Tag: poetry
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February 26, 2009 12:13 PM EST --
Minnesota author Bill Holm has died :
Holm, who was also am English professor at Southwest Minnesota State University, was 65. [...] Holm wrote at least 10 books of essays and poetry, including "Boxelder . . .
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October 27, 2009 01:58 PM EDT --
I'm excited about an upcoming poetry presentation I'll be giving on November 9th. It's at the Women's Club of Minneapolis, in Minnesota. There will be dance, skits, music, and poetry. . . .
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June 01, 2007 04:15 PM EDT --
Garden guides, garden guides, garden guides.....
Okay, so maybe I'm starting to do a little summer reading, too, when I'm not obsessing over the state of my backyard. A recent road trip from Arizona . . .
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July 25, 2006 04:33 PM EDT --
After a very long break from the genre of poetry I've recently found myself immersed in stanzas this summer. I've been devouring collections by Nicole Blackman, Greg Hewett and now Hart Crane. . . .
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September 25, 2008 01:12 AM EDT --
That's the way it sounds to me
My hand dragging in the water
As you bow her violin in key
We laugh and drink Vichy water
My hand dragging in the water
The contrails in the sky
We laugh . . .
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March 21, 2008 02:48 PM EDT --
Many of James Wright's finest poems were written in Minnesota, and one of his best is "A Blessing." In it, he describes a moment when he stopped to commune with two horses in a field "just . . .
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February 12, 2009 01:47 AM EST --
Circling in on You
I grew up believing the world was round.
When you believe something long enough, it's true.
The truth is, you were mine to be found.
I circled the . . .
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June 08, 2008 10:03 AM EDT --
There's a branch of literary criticism that studies the role that readers play in determining or completing the literary work. You can talk, for instance, about how Jane Austen's awareness the . . .
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March 28, 2007 06:56 PM EDT --
Reported by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio
March 28, 2007
Jim Perlman's Holy Cow! Press is celebrating 30 years in business. It is one of the oldest presses in . . .
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May 18, 2007 04:06 PM EDT --
Yesterday I went to the Duluth Art Institute for the opening reception of an exhibit of paintings by Ann Jenkins. Glorious, wonderful paintings.
But I also got to talk . . .
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October 10, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio August 15, 2007 Listen to feature audio
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/08/01/louisjenkins/
Louis Jenkins is a poet who lives in Duluth. . . .
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July 31, 2009 11:36 AM EDT --
I love this poem by David Budbill. Surprising, but gently insightful about the costs of living in 21st century, to our spiritual selves.
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March 06, 2009 07:03 PM EST --
The Terza Rima . There's no predetermined rhythm for this, but the rhyme is strict. The rhyme helps the narrator remember the words. Looks like we'll need to read these poems . . .
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November 28, 2008 11:42 PM EST --
There's a lot of chatter about the merits of poetry over on this article by Time Heals. It prompts me to ask:
What's your favorite Gather poem? Or, if you can't think in . . .
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March 23, 2007 05:46 PM EDT --
Reported by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio
March 23, 2007
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Poetry readers in Duluth are celebrating the appearance of a new book. It's a collection of poems by . . .
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September 11, 2006 04:35 PM EDT --
Tuesday, September 12
Garrison Keillor reads "Where I Am With You" a poem by Ryan Vine on Writer's Almanac on Tuesday, September 12.
Ryan Vine is assistant professor . . .
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February 13, 2007 01:33 PM EST --
Sunday night in a small coffee house in what the Twin Cities people call “Greater Minnesota,” a group of approximately 100 people crowded around a small stage to listen to poet Robert . . .
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February 16, 2009 12:45 AM EST --
Changing a Flat
I grew up believing the world was flat
Have you ever lived in southwestern Minnesota?
You changed my flat world and even more than that
You believed in me, despite . . .
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July 08, 2009 01:28 PM EDT --
I don't know why I put off writing this monthly column. I'd already chosen the form last month! This is a form in which I haven't been successful yet, but plan to change that by month's end. . . .
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August 25, 2006 12:16 PM EDT --
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Lake Superior Writers announces the Inaugural Reading for the first Duluth Poet Laureate, Barton Sutter, to be held at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct 21 in the Weber Music Hall at the University . . .
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