Friday, April 23rd, 1999

STREAMING version of JUDITH MINTY,
or DOWNLOADABLE version.

"...the clear and white world created by a winter's storm, the dramatic changes of the seasons, and the presence, in history and legend, of Indians. [Judith Minty's] poems give a physical sense of life in the Midwest." --Helen Collier, in Woman Poet: The Midwest. A sense of place is one of the recurring themes in Judith Minty's poetry. Born in Michigan, she grew up spending the school year in Detroit and summers camping in the North Woods with her family. After earning an MFA at Western Michigan University in 1973, she taught at universities in Michigan and the west coast, and was director of the Creative Writing Program at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California from 1982 to 1993. She now lives in western Michigan near the Lake Michigan shoreline, and spends part of each year at a cabin on the Yellow Dog River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Minty's first book, Lake Songs and Other Fears, received the United States Award of the International Poetry Forum in 1973. Since then she has published three other full-length collections of poetry and three chapbooks. Her work has been recognized with numerous honors, including the Villa Montalvo Award for Excellence in Poetry and the Eunice Tietjens Award from Poetry magazine. BIBLIOGRAPHY Lake Songs and Other Fears. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974. Yellow Dog Journal. Los Angeles: Center Publications, 1979. Letters to My Daughters. Ann Arbor: Mayapple Press, 1979. In the Presence of Mothers. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981. Counting the Losses. Aptos, California: Jazz Press, 1986. Dancing the Fault. Orlando: University of Central Florida Press, 1991. Yellow Dog Journal (new edition). Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1992. The Mad Painter Poems. Greensboro: March Street Press, 1996. Degrees of Black & White: Selected and New Poems. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, forthcoming in 2000. CRITICAL SOURCES Barillas, William. "To Sustain the Bioregion: Michigan Poets of Place." Midamerica XVII: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. Ed. David D. Anderson. East Lansing, Michigan: The Midwestern Press, 1990. 10-33. Carlton, Karen. "Interview with Judith Minty." Woman Poet: Volume 3, The Midwest. Reno, Nevada: Women-in-Literature, Inc., 1985. 96-99. Collier, Helen. "Judith Minty: Biographical Notes." Woman Poet: Volume 3, The Midwest. Reno, Nevada: Women-in-Literature, Inc., 1985. 100-101. Scott, Shirley Clay. "Dancing the Fault: The Poetry of Judith Minty." Woman Poet: Volume 3, The Midwest. Reno, Nevada: Women-in-Literature, Inc., 1985. 92-95. Zorn, Marilyn. "Mother Lore: A Sequence for Daughters." Great Lakes Review 6.1 (1979): 37-39.