Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems<\/em> by Joyce Sutphen (University of Nebraska Press, 2019)<\/a><\/strong> January 3, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enough<\/em> by Kris Bigalk (NYQ Books, 2019)<\/a><\/strong> January 10, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bodega<\/em>\u00a0by Su Hwang (Milkweed Editions, 2019)<\/a> <\/strong>January 17, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mitochondrial Night<\/em>\u00a0by Ed Bok Lee (Coffee House Press, 2019<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>January 24, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Note: the order is random and means nothing)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Imagine hosting a party for a diverse group of people. In trying to figure out what to serve, you might come up with five good ideas. Then you would consider those ideas in light of who is coming to the party, what they might enjoy, the mood and theme you want to set, how the kitchen you\u2019re serving from is equipped, and your budget. You might wish you could serve all five meals, but you don\u2019t have the space, the bank account, the time, or the personnel to prepare all that. Your guests don\u2019t have the stomach for gorging on five meals at once. So you narrow it down to something realistic, manageable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Between now and the launch of \u201cRead Poetry Central Minnesota 2020,\u201d we are considering our limitations and our guests (the readers we hope to engage), in order to come up with a book and discussion guide suited for this occasion. Our program funding and resource allow us to focus on one book, not five. While we\u2019re narrowing down, we are keenly aware that every one of these five books is a winner\u2014and that\u2019s why we\u2019re telling you about them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We introduce each book, with the goal of showing its merit. We hope you will decide to add a few of these finalist books\u2014maybe even all of them\u2014to your reading list. In the end, we will not select the \u201cbest\u201d book, but rather, a book to set a mood and theme that will work comfortably for this particular party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s about focus. We aim to generate meaningful discussion among central Minnesota readers, and to do that, it makes sense that we all discuss one book. We can\u2019t do a good job of discussing anything, if we\u2019re trying to discuss everything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe some readers who participate in this program will so enjoy the reading and discussion, they will start their own poetry book group. They might read and discuss all five of these finalist books over the course of a year. Maybe you\u2019ll be the person to implement that idea. Whatever you decide to do, whatever you decide to read, we\u2019d love to hear how Minnesota poets and their books are impacting your lives. Feel free to contact us <\/a>with your thoughts, ideas, dreams, and requests. We’re listening…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is \u201cRead Poetry Central Minnesota 2020″ a competition? Good grief\u2014no! Lyricality is working is to honor all poets and all forms of poetry, not to make hierarchies and create ranks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lyricality.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CMAB_logo4color-email.jpeg\")
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