Contains a collection of thirty-six essays, poems, and verse from Minneapolis writers of color, exploring their experiences with family, economic insecurity, racism, and the tumultuous events of 2020.

Familiar traditions echo across the years in funny, poignant, and surprising ways: a family welcomes a Swedish traveler to their cozy sod house on the prairie; a schoolgirl is frightened by her role in the spotlight for the annual pagaent; a stranger makes Christmas possible for a family after the father's untimely death in the 1930s; a Civil War drummer boy prepares for a makeshift holiday while on duty with the First Minnesota. These stories and...

Since its beginnings in 1993, the Queer Voices Reading Series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty years, the series has become a national model and one of Minnesota's most important literary institutions. It is reputed to be the longest-running curated queer reading series in the country. In this volume, series curators John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins...

"A gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota"--