Michael Kleber-Diggs: Featured Author and Open Mic (Theme: Wóbdiheic’iya-Positiveness)

Join us on August 27, 2026 for poetry and community! Arrow Broken Poetry Collective is honored to welcome Michael Kleber-Diggs as our featured artist.

Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. His debut poetry collection, Worldly Things (Milkweed Editions, 2021), won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Among other places, Kleber-Diggs’ writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Potomac Review, Hunger Mountain, Memorious, and various anthologies. Since 2016, Michael has been an instructor with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. He also teaches Creative Writing in Augsburg University’s low-res MFA program and at Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. He lives in St. Paul.

The free event will begin at 7:00 p.m. and will be held at the The Village Hall in Marine on St Croix. Open Mic will begin at 8:30 p.m. Everyone is invited to share their work and will be allotted three minutes to perform.

August’s theme is Wóbdiheic’iya-Positiveness. Dakọta values, language, and actions should stem from positiveness. If we understand that everything we do and say affects each other and the universe around us (mitakuye owas’iƞ), then we want to make sure that our words and actions embody a positive attitude and that we are doing our best. —Dakota Wicohan

This event is sponsored by the St. Croix Valley Foundation and Marine Library Association, with support from the Brookside Bar & Grill, Christ Lutheran Church, and Marine Mills Folk School.