We have been privileged to welcome the following writers to our campus for readings and discussions of their works and host the following events, all as part of the Two Rivers Reading Series on the Coon Rapids Campus:
Fall 2018
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Lesley Nneka Arimah
Spring 2018
There’s Something I Want You to Do
Charles Baxter
Fall 2017
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
Featuring Sun Yung Shin, David Lawrence Grant, and Andrea Jenkins
Spring 2017
May Day
Gretchen Marquette
Fall 2016
Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota
Featuring Alexs Pate, Shannon Gibney, Taiyon Coleman
Spring 2016
Sông I Sing
Bao Phi
Fall 2015
In Reach
Pamela Carter Joern
Spring 2015
The Peripatetic Coffin
Ethan Rutherford
Fall 2014
Black Aperture
Matt Rasmussen
Spring 2014
Nothing Better
Tyler Page
Fall 2013
Book of Fire
Cary Waterman
Madness: A Bipolar Life.
Marya Hornbacher
Spring 2013
Cul de Sac
Scott Wrobel
Spunk
Penumbra Theater Event
Fall 2012
Pretend the World
Kate Kysar
Spirit Car
Diane Wilson
Spring 2012
Split
Swati Avasthi
Invisible Strings
Jim Moore
Spring 2011
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Penumbra Theater Event
Driving to Heaven
Tracy Youngblom
Woman Lake and Rain Dance
Richard Broderick
The Last Communist Virgin
Wang Ping
Fall 2010
Blood Dazzler
Patricia Smith
Spring 2010
Fiction on a Stick: An Anthology of Minnesota Writers
Featuring John Reimringer, Sarah Stonich, Diane Wilson, and Sean Hill
Fall 2009
Radio Golf
Penumbra Theater Event
The Weight of All Things
Sandra Benitez
The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg
Geoff Herbach
Spring 2009
The Latehomecomer
Kao Kalia Yang
National Monuments
Heid Erdrich
Fall 2008
Fences
Penumbra Theater Event
Spring 2008
The Piano Lesson
Penumbra Theater Event
Fall 2007
Jack and Rochelle
Lawrence Sutin
Spring 2007
Real Karaoke People
Ed-Bok Lee
The Summer of Ordinary Ways
Nicole Helget
Fall 2006
Disobedience
Jane Hamilton
Spring 2006
Roofwalker
Susan Power
Fall 2005
Good Heart
Deborah Keenan
Spring 2005
Where No Gods Came
Sheila O’Connor
Fall 2004
Time Between Trains
Anthony Bukoski
Spring 2004
Tracks
Louise Erdrich
Fall 2003
Jack and Rochelle
Lawrence Sutin
Spring 2003
Rainlight and Shadow Baby
Alison McGhee
Fall 2002
Pushing the Bear
Diane Glancy
Spring 2002
Late Night Calls
Mark Vinz
Spring 2001
Summer
Robert Dana
Spring 2000
Morning Poems and Collected Poems
Robert Bly
Fall 1999
Right By My Side and Heathens
David Haynes
