Join us on Thursday, January 29, 2026 for our first poetry event of the new year!

Arrow Broken Poetry Collectives is honored to welcome Deborah Keenan as our featured artist.

Deborah Keenan is the author of eleven collections of
poetry, and a book of writing ideas, "from tiger to prayer," which will be out in its fourth edition sometime in 2026. Winner of two Bush Foundation Grants, an NEA Fellowship, and the
Minnesota Book Award for "Willow Room, Green Door:
New and Selected Poems," and a full-time professor in
the Hamline University MALS and MFA graduate
programs for thirty years, Deborah is now retired, though still
teaching and working on student manuscripts. Her newest
collection, "The Saint of Everything," is in its second
printing. Mom of four, grandmother of four, she lives with
her husband near the confluence of the Minnesota and
Mississippi rivers.

The free event will begin at 7:00 p.m. and will be held at the Brookside Bar & Grill.

Open Mic will begin at 8:10 p.m. Everyone is invited to share their work and will be allotted three minutes to perform.