Sheila Packa Poetry Blog: A blog about poetry: figurative language, spirit, intertextual explorations, patterns, punctuation, forms, great writers, quotes, and journey notes.
Images are a crucial component of poems.
“Images are not concepts. They do not withdraw into their meaning. Indeed, they tend to go beyond their meaning….If the image that is present does not make us think of one that is absent, if an image does not determine an abundance—an explosion of unusual images, then there is no imagination.”
Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher, 1884-1962l
Join Us for Moving Words
Thursday, April 25, from 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Aitkin Public Library
110 1st Ave NE
Aitkin, MN 56431
Sheila Packa and Kao Kalia Yang
https://thefriends.org/event/moving-words-writers-across-minnesota-aitkin/
The program will last approximately an hour and a half, with a conversation and/or reading followed by
a question-and-answer session.
Listen to the writers on these radio conversations:
https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2023/04/17/duluth-poet-sheila-packa-shares-her-favorite-poetry
Good news! My Geology, a poetry video, has been accepted for the exhibition this year: MINE: What is Ours in the Wake of Extraction
Exhibition Opening: University of Delaware, Mechanical Hall Gallery September 4th, 2024 - December 13, 2024
MINE draws parallels between geographic locations with a shared extractive impact.
The songs were performed by soprano Jennifer Lien while Ms Durrwachter played the piano, and the music reflected the landscape of Lake Superior and the waters and landscape of northern Minnesota.
