Paula Cisewski, MC Hyland, and Mubanga Kalimamukwento

Saturday, November 8, 2025
2:00pm, Riverview Room (located upstairs from the Book Fair)

Whether you’re an avid poetry reader or just verse-curious, drop into this Showcase for powerful words rendered in subtle rhythms!

About the Authors

Paula Cisewski is the author of six books of poetry, including Ceremonies for No Repair, ​Quitter (Diode Editions Book Prize winner), The Threatened Everything, Ghost Fargo (Nightboat Poetry Prize winner, selected by Franz Wright), Upon Arrival, and several chapbooks. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and other organizations. Cisewski lives in Minneapolis and is a founding co-publisher, co-editor, and book designer for Beauty School Editions.

MC Hyland is the author of over a dozen poetry chapbooks/artist books and two previous full-length books of poems, THE END and Neveragainland. Holding MFAs in book arts and creative writing from the University of Alabama and a PhD in English literature from NYU, MC is also a teacher, scholar, artist, and founding editor of DoubleCross Press, a poetry micropress. She lives in St. Paul, MN with her partner, Jeff, and cat, Dakota.

Mubanga Kalimamukwento is a Zambian poet whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals and won the 2022 Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Prize, selected by Carmen Giménez. Her 2024 story collection Obligations to the Wounded won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the CLMP Firecracker Award, and the Minnesota Book Award for fiction. Kalimamukwento lives in Minnesota.