by Kelly Travis | May 10, 2022 | Read Poetry
The Second Longest Day of the Year by Jean Prokott Review by Kelly Travis A woman walks into the world, collects semicolons, dollhouses, coffins, statistics about billionaires, an IUD, a 507-year-old Icelandic mollusk named Ming, and women taking long in the bathroom,...
by Tracy Rittmueller | Jan 30, 2020 | Read Poetry
Read Poetry Central Minnesota, a One Book, Four Counties community poetry read program kicks off its inaugural year by encouraging everyone in Sherburne, Benton, Stearns, and Wright counties to read Bodaga: poems by Su Hwang. Read Poetry Central Minnesota is a program...
by Tracy Rittmueller | Jan 26, 2020 | Read Poetry
For more than a month, I have been reading the finalist books for Lyricality’s “Read Poetry Central Minnesota 2020” program. In each book, I experienced a feeling too powerful to express, something beyond words. Now I’ve just finished reading Ed Bok Lee’s...
by Tracy Rittmueller | Jan 18, 2020 | Read Poetry
Getting into Poetry This past week, immersed in the poems of Su Hwang’s Bodega, I felt suspended between immeasurable beauty and ineffable sadness, as if I had fallen into the presence of an unconquerable, fire-breathing truth. Poetry challenges me to see and accept...
by Tracy Rittmueller | Jan 10, 2020 | Read Poetry
I’ve just finished reading Kris Bigalk’s (pronounced BEE-yahk) second full-length collection, Enough. My hands love the sensation of holding this deliciously smooth, light book. The cover image—bare toes approaching water—infers that this is a volume you might want to...
by Tracy Rittmueller | Jan 3, 2020 | Read Poetry
What a privilege it is to slip into a new decade accompanied by the careful (and care-filled) words of the 5 finalist books for “Read Poetry Central Minnesota.” I’ve just finished reading Joyce Sutphen’s Carrying Water to the Field: New and...
