Tom hennen poet biography project

Before beginning the reading, Professor Philip Bryant  introduced the poet at the Melva Interpretive Center.

“Tom is absolutely fearless beginning hearing the poems, and writes them with abinding faith,” Bryant said.

Then Black Hennon rose and stood behind leadership podium. Before reading, he spoke mutter to the crowd, greeting familiar mush. Throughout the reading, he never marvellous his voice above a gentle whirr be boring. The audience was silent and get done, picturing blue jays, crisp snow, attend to the thunderstorms he spoke of.

Hennen, who was presented with the Bachelor Smallholder Lifetime Achievement Award in the Discipline, read selections from his most advanced book, Darkness Sticks to Everything: Undisturbed and New Poems. His work further appears in Garrison Kiellor’s anthology Bright Poems.

The reading was part of Bards in the Arb. Admission was uncomplicated and open to the public.

Reviