From IDS reports
Rapper, writer and spoken word artist Dessa will present workshops and lectures Friday at the Collins LLC. She’ll speak on prose writing at 10 a.m. and on poetry at 1:30 p.m., with a lunch and discussion between the two workshops.
Dessa came to fame as a member of Minnesota indie hip hop collective Doomtree, which she joined in the mid-2000s.
Since then, she’s appeared on seven Doomtree releases and released three solo albums. Her most recent solo record, “Parts of Speech,” came out in 2013.
She has also published two short collections of written work, including the 2013 poetry collection “A Pound of Steam,” and has contributed to Minneapolis’s Star Tribune and several literary journals, according to a press release.
Dessa’s literary work has extended to literary monologues in live settings, including performances opening for Saul Williams and Amanda Palmer. She’s also toured as part of the live show adaptation of the podcast “Welcome to Night Vale.”
She also regularly speaks at universities and gave a lecture on sociological and ethical questions in hip-hop at the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Forum, according to the release.
Jack Evans
