Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Doors open 6:30 pm - complimentary pizza, wine, refreshments
Reading starts aprx 7 pm
followed by audience conversation
$12 per ticket - audience limit is 15 VIP seats on our Back Porch.
This performance will be outside under our covered patio. In case of inclement weather, we will be inside. Books by the authors will be for sale. Poetry Playhouse gallery and bookstore will be open.
We pair up two poets to share their latest work (this portion is recorded for our YouTube archive available free to the public) and follow with a conversation. This is a time for you to ask your own questions and to get to know the authors better as they share their artistic process, their writing, and what they’re up to. A personal approach - and of course, books by the authors are also for sale, and for signing.
This is an in-person event with limited seating. Price of event includes pizza from local Placitas Pizza, wine, and assorted beverages. (We order one pizza with gluten free/cauliflower crust, and have veggie pizza options).
Loren Niemi and Christine Mounts co-founded The American School of Storytelling, based in Minneapolis, MN. They offer on-line and in-person classes, workshops, and performances of poetry, spoken word, traditional, and personal stories.
https://americanschoolofstorytelling.com/
Loren Niemi: Poet and storyteller. Storytelling is my life’s work. From the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota to the Great Wall of China, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to PS 122 in NYC, and at Fringe Festivals across America, I’ve explored the power of narrative and the beauty of poetry to illuminate what it is to be human and why it matters.
I told my first formal story in First Gradeto the disapproval of Sister Mary Margaret and have been at it more or less nonstop since then. For the last 45 years I have been an innovative professional storyteller creating, collecting, coaching, directing, performing, producing, teaching and writing about stories - traditional and personal, funny, scary, erotic or poetic - to audiences of all ages in urban and rural settings. I tell the life I live frequently, artfully, and truthfully. https://www.lorenniemistories.com/
Christine Mounts is co-founder of The American School of Storytelling, based in Minneapoplis, MN. She is an IT professional by day and an aspiring author by night. Check out her blog here: My blog contains non-fiction, satire, travel logs, and poetry.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Doors open 6:30 pm - complimentary pizza, wine, refreshments
Reading starts aprx 7 pm
followed by audience conversation
$12 per ticket - audience limit is 15 VIP seats on our Back Porch.
This performance will be outside under our covered patio. In case of inclement weather, we will be inside. Books by the authors will be for sale. Poetry Playhouse gallery and bookstore will be open.
We pair up two poets to share their latest work (this portion is recorded for our YouTube archive available free to the public) and follow with a conversation. This is a time for you to ask your own questions and to get to know the authors better as they share their artistic process, their writing, and what they’re up to. A personal approach - and of course, books by the authors are also for sale, and for signing.
This is an in-person event with limited seating. Price of event includes pizza from local Placitas Pizza, wine, and assorted beverages. (We order one pizza with gluten free/cauliflower crust, and have veggie pizza options).
Loren Niemi and Christine Mounts co-founded The American School of Storytelling, based in Minneapolis, MN. They offer on-line and in-person classes, workshops, and performances of poetry, spoken word, traditional, and personal stories.
https://americanschoolofstorytelling.com/
Loren Niemi: Poet and storyteller. Storytelling is my life’s work. From the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota to the Great Wall of China, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to PS 122 in NYC, and at Fringe Festivals across America, I’ve explored the power of narrative and the beauty of poetry to illuminate what it is to be human and why it matters.
I told my first formal story in First Gradeto the disapproval of Sister Mary Margaret and have been at it more or less nonstop since then. For the last 45 years I have been an innovative professional storyteller creating, collecting, coaching, directing, performing, producing, teaching and writing about stories - traditional and personal, funny, scary, erotic or poetic - to audiences of all ages in urban and rural settings. I tell the life I live frequently, artfully, and truthfully. https://www.lorenniemistories.com/
Christine Mounts is co-founder of The American School of Storytelling, based in Minneapoplis, MN. She is an IT professional by day and an aspiring author by night. Check out her blog here: My blog contains non-fiction, satire, travel logs, and poetry.
