Jan 23
Poetry Night with Susan Jaret McKinstry and Leslie Schultz
Carls in Wisconsin
are invited to
Poetry Night
with Susan Jaret McKinstry P'14 and Leslie Schultz P'20
Thursday, January 23, 2025
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
5:00 p.m.
Location
The Bookstore
801 West College Avenue
Appleton, WI 54914
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 P'14 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 P'20 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.