Hearst Center for the Arts
Cedar Falls, Iowa
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Myrna Sandvik
Myrna Sandvik is the author of the poetry collection, R.F.D. Iowa (Ice Cube Press), a series of poems that capture the changing Iowa landscape. Her work has also been published in North American Review and Lyrical Iowa. Sandvik also has been a longtime instructor of adult creative writing classes at the Hearst Center for the Arts.
Th., Aug. 26: Myrna Sandvik, author of R.F.D. Iowa
Th., Sept. 30: Jeffrey S. Copeland, author of Olivia’s Story
Th., Oct. 28: Harley McIlrath, author of Possum Trot
Th., Nov. 18: Larry Baker, author of A Good Man
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Poetry by Kimberly Groninga
$7.95
Kimberly
Groninga makes a splendid debut in her new chapbook of poetry Other Things that Grow. In this work,
we learn to perceive the world with a more care and with a more precise lens.
Groninga views common objects--the barrel of a flute—common experiences—falling
asleep—and common places—a tree in her backyard-- with unusual detail and
insight. Groninga approaches her world from the angle of a fine sculptor to
reveal the true essence of what we take for granted in the environment around
us.
--Mary Swander,
Poet Laureate of the State of Iowa, author of The Girls on the Roof.
Kimberly Groninga’s debut collection, Other Things that
Grow, is like a constellation of stars, winking bright and hard in a winter
sky. Her scintillating poems often orbit around the organic, the natural and
quick: aphids riding “tiny helicopters” from a cottonwood tree, a lover like a
beetle “grasping you with appendages,” a “whodunit ladybug red / like zooming
copper,” a child “who waves like a pennant, ripples and snaps / like a flag.”
Groninga looks our bright and hard lives dead in the eye and comes away with
sharply observed truths to help us all understand deeply our own worlds. Brava,
Kim.
-- Vince Gotera, author of Fighting Kite and Ghost Wars
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