Welcome
Welcome to the new Laurel Poetry Collective Web site. The site has been redesigned to make it easier for you to stay informed about Laurel news and events, and easier to purchase all of our publications. We’d also like to familiarize you with our voices by offering a “Poem of the Week.” So, check back often for new poems and event listings.
NEW FROM LAUREL
The Quiet Eye:
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Nature
The Laurel Poetry Collective welcomes you to this new collection of poems, addressing the broad topic of “nature” from the broadest of perspectives.
Heraclitus said, “Nature loves to hide.” So, as poets, we have sent out a small search party, one that has scouted a surprising variety of pathways to nature’s keep. With a quiet eye, observations were brought into clarity, turned this way and that, and brought home to this book. The environment and its peris sit shoulder to shoulder with the beautiful and the spiritual. Hope, most of all, is at the center of these efforts.
Celebrate National Poetry Month!
Join us at the Bell Museum for
a special reading
Thursday, April 29, 7 p.m.
Bell Museum of Natural History
University of Minnesota Campus
10 Church St. SE., Minneapolis
612-626-9660
Laurel members Eileen O’Toole and Mary Junge, along with special guest poet Terri Ford will celebrate National Poetry Month at the Bell Museum by reading from the Collective’s newest book: The Quiet Eye: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Nature. We look forward to seeing you there.
Special thanks to The Bell Museum of Natural History for sponsoring this event.
About Laurel
The Laurel Poetry Collective is a gathering of Twin Cities poets and graphic artists, dedicated to publishing beautiful, affordable books, chapbooks, and broadsides. Established in 2002, the Collective’s goal was to produce full-length books and broadsides by each of its 20 poet members, as well as annual anthologies. That goal was met in 2007, and celebrated with a reading at the Minneapolis Public Library, as part of their “Talk of the Stacks” series.
The Collective continues to sell its publications through this Web site. We also continue to share our voices through readings. For more information on our work, or to schedule a reading, please contact us.
Attention book clubs!
Make a book from the Laurel Collective the next on your club’s reading list. In addition to offering a book club discount, our members are happy to meet with your group to talk about their work. Why wonder what the author intended, when you can ask? For additional information, or to schedule a specific writer for your meeting, follow the links on our “Contact” page.
Click above to order “The Quiet Eye” at Amazon.com. Cost is $12.