ReEntry Lab

ICE is active in south Minneapolis today-
Multiple cars cruising around East Phillips, Midtown Phillips.
Meanwhile, signal is having issues, so folks should be outside!
See ICE? Form a crowd and get loud.
Let neighbors know if ICE is nearby by making noise.

Tonight (2/3/26) at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social: I know Isha and Heid are incredible, and am excited to hear more from the others too. The "Better Things" lineups are always so cool, pulling from many different corners of the Twin Cities literary landscape:

…from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

#ReEntryLab #BetterThings #MPWW #MoonPalaceBooks #OpenMics #TCOpenMics #TCPoetry

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reentrylab.org/better-things/

The ReEntry Lab is an organization working to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration to a community that’s ready to receive them.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants…

5/6

Light refreshments will be served; masks are required at Moon Palace Books and are available on-site. This is a free event.

Better Things is a series of events sponsored by the ReEntry Lab, in partnership with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW) and Moon Palace Books.

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Moon Palace Books (@moonpalacebooks.bsky.social) more books than before

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Please join us on Tuesday, February 3rd, at 7:00pm, at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social, for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring Ari Tison (Bribri), BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara, followed by an open mic.

Reading & open mic will feature ASL interpretation.

3/6

The Mahalat Review. She has performed for the Madison Public Library, Walker Art Center and American Composers Forum. Isha seeks to sate her curiosities by layering myths with modern desires, questions, obsessing over these old stories by polishing them inside poetic forms and digital art. …

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Photograph of Isha Camara, a dark-skinned Black woman. In this photo she is wearing a black top, dark denim pants, and a patterned black-and-white hijab. She is seated in front of a red background. Her eyes are surrounded by colored stars and she has a serious expression, looking directly at the camera.

Text slide bearing words "For more: follow @reentrylab. better-things.org. reentrylab.org" and logos for the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment.

Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, February 3rd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Ari Tison, BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.

Isha Camara (she/her) is a Gambian-American poet and visual artist from South Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Masters at Randolph College in Creative Writing. Her work has been featured in MUZZLE Magazine, Poets.org and…

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…from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

#ReEntryLab #BetterThings #MPWW #MoonPalaceBooks #OpenMics #TCOpenMics #TCPoetry

7/7

reentrylab.org/better-things/

The ReEntry Lab is an organization working to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration to a community that’s ready to receive them.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants…

6/7

Light refreshments will be served; masks are required at Moon Palace Books and are available on-site. This is a free event.

Better Things is a series of events sponsored by the ReEntry Lab, in partnership with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW) and Moon Palace Books.

5/7

Moon Palace Books (@moonpalacebooks.bsky.social) more books than before

🎤

Please join us on Tuesday, February 3rd, at 7:00pm, at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social, for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring Ari Tison (Bribri), BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara, followed by an open mic.

Reading & open mic will feature ASL interpretation.

4/7

She serves her communities through formal and informal mentorship, poetry interventions, and in activating collaborative response between communities.

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…Minneapolis Poet Laureate supported by an Academy of American Poets award. Erdrich held the 2025 James Welch Distinguished Visiting position at University of Montana Missoula. Erdrich’s on-going project is Poetry Service Announcement (PoeS.A.), which promotes poetry as public art. …

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Photograph of Heid E. Erdrich, a light-skinned Ojibwe woman. In this photo, taken outdoors in front of a blurry winter background, she stares at the camera, and wears long reddish, brown, and white hair; a maroon turtleneck; long beaded earrings; and a slight smile.

Text slide bearing words "For more: follow @reentrylab. better-things.org. reentrylab.org" and logos for the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment.

Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, February 3rd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Ari Tison, BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.

Author of nine books of poetry and prose Heid E. Erdrich (she/her) is a curator and teacher. Erdrich edited the anthology New Poets of Native Nations and co-edited the newly published Boundless: Abundance in Native American Art and Literature. She served as the inaugural Minneapolis Poet…

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…from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

#ReEntryLab #BetterThings #MPWW #MoonPalaceBooks #OpenMics #TCOpenMics #TCPoetry

5/5

reentrylab.org/better-things/

The ReEntry Lab is an organization working to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration to a community that’s ready to receive them.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants…

5/6

Light refreshments will be served; masks are required at Moon Palace Books and are available on-site. This is a free event.

