Book Launch: Jolene Brink, author of Overburden, in Conversation with Kathryn Kysar
A reading by local author Jolene Brink will launch the publication of her first poetry collection, Overburden, which was selected for the Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry from Texas Tech University Press. Jolene Brink was born and raised in northern Minnesota. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Orion, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, The Carolina Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, where her first poetry chapbook, Peregrine, won the Merriam-Frontier Award. She currently works for the University of Minnesota. Jolene will be joined by local poet Kathryn Kysar, author of Dark Lake and Pretend the World. Kysar is the creative writing program founder and English professor at Anoka-Ramsey Community College.
Valley Bookseller will be available for book sales.
Registration is encouraged, but not required.
- Date:
- Saturday, May 2, 2026
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location:
- Margaret Rivers A&B
- Library:
- Stillwater Public Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Books, Authors, and Writing Lifelong Learning