May 1
Poetry Night with Susan Jaret McKinstry and Leslie Schultz
Carls in Duluth
are invited to Poetry Night
with Professor Susan Jaret McKinstry P'14 and Leslie Schultz P'20
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Join us as Zenith Bookstore welcomes Carleton professor and poet Susan Jaret McKinstry and author and poet Leslie Schultz. Susan will share her new chapbook Tumblehome and Leslie will read from her latest book Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making. They will discuss their books, poetry, and answer questions from attendees. Books will be available for purchase at the event.
Time
7:00 p.m.
Location
Zenith Bookstore
318 N. Central Ave.
Duluth, MN 55807
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.
Named for a bold pink pigment that fades over time, Leslie Schultz’s vibrant collection Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making is an ekphrastic extravaganza as well as a meditation on age, time, and beauty. Schultz’s refreshing curiosity is evident as she engages with individual works of art and with larger issues of looking, curation, and display.
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.