Poetry Asylum

Poetry Asylum Organizing feminist poetryship steered by poets Su Hwang and Sun Yung Shin. Based in Minneapolis, but

Yesterday’s ✨ICE OUT: Minnesota Writers Respond to ICE✨ afternoon event at in Baltimore co-sponsored by at was a f...
03/07/2026

Yesterday’s ✨ICE OUT: Minnesota Writers Respond to ICE✨ afternoon event at in Baltimore co-sponsored by at was a full house! Nearly 150 beautiful souls gathered to support Minnesota writers and the work of .minn and during the siege and ongoing occupation.

Thank you to organizers and featuring powerful readings by .e.wynter and Lithub editor-in-chief and now honorary Minnesotan 🙌🏽❤️❣️✨

The reading was inspired by Lithub’s ✨LETTER FROM MINNESOTA✨ series which can be found at 👉🏽 www.lithub.com/tag/letter-from-minnesota/ or link in our bio.

Thanks to everyone who attended and for bringing a bit of Minnesota to Baltimore, and for helping the organizers raise donations for our beloved communities in Minnesota.

To support more mutual aid and rental assistance needs, please visit 👉🏽 www.standwithminnesota.com

📸: ❤️

NO MORE WAR!!!!!
02/28/2026

NO MORE WAR!!!!!

🌟 All good things must come to an end—deepest gratitude to and for publishing 44 ✨LETTERS (and poems) FROM MINNESOTA✨ ...
02/21/2026

🌟 All good things must come to an end—deepest gratitude to and for publishing 44 ✨LETTERS (and poems) FROM MINNESOTA✨ since January 26, 2026, to spotlight and archive the complex hi/stories, the emotions, the solidarity, the rage, the hope, the violence, the beauty, and resilience of Minnesotans by featuring a mosaic of stunning writers.

This last batch features an amazing group, including:


Sahra Noor
Gabriela Spears-Ricowaz.pali

Ahmed Ismail Yusuf




Marian Hassan

You can read all 44 moving, necessary essays and poems at lithub.com/tag/letter-from-minnesota (or link in our bio).

🧊 is still very much in Minnesota, please stay vigilant and safe. We are in this together.

02/13/2026

🧊🚫 Join us on Feb 26 for Minnesota Writers Respond, an evening of reading and fellowship in response to the current moment. The evening features readings by Curtis Sittenfeld, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Chaun Webster, Claire Wahmanholm, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, Lara Mimosa Montes, Halee Kirkwood, and Jessica Nordell, event organizer and author of The End of Bias: A Beginning.

🩵 Presented in partnership with the Loft and Milkweed Editions. All proceeds from this event benefit the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. The suggested admission is $25, but you can also select the pay what you can option. This is intended to remove barriers for anyone who would like to attend, but it also provides the option to donate more than $25 (simply enter an amount more than $25 in the field). Book signing and gathering to follow!

ℹ️ The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (ILCM) is a nonprofit organization that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and North Dakota. ILCM also advocates for public policies which respect the universal human rights of immigrants. As part of MN’s legal-aid ecosystem, they are experiencing a historic demand for services as a result of Operation Metro Surge, taking on cases that will demand months, and even years, of legal advocacy to resolve.

🔗🎟️ RSVP: https://loft.org/events/minnesota-writers-respond-public-literary-event

💌 Give directly: https://ilcm.org/donate

🗓️ Thursday, Feb 26
⏰ 6:30pm (Doors at 6 p.m.)
🏫 The Loft at Open Book in Minneapolis

💥 Yesterday, the “border czar” announced that DHS would be leaving Minnesota and Metro Surge was a huge success. Today, ...
02/13/2026

💥 Yesterday, the “border czar” announced that DHS would be leaving Minnesota and Metro Surge was a huge success. Today, 🧊 raids continue to ramp up in and around the Twin Cities and greater MN. Reports on the ground sharply contradict what government officials are telling the press. Legacy media has moved on.

This is precisely why it’s such an imperative to have these ✨LETTERS FROM MINNESOTA✨ published with such care and integrity. Deep gratitude to everyone at Literary Hub for continuing to offer a safe place for these vital, personal, historical, intersectional accounts by MN-based writers.

Shoutout to the latest batch of amazing poets, essayists, children’s literature authors, novelists, and journalists for sharing their powerful perspectives and testimonials:








Dana Chiueh


Please read these profoundly important essays and other letters published the last couple of weeks at Lithub.com/tag/letter-from-minnesota (link in our bio) ✊🏽❤️

‼️MINNESOTA IS STILL UNDER VIOLENT OCCUPATION‼️“It’s not history yet.”Mainstream media has moved on, the news cycle tied...
02/09/2026

‼️MINNESOTA IS STILL UNDER VIOLENT OCCUPATION‼️

“It’s not history yet.”

