The Birchbark Books Reading Series will continue its 7th season on April 20. To celebrate National Poetry Month we will feature poets Julia Klatt Singer, Norita Dittberner-Jax, Dara Syrkin, and Greg Watson.

Curated by Michael Kiesow Moore and Ardie Medina, the Birchbark Books Reading Series features new, emerging, and established writers quarterly September through May.

Julia Klatt Singer writes poems, is the poet in residence at Grace Nursery School, and a rostered artist for Compas. She’s author of three books of poetry, her most recent, Untranslatable, and co-author of Twelve Branches: Stories from St. Paul. She’s co-written over a dozen songs with composers Tim Takach and Jocelyn Hagen.

Norita Dittberner-Jax is an award-winning poet whose work has been widely published in small press. Her collections of poetry include, Stopping For Breath, (Nodin Press); The Watch (Whistling Shade Press); Longing For Home (Pudding House Press; and What They Always Were (New Rivers Press). She is one of the poets in the anthology, 33 Minnesota Poets as well as To Sing Along the Way, Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Days to the Present. She is one of the poetry editors for Red Bird Chapbooks.

Dara Syrkin counts her lucky stars every day. One piece of great good fortune is to have work included in the Nodin Poetry Anthology. Dara’s poetry revolves around ancestors, blue roads, encounters with strangers, and her respect for seeds.

Greg Watson’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. His most recent collections are What Music Remains, and All the World at Once: New and Selected Poems, both published by Nodin Press.