Green Roof Poetry, Nature

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Paul Crary is an award-winning digital marketer with deep roots in the music and advertising industries. After working professionally in the independent music space for seven years in Los Angeles, Crary recently boomeranged back to his hometown of the Twin Cities. An avid vinyl record collector and bedroom DJ, he has thrown various DIY house parties in Los Angeles and Minneapolis for over a decade. Most recently, Crary has DJ’d at Small Hours in NE Minneapolis, Franconia Sculpture Garden, the University of Minnesota College of Design Fashion Show, and other music-forward public gatherings such as Pro-Am, Eternity, and private events for the Walker Art Center. You can find Crary’s sonic selections on his long-standing SoundCloud page.

M.L. Martin is an interdisciplinary poet and translator who makes books, performances, installations, and sound art. Their current work W&E: a refracted translation of ‘Wulf and Eadwacer’ (Action Books) aims to recover a radical ancient text to the feminist, queer, and experimental canons to which it belongs. Their literary works appear in Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Their language-based installation Journey to Shoshone Falls, which uses archival material and found texts to create textual interventions in the archival landscape of a masterwork, was shown at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 2019 to March 15, 2020. They’re the founder of the Translation Now! Symposium and the poetry editor for Asymptote. Martin lives in Canada with a cat and a human.

Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest. His debut poetry collection HOMES explores nature, modernity, identity, belonging, and sublimity through the site of the Great Lakes bioregion/borderland. Soliman’s work has been recognized and supported by diverse institutions, residencies, and awards, among which particularly impactful favorites are the Joyce Foundation, Banff Centre, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Momentary, Red Eye, and Pillsbury House, Minnesota Book Awards, and MSAB. He is the executive editor and director of literary programs at Mizna.

Elisabeth Workman is the author of Ultramegaprairieland (Bloof Books), Endlessness Is No Desolation (Dusie Press), and a dozen chapbooks, including, most recently, The Figures: A Litter (Dancing Girl Press). She’s the recipient of poetry fellowships from Jerome, McKnight, and UMN’s Creative Writing MFA Program, and an arts writing fellowship from the Walker’s Mn Artists. Her work appears in Flarf: An Anthology of Flarf (Edge Books), Tem>The End of the World Project (Moria Books), and Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene (Wesleyan).