Minton SparksRane Arroyo
Spoken-Word Poetry

Spoken-word artist Minton Sparks blends music, story-telling and poetry, to the delight of audiences nationwide. Her CDs include This Dress, Middlin Sisters, and her most recent release, Sin Sick, which legendary folk singer John Prine calls “just what the doctor ordered." In 2006, Sparks’s unique brand of poetry and music was featured nationally on NPR’s All Things Considered and internationally on the BBC’s Bob Harris Show, along with the syndicated Woodsongs’ Old Time Radio Hour. Minton Sparks lives in Nashville with her husband and two children. She will be accompanied at Hope College by virtuoso guitarist John Jackson, who recently finished a stint on Broadway with the Twyla Tharp musical production of Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin’.