This delightful book is a sampling of the poetry of the people of the Linden Hills area of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Linden Hills sits between two Minneapolis lakes, Calhoun to the north and Harriet to the east. It is a kind of village within a city and it is the home of these poets, many of whom have loved the place for decades and others who are more recent immigrants. The introduction is by Doug Wilhide, Poet laureate of Linden Hills.

Between The Lakes

The Poets of Linden Hills

Trolley Car Press

Clarence Jonk is not a household name, even for the most devoted fans of Midwest-based American writing. But Jonk, who grew up on a farm near Raymond, MN in the early 1900s, is an individual worth knowing and a writer worth reading. A Long Shout: Selected Writings of Clarence Jonk, a new collection of his work, reveals why. In 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Jonk and a friend tried to sail a rudderless houseboat, the Betsy-Nell, down the Mississippi from St. Paul. They put into the river in October and made it only to LaCrosse, WI before being iced in for the winter. But the story Jonk wrote about his adventure, River Journey, has become a kind of cult classic of life on the River. Published in 1964 and again in 2004, it is Jonk s main claim to fame, but not his only one. A Long Shout offers selections of Jonk s work, most of them previously unpublished. There are excerpts from River Journey and the sequel, River Journey II, which include odd characters and extraordinary stories of life on the Mississippi during the Depression. Remember, Pa? is an anthology of tales about growing up on a farm in western Minnesota as seen through the eyes of a young boy. Crescent Moon is a sequence of love letters Jonk wrote to his wife, Virginia Dunn, before, during and after they got married. Tales of the Pirate Mice is a strange experiment in children s literature that includes pictures of dead mice dressed in costumes to illustrate verse narratives. Black Lace is a titillating collection of poems that scandalized residents of Stillwater, MN. Jonk is one of the great, unrecognized storytellers in American letters, a kind of Huck Finn meets Little House on the Prairie, with a bit of Robert Frost thrown in. A Long Shout -- at long last -- introduces him to modern readers. A Long Shout: Selected Writings of Clarence Jonk Edited by Doug Wihide Biographical note by Lee Pederson ISBN 978-0-9777915-1-4 Paperback, 5.5X8.5 280 pages, including 16 pages of photographs Trolley Car Press 3019 West 43rd Street Minneapolis, MN 55410 612-926-3939 wilhide@skypoint.com

A Long Shout

Clarence Jonk

A dying midwest factory town is uplifted when a former Notre Dame football star is hired as the local plant manager. Soon he is offered not just the job of saving Made Right Clothing but the far more daunting task of saving the town. As it turns out, this may be the one challenge for which his checkered career has prepared him. Laced with keen insights into contemporary issues - the power of community, pitfalls of the global economy, the skewed importance of sports in the lives of people who desperately need a victory. Third and Long is a moving portrait of a vanishing America hanging by a thread, with perhaps just enough time remaining for one last miraculous play. ** Winner of the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Award for Popular Fiction from the Independent Book Publishers Association

Third and Long

Literature & Fiction

Katz, Bob

United States

In 2007, the Southwest Journal began publishing a quarterly spread of poems - the Southwest Journal Poetry Project. The feature has attracted over 1000 submissions from nearly 250 poets. We've published - in print and online - the best of these, along with illustrations by an artist who signs his name WASCO."Seasons" collects the best of the best of the first three years of the Poetry Project. Here are poems set in Minnesota's four seasons, love poems for all seasons, poems about children, whimsical notions, unusual characters, and the transitions we experience as we travel life's pathways. These are the thoughts (and images) of people who live in and around the lakes and neighborhoods of southwest Minneapolis.Everyone who enjoys this beautiful city - and anyone who likes good poetry - will find kindred spirits in this collection. Welcome....

Seasons - Poems From The Southwest Journal Poetry Project

Doug Wilhide

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