Results for "Packa, Sheila"

For the preservation of wilderness and among those who search for home, these poems travel through mine pits and waterways vulnerable to environmental damage and climate change in Minnesota, where the Northern Continental Divide crosses the Laurentian Divide and creates three watersheds that flow in... Read More about Surface Displacements

Sheila Packa has received two Loft McKnight Fellowships, in both poetry and prose, and numerous other awards. She was Duluth's Poet Laureate of 2010-2012. According to Leah Rogne, PhD, of Minnesota State University in Mankato, "Sheila Packa's poetry is at once deeply personal and widely universal in... Read More about Night Train Red Dust: Poems of the Iron Range

Echo & Lightning, by Duluth Poet Laureate Sheila Packa, uses the metaphor of bird migration and myth to examine ways we relinquish the self. The poems examine the physical ecstatic and devastating experience of Leda, Eurydice, Mary Magdelene, Mary mother of Jesus, Lot's Wife, and the narrator of... Read More about Echo & Lightning

Sheila Packa, poet laureate of Duluth, MN, write poems about migrations of birds, immigrants, and women moving through violence. She brings us into and over the borders of love, fear, and the wilderness.... Read More about Cloud Birds

Migrations: Poetry & Prose for Life's Transitions features of the work over 70 Lake Superior area and northern Minnesota writers. The book is edited by Sheila Packa, Duluth Poet Laureate 2010-2012. Included are many accomplished writers (Connie Wanek, Ellie Schoenfeld, Deb Cooper, Gary Boelhower... Read More about Migrations: Poetry & Prose for Life's Transitions

According to an ancient Greek story, the god Chaos was the first to emerge at the creation of the universe. Soon after her came Gaia (Earth), Tartaros (the Underworld) and Eros (Love). In many versions, Chaos then gave birth to the Birds. From the primordial depths of time, from Chaos herself came t... Read More about Origin of Birds