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Northfield Poet Laureate: Poems About Northfield

The Northfield Poet Laureate is sponsored by the City of Northfield and funded by the Northfield Public Library and the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC), in partnership with the Northfield Arts and Culture Commission.

Poems About Northfield

Kai Carlson-Wee, "Jesse James Days" (Missouri Review)

Reed Whittemore, "The Farmhouse" (Good Poems, ed. Garrison Keillor). Written about Whittemore's house in Northfield, located at 319 Elm Street

Thomas Reynolds, "Chadwell, Miller, and Pitts. Northfield, Minnesota. 1876." (Miller's Pond Poetry Magazine)

Spencer Reece, "Diminuendo" (The Clerk's Tale: Poems)