Join  us as we welcome members of City Cast’s broadcast team and Cafe Marguerite’s Poet-In-Residence, Sara Dovre Wudali and Artist-in-Residence, C. Fausto Cabrera for an opportunity to connect over coffee! First 25 patrons will receive a $10 gift card to apply to their purchase, courtesy of City Cast.

Listen to City Cast episode featuring Cafe Owner Melissa Borgmann and Stephanie March of the Salt Cure Recovery Fund as they talk about the how the Twin Cities food community rallied together in the wake of Operation Metro Surge.

C. Fausto Cabrera is an artist and writer whose work has appeared in Denver Quarterly and The Antioch Review. He co-authored The Parameters of Our Cage with photographer Alec Soth, reviewed by The New Yorker. His Inherited Scars series has been exhibited at the Weisman Art Museum and the Cargill Gallery, and his pastel work has been featured on the cover of The Washington Post Magazine. Cabrera’s art practice, which transforms trauma into handmade paper and visual narrative, was highlighted in Kim Johnson’s documentary series, Sustainability. His work embodies Outlaw Excellence where survival, imagination, and beauty collide. You can learn more and see his work at http://www.cfausto.art/ 

Sara Dovre Wudali is a writer and editor living in Saint Paul. She was a Poetry Fellow in the Loft Mentor Series and has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. Her poems and essays have been published or are forthcoming in literary journals and anthologies such as North American Review, Poet Lore, Blood Tree Literature, Hairstreak Butterfly Review, and under the gum tree. She is the co-editor of the chapbook, All You Need is One Avocado, and co-author of the chapbook, The Sweet. She is a founding member of the poetry collective The Poetry Bus, a mentor with the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop, and the poet-in-residence at Café Marguerite. Dovre Wudali grew up on a farm in southwest Minnesota, where the wind blows through the cottonwoods and box elder bugs rule. You can learn more and read her work at saradovrewudali.com.

Photo Credit: C. Fausto Cabrera