"Art on Foot" poster - including featured stories, poems, and artwork by Minnesota artists

Find locations of each of the featured pieces scattered throughout Siliverwood Park's trails as part of "Art on Foot" - a joint effort between the Three Rivers Park district and mnartists.org

Tim Nolan

Tim's poems: "Pine Cones," "Wind," "Meteor," and Mourning Doves"

Hillary Wentworth

Hillary contributed three flash fiction pieces for the project, "146.9 Volts," "Melanie," and "Afterimage"

Connie Wanek

Connie contributed three poems to the cell stop tour in Silverwood: "Pavement Ends," "Blackbirds at Dusk," and "Red Fox"

Lightsey Darst

Lightsey's poems for the park include:"Beautyberry," "Aria," and "Evidence"

Gary Dop (Photo by Jeff Hathaway)

Gary has four poems in in the park:"Bill Bitner at the Henry Doorly Zoo," "After the Tornado of ‘62, Indianola, Iowa," "Father, Child, Water," and "Minneapolis Snow"

Brian Beatty

Brian's stories for the "Poetry Cell Stop Tour" include: "Squirrels" and "Nuts"

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The Poetry Cell Stop Project is part of the park's new "Art on Foot" program, created with mnartists.org, which allows you to enjoy work from Minnesota artists and authors along the trails of Silverwood Park. Bring the family to the park on September 24 meet these artists in person during Field Trip, a day-long festival celebrating local arts in the park, with live music and theater, poet-led hikes with readings along the trails, and much more at the Field Trip festival, jointly presented with mnartists.org, on September 24.

Featured "Poetry Cell Stop Tour" poets and fiction writers are:

Brian Beatty's business card reads "Writer. Comedian. Dude with a beard." Which is entirely accurate. Brian's jokes, poems and stories have appeared in numerous print and online publications, includingConduit, The Evergreen Review, Guffaw, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, METRO, mnartists.org, The Quarterly, Rain Taxi, The Rake, Seventeen andYankee Pot Roast.Brian has performed his stand-up comedy and storytelling all over the Twin Cities, including atthe331 Club, Bedlam Theatre, Brave New Workshop, Bryant Lake Bowl, Club Jager, The Fitzgerald Theater, Nomad World Pub, Northrop Memorial Auditorium, The Ritz Theater, The Soap Factory, Walker Art Center and the Woman's Club of Minneapolis. Brian is the author of the not-suitable-for-wilderness humor chapbook DUCK!He also recently acted and performed music for the Ferrari McSpeedy production, "Once Upon a Time in the Suburbs," during the 2011 Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Gary Dop -- poet, playwright, professor, and comic -- lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three young daughters. His poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in North American Review, New Letters, Poetry Northwest, New York Quarterly, Rattle, Agni and the Poetry Foundation's American Life in Poetry, among others. Dop directs the Taproot Reading Series in Minneapolis' Elliot Park Neighborhood.

Tim Nolan lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Kate, and three teenagers, Elizabeth, Maeve, and Frank. Tim works as a lawyer at the McGrann Shea law firm in Minneapolis. His poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, Poetry East, and many other magazines. Garrison Keillor has read Tim's poems on The Writer's Almanac. His first book of poems, The Sound of It, was published by New Rivers Press in 2008, and was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in poetry.

Connie Wanek lives in Duluth, Minnesota. Her latest book, On Speaking Terms published by Copper Canyon Press, was a nominee for the 2011 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. She was named a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress by US Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser.

Hillary Wentworth studied creative writing at the University of New Hampshire, the Salt Institute, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where she received her MFA.Asarecent grand-prize winner of the miniStories competition, she was featured on mnartists.org. Her writing has alsoappeared in Black Warrior Review, caesura, and the Fourth River and is displayed in the current issue ofTwin Cities Metro. She is at work on a memoir.

Originally from Tallahassee, Lightsey Darst writes, dances, writes about dance, and teaches in Minneapolis. Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her book Find the Girl (Coffee House Press, 2010), won the 2011 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry, and her poems have been published in DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Spork, and others. She also hosts the writing salon "The Works". You can find her dance criticism in various journals and papers, including mnartists.org, Mpls-St Paul Magazine, and Cerise Press. She teaches at North Hennepin Community College and at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

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The artwork and cell stops for "Art on Foot" will remain active, on site in Silverwood park for at least a year.

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Silverwood Park
Poetry Cell Stop Tour - part of "Art on Foot"
Art Circles at Silverwood Park