Wang Ping was born in Shanghai and came to USA in 1986. She is the founder and director of the Kinship of Rivers project, a five-year project that builds a sense of kinship among the people who live along the Mississippi and Yangtze Rivers through exchanging gifts of art, poetry, stories, music, dance and […]
Jan Pettit’s poetry has appeared (or will soon appear) in The National Poetry Review, Water-Stone Review, Great River Review, South Dakota Review, Rosebud Magazine, Tusculum Review, Natural Bridge, and in Nebraska Presence, an anthology of poetry by native Nebraskans. Her nonfiction work was recently featured on the MnArtists.org audio segment, You Are Hear. Jan is a graduate of […]
Linda Beeman is one of the co-winners of the Winter in Variations: Bill Holm Poetry Contest with her collection “Hibernal Songs.” She is an award-winning poet living on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Her first chapbook, Wallace, Idaho, is a lyric tribute to her gritty hometown. Beeman’s poems have appeared in Raven Chronicles andWindfall and […]
Deborah DeNicola is the winner of the 2013 Carol Bly Short Story Contest with her story “Come Alone to the Alone.” Deborah wears several writing hats as a poet, fiction writer, memoirist, critic, essayist, editor and blogger. Her most recent publication is a full collection of poetry, Original Human, from WordTech Communications Press and her spiritual […]
Martin Willitts Jr is one of the co-winners of the Winter in Variations: Bill Holm Poetry Contest with his collection “Lake Effect; How To Know It is Cold Enough For Winter; Snow Fall; Kambara.” Martin Willitts Jr is a Quaker, organic gardener, and retired Librarian living in Syracuse, New York. He was nominated for 6 […]
Wang Ping is a Chinese-American author and academic. Her writings center around the past and present of China, and the experiences of Chinese immigrants who live in America. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Macalester, and teaches courses in creative writing and poetry. Wang has been the recipient of awards from […]
Mud Nests, Bee Dances and Hibernation: Wilderness in the City Winter Writing Tour Let’s Dance. Bees do it: The Honey Bee Dance is a form of communication: an actual language that’s a body dance. Bee dances, and there are many, provide distance and direction to other bees which are communicated with the intent of recruiting others workers in […]
Wilderness in the City: Summer Writing Tour: Ellet’s Ramblings & Thoreau’s Notes “The Minnesota River is always a bender. Long may she wave.” A reporter aboard the Franklin Steele, 1861 Ellet’s journey in 1852 was arranged by a New York newspaper whose interest was in a series of articles with a sensationalist telling […]
Wilderness in the City: Summer Writing Tour: Ellet’s Ramblings & Thoreau’s Notes What Ellet wrote in 1852, Thoreau in 1861, and what we write in Summer 2013 July 27th Saturday 10 to 12 Noon- Bring a notebook, pen and camera…
Wilderness in the City: Spring Writing Tour with Mark Herwig With the long anticipated respite from spring rains, the trail was a tad soggy with a few mudslides, but manageable.