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The Writer's Almanac Posts Sutter's Poem, "Hoarfrost and Fog"

1/12/2015

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So many beautiful high-contrast and other worldly images captured in today's poem, "Hoarfrost and Fog," by Barton Sutter, SMSU alumnus, posted on The Writer's Almanac. 

And wonderful to be able to listen to Garrison Keillor read it over the website in our first class of Advanced Poetry Workshop today at SMSU. 

There's been a good run of SMSU-related poets posted recently on The Writer's Almanac: Barton Sutter, Philip Dacey and Stephen Dunn. 


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Barton Sutter's poem, "Static," on The Writer's Almanac

1/9/2015

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Great poem, entitled "Static," posted on The Writer's Almanac yesterday  by Barton Sutter, Southwest Minnesota State University graduate.

The speaker's voice in this poem captures that post-breakup ambivalence many of us have experienced--wistful and nostalgic for the good aspects of a past love but also clear-eyed about all the "static." I admire Bart's use of slant rhyme or off-rhyme couplets. The rhymes are a bit "off," not true rhymes, just as the couple almost clicked but not quite--too much static. Form and content work well in tandem here, something I focus on in my own poems and encourage my writing students to consider as well.

At SMSU, we're proud of Bart for many reasons, but especially because he is the only Minnesota author to win the Minnesota Book Award in three different categories: 

1992 for Fiction (My Father's War and Other Stories, Viking, 1991, U of MN 2000) 
1994 for Poetry (The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems, BOA Editions, 1993) 
1999 for Non-fiction (Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map, U of MN, 1998) 

Bart has a collection of haiku, Chester Creek Ravine, coming out this spring from Nodin Press. I love reading haiku and look forward to buying a copy of Bart's new book. 



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    I love to play with words. To capture moments on the page. To explore the physical and spiritual geography of what I call "fly-over country." I write from imagination, observation and my own experience of wandering in fly-over country--the literal, physical spaces of my life on the Minnesota prairie and the inner territory of the soul. 

    I teach writing at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota. I enjoy cooking and traveling with my husband Jim, reading, practicing yoga, playing tennis, biking, hiking and gardening.

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