For over two years, three local poets—Becky Boling, D. E. (Doug) Green, and Libby Falk Jones—have been practicing J.D. McClatchy’s exercise, “writing between the lines,” in which each of us builds a poem from another poem, line by line. The original line can serve in any number of ways – image, sound, association, subject, word. […]

ATTENTION ODYSSEY FANS! The Society for Classical Studies has declared October Odyssey Month. To celebrate, the Northfield Arts Guild Literary Arts Committee, in collaboration with Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges, is sponsoring a Poetry and Flash Fiction Odyssey Response Competition. Poets and writers since the ancient world have composed their own takes on Homer’s epic. Examples from our own time include Cavafi's Ithaka and Atwood's Siren […]