Postcard: March 18, 2019
Author Archives: Leslie Schultz
Writers Night E-Zine for March 1, 2019
On March 1, 2019, despite a heavy snowfall, thirty-five people gathered at Content Bookstore in Northfield, Minnesota for a reading centered on themes of “Reliance and Sustainability,” with special emphasis on climate change.
Hosted by Northfield Poet Laureate Rob Hardy, the evening dovetailed with City of Northfield emphasis on sustainability. Work was selected through blind-judging process. The program (poetry and prose) included work by Northfield writers Orick Petersen, Christine Kallman, Leslie Schultz, Becky Boling, Linne Jenson, D.E. Green, Steve McGown, Bruce Anderson, and Ricki Kolbl Nelson.
If you weren’t able to attend–or, like me, if you were there and would like read the work you enjoyed hearing–here is a link to the e-zine created by Rob Hardy.
Meanwhile, in this week when curtain walls of icicles have fallen all around the region, here are a few before- and after-photos from inside our house!
LESLIE
Postcard: March 11, 2019
Postcard: March 4, 2019
News Flash! MEZZO CAMMIN Publishes Two of My Poems, “Encased in Amber” and “A View from Vista Drive”
Nothing takes my mind off looming cabin fever like reading surprising new work, and so in this chilled time of the year I am especially grateful for something new to capture my attention. If you, too, feel this way, here is some good news–
The new issue of Mezzo Cammin: An Online Journal of Formalist Poetry by Women has been published. As usual, it is full of work that inspires me with its deftness and insight. In this issue, I especially enjoyed Barbara Crooker’s paean to some of the currently eclipsed arts that take up much of my time–baking, soup-making, working with yarns–called “Obsolence.”
Two of my own poems, a sonnet and a set of tercets, can also be found here. Both are drawn from an as-yet-unfinished collection of poems about mothers and daughters.
Happy reading! Leslie