The Poetry Bus will be at the NU Farmers Market on Thursday, August 7th, 2025!
Four poets - Sara Dovre Wudali, Athena Kildegaard, Michael Kleber-Diggs, and Su Love - will tour cities in SW Minnesota sharing poems and hosting other poetry-related events in August.  They call themselves The Poetry Bus, which is an affectionate homage to a group of iconic Minnesota poets (led by John Rezmerski and including Bill Holm, Carol Bly, Robert Bly, Louis Jenkins, and others) who did a similar poetry trip around Minnesota under the name Poetry Out Loud back in the 1970s. 
They will type poems for visitors who would like a poem using their very cool and somewhat finicky vintage manual typewriters.  
Come on down to the Thursday market and get your free poem!  
Hand-made chapbooks of their poems will be available for purchase at the market that day as well.
Stay tuned for another possible event that evening in New Ulm!

Poet Bios:

Athena Kildegaard's most recent book of poetry, Prairie Midden (Tinderbox Editions), won the 2023 WILLA Literary Award for Poetry. Her poems have been Pushcart nominees and she's the recipient of grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and two fellowships from the Lake Region Arts Council. She teaches at the University of Minnesota Morris.
Michael Kleber-Diggs (KLEE-burr digs) is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and arts educator. He is the author of My Weight in Water, a memoir about his complicated relationship with lap swimming (forthcoming with Spiegel & Grau, 2026). Michael’s debut poetry collection, Worldly Things won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and was published by Milkweed Editions in 2021. His poems and essays often explore themes of intimacy, community, empathy, and grace, practices he believes are simultaneously distinct and interdependent. Michael is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature, and he teaches creative writing at Augsburg University and through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
Su Love’s five published books of poetry include Weight of Light, nominated for the Pushcart Editors’ Book Prize, and Buddha, Proof, a Minnesota Book Award finalist. Su’s book in progress concerns legacies of nuclear power in Minnesota and has been supported by the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the St. Croix Watershed Research Station. As a visiting writer, Su has presented at several colleges, universities, and arts organizations including Salmon Literary Centre, Ireland; American Space Madrid/Instituto internacional; and across Minnesota.
Sara Dovre Wudali (she/her) is a writer and editor living in Saint Paul. Dovre Wudali was a 2024 Poetry Fellow in the Loft Mentor Series and has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. Her poems and essays have been published in literary journals and anthologies such as Barrelhouse, under the gum tree, Blood Tree Literature, and the Saint Paul Almanac. She is the co-editor with Suzanne Swanson of the hybrid anthology chapbook, All You Need Is One Avocado. Dovre Wudali grew up on a farm in southwest Minnesota, where wind blows through the cottonwoods and box elder bugs rule.