 | John Minczeski, award-winning poet, resides in the Twin Cities where he works and teaches. He's the author of four poetry collections, the editor of three anthologies, and his poems have appeared in journals around the US and abroad, including Poetry East, Quarterly West, Agni, Meridian, Pleiades, Free Lunch, Nowa Okolica Poetow and elsewhere. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Bush Foundation Artist's Fellowship, a LIN Grant, The 2000 Akron Poetry Prize, a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship. He was the Edelstein-Keller Distinguished Fellow at the University of Minnesota in 2005. Several yet-to-be-published manuscripts have been finalists for The National Poetry Series, The Dorset Prize, The Journal Award, The Snowbound Chapbook Prize, The Lena Miles Wever Todd Prize and others. His new book, "A Letter to Serafin," will be published by The University of Akron Press next year. John earned an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1990. |
The University of Akron Press has put A Letter to Serafin on its website: http://www3.uakron.edu/uapress/minczeskilts.html. Once there, you can click on a tab that will let you preview of the first ten or so pages of poems. And, dear friends, you can pre-order the book directly from the press.
Kritya, an online journal out of India has a special issue devoted to Polish American poets. You can find the title poem, A Letter to Serafin, by following this link http://www.kritya.in/0412/En/poetry_at_our_time.html and scrolling to the bottom of the column. Click on "More poems by John Minczeski." It is reprinted from Fourth River, the print journal from Chatham University.
Several more poems from the book were recently published in Umbrella, another online journal: http://umbrellajournal.com/winter2008/poetry/JohnMinczeski.html.
Interested in more of my poems? The Events and Links page points to more online journals that have featured my work over the years.
My publication reading will be at The Loft Literary
Center on September 18, 2009. A Friday night, there shouldn't be any
competition for parking slots from Loft Classes. I don't know if the
Twins will be playing, but parking in the Open Book lot is off-limits
to baseball parking.