WHAT MATTERS TO ME IS STORY

WHAT MATTERS TO ME IS STORY It’s been six months since my memoir in verse, Septuagenarian, debuted.  I think about this as another Minnesota poet, and another, and another has released another book of poems.  I think about how different our voices are. How different our techniques. I am less …

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LOVE IMAGINED: synopsis read at two Book Award Events

MINNESOTA BOOK AWARDS THE LOFT LITERARY CENTER MARCH 20, 2015 HOSMER LIBRARY MARCH 23, 2015 (36th and 4th Avenue by Richard Green School, previously Central High School) (Aunt Lucille Wilson Shivers lived on 39th and 4th Avenue. Her husband, Spencer Shiver, owned the barber shop on the corner of 38th …

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