Join WAAC at the 2018 Northern Spark Festival: Commonality. Perfect, right?

Artist Daniel McCarthy Clifford combed through Minneapolis Central Library’s catalogs to find books banned in US prisons and jails. Now he’s opened a brand new library section: The Section of Disapproved Books.

Come to the Northern Spark festival to read the books that people in prison can’t and participate in two very special events:

On Friday June 15th: a panel discussion on causes and consequences of knowledge censorship in correctional facilities, with Leiloni Ivey, poet and ironworker; Rebecca Shlafer of the Minnesota Prison Doula Project; Ingrid Nuttall of We Are All Criminals, and Daniel himself.

On Saturday June 16th: poetry reading by Shanquita Pruitt, Leiloni Ivey, Randi Ojibwe Ikwe Jenkins, Sade Robinson and Pamela Scharmer–all graduates of the Women’s Writing Program at Ramsey County Correctional Facility led by Marcie Rendon and Diego Vazquez Jr.