Category Archives: poetry

CONVERSATION WITH A POET – CONSTANCE BREWER

Today’s return to One Minnesota Crone’s Conversation with a Poet series celebrates the newly released poetry collection Astronomy Lessons by Constance Brewer (Gyroscope Press, $14.99 paperback).   Constance Brewer and I have some good history. We met in 2009 as volunteer editors at Every Day Poets, a poetry website that published a new poem each day. When that site wentContinue reading “CONVERSATION WITH A POET – CONSTANCE BREWER”

Hello, December

I love the month of December. Most of it is about anticipation – for holidays of all sorts, time with friends or family, traditional foods we indulge in only during this time of year. But it is the quieter side of December that gets my attention. The hush of snow falling. The early dark. HowContinue reading “Hello, December”

A Conversation with Poet Rose Mary Boehm

Life Stuff: Poems by Rose Mary Boehm, Kelsay Books, 2023. Paperback, 156 pages. $23 Life Stuff is a collection of poems that examines events from poet Rose Mary Boehm’s entire life – her childhood in WWII Germany, parenting her children in London, surviving an operation for a brain tumor while living in Madrid, making aContinue reading “A Conversation with Poet Rose Mary Boehm”

CONVERSATION WITH POET SARAH DICKENSON SNYDER

When I finished reading Sarah Dickenson Snyder’s latest book, Now These Three Remain, I could see she was a writer who saw the world’s savaergy alongside its sacredness and could put that into poems that grab readers by the throat.