Lightsey Darst

Awards and Press
Twin Cities Daily Planet profile
Poetry Crossfire
Out of Our Minds podcast with J. P. Dancing Bear
Find the Girl wins the 2011 Minnesota Book Award in poetry
TPT MN Originals video profile
Taiga interview
TriQuarterly Online interview
"Snow White" on Poets.org
The New York Times review
Entertainment Weekly review
Minn Post feature
Twin Cities Daily Planet feature

Upcoming readings
September 30, 2011: Spirit Lake Reading Series, with Elisabeth Workman

Recent publications
TriQuarterly Online
Diagram
Spork
Taiga
The Country Dog Review
The Antioch Review
Bateau
elimae
Emprise Review
Ginnungagap (chapbook)
Diagram

Past readings
July 9, 2011, 7pm: Talking Image Connection, Soap Factory, Minneapolis
May 26, 2011, 7:30pm: Moe's Books, Berkeley, with Julie Carr
May 25, 2011: Open Books, Seattle, with Julie Carr
April 6, 2011, 11am: Normandale Community College, Bloomington, Minnesota
February 17, 2011, 5:30pm: Gadsden Public Library, Alabama
February 18, 2011, 5pm: Alumni House, Jacksonville State University, Alabama
March 2, 2011, 7pm: Nina's, St Paul, with Brad Liening and Matt Mauch
January 26, 2011, 7 pm: Fireside reading series, Hamline Midway Branch Library, St Paul
January 6, 2011, 7 pm: Pocket Lab reading series, Rogue Buddha Gallery, Mpls
October 28, 2010, SUNY-New Paltz, with Anne Gorick, New York
October 8, 2010, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, with Diane Wilson, Minnesota
September 30, 2010, Bryant-Lake-Bowl, with Ben Weaver, Dobby Gibson, and Juliet Patterson, Minneapolis
September 28, 2010, Winona State University, Minnesota
Dancers Who Write at Nina's Cafe, St Paul, July 20, 2010, Minneapolis
Bryant Park, New York, with Coffee House writers, June 22, 2010, Minneapolis
Shades of Gray at 42nd Ave Station, Minneapolis, June 17, 2010, Minneapolis
Printers Row, June 12, 2010, Chicago
Oregon State University, May 14, 2010
Book release party at the Bryant-Lake Bowl, April 14, 2010, Minneapolis
With Greg Hewitt at the Loft, April 1, 2010, Minneapolis
First Books Event at the University of Minnesota, March 25, 2010
With Donna Isaac at Micawber's, January 28, 2010, St Paul, Minnesota
Pump House Reading Series, February 18, 2010, La Crosse, Wisconsin
Anderson Center, July 11, 2009, Red Wing, Minnesota
TalkingImageConnection at the Soap Factory, July 17, 2009, Minneapolis

Publication archive
Emprise Review
Phoebe
La Fovea
Diagram 8.2
Flurry