Surface Displacements - Packa, Sheila
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"Surface Displacements is a book of poems from the three-way continental divide in Minnesota by the former Duluth poet laureate, Sheila Packa. The narrative poems are stories of migration about people who arrive or are displaced in the landscape of lakes, rivers, and large open pit mining operations. The geological location of the three-way Divide connects three watersheds that connect to the Mississippi River, the Great Lakes, and Hudson Bay. Prose poems, ekphrastic poems, and narrative poems are rooted in both historical and contemporary Minnesota and Finland"--

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"Surface Displacements is a book of poems from the three-way continental divide in Minnesota by the former Duluth poet laureate, Sheila Packa. The narrative poems are stories of migration about people who arrive or are displaced in the landscape of lakes, rivers, and large open pit mining operations. The geological location of the three-way Divide connects three watersheds that connect to the Mississippi River, the Great Lakes, and Hudson Bay. Prose poems, ekphrastic poems, and narrative poems are rooted in both historical and contemporary Minnesota and Finland"--
Autorenporträt
Sheila Packa is a poet and writer living in Duluth, Minnesota. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and has taught creative writing and composition at Lake Superior College. She leads poetry and creative writing workshops in community settings and often performs her work in music and media installations with her creative partner Kathy McTavish. She received a 2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative award for poetry, a fellowship from Finlandia Foundation National in 2016, two Loft McKnight Artist Fellowship awards (in poetry and in prose), a Loft Mentor award, and fellowships and grants from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council. She has four books of poetry and edited the book Migrations, an anthology of Lake Superior writers. She served as Duluth's Poet Laureate in 2010-2012. Helsinki composer Olli Kortekangas used four of her poems for Migrations, a cantata for mezzosoprano and male voice choir, which was premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra in 2016. The recording Sibelius: Kullervo Kortekangas: Migrations: Minnesota Orchestra: Vänskä is available through BIS Records. For more information, go to www.sheilapacka.com.