Johnson, Linnea

AUGURY is Linnea Johnson's second collection of poems. Her first collection, THE CHICAGO HOME, is the first winner of the Alice James Books Beatrice Hawley Award, first published in 1986, then republished in 2007 by Alice James Books (Farmington, Maine). She is also a watercolorist, photographer, and papermaker, essayist, fiction writer, political activist, and sometime performance artist. Her reading of a cycle of poems in play form, Swedish Christmas, is available as a CD. She grew up in Chicago and loves it still. Spring usually finds her on the Platte River in Nebraska among migrating Sand...