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This week, the Reading Minnesota blog is featuring Connie Colwell Miller. Read a poem from her collection, Bodywearers, below. I-94 Westbound through Minnesota On a roundbale, a red-tailed hawk, and farther down, fields of corn, waxy eartips bent earthward in breeze. Behind me, a swayback barn and a silo with glint on its head. Later, [...]
At night, I see the dead in my dreams. Rotting, stinking, they become the stuff of root and earth. By day, I see the dead on the roads. Raccoons, housecats, chunks of deer, bloated or stiff with rigor mortis. One day, these corpses remind me, your mother will die. One day, too, your father. You [...]
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 [...]
Make no mistake, Bodywearers, Connie Colwell Miller’s first collection of poetry, is about the body. And though it might be easy to say that this poetry of the body is poetry of sex, it would be both underestimating and strangely appropriate, because though some of these poems deal overtly with the act of sex — [...]
Connie Colwell Miller will be reading from her poetry collection, Bodywearers. Location: Twin Rivers Center for the Arts, 523 South 2nd Street, Mankato, MN Date: March 3rd Time: 6:30
by Jennifer Svendsen Delaney Bodywearers, by Connie Colwell Miller, is divided into two sections. The first offers raw, visceral poems that describe the essence of being wedded to a body, to motherhood and a man. They are so intimate we can almost feel Miller’s breath upon our neck as we read. The second addresses the [...]
This Minnesota poet’s collection is perfect to read as we transition from the glitz of summer to the more mundane days of autumn because these poems illuminate those ordinary moments which, taken together, compose a life. “I think we have forgotten/ why we wear our bodies” is how the collection begins, and subsequent poems remind [...]
“If we were angels, bodiless and pure, we would sing for all eternity. Connie Colwell Miller’s poems wonder how the body, with its baggy wardrobe of needs, could ever permit such music. But the body is a means. And Miller’s poems are less about leaving the flesh behind and more about discovering how the flaws [...]
Both Bodywearers, by Connie Colwell Miller, and The Prostitutes of Post Office Street, by Frank F. Carden, have been released this month on Amazon’s new Kindle ebook platform.
Earlier this month, SOL books’ first two titles: Bodywearers, by Connie Colwell Miller, and The Prostitutes of Post Office Street, by Frank F. Carden, were released as ebooks. Currently they are available in Palm and PDF formats. In coming months, Kindle and Microsoft Readers versions will also be released, with print copies being available by [...]
