Three dynamic young Duluth poets will read from their work at 7 pm on April 9, at the Grand Marais Public Library. The poets are: Yvonne Rutford, Ryan Vine, and Julie Gard.
Yvonne Rutford’s poetry collection, This Fragile Nest,
was published in 2009. She lives northeast of Duluth with her husband and writes poetry and prose inspired by the landscape of northern Minnesota. Her work is known for its humor and heart, and for her devotion to the environment. Yvonne earned her MFA in Writing at Goddard College and teaches at the University of Wisconsin- Superior.
Ryan Vine is the author of Distant
Engines
(Backwaters Press, 2006), winner of a 2005 Weldon Kees Award. His work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines. The Minneapolis Star
Tribune
regularly runs Ryan’s criticism. He has a new work forthcoming in The
American Poetry Review.
He teaches at the College of St. Scholastica.
Julie Gard has published short fiction and prose poetry in a number of literary journals and anthologies. Her chapbook Obscura: The Daguerreotype
Series
was published by Finishing Line Press in 2007, and she has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Arrowhead Regional Artists Council, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She works with found objects—old photographs and thrift shop discards—to create text that speaks her version of truth. Gard teaches at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College in Superior.
The reading is presented jointly by Spirit Lake Poetry Series, Grand Marais Public Library and WTIP North Shore Community Radio. It’s free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.
Support for the reading is provided by the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council through an appropriation from the Minnesota Legislature, and from the Arrowhead Library System with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008, which dedicated funding to preserve Minnesota’s arts and cultural heritage.
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