Paula Cisewski's third poetry collection, The Threatened Everything, will be released in 2016 through Burnside Review Books, and her first book of lyric prose, Misplaced Sinister, appeared in 2015 through Red Bird Chapbooks. She is also the author of Ghost Fargo (selected by Franz Wright for the Nightboat Poetry Prize), Upon Arrival (Black Ocean), and several poetry chapbooks. She has been awarded fellowships from the Banfill-Locke Center for the arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She teaches, both academically and privately, and curates artful literary events in the Twin Cities. (more below)
portrait: Jack Walsh
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Paula's work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals and anthologies such as Eleven Eleven, diode, Conduit, A Handsome Journal, failbetter, We Are So Happy to Know Something, Revolver, the BOMBlog, REVOLUTIONesque, Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics, Resistance Journal and Ping Pong.
As a curator, she founded and hosted the open mic night at the former Artists' Quarter Jazz Club, then co-created St. Paul Calls quarterly poetry & jazz series. She curated the Imaginary Press Reading Series, several 100K Poets for Change events, the Banfill-Locke's 2013 Reading Series, and co-curated the 2014 Maeve's Sessions Series. Along with her artist husband Jack Walsh, Paula is a cofounder and curator of JoyFace Poetry & Arts. These days, she can be found hosting rogue, pop-up literary events including tiny readings in The Poetry Fort.
Before teaching, Paula worked in warehouses, as an artist mentor with Minneapolis teens, as the owner of a coffee shop, and as the waitress of one million tables while raising her son and earning her BA from St. Catherine's University and her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Before teaching, Paula worked in warehouses, as an artist mentor with Minneapolis teens, as the owner of a coffee shop, and as the waitress of one million tables while raising her son and earning her BA from St. Catherine's University and her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
