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…

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

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https://reentrylab.org/better-things/

Light refreshments will be served; masks are required at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social 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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Please join us on Tuesday, December 2nd, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books, for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring five fantastic readers: Tyra Payer, Jen Bowen, Fong L., Sun Yung Shin, and Bao Phi, followed by an open mic.

Both reading and open mic will feature ASL interpretation.

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…and most recently, in McSweeney's Volume 78. He was on the editorial team of We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word, published by Haymarket Books. He is a Vietnamese American, a Minnesotan, and a father.

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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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The ReEntry Lab is an organization working to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration to a community that’s ready to receive them. You can learn more at reentrylab.org.

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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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…at Moon Palace Books (@moonpalacebooks.bsky.social), for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring five fantastic readers: Tyra Payer, Jen Bowen, Fong L., Sun Yung Shin, and Bao Phi, followed by an open mic.

Both reading and open mic will feature ASL interpretation.

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… With Su Hwang she is a co-director of Poetry Asylum. Sun Yung is a frequent speaker who presents her work nationally and internationally; she lives in South Minneapolis with her family—more at sunyungshin.com.

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Please join us on Tuesday, December 2nd, at 7:00pm…

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…co-authored with Mélina Mangal and illustrated by Leslie Barlow (Lerner Publishing). Her newest book of prose is Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language, forthcoming in May 2026 from Black Lawrence Press. …

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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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The ReEntry Lab is an organization working to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration to a community that’s ready to receive them. You can learn more at https://reentrylab.org.

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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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…on Tuesday, December 2nd, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books (@moonpalacebooks.bsky.social), for our next 5×5 Reading, featuring five fantastic readers: Tyra Payer, Jen Bowen, Fong L., Sun Yung Shin, and Bao Phi, followed by an open mic.

Both reading and open mic will feature ASL interpretation.

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Meet us in the Sisyphus Brewing event space for a launch party with Kristin Collier & Friends on Tuesday, November 18th. Doors at 6 pm and reading at 7 pm. Hear work from fellow authors Michael Kleber-Diggs, Jen Bowen, Sun Yung Shin, and Zeke Caligiuri!

Join Tuck Woodstock (Girl Dad Press) and Dr. Cassius Adair (The New School) at Moon Palace Books on Monday, November 10th at 6:00pm for a discussion of the new queer anthology Sex Change and the City.