Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Mary Moore Easter Season 2 Episode 25

In addition to the just-released From the Flutes of Our Bones
(Nodin Press) Mary Moore Easter is the author of three other
poetry books, The Body of the World (Minnesota Book Award in
Poetry Finalist, 2019), Walking from Origins, and the forthcoming
Free Papers: poems inspired by the testimony of Eliza Winston, a
Mississippi slave escaped to freedom in Minnesota in 1860 (2021).
She edited Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: poems in the wake of racial
injustice (Rain Taxi 2020).


In a long dance career in Minnesota and nationally, her awards
include a Bush Artist Fellowship in Choreography, and McKnight
Awards in Choreography and in Interdisciplinary Arts from
Intermedia Arts. She most recently performed as a dancer in Paula
Mann’s Invisible.


Her career as an independent dancer/choreographer and Founder and
Director of Carleton College’s dance program overlapped with
writing as a Cave Canem Fellow. She is a 2020 recipient of an
Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Easter holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence and an M.A. in Music for
Dancers from Goddard.