Poetry on the Wall 2015
The Crossing Arts Alliance will host Poetry on the Wall 2015 Reading and Reception featuring the poetry of twenty-one selected regional poets and a presentation by award-winning author Norita Dittberner-Jax, Saturday, February 21 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Franklin Art Center Auditorium, 1001 Kingwood Street Brainerd. Selected poems will be read and […]
Publishing and Marketing Class Series
Publishing and Marketing Class Series The Crossing Arts presents Publishing and Marketing Class Series, Tuesday evenings in February from 6-8 p.m. in room #127 at the Franklin Art Center, 1001 Kingwood Street Brainerd. Register by calling 833-0416 or on-line at www.crossingarts.org. Fee is $25 per class. Attendees may sign up for one or more of […]
“Creation, Blessings, and the World of Books” presented by Krista Rolfzen Soukup
“Creation, Blessings, and the World of Books,” will be presented by Krista Rolfzen Soukup as part of the Lifelong Learning Forums January 11, 2015 – 9:30 a.m. in Chapel Hall at Nisswa Church of the Cross, Nisswa, Minnesota. Do you have a passion for books? Love to Write? Feel lessened each day spent without pen or […]
Poetry on the Wall 2015 Call for Submissions
The Crossing Arts Alliance (TCAA) invites those interested to submit up to three poems for Poetry on the Wall 2015. Poets, consider this opportunity to exhibit your work and read during the reception. Submission deadline 12:00 p.m. on January 9, 2015. Poets of any age must have resided for at least four months of the […]
JD March
JD March is the author of the ‘Devil’s Own’ western series. Adventurer and journalist JD March has tracked leopards in the Masai Mara, skied competitively, ridden to hounds, paddled dug-out canoes on the Indian Ocean, and is an accomplished sailor. JD has lived in a series of unusual homes including a haunted 12th century house […]
Play off the Page review of Poet Robert Hass
This Post written by Mary Aalgaard and originally published on her Play off the Page Blog Quote of the Day: Figure out what is in you and how to make it sing. Robert Hass as he spoke to an audience at the Central Lakes College in Brainerd, MN. We were a mixed group, some college students, […]
Beyond the Bricks Project
BEHIND THE BRICKS, a collaboration between the Crossing Arts Alliance and the Crow Wing County Jail, was designed to bring access to the arts as a vehicle for communication to a traditionally underserved audience. Instruction to develop artistic skills in inmates of Crow Wing County Jail began in the fall of 2013, where inmates began […]
How To Do A Successful Booksigning by Author L.J. Martin
To some authors, they’re about as much fun as a root canal. Booksignings, after the initial ego gratification of a first book, are a unique form of torture where one sits astride a cold metal chair in a corner of a musty book store while passersby presume you’re registering voters or offering petitions to “save […]
Western Writers of America 2014 National Convention
Krista Rolfzen Soukup, owner of Blue Cottage Agency, presented ‘Steps to Successful Book Marketing’ along with New York Times best-selling author H. Alan Day, co-author with his sister Sandra Day O’Connor of Lazy B, and Lynn Wiese Sneyd, founder of LWS Literary Services, at the Western Writers of America National convention in Sacramento, California on […]
Blue Cottage Agency welcomes Student Intern Tori Davis
Blue Cottage Agency welcomes University of Arizona student intern Tori Davis. Tori is a junior at the University of Arizona studying business and psychology where she is an Eller College of Management Ambassador. She is an honor graduate of Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. She previously interned with Urban Affairs Tucson based out […]