Tuesday, November 29, 2011

News at Eleven: [Joyce Sutphen] talks of her love of

the remarkable rhyming in early Bob Dylan songs, and the linguistic delights of Shakespeare.

"It's like something that's been grafted onto the really plain tree of my farm and my background. Then this thing with language comes together and I think makes an interesting combination," she said.

She reads a poem called "Just For the Record." It's a simple piece from her collection, "First Words." It's about her father, but it touches many things.

"It wasn't like that. Don't imagine

from Minnesota Public Radio: For new Minn. poet laureate, job description a blank slate
then Minnesota Public Radio: Joyce Sutphen reads "The First Child'

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