Subtext Bookstore

My wife wearing a corduroy St Paul Saints jacket outside Subtext Books

The St. Paul jacket has a deep interior chest pocket that fits a paperback with room to spare

Celebrate Black History Month with us on Tuesday, February 24th. Three Black poets: Debra J Stone, Dralandra Larkins, and Sagirah Shahid will be reading. Come through!

Tonight!

Donate to March Rent Assistance for Central Neighborhood Families, organized by Central Neighborhood Care and Resistance The neighbors of Central Minneapolis have stood strong for mo… Central Neighborhood Care and Resistance needs your support for March Rent Assistance for Central Neighborhood Families

Friends! The ICE siege of Minneapolis is not over, and YOU can help keep 200 families safe and housed for another month!

These are trusted folks who have already helped 10% of all Central Minneapolis households pay rent. Please pitch in: gofund.me/d4acb0e6c

Guillotines

i will be relieved when they are out of MN but there cannot be any letup until this scourge is abolished. Just awful

SubText Bookstore Downtown Saint Paul's Independent Bookstore

Get all the info: subtextbooks.com/events

A LOT is going on the last week of Feb, so here's a master post:
3 author events at University Club
1 poetry reading at Subtext (24th at 7 PM)
1 bookfair at BlackStack Brewery (22nd 12-5PM)
1 fundraiser for immigrant orgs, our are visiting authors are Wendy Webb and Kate Allen (28th 1-4PM)

Celebrate Black History Month - Poetry Reading | SubText Bookstore Downtown Saint Paul's Independent Bookstore

subtextbooks.com/events/49698

Celebrate Black History Month with us on Tuesday, February 24th. Three Black poets: Debra J Stone, Dralandra Larkins, and Sagirah Shahid will be reading. Come through!

Welcome to Minneapolis with burning Whipple building

Moon palace has done it again

ICE kidnapped a neighbor in Phillips today along with others in MN. They are still the same rogue, abhorrent, & illegitimate organization meant to terrorize & separate families.

As I said yesterday, I am still asking the community to remain cautious & vigilant. We still need help.

Jason Chavez 1/

Large sign on a light pole that says “Kristi Noem eats worms”

Minneapolis sign game is strong and weird.

We are going to get a writing group started hopefully in March! It will be welcoming to all levels and any type of writing style. More on this later 🫡

We are a bookstore, so maybe it's weird coming from us. However, a way to protect small businesses, like indie bookstores, is to protect our neighbors from eviction! People don't really buy stuff when they don't have a home.

right... you could still pass that eviction moratorium to lessen that strain

Dave Kamper - Who's Got The Power | SubText Bookstore Downtown Saint Paul's Independent Bookstore

Twin Cities peeps! Join me at @subtextbookstore.bsky.social on March 24th to talk about my book!

subtextbooks.com/events/49606

Web page showing pre-order of The Tapestry if Fate and A Parade of Horribles.

May 12th is going to be a contentious day in my household deciding who gets to read which book first
@subtextbookstore.bsky.social
#booksky
#shoplocal

Moon Palace Books Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.

Hey #BookSky Moon Palace in Mineapolis is running a book drive for Spanish language books. Buying a few is a great way to support them! Gift Registry 21_pburk7u4 | Moon Palace Books share.google/ddfS1aWbCRGJ...

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.

It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

promo image for "salt, warmth, and force: poetry against ICE - Thurs. Feb 5, 2026; 7pm central on zoom - register via Button Poetry (see "latest" link in my bio)

Promo image for a workshop at the 2026 Twin Cities Zine Festival: “Zines as Narrative Interventions” hosted by Kyle Tran Myhre - Feb 7, 2-3pm at MPLS central library

Two things I'm offering this week:

2/5: Virtual ICE OUT writing workshop (via @buttonpoetry.bsky.social) - buttonpoetry.com/product/button-up-poetry-101

2/7: I'll be at the TC Zine Festival all day, and also facilitating a workshop at 2pm on "zines as narrative interventions" - tczinefest.org

2000 agents are still here. Woke up this morning to horns and whistles down my street -- panic jumped out of bed ready to run outside, but the cars were being pursued. ICE is still kidnapping people, still getting stymied at every turn, still brutalizing observers because they know they're losing.

Thank you to everyone who attended last nights poetry reading to honor Renee Good. And thank you to the poets, Davi Grey, Michael Kleber-Digs, Amy Leanne Johnston, and Sana Wazwaz. We want to do more stuff like this!

if you can, enact a statewide eviction moratorium.

Queen of Swords Press Titles Checkout out this list on Bookshop

#Booksky Like print books? Us too!
You can get ours direct from us or via our Bookshop storefront or at cool indie bookstores, including DreamHaven Books (in person only for now), Magers & Quinn, @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social, @subtextbookstore.bsky.social and beyond! bookshop.org/lists/queen-...

Heading over to @subtextbookstore.bsky.social for a special poetry reading. We'll be listening to the works of Renee Nicole Good.

Raw. Meaningful. Packing soft paper tissue just in case.

Time to dust off some books and refresh my memory for those pretending America wasn't always like this.

closed 1/23 #generalstrike #iceout

Sign in People's Book in Takoma Park featuring the illustration of the werewolf ripping off its shirt in anguish which reads WE ARE SOLD OUT OF THE GAY HOCKEY BOOKS

My local bookshop understands their audience.

Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.