A new poetry book, 20 years in the making
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Author and MPR host and newscaster Emily Bright’s newest collection of poems took 20 years to make. It paints pictures of spring and asks the question: What seeds are we planting for the future?
The most recent poem in the collection was written as a response to the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis. Bright said although this collection ranges over the course of many years, a thread emerged.
“It goes from New England where I grew up, there's some poems set in Ghana, where I lived briefly, and a lot in the Midwest,” she said. “And a lot of these poems were about connections across divides, with other people, our connections with the environment.”
Bright said she hopes others will share her poems.
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“There's no greater compliment,” she said. “If it makes you stop and look at the world around you and appreciate it, I can't ask for better than that.”
The book is out Tuesday. Cover art is by Minnesota artist Evan Abrahamson and published by Duluth-based Holy Cow! Press. Bright will be doing multiple readings of her book throughout the state. You can find those times here.
The first reading is at Next Chapter Books in St. Paul at 6 p.m on April 14.
Listen to the conversation and hear some of Bright’s poetry by clicking the player above.
