04/30/2026
We can't wait for our next workshop, "Bread and Poetry: Writing About Food" with incredible visiting author Kathryn Savage on Sat, May 9 from 10-11:30 am at Mainspring! Registration is $15: https://tinyurl.com/4hustwtj
With food as our inspiration, this creative writing workshop will focus on writing sensory rich poetry and prose. To write about food is to also write about agriculture, family, culture, and place. In this class, open to beginning and experienced writers, we will turn our attention to poems about food by reading works by celebrated poets and then generating our own writing from prompts. Come ready to read and write and get hungry!
About the author: Kathryn Savage’s Groundglass: An Essay (Coffee House Press), explores topics of environmental justice and links between pollution and public health. Groundglass was named a best read of the year by the Sydney Morning Herald, a Yale Review Favorite Cultural Artifact, and was showcased in Orion Magazine, Lit Hub, and selected by EcoLit Books as a Best Environmental Book of 2022. Other writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Artforum, Ecotone, Guernica, VQR, and she is a frequent book review contributor to World Literature Today. She received a 2025 McKnight Fellowship in Writing and her work has been supported by the Minnesota State Arts Board, Jerome Foundation, and Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Savage is an assistant professor of creative writing at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Kathryn Savage is a fiscal year 2025 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
