the Lowertown Reading Jam
June 15, 2015
As we strive to make a better world, be it in our personal journeys or to make a more equitable society, art-making plays a crucial—even transformative—role. This reading will ask, How does art transform our lives? Can writing a poem or making a painting act as an agent of social change? Does the process of making art transform what we are given?
TWISP | This Week In Saint Paul: Monday, June 15th – Sunday, June 21st 2015
June 15, 2015
It feels like summer. Shorts and ice cream and kids in the neighborhoods during the day. What will we do with ourselves? I don’t know where to start, or maybe I do. Let’s start with some summer reading.
Grandma’s Arms
June 10, 2015
Grandma’s brown arms
wrapped around the world
and held it tight,
close to her bosom,
close to her heartbeat.
Grandma’s brown arms
always listened,
paid attention,
knew just how tight
to squeeze,
and when to let go.
TWISP| This Week In Saint Paul: Monday, June 8, – Sunday, June 14, 2015
June 8, 2015
Is it summer yet? We have baseball in Lowertown, we have several festivals under our belts, most young people are out of school and flower gardens are showing off their flowers.
The Cathedral—June Thirteenth
June 3, 2015
Because the vistas end in arches that do not change And the grillwork of sails forecasts a season of palms The dove holds a steady hover over the crossroads of
TWISP | This Week in Saint Paul: Monday, June 1, – Sunday, June 7, 2015
June 1, 2015
Last week, we kicked off the summer with a big bash of festivals. There are more to come. Be ready for the whole festival scene to explode in July, but there is enough to keep us busy for now, festival or not. Hop on board the Saint Paul train and take in a few sips of it all.
TWISP | This Week in Saint Paul: Monday, May 25, – Sunday, May 31, 2015
May 25, 2015
Well, the Saints marched into Lowertown last week to the tune of sunshine and a delightful fracas. The home team won the home opener. This week, there is a lot more to celebrate. You can be a part of it.
Art by Lisa-Marie Greenly
Young Sins
By Beth L. Voigt ● May 23, 2015
“Mom, what’s a sin?” Mom straightened the newspapers on the coffee table, picked up my brother’s two sweat socks and his blue Highland Groveland baseball shirt, and moved the armchair
Blessed for Life
By Mike Hazard ● May 23, 2015
A wild-looking man I don’t know from Adam begged a ride from the PO to the Dorothy Day Center. He’s jazzed, jazzed about a Thanksgiving feast. With a shock of
Saint Paul Connections: The Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle
By Peter Rachleff ● May 23, 2015
The August 28, 2013, march in Saint Paul commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington expressed the historic interconnections of the labor movement and the civil rights
POW WOW
By Maryam Marne Zafar ● May 23, 2015
The steady drum beat. The high trilling voices. The whipping colors of the people. POW WOW! The soft stomping of moccasins upon the earth matching the shush-shush shuffle
TWISP | This Week in Saint Paul: Monday, May 18, – Sunday, May 24, 2015
May 18, 2015
The Saint Paul Almanac has done it again. We have come away with another Midwest Book Award, this year in the Reference category.