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contact name: Leigh Herrick
email: PrairieRecords@msn.com

Related Organizations:
http://drumsandart.com
http://www.womensdrumcenter.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=40208&PID=497296
http://www.howlingdogpress.com

(PARTIAL LISTING)
Conga Apprenticeship with Wallace Hill and the Drums and Art Progressive Ensemble, Drums and Art, Ivy Building, Minneapolis
2009 Feminine Endings: Frame Drum Workship (teaching), The Women's Drum Center, Saint Paul, MN
2009 CD Release, single, Monocle Man
2009 Advanced Frame Drum Apprenticeship with Layne Redmond, Brunswick, Maine
2004 CD Release, Just War
2004 CLA Mentor,University of Minnesota
2000-2004 Conga Apprenticeship with Chico Perez and Wallace Hill, Cultural Center of Minnesota, Minneapolis
2000 and 2004 Advanced Frame Drum Apprenticeship with Layne Redmond and Tommy Brunjes, Michigan and New York
1999 Guest Speaker University of Minnesota, St. Paul, "The Role of the Poet in Public Leadership"
1998 Guest Speaker, Red Wing Highschool 9th Grade English, Red Wing, MN, "Why Poetry?"
1998 Teaching Volunteer, Red Wing Alternative High School, Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN
1988 Bachelor of Arts, University of Minnesota, English Literature and French (Summa Cum Laude, PBK)

2008 Poem of Distinction, Writecorner Press
2007 Pushcart Prize Nominee
2004 Finalist, two poems, 11th Annual Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Contest, Kalliope: a journal of women's literature & art
2003 Poetry / Honorable Mention Awards, Minneapolis Housing Fund
2001 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant
2001 Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
1999 Pushcart Prize Nominee
1998 Residency Fellowship, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing, MN

(PARTIAL LISTING)
2009, OctoMom!, Group Show, Patrick's Cabaret, Minneapolis
2008 Cost of Freedom Presentation and Poetry Reading, University Club, Summit, Saint Paul, hosted by Carol Connolly
2008 Spirit in the House: PRESENTE! (Solo Poetry Show )
2008 Featured Reader, Prism Poetry Series, Coffee Gallery, Open Book, Minneapolis, hosted by Terrence Folz
2008 Cost of Freedom Presentation and Poetry Reading, 1666 Coffman Condominium, Saint Paul
2007 Publication reading: Cost of Freedom, Mayday Books, Minneapolis
2007 Publication reading: Cost of Freedom, Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, Minneapolis
2007 Tellabration!, Open Book, Minneapolis
2007 Fringe Festival, Pillsbury Theater, Minneapolis
2006 Guest Poet, Minneapolis Public Schools with Interim Superintendent and Mayor of Minneapolis, in collaboration with the Minneapolis Housing Fund, Minneapolis for Home Sweet Home Again Traveling Exhibit
2005 Mapps Coffee House, Minneapolis, "Bringing R-Evolution to Poetry: Roque Dalton et al for the 9/11 World"
2005 Amazon Bookstore, Minneapolis, "A Sweet-Voiced Flower Is My Drum: The Ancient and Contemporary Relationship between Poetry, Drumming and Women"
2003 "Womyn Power Rising Up," Babylon Art Gallery, Minneapolis
2003 Reading/Fundraiser for the Iraqi Children's Relief Fund, Babylon Art Gallery, Minneapolis
2003 "Raising Our Voices: Anti-War Art, Poetry and Info," MN Spoken Word Association, Seven Bridges World Market, Minneapolis
2003 University of Minnesota, Nolte Center, (MN) Poets Against the War: Anti-War/Peace Poetry
2002 Featured Reader, Greenway Parade of Arts, hosted by Tom Cassidy, Minneapolis
2001 Featured Reader, Lecture Hall, Johnson VT
2001 Featured Reader, "Roll Your Own Blackout," Rogue Buddha Gallery, Minneapolis, hosted by Laura Winton
2000 Guest Musician, Frame Drumming, Lyndale United Church of Christ, Minneapolis
2000 Featured Reader, SASE "About Town" Reading Series, Blue Moon Cafe, Minneapolis, hosted by Roseann Lloyd

Cost of Freedom, Howling Dog Press, 2007

2007 Gallery 13, Minneapolis, "Just War" (section) in collaboration with visual artist Branko Gulin during his one-man show
2005 Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, in collaboration with the Minneapolis Housing Fund, Home Sweet Home Again, A Traveling Exhibit of Visual Art and Poetry on a Theme of Home
2004 Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, The Art of War, in collaboration with visual artist Branko Gulin ("Just War")

PARTIAL LISTING

REVIEWS:
"Hinge Theory: Poetry's Event Horizon," in JACKET

POETRY:

Mad Hatter's Review (forthcoming)
OMEGA 7 (forthcoming)
The Jivin' Ladybug
Xcp: Streetnotes
Visions-International
Unlikely Stories (2007 Pushcart Prize Nomination)
New Verse News
Howling Dog Press
Kalliope
Margie
Poets Against the War
The Texas Observer
ArtWord Quarterly
Karawane

Country of Citizenship:
United States

Active Place:
North America, cyber space

Minnesota County:
Hennepin

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