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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion 20140921

Next from st. Paul minnesota with the help of our local cable partner comcast we talked to carole connolly. I turned a corner and suddenly without warning i stand this whole amir and there it is my mothers face staring back at me in disbelief. The phase i once swore i would never have. Carole connolly the poet laureate of st. Paul minnesota. What is a poet laureate of st. Paul minnesota . Guest at all sort of started when a legislator put a bill in the legislature to make a poet laureate since many states have one. The governor at the time vetoed saying next youll be asking for a poet dancer and a poet potter and even though making a poet laureate cost no money to the state because it goes through commission. Theres absolutely no cost to anyone. A friend of mine had a meeting with Chris Coleman and she said we should have a poet laureate and he said done. Thats how hard i had to work to get appointed. Host what is a poet laureate do . Guest you can do whatever you want. People do Diffe

Transcripts For CSPAN2 After Words 20140921

Thats the way people get to have a book. Its a very supported art in st. Paul i would say, and in minneapolis. Very respected and supported. I didnt start writing until i was 40. It was like your accident. I think both poets dont decide, i suppose some do, dont decide when their little kid, i will be a poet. Ive been keeping a journal when i was raising a family. I decided i would go to the loft which is our Literary Center and take a class about how to write a novel our how to put all the stuff in the book. Someone recommended that i see a writer who she knew who had a big family just like mine. She had three children. I had seven. Or situation, as long as im there ill take a class in poetry and thats how it all started. What were you doing before you got into all this . I lived in new york for a while and work for wonder magazine. Then i was writing for the newspaper, for the st. Paul pioneer press. But also all that i was writing poetry. But when that ended us able to give a lot mor

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