The Poetry Bus, a group of four poets traveling around Minnesota to share their work, will visit the Moorhead Public Library on April 5 for a poetry reading. The event will run 2-3:30 p.m. and feature Sara Dovre Wudali, Athena Kilegaard, Michael Kleber-Diggs, and Su Smallen Love. 

Dovre Wudali is a 1992 Cobber alumna "with a deep love of the English department."

Her poems and essays have been published in literary journals and anthologies such as "Barrelhouse," under the gum tree," "Blood Tree Literature," and the "Saint Paul Almanac." 

Much of her work is inspired by the people and landscapes of rural Minnesota. Dovre Wudali grew up on a farm in southwest Minnesota where, as she writes, wind blows through the cottonwoods and box elder bugs rule.

She is a recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board through a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage fund.

"The Poetry Bus seeks to bring live poetry performance to Greater Minnesota as a way to provide access to literary arts," she said. "For many people, their last interaction with poetry happened during high school when, to paraphrase Billy Collins, poetry was tied to a chair with rope and had confessions beat out of it. But poetry is a living, breathing art form that can provide solace or ignite action in a difficult world."