By Laurie Hertzel
Hey, St. Paul poets: You have one month to submit a poem to the annual St. Paul sidewalk poetry competition. If you have a short poem (10 lines maximum) that you would like to see immortalized in concrete (and stepped upon by walkers), check out www.stpaul.gov/poetry. The entry fee is $3, and up to five poets will be chosen to have their poetry pressed into wet cement in neighborhoods all around the city. (If you haven't noticed, this has been going on for a while now. There are poems all over the place; you only have to look down.)
The deadline is March 28 at midnight. Cut yourself a new nib for that quill pen, uncork that bottle of ink, and get to work.
Also ...
•Marlin Bree of Shoreview has won a first-place award in the 2010 Boating Writers International Writing competition. Bree won for his magazine narrative about sailors attempting to rescue the excursion boat the Grampa Woo during a storm on Lake Superior. His story, "The Last Battle of the Grampa Woo," appeared in the May-June 2009 issue of The Ensign magazine.
•"Men With Their Hands," a novel about a young deaf gay man, has been published by Rebel Satori Press. It was written by Raymond Luczak of Minneapolis.
•A paperback edition of "Wanda Gag: A Life of Art and Stories," by Karen Nelson Hoyle, has been published by the University of Minnesota Press. Hoyle is a professor and curator of the Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Minnesota.
•"Ethics for Jessica: Meditations on Living," by Gayle Graham Yates, has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers of Eugene, Ore. Yates is a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota.
