/mdva/assets/2025-04-18-poetry_tcm1066-678616.pdfThe Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) invites your participation and contributions to an upcoming event: “Many Fronts: Poetry and Memorials at the Capitol Mall.” This event will provide participants an opportunity to reflect on the experiences and perspectives of service members, Veterans, and civilians in how we understand the nature of military conflicts, and how the public remembers and interprets the experience of war and service through memorials, monuments, and ekphrastic poetry. The program will take place on the Minnesota State Capitol Mall grounds and will include an interactive writing activity. Participants will have the opportunity to share their stories and experiences. Facilitators will guide participants through the writing activity and there will be time for group discussion about monuments and memorials on the Minnesota State Capitol Mall.

Participants will meet in the Veterans Service Building (20 West 12th St., Saint Paul 55155) and then walk to the Lower Capitol Mall, where most of the program will occur. Most of this event will take place outdoors, weather permitting. In case of inclement weather, the program will be conducted indoors at the Veterans Service Building.

Free to attend, but registration is required. No previous writing experience is necessary – all are welcome to attend and, if willing, share their stories.

Registration and more information available here.