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doors left open keys dangle like forks in the ignition a Polaroid of a man playing a piano rosary beads hang from the rear view mirror a wet handprint on the dashboard chip in the windshield looks like a cat’s eye an open black leather purse with a silver clasp a paper bag filled with [...]
And what better way to get things started with one of our authors, Scott R Welveart, being featured in a local paper. Here is a poem from his collection. Waiting to Meet Harrison Ford at the End of His Driveway If they stand on their tiptoes and weave their heads around the gate and trees, [...]
Sol Books has been featured on the Reading Minnesota blog, a forum for Minnesota based publishers and authors. In the near future, Connie Colwell Miller will appear on the blog.
“Here, images proceed on their own journey to some place off the map. Here, metaphor leaps and grabs at the wind. An occasion for drama, pyrotechnics and language that pops and starts, Welvaert’s road trip West makes us want to do as its young and desperate protagonists and take off our shoes “to feel the [...]
Connie Colwell Miller Reading Connie will be reading from her poetry collection, Bodywearers, as part of the Good Thunder Reading Series and Minnesota State University, Mankato. WHEN: Thursday, November 19th @ 7:30 WHERE: Minnesota State University, Mankato. Scott R. Welvaert and Connie Colwell Miller Reading Scott R. Welvaert will be reading from his recently released [...]
The characters in Scott Welvaert’s poems travel west, from Minnesota to Oregon, on a quest to reach the ocean before they die. No matter what began it, their journey enters the larger parade of American journeys, where landscape offers itself as a stage for ceremonies of escape, disappearance, forgiveness, rebirth. While the future “keeps the [...]
Scott R. Welvaert poetry collection, Pacific, is now available. Star-crossed lovers, David and Marti, set out to fulfill their dying wish: see the Pacific Ocean. They begin in Minnesota, where they meet at an AIDS clinic, and Pacific chronicles David and Marti’s journey through the Black Hills, past Devil’s Tower, and to Cannon Beach. Before [...]
The following thread is a question-and-answer session with Scott R. Welvaert, whose poetry collection, Pacific, was a SOL Books Poetry Series selection.
Congratulations go out to Scott R. Welveart, whose poetry collection, Pacific, was a SOL Books Poetry Series selection. From the judges: Pacific is a poetic mix of Rent and Romeo and Juliet. Two star-crossed lovers, David and Marti, set out to fulfill their dying wish: see the Pacific Ocean. They begin in Minnesota, where they meet at an AIDS clinic, and Pacific chronicles David [...]
