Connie Wanek
Who is Connie Wanek
Connie Wanek (born June 1, 1952) is an American poet.
Life
She was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In 1989, she moved with her family to Duluth, Minnesota. She now divides her time between Minnesota and New Mexico.Her work appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, and Missouri Review.She has published four books of poetry, one book of short prose, and served as co-editor (with Joyce Sutphen and Thom Tammaro) of the comprehensive historical anthology of Minnesota women poets, called To Sing Along the Way (New Rivers Press, 2006). Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States (2004–2006), named her a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress for 2...
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Connie Wanek Poems
- Jump Rope
There is menace
in its relentless course, round and round,
describing an ellipsoid,
an airy prison in which a young girl
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- Amaryllis
A flower needs to be this size
to conceal the winter window,
and this color, the red
of a Fiat with the top down,
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- Lipstick
She leaned over the sink
her weight on her toes
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- After Us
I don't know if we're in the beginning
or in the final stage.
-- Tomas Tranströmer
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- Coloring Book
Each picture is heartbreakingly banal,
a kitten and a ball of yarn,
a dog and bone.
The paper is cheap, easily torn.
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- Umnenglish: prof peter campion reading 7:30 pm tonight in st. paul! with poets wang ping and connie wanek. campion is the author of four poetry collections, most recently one summer evening at the falls.
university club of st. paul, 420 summit avenue
- Emilyrmroczek: is this the year a poetry book can win the newbery? maybe it will be marshmallow clouds...
- Sljournal: heavy medal mock newbery finalist: marshmallow clouds by ted kooser and connie wanek
- Magersandquinn: janna knittel, peter campion, and connie wanek are gracing us with their presence (and their poetry)!! we hope you'll join us for poetry night in store on 1/12!! register here:
- B2l_literature: for decades a restorer of old homes, connie wanek shows us that poetry is everywhere, encountered as easily in the waterways, landscapes, and winters of minnesota, as in the old roofs and darkened drawers of a home long uninhabited. rival g...
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