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...
by Tracy Rittmueller | Jan 1, 2020 | Read Poetry
Is “Read Poetry Central Minnesota 2020″ a competition? Good grief—no! Lyricality is working is to honor all poets and all forms of poetry, not to make hierarchies and create ranks. We have no intention in calling one of these five fine books, selected by Paige...