Better Things is a series of events sponsored by the ReEntry Lab, in partnership with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW) and Moon Palace Books.

4/6

Moon Palace Books (@moonpalacebooks.bsky.social) more books than before

🎤

Please join us on Tuesday, February 3rd, at 7:00pm, at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social, for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring Ari Tison (Bribri), BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara, followed by an open mic.

Reading & open mic will feature ASL interpretation.

3/6

… He is working hard for systematic change and liberation for self and community.

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Photograph of Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, an Indigenous man with medium-brown skin. In this photo he has a slight smile and is wearing glasses and an earring, a haircut with very short sides and a long curly top, and a mustache and soul patch.

Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey (he/him) is a 46-year-old Indigenous father. He is the principal and owner of Amik Agabow Consulting, LLC, as well as a community organizer with TONE UP and an inaugural fellow with the Just Lead Fellowship. He is working hard for systematic change and liberation for self and community.

Text slide bearing words "For more: follow @reentrylab. better-things.org. reentrylab.org" and logos for the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment.

Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, February 3rd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Ari Tison, BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.

Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey (he/him) is a 46-year-old Indigenous father. He is the principal and owner of Amik Agabow Consulting, LLC, as well as a community organizer with TONE UP and an inaugural fellow with the Just Lead Fellowship. …

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…from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

#ReEntryLab #BetterThings #MPWW #MoonPalaceBooks #OpenMics #TCOpenMics #TCPoetry

5/5

reentrylab.org/better-things/

The ReEntry Lab is an organization working to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration to a community that’s ready to receive them.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants…

5/6

Light refreshments will be served; masks are required at Moon Palace Books and are available on-site. This is a free event.

Better Things is a series of events sponsored by the ReEntry Lab, in partnership with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW) and Moon Palace Books.

4/6

Moon Palace Books (@moonpalacebooks.bsky.social) more books than before

🎤

Please join us on Tuesday, February 3rd, at 7:00pm, at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social, for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring Ari Tison (Bribri), BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara, followed by an open mic.

Reading & open mic will feature ASL interpretation.

3/6

…builds moments of expression, and crafts both personal and community altars. They have worked with institutions like the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and The Walker Art Museum as well as is an artist in residence at Public Functionary.

2/6

Photograph of BakiBakiBaki, an Afro-indigenous person with medium-brown skin. In this photo they are wearing a jean jacket and a particolor vest, long twining braided hair, a knit white cap, and a wide smile; they are holding up index and middle fingers of their left hand.

BakiBakiBaki (they/them) is an Afro-indigenous multidisciplinary artist who believes freedom lives at the crosscurrents of art and spirituality. Through zines/self publishing and puppetry BBB leads community workshops, builds moments of expression, and crafts both personal and community altars. They have worked with institutions like the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and The Walker Art Museum as well as is an artist in residence at Public Functionary.

Text slide bearing words "For more: follow @reentrylab. better-things.org. reentrylab.org" and logos for the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Clean Water, Land & Legacy Amendment.

Flyer with text reading: “Better Things - a 5x5 reading for social change - the reading everybody will be talking about the next day. Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Avenue, February 3rd, 2025, 7 pm.” Small photos of each of five readers, labeled by name: Ari Tison, BakiBakiBaki, Jeffrey Dorr-Slowey, Heid E. Erdrich, and Isha Camara.

BakiBakiBaki (they/them) is an Afro-indigenous multidisciplinary artist who believes freedom lives at the crosscurrents of art and spirituality. Through zines/self publishing and puppetry BBB leads community workshops, …

1/6

…from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

#ReEntryLab #BetterThings #MPWW #MoonPalaceBooks #OpenMics #TCOpenMics #TCPoetry

5/5

reentrylab.org/better-things/

The ReEntry Lab is an organization working to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration to a community that’s ready to receive them.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants…

5/6

Light refreshments will be served; masks are required at Moon Palace Books and are available on-site. This is a free event.

Better Things is a series of events sponsored by the ReEntry Lab, in partnership with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW) and Moon Palace Books.

4/6