MyNPL: Northfield Poet Laureate: Northfield Poets and Poetry

A Partial List of Northfield Poets

Becky Boling

Christopher Brunelle. The Church Year in Limericks | The Church Year in Limericks, Volume 2

Heather Candels

Brent Christianson (1951-2020). Beautiful, In My Chaotic Way (2018) | Third and Twelve on Your Own Eighteen (2018) | Sky Beyond the Ceiling (2018) | The Lake Remains: Poems of the North Country (2019)

Florence Dacey. The Swoon | The Necklace | Maynard Went This Way | Rock Worn by Water

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Professor of English at St. Olaf College. Paper Pavilion | Interrogation Room | Notes from a Missing Person (chapbook) | Necro Citizens (chapbook)

*Heather Dubrow, former Professor of English at Carleton College (1980-1990). Transformation and Repetition (chapbook) | Border Crossings (chapbook) | Forms and Hollows

*Mary Moore Easter, Professor of Dance (Emerita) at Carleton College. Free Papers (2021; chapbook) | From the Flutes of Our Bones (2020) | The Body of the World (2018) | Walking from Origins (chapbook)

Toni Easterson

Andrea Een, Professor of Music (Emerita) at St. Olaf College. Some Days We Name It Love (chapbook)

Graham Frear (1922-2014), Professor of English (Emeritus) at St. Olaf College. Red Shoes and Other Poems for My Wife | Love, Marriage, Cancer, Death, and Poetry in Past and Present Tenses

Marie Vogl Gery. Almost Invisible Names (chapbook)

D.E. Green. Jumping the Median (2019)

Rob Hardy (Poet Laureate). Domestication (2017) | The Collecting Jar (chapbook)

*Keith Harrison, Professor of English and writer-in-residence at Carleton College from 1968 to 1996. A list of Keith Harrison's publications.

Brenda Hellen

Greg Hewett, Professor of English at Carleton College. To Collect the Flesh (1996) | Red Suburb (2002) | The Eros Conspiracy (2006) | darkacre (2010) | Blighdsight (2016)

George Huntington (1835-1916) was a professor of Rhetoric and Biblical Literature at Carleton College from 1879 to 1906. He is perhaps best known in Northfield as the author of Robber and Hero: The Story of the Northfield Bank Raid. "When I Am Old" | "International Hymn"

Christine Kallman

Scott King (1965-2021). Publisher, Red Dragonfly Press. Lida Songs (2009) | All Graced in Green (2011) | Dragonfly Haiku (2016)

Diane LeBlanc, Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at St. Olaf College. Hope in Zone Four (1998) | Dancer with Good Sow (2008) | Sudden Geography (2014) | The Space for Message (2017)

Steve McCown. Ghosting (2020)

Jane Taylor McDonnell. A Bone in the Throat (2013)

Susan Jaret McKinstry, Professor of English at Carleton College.

*Marilyn Nelson, former instructor of English at St. Olaf College (1973-1978).

Riki Kölbl Nelson. Borders/Grenzen (bilingual poems) | The Fall Heart (chapbook)

Grace Fallow Norton (1876-1962). Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph's (1912) | The Sister of the Wind and Other Poems (1914) | Roads (1916) | What is Your Legion (1918) | The Miller's Youngest Daughter (1924)

Joanna Rawson. Quarry (1998) | Unrest (2009)

*Clare Rossini, former English professor at Carleton College. Winter Morning with Crow (1997) | Lingo (2006)

Leslie Schultz. Still Life with Poppies: Elegies (2016) | Cloud Song (2018) | Concertina (2019)

Kaethe Schwehn, Professor of English at St. Olaf College. Tanka & Me (2015)

Joanne Sullivan

Marcella Taylor (1933-2003). Professor of English (Emerita) at St. Olaf College. Songs for the Arawak (chapbook) | A Body That Remembers (2001)

David Walters (1945-2020)

*Karen Herseth Wee. The Book of Hearts (1994) | Before Language (chapbook) | Audio archive of Karen Herseth Wee's readings and workshops at Holden Village

Reed Whittemore (1919-2012), former U.S. Poet Laureate, Professor of English at Carleton College (1947-1966). Wikipedia | Library of Congress | Poetry Foundation | Academy of American Poets

If you know of a poet who should be added to this list, or if you are yourself a poet who should be added, please let me know. An asterisk (*) next to a name indicates a poet who no longer lives in Northfield, but who spent a portion of his or her career here.