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Mission:
To protect and promote the natural, recreational and historic resources of Voyageurs National Park.
Former Park Superintendent Shares Poetry
Rainy River Community College will host an evening of poetry readings, performance art, and storytelling featuring two local writers, Kate Miller and Naomi Woods. They will share their works with the community in the RRCC theater from 7:00 pm-8:30 pm.
Kate Miller is the former superintendent of Voyageurs National Park, and her work combines her strong connection to nature with her passion for language arts. Miller will read her poetry, which she says, “focuses on the intersections between nature, the human spirit and ordinary life.” See below for a sample of her work.
Naomi Woods, local writer and actor, has authored poems, stories, and comedic works for over ten years. She looks forward to performing for her community, and will be presenting works from a variety of genres.
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Location: Rainy River Community College theater, International Falls
To learn more about this event, see the International Falls Daily Journal.
After Sauna
By Kate Miller
If your bare feet have never pressed the snow
as naturally as moccasins on forest floor,
your skin wide open to the sky,
naked to the stars,
no different than the first time
you undressed before your lover
except the air is colder,
but you don’t think about it,
you just soak in the darkness of boreal spruce,
roots sunk deep in geologic time,
branches piercing the cloud scrim
backlit by the moon, and you are not cold,
but stilled, radiant —
then you have not yet pierced the latitudes of being,
your own light answering the darkness,
your own heat signaling the spheres.