You reached this page through the archive. Click here to return to the archive.

Note: This article is over a year old and information contained in it may no longer be accurate. Please use the contact information in the lower-left corner to verify any information in this article.

Northfield Women Poets to read on Wednesday, April 25, at St. Olaf

kb
April 23, 2001

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? Northfield Women Poets will read from their personal works on Wednesday, April 25, at St. Olaf College.

The reading, free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Heritage Room of Buntrock Commons.

Northfield Women Poets are a group of 10-12 women who meet weekly to critique and encourage each other?s work for publication. The meetings include writing workshops and readings.

Co-founded more than 30 years ago by Karen Herseth Wee and Ricki Kolbl Nelson, Northfield Women Poets represent a variety of ages, professions and cultural backgrounds bound by their love of prose.

Current members include Marie Gery, Beverly Voldseth, Mary Easter, Susan Thurston Hamerski, Joanne Makela, Linda Amundson, Andrea Een, Sigi Leonhard and Wee and Nelson.

Northfield Women Poets won a State Arts Board Grant in 1984 to publish their first anthology, Absorb the Grass. The group has since written two additional volumes, A Rich Salt Place and Tremors, Vibrations: Enough to Change the World. Each member also has published a chapbook (a small book of poems).

St. Olaf College prepares students to become responsible citizens of the world, fostering development of mind, body and spirit. A four-year, coeducational liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), St. Olaf has a student enrollment of 2,950 and a full-time faculty complement of approximately 300. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in percentage of students who study abroad.

Contact Michael Cooper at 507-786-3315 or cooperm@stolaf.edu.