Sheila Packa, poet laureate of Duluth, MN, write poems about migrations of birds, immigrants, and women moving through violence. She brings us into and over the borders of love, fear, and the wilderness. Connie Wanek, author of On Speaking Terms, says "The meditations and assembled memories in Cloud Birds dissolve layer after layer of the defenses we erect against eternal human fears and longings. Images from the North, from the Iron Range--bears and birches, roads that had "no end, only yearning," set the poems in place and in motion. Often the poems do not end in a period: instead they...
Sheila Packa, poet laureate of Duluth, MN, write poems about migrations of birds, immigrants, and women moving through violence. She brings us into an...
