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