Mainstream media has moved on, the news cycle tied up into a neat bow after Greg Bovino was replaced by Tom Homan. The former loved the cameras, the histrionics of fascism in action, but the latter is more insidious, more calculating because he prefers to pull the authoritarian strings from behind the curtain. Talk of de-escalation was a bait and switch move so the American public could move on, look away, feel relief.

Even if 700 agents of chaos were removed, 2,000+ ultra violent, racist, sociopathic lunatics are still roaming the streets and neighborhoods—stalking schools, places of worship, parks, immigrant-owned businesses while MN state police and MPD make violent, unconstitutional arrests of peaceful protesters at Whipple and the University of MN.

Immeasurable thanks to everyone at and for continuing to platform MN writers who are telling us how it is, from their heart and soul, as they are made to witness atrocity after atrocity—so we have some kind of record, at least for posterity’s sake. This is also not new—just another page out the white supremacist playbook on occupation, oppression, and genocide. But we need to write, record, share.

Please keep your eyes open and amplify these letters from Minnesota—

https://lithub.com/tag/letter-from-minnesota/

Thanks to remarkable writers in this most recent set of letters:


Diane Wilson






Sarah Green
Kaia Preus


…and many more to come! ❤️

📝 A new and powerful poem by the incomparable Kevin Reese just dropped on and it’s a must read! ❤️‍🔥 is a poet, father,...
02/05/2026

📝 A new and powerful poem by the incomparable Kevin Reese just dropped on and it’s a must read! ❤️‍🔥

is a poet, father, friend, neighbor, community organizer, and founder of — a human rights organization led by formerly incarcerated criminal justice experts, focusing on building capital, resources, and support to provide pathways to civic and economic liberation for individuals disenfranchised by mass incarceration.

Check out and support their work at www.uwaaf.org

UWAAF is not just an organization, it’s a movement because none of us are free until we are all free.

ABOLISH 🧊 MEANS ABOLITION OF ALL OPPRESSIVE, INHUMANE SYSTEMS.

‼️🧊 IS RAMPING UP VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION TACTICS IN MINNESOTA ‼️THIS P**O, RACIST ADMINISTRATION LIES!!!! PLEASE DO N...
02/04/2026

‼️🧊 IS RAMPING UP VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION TACTICS IN MINNESOTA ‼️

THIS P**O, RACIST ADMINISTRATION LIES!!!! PLEASE DO NOT LOOK AWAY FROM WHAT IS HAPPENING IN MINNESOTA!!!

🌔 Another ode to our hometown and state on this snowy Snow Moon, a full moon in Leo, February 1, 2026.So proud of the co...
02/01/2026

🌔 Another ode to our hometown and state on this snowy Snow Moon, a full moon in Leo, February 1, 2026.

So proud of the courage (and yes, hotness) of our communities in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, and beyond. Even though everything is upside down in our world, now and always, power to the people. ✊🏽🙏🏽🫶🏽❤️‍🔥

P.S. We love so damn much!!! 🎺🥁🎷🪇🥰

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❤️‍🔥 Yesterday, Friday,January 30, 2026 during the NATIONWIDE GENERAL STRIKE—hundreds of thousands (maybe millions!) of ...
01/31/2026

❤️‍🔥 Yesterday, Friday,January 30, 2026 during the NATIONWIDE GENERAL STRIKE—hundreds of thousands (maybe millions!) of people from NY to Chicago, LA to SF to small towns across this country took to the streets to stand in solidarity with Minnesota’s call and example to protect our neighbors and our Constitutional rights—to save our humanity.

In Minneapolis, yesterday’s march was even larger and louder than the one last week on Jan 23rd, the day before Alex Pretti’s ex*****on. Today, thousands on cyclists are riding together through the city to honor Alex’s life.

SOS: Save Our State / Save Our Souls

Bovino’s departure has not changed anything in MN. Kidnappings and wanton violence are ramping up. Concentration camps are being built across the country, and one “detention warehouse” is contracted for Shakopee, MN, near a woman’s prison. Peaceful activists and observers are being brutally beaten, arrested, and detained at the Whipple federal building, and Fort Snelling, a decommissioned military base that is the site of massacres of the Dakota people has been deemed operational.

Despite the ongoing global horrors, and the incomprehensible depravity of the Epstein files that were partially released yesterday (mainstream media is not adequately exposing the depth and breadth of atrocities and abuses but lots being uncovered and shared via Threads), and the arrests of Black journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, TrahernCrews, and Jamael Lydell Lundy—just taking a moment to acknowledge the nationwide protests and the rising up of the people. We want to remember yesterday as we move forward toward a better world than this.

Meanwhile, we are still making art. Hundreds of people gathered on lake Bde Maka Ska to spell out the SOS distress over a major flight path. (Thousands of our neighbors have been flown out of MSP airport, with no end in sight.) Bruce Springsteen also made a surprise appearance with Rage Against the Machine at First Avenue in Minneapolis yesterday as pockets of resistance popped up everywhere.

Remember, “rebellions are built on hope.”

Minnesota proud ❤️

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