“The collection asks readers to consider what happens when the machinery of occupation turns inward, and what forms of resistance become possible…” We're excited to reveal the cover of American Occupation, a forthcoming document of Minnesota’s resistance to ICE. buff.ly/YiZHxPN

Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE

Two days after Alex Pretti was murdered by federal ICE agents in Minneapolis, on January 24, 2026, we published a “Letter From Minnesota” from the poet Dobby Gibson. As I wrote at the time of the f…

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Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE, via​ @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/heres-the-co...

Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE

Two days after Alex Pretti was murdered by federal ICE agents in Minneapolis, on January 24, 2026, we published a “Letter From Minnesota” from the poet Dobby Gibson. As I wrote at the time of the f…

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“I couldn’t finish the article about short attention spans either, armed feds in the Wendy’s, Saturn slowly losing its rings.” A poem by Dobby Gibson. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Apocalypso”

“I couldn’t finish the article about / short attention spans either, / armed feds in the Wendy’s, / Saturn slowly losing its rings.”

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Much deserved recognition for @sunyungshin.bsky.social ! www.twincities.com/2026/04/08/s...

Sun Yung Shin awarded top Minnesota literary honor

Sun Yung Shin is the winner of the 2026 Kay Sexton Award, one of the highest honors in the state’s literary community.

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A perceptive assessment of Dean Young and his new book CREATURE FEATURE by Jeff Gordinier in the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

A Poet Who Embraced Recklessness, in Surreal Swerves and Zigzags

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Keep going. Save yourself.

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🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth

. . . as big, gorgeous, playful, and dangerous as the poems inside. We’re so grateful to Copper Canyon Press and Dean’s long-time designer Phil Kovacevich for bringing this vision to life. Anyone who knew Dean knows he’d be thrilled.” —Dobby Gibson Preorder your copy at: bit.ly/3MqL535

Forthcoming April 7: CREATURE FEATURE by DEAN YOUNG For this #coverfeature, Dobby Gibson and Matt Hart, friends of DEAN YOUNG, take us behind the cover art of YOUNG'S first posthumous collection:

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. 📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Care. Our first duty. "The government calls us “paid agitators” and “paid protesters” because it can’t allow for the idea that citizens will care for one another for neither money nor politics." @dobbygibson.bsky.social via @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/letter-from-...

Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America?

Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minne…

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Over the next few weeks @literaryhub.bsky.social will be publishing letters from Minnesotans about ICE’s authoritarian occupation of their home. First up today is poet Dobby Gibson. lithub.com/letter-from-...

Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America?

Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minne…

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