My Minnesota

Today is Palm Sunday and next Sunday is Easter, for those who celebrate. Yesterday was the third (inter)national  No Kings protest. (The Be...

 Friday of the coming week is April Fool’s Day. There is no truth to the rumor that it was named after those who believe this time of year i...

This morning we found ourselves wondering, since Valentine’s is about love and warm hearts and flowers, how it ended up occurring in a very ...

We were saddened today to note the death of Peter Ostroushko . We once saw him perform live at the University of Minnesota Morris campus dur...

 At daybreak today, as I rehung the bird feeders, I noticed a doe whitetail deer under the pear tree. Her bright Summer pelage almost glowed...

If I had started practicing my fly casting back in April, today would have been a great day for practicing casting into the wind. I hadn...

Of note: Today is Eeyore the Donkey 's 149th birthday. [UPDATE] Today is  Joy Harjo 's birthday. Yesterday was Gary Snyder ...

It / they started yesterday, or thereabouts. We can't tell if we're hearing  gray treefrogs, Spring peepers, Boreal chorus frogs, wo...

On this World Poetry Day , as much of the world copes with a deadly virus pandemic, almost all of the world's governments and corporatio...

Last night we saw and heard Joan Baez perform the song " Joe Hill ." It was one of two Phil Ochs songs in her set, the other was ...

This morning began peacefully and beautiful, filled with the misty, drifting ground fog that makes everything haunted and romantic at the sa...

This is day three of National Poetry Month. The third of thirty things we can do to celebrate is "Sign up for Teach This Poem , a weekl...

The yard is full of juncos, just in time for tomorrow's snow storm. I think it's time to swap out the hummingbird/woodpecker nectar ...

For the past several years, I've been struggling with the question(s) of form(s) in poetry and genre in literature. I've been doing ...

The Mesabi Daily News web site this morning has a "Breaking News" banner that " U.S. Steel to announce 700 layoffs at Minn...

According to a number of recent reports , Bob Dylan, in an interview for AARP magazine, said that "if I had to do it all over again, ...