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Well, since I’m yet to give an official nod to National Poetry Month, we’ll make this a books-n-reading-themed Secret o’ the Day.

Most important (at least in my mind): The May issue of The Rake hit stands today, and is also posted online. What’s not online, however, is the Literary Supplement we produced to celebrate the opening of the new Minneapolis Central Library, later this month. (It’s, uh, “poly-bagged” along with our May issue–get to yer local newsstands, fast!) Check it out for original pieces by Robert Bly, Kate DiCamillo, Bill Holm, and other great Minnesota authors.

On that note: There’s another MELSA-sponsored reading of Minnesota Book Awards nominees today, this one at Ramsey County Library in Roseville and centers on the nominees for history and biography.

Okay, poetry! Have ya’all checked out the Laurel Poetry Collective? I have not, sadly. Not yet anyway. But there’ll be a good chance tonight when they give a reading at the Roseville Barnes & Noble. Will I be there? No, sir.. I’ll be up to my eyeballs in work and “r&r recovery.” But I’m hoping to check them out come May, when the Collective’s work will be the featured text block at Ignited, an exhibition of handmade books–coming soon to the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

And come Tuesday, I promise to return with spitfire and grit. (T’was a long, exhausting weekend.)