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We could be spring cleaning, but we’d much rather hang out for a day, talking about books and eating a meal someone else has prepared. Join us! The books will be Daughters of the New Year and Nonfiction: A Novel.
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We’ll be at Northern Pines Retreat Center, just north of town at 20033 County 1, Park Rapids, Minnesota 56470. For complete details and registration materials, call the store, 218-237-2665. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Our fall retreats are a chance to get away for a relaxing weekend, talking about books with a great group of women and eating food someone else has prepared, all at a leisurely pace. We’ll all read the same three books. Our theme will be Finding Her Voice. Book titles will be announced later. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registration is now open for our Spring Retreat
The cost of the retreat is $50, plus books.
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A History of Half-Birds
Caroline Harper New
Back in June of 2023, we announced in our poetry column: “Caroline Harper New won the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry for her poetry collection, A History of Half-Birds, selected by Maggie Smith. New will receive $10,000 and her book will be published by Milkweed Editions in January 2024.”
Well, the time has come, and the book is available!
And it is magnificent.
Nature + science + poetry = Fabulous poems by Caroline Harper New
My own interests lean towards the humanities rather than the sciences, so I’m more surprised than anyone that I’m so taken with a book that has so many mentions of the word “Fieldnotes.”
The opening poem in A History of Half-Birds is called “The Elephant Mother”—a piece about a woman who chose to pursue birthing an elephant sanctuary (rather than the traditional birthing of human children) and from there, the stage is set, and the reader is treated to a collection of thoughtful poems that intertwine nature and humanity.
For a flavor of the poems in this collection, click here to read “Widdershins.”
Other recently released poetry collections that are worthy of your attention include:
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| Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems, A Graywolf Anthology |
Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes: Poems (Multiverse) | The Music Was Just Getting Good | How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems |
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Smoke on the Waterfront
Smoke on the Waterfront is a new cookbook based on the offerings of Northern Water Smokehaus in Duluth, Minnesota.
The cookbook is divided into seasons, with recipes appropriate for each. For example, the Spring section has lighter fare while Winter has recipes for brazing and roasting large cuts of meat. I love the handy way the cookbook breaks down recipes for home use.
The cookbook is very well rounded. In addition to covering smoking, it includes pasta sides, sandwiches, and bread. It includes everything you love about the Northern Water Smokehaus. If you know and love this place, the cookbook is not to be missed. And if you haven’t visited the Smokehaus yet, it may be your new hotspot. Check it out—and then use the cookbook to make the dishes you loved eating there.
And as a bonus, the book has been shortlisted for the Minnesota Book Awards in the general nonfiction category!
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