Sheila Packa

Migrations: Poetry & Prose for Life's Transitions Sheila Packa

Marc Notes: Includes indexes.; Features of the work of 75 Lake Superior area and northern Minnesota writers. Each poem or essay captures a moment of change, ranging from having a new baby to the death of a loved one. Some writers have written about aging, children growing up, illness, bird migration, leaving a relationship, moving through violence, and also actual migration, and moving back and forth from Minnesota to work in Antarctica.. Publisher Marketing: Migrations: Poetry & Prose for Life's Transitions features of the work over 70 Lake Superior area and northern Minnesota writers. The book is edited by Sheila Packa, Duluth Poet Laureate 2010-2012. Included are many accomplished writers (Connie Wanek, Ellie Schoenfeld, Deb Cooper, Gary Boelhower, Linda LeGarde Grover, Ryan Vine) and excellent new writers. Each writing captures a moment of change. You will love the strong and beautiful collection that shows we are all birds in a larger pattern of migration traveling back and forth from memory to new beginnings.