$12 advance / $15 at the door
7pm showtime
All Ages
Join us on Sunday February 16, 2020 for the Button Poetry @ Icehouse: Twin Cities Artist Showcase featuring performances by David Huss and the Headwaters, Michael Lee, Guante, K McClendon & Blythe Baird. Hosted by TaneshaNicole.
About the artists:
David Huss is a Minneapolis based singer-songwriter with a writing style rooted in Americana and folk and musical inspirations that range from Celtic classics to Paul Simon. In 2019 David recorded his first full length album - Intuition - and simultaneously formed his band 'The Headwaters'. The past year consisted of full band performances around the state of Minnesota, finishing the album, and honing the sound of the full band into the upbeat folk rock sound they have become known for. 'The Headwaters' are Lara Solveig on violin and harmony, Wesley Miller on percussion, Danny Gilles on keys and harmony, Noah Cameron on bass, and Hannah Eide on on French Horn.
Michael Lee is a Norwegian-American writer, youth worker, and organizer. He has received grants and scholarships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the LOFT Literary Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Winner of the Scotti Merrill Award for poetry from the Key West Literary Seminar, his poetry has appeared in Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel, and Best New Poets 2018 among others. Michael Lee works, lives, writes, organizes, and dreams in North Minneapolis, spending his free time reading books and working in his garden.
Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre is an MC, two-time National Poetry Slam champion, activist and educator. His work explores the relationships between identity, power, and resistance, and has been featured on Upworthy, Welcome to Night Vale, Everyday Feminism, MSNBC, the Huffington Post, and beyond. Garnering over ten million views online, Guante has also performed live at the United Nations, given a TedxTalk, and presented at countless colleges, universities, and conferences.
Blythe Baird is a poet, youth educator, and actress. Her work has been featured by GLAMOUR, The Huffington Post, NEDA, EverydayFeminism, TEDx, Mic, and more. In 2016, she was recognized as a finalist for the EduZine Global Young Achiever Award. In 2017, she won the ADCAN short film award in Los Angeles and took first place in the Art With Impact competition. She graduated from Hamline University in 2018 with dual degrees in Creative Writing and Women’s Studies. She lives in Minneapolis and is working on her next book.
K McClendon uses they/them pronouns and is a fat, black, queer survivor from the Midwest who is currently a junior at Hamline University where they study creative writing. They focus on writing works that protest oppression and encourage self-adoration. They represented the Twin Cities at Rustbelt in summer of 2018 & 2019 and will be represented the Twin Cities at the Individual World Poetry Slam the same years. Their poem Protest was published in the 2018 True Art Speaks anthology, Featured in Err Magazine vol. 40 and 2019 spring edition of Blacklist journal.