Dec 4
Poetry Night with Susan Jaret McKinstry and Leslie Schultz
Carls in the Twin Cities
are invited to
Poetry Night
with Susan Jaret McKinstry and Leslie Schultz
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Please join us for a reading with Susan Jaret McKinstry and Leslie Schultz, celebrating the publication of Susan's new poetry chapbook, Tumblehome and Leslie's poetry book Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making.
Time
7:00 p.m.
Location
Magers & Quinn
3038 Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Cost
The book talk is free but registration is requested. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during and after the event, and Susan will be signing following the program.
Tumblehome is structured like a musical fugue, moving in three sections from the west coast of Ireland to London, then to Galway, and back to a small town in Minnesota as it interweaves and deepens themes of home, time and loss. The poems contemplate vast human history and the small space of our lives in distinct voices and episodes, with closely-observed objects – coins, stones, birds, water – reappearing and echoing to create a
harmonic poetic travelogue.
Susan Jaret McKinstry has published poems in Plain Songs I & II, Crosswinds, Willows Wept, Red Wing Poet Artist Collaboration, and The Journal of General Internal Medicine. A professor of 19th century British literature, theory, and creative writing at Carleton, she yearns for the sea, and has been lucky to teach in Ireland, Scotland, Norway, London, Florence, and Moscow.
Leslie Schultz is the author of three collections of poetry, Still Life with Poppies: Elegies; Cloud Song; and Concertina. Her poetry has appeared most recently or is forthcoming in Able Muse, Blue Unicorn, Light, Mezzo Cammin, North Dakota Quarterly, Poet Lore, Poetic Strokes Anthology, Third Wednesday, The Madison Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Orchards, and The Wayfarer; in the sidewalks of Northfield. She has three times had winning poems in the Maria W. Faust sonnet contest and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2017).
Questions?
Contact Alumni Relations via email or 800-729-2586.