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How about a little warm-up for Valentine’s Day? How about love poems to partners, children, bees, pigs, words, winter, and Mother Earth? You’ll get all that and more when poet, journalist and memoirist James Lenfestey (A Marriage Book, 2017) stops by the Grand Hand to read his love poems on February 7. Bring your beloved with you…unless your beloved is a pig. Or bees. Beloved children and human partners welcome!
James P. Lenfestey
James P. Lenfestey is the author of Seeking the Cave: A Pilgrimage to Cold Mountain, a Minnesota Book Award finalist, and multiple collections of essays and poems, including A Marriage Book. He is chair of the Literary Witnesses poetry series, teaches at the Mackinac Island Poetry Festival, and lives in Minneapolis with his wife.
From James P. Lenfestey, a collection of poems that lends delicacy and gentle humor to durable, long-lasting love.
As the author approached his thirtieth birthday in a state of acute anxiety, a bookseller prescribed to him a singular literary diet—the poems of a Tang Dynasty hermit named Han-shan. His pilgrimage to Han-shan’s cave decades later comes to life in this singular combination of travel writing, memoir, translation, and poetry.