Threading the Gold by Wendy Brown-Báez

Please join us for Wendy Brown-Báez reading from her new book, “Threading the Gold”

This poetry collection takes us on a journey from Advent to Lent during a time of conflict and chaos locally and globally, through reflections on what was heard and experienced while attending services at Westminster Church. These poems consider the balance between the mystical path of contemplation and a heartfelt desire to repair and heal through activism. They ask how do we align with Divine Love and what is our responsibility to our neighbors, including those across the globe? What does it mean to be broken and whole at the same time and who do we turn to when we feel devastated by loss and outrage? These poems include imagining several Biblical figures and their choices and decisions, and what we might learn from them. They pay attention to sorrow and joy, the holy in the ordinary, and the dance between repose and ecstasy. From the weariness of Santa trying to find the homes of those who do not have a home to the joy of finding connection and community, these poems illuminate the gold of spiritual awareness threaded through all circumstances.

In-person at 1762 Hennepin Avenue
Monday July 29 at 7 PM
FREE

Author bio:  Wendy Brown-Báez is the creator of Writing Circles for Healing. She is the author of the guidebook Heart on the Page: A Portable Writing Workshop, a novel Catch a Dream, and the poetry books Threading the Gold and Ceremonies of the Spirit. Her poetry and prose appear widely in literary journals and anthologies, including Mizna, Wising Up Press, Poets & Writers, Talking Writing, Water~Stone Review, Peregrine and Tiferet. Wendy was awarded McKnight and MN State Arts Board grants to teach creative writing in non-profits. She continues to facilitate creative writing and memoir in community spaces such as healing and spiritual centers, schools, libraries, prisons, and literary arts organizations. Wendy is the executive editor of Saint Paul Almanac and a member of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, and she was the Artist-in-Residence at Westminster Presbyterian Church 2023-2024. www.wendybrownbaez.com