Call for Submissions: Lake Country Journal Poetry Contest
Submit a poem to Lake Country Journal Poetry Contest! Calling all writers and poets! All levels and ages of writers encouraged to submit a poem to the Lake Country Journal Poetry Contest. This year’s theme is “The Sweet Life”. Cash prizes! Deadline is May 31, 2025. Poetry Contest Rules The Lake Country Journal Poetry Contest is co-sponsored […]
Verse Like Water presents Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Vijay Seshadri
Central Lakes College’s Verse Like Water series will kick off its fifth year with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Vijay Seshadri. The event starts with a reading at noon on Sept. 30 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. After, he will sign books and host an informal craft talk on creativity and the imagination at 1:30 […]
Verse Like Water presents Award Winning Poet Matt Rasmussen
Join us for a FREE Public Poetry Reading and Presentation by the Award Winning Poet Matt Rasmussen. Monday, March 28, 2016 Noon Hassler Library, Central Lakes College, Brainerd Minnesota Central Lakes College Verse Like Water: the visiting poet program of Central Lakes College presents Matt Rasmussen. Matt’s debut book Black Aperture earned the Walt Whitman […]
Former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins visits Brainerd
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins held a reading at Central Lakes College in Brainerd Minnesota as part of Verse Like Water, the visiting poet program of CLL, in conjunction with The Crossing Arts Alliance. “Poetry is for everybody. It is not something that’s for specialists. It’s no just for academics or professors or any […]
Poet laureate Billy Collins coming to Brainerd
A U.S. poet laureate will be featured in a free poetry program that Central Lakes College in Brainerd will present in conjunction with The Crossing Arts Alliance on April 29. Billy Collins has twice been named U.S. poet laureate by the Library of Congress. He will give a public reading at noon the CLC Chalberg […]