"Shelter in Place" Available Now
Powerful work, infused with beauty and grace from one of Minnesota’s talented poets. Rob Hardy is a treasure.
—Cathy Wurzer, Morning Edition Host, Minnesota Public Radio, and Founder of the End in Mind Project
In March 2020, as the pandemic closed in, poet Rob Hardy seized the opportunity to slow down, take daily walks in the Carleton College Arboretum, and write poetry. Sixteen of the twenty-one poems in his new chapbook from Finishing Line Press, Shelter in Place, were written during the first six months of the pandemic. Inspired by those daily walks in the prairie and woods, and tracking the progress of the seasons, the collection captures both the anxieties and the unexpected wonders of a challenging year.
Former Winona Poet Laureate Emilio DeGrazia writes: “In this lovely small collection of poems, dread is the catalyst for new life, and absence is metamorphosed into the new small miracles present all around.”
Poems in the collection have been published in Third Wednesday, Willows Wept Review, and featured in the Red Wing Arts Poet-Artist Collaboration and the End in Mind Pandemic Poetry Project. The final poem in the collection is being set as a choral piece by composer Alex Freeman, and will receive its world premier in Turku, Finland, in November 2022.
Rob Hardy is the author of the full-length poetry collection Domestication (Shipwreckt Books 2017) and the chapbook The Collecting Jar, winner of the 2005 Grayson Books Poetry Chapbook Competition. His writing, both poetry and prose, has appeared in Rattle, New England Review, Ploughshares, North Dakota Quarterly, West Branch, New Voices, Water-Stone Review, and several anthologies, including 33 Minnesota Poets (Nodin Press 2000) and Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureates on Social Justice (Michigan State University Press 2019). He has served as the first Poet Laureate of Northfield, Minnesota, since 2016.
Finishing Line Press is a poetry publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky. In addition to its Chapbook Series, it also publishes the New Women’s Voices Series and sponsors the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition. Other Minnesota poets published by Finishing Line Press include Diane LeBanc, Mary Moore Easter, Margaret Hasse, Bill Meissner, James Lenfestey, and Deborah Cooper.
The chapbook can be purchased for $14.99 (+ $2.99 shipping) directly from Finishing Line Press:
https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/shelter-in-place-by-rob-hardy/
Former Winona Poet Laureate Emilio DeGrazia writes: “In this lovely small collection of poems, dread is the catalyst for new life, and absence is metamorphosed into the new small miracles present all around.”
Poems in the collection have been published in Third Wednesday, Willows Wept Review, and featured in the Red Wing Arts Poet-Artist Collaboration and the End in Mind Pandemic Poetry Project. The final poem in the collection is being set as a choral piece by composer Alex Freeman, and will receive its world premier in Turku, Finland, in November 2022.
Rob Hardy is the author of the full-length poetry collection Domestication (Shipwreckt Books 2017) and the chapbook The Collecting Jar, winner of the 2005 Grayson Books Poetry Chapbook Competition. His writing, both poetry and prose, has appeared in Rattle, New England Review, Ploughshares, North Dakota Quarterly, West Branch, New Voices, Water-Stone Review, and several anthologies, including 33 Minnesota Poets (Nodin Press 2000) and Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureates on Social Justice (Michigan State University Press 2019). He has served as the first Poet Laureate of Northfield, Minnesota, since 2016.
Finishing Line Press is a poetry publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky. In addition to its Chapbook Series, it also publishes the New Women’s Voices Series and sponsors the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition. Other Minnesota poets published by Finishing Line Press include Diane LeBanc, Mary Moore Easter, Margaret Hasse, Bill Meissner, James Lenfestey, and Deborah Cooper.
The chapbook can be purchased for $14.99 (+ $2.99 shipping) directly from Finishing Line Press:
https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/shelter-in-place-by-rob-hardy/
Finishing Line Press
P.O.Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324
P.O.Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324
Copies of the chapbook will also be available at Content Bookstore in Northfield. The poet will give a reading and book signing at Content on Thursday, April 21, at 7pm.
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