Emilio DeGrazia


Work that is thoughtful, probing, honest, carefully crafted and beautiful. He has a gift for telling stories that both inform and move the heart. His poetry, essays and fiction encourage readers and students to generate and sustain their own creative impulses.

He and his wife Monica have co-edited Twenty-Six Minnesota Writers (1995) and Thirty-Three Minnesota Poets (2000). His award-winning fiction includes Enemy Country (1984), Billy Brazil (1991), Seventeen Grams of Soul (1995) , Burying the Tree, his first collection of essays, and his most recent novel A Canticle for Bread and Stones. When he is not playing pick-up basketball somewhere in town, he tries to cope with his gently madness of hoarding used books.

John Black


Artist statement coming soon…

Greta Ingvalson


My art has been a continuing process. I began photographing and working in my father’s darkroom at the age of 10. My vision has been shaped through the enjoyment of books, theater, music, history, mythology and the arts. My digital works include many layers and different photographs to make a final image. Some take months to complete. I am often surprised that my thoughts and feelings have coalesced into a visual expression of exactly how I view a particular topic.

Carl Homstad


For the poems inspired by the alphabet of ancient Ireland and other Celtic lands, iln this alphabet, every letter represents a tree, a time of year and an aspect of being. The illustrations by Carl Homstad are inspired by the solace and peace found in the mute sodality of trees.

Footnotes


An acoustic string band playing primarily Norwegian-American old time dance tunes that were popular at house parties, barn dances, and "bowery" dances around the turn of the century and into the first few decades of the 1900s. They were formed in large part to carry on a tradition of monthly old time dances in a rustic two-room schoolhouse in Highlandville, Iowa, where area residents have been gathering for years. The dance tunes originate from descendants of the area's early fiddlers and are performed in the Norwegian-American style.

Barb Keith


A self-taught mosaic artist, Barbara Keith has published two children's books illustrated with stained glass mosaics. The Girls and Boys of Mother Goose is a collection of traditional nursery rhymes with charming mosaics that bring familiar Mother Goose characters to life. and also introduces an enchanting assortment of new friends! Mosaic Zoo: An ABC Book is a treasury of delightful alphabet animals. A former elementary teacher, her books combine her passions for the ancient art of mosaics while enhancing cognitive and literary skills in children.

Jack Lucas


In  these pages readers will find a jazz lover's irresistible inclination to play with words and a verbal virtuosity with verse forms. "The space of a Lucas poem is normally small," says editors Monica and Emilio DeGrazia, "but it is also normally complex, well-kept, and meaningful as it teases us to see the world in ways at once old and new."

33 Minnesota Poets


Emilio DeGrazia and his wife Monica have co-edited Twenty-Six Minnesota Writers (1995) and Thirty-Three Minnesota Poets (2000). His award-winning fiction includes Enemy Country (1984), Billy Brazil (1991), Seventeen Grams of Soul (1995) , Burying the Tree, his first collection of essays, and his most recent novel A Canticle for Bread and Stones.

When he is not playing pick-up basketball somewhere in town, he tries to cope with his gently madness of hoarding used books.

Geraldine Schwarz

Our Natural Treasure: Genevieve Kroshus


“Her voice, hinting of her  Norwegian ancestry and a little scratchy with age, rises clearly from these pages and pictures. Genevieve has lots of stories. Genevieve always makes us laugh.”

– Author Geraldine Schwarz