Poetry. Connie Wanek is one of my favorite poets. I've been reading her work for years. No poet I know, with the exception of Jane Kenyon, is as able to discover the magic and depth in ordinary, day-to-day life and to do artfully render that vision for the reader. What a pleasure it is to have this first and long overdue collection of her work! (Louis Jenkins). Then came snow with lightning, / beauty with a temper. / And sleet, the compromise that pleases no one; / precipitation by committee. (April).

This volume is New Rivers' Minnesota Voices Project Number 83. Connie Wanek lives in Duluth, Minnesota, with her husband and their children.