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Poetry and Beats at Bella Luna Studios

Join us for an evening of poetry and music featuring

Sarah Fox
Nancy Shih-Knodel
Heidi Howell Farrah
Haley Lasché

Music by DeVon dVRG Gray

Sarah Fox lives in the Twin Cities. Coffee House Press published her books Because Why and The First Flag. Currently, shes finishing a book of poetry, Invisible Wife, and beginning a work of nonfiction, Pain Management. Shes also a grandmother, teacher, placenta encapsulator, and therapeutic astrologer. Spread love.

Nancy Shih-Knodel grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and received her education at Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, The Examined Life Journal, and Yellowjacket Review. Her chapbook The Landscape of the Body was recently published by Red Bird Chapbooks, and will be available later this fall. She is a faculty member in the English Department at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

Heidi Howell Farrah holds an MFA from George Mason University. Her poetry has been published in literary magazines including So to Speak: a Feminist Journal of Language and Arts, Disturbed Guillotine, la fovea, Psychic Pizza, Otoliths, Sprung Poems, and the Washington Review, which nominated her poems for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis, with her husband, poet and painter George J. Farrah, and adores teaching English at North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park.

Haley Lasché is a yoga teacher and writing professor. Her poems have appeared such places as White Space Poetry Anthology, Hartskill Review and Dossier Journal. Her chapbook Where It Leads is available from Red Bird Chapbooks where she is a board member and the editor of Weekly Read.

Composer, producer, arranger, and songwriter deVon R. Gray, multi-instrumentalist, is best known as dVRG in the acclaimed live hip hop band, Heiruspecs. Lesser known are his classical and chamber music works, film scores, experimental collaborations (SPCO Liquid Music Series), arranging credits (Poliça, The Cloak Ox, Allan Kingdom), session work, and production. Gray, has studied orchestral conducting with world renowned artists Manny Laureano (MN Orchestra)and Donald Palma (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra); and composition with Lee Hyla, & Michael Gandolfi, to name a few. Redefining versatility, dVRG draws inspiration from an enviable record collection, from Claudio Monteverdi to Shuggie Otis, and communicates through nuanced sounds; a musical polyglot disguised as a lone starready to super nova. Band member of HEIRUSPECS and Chastity Brown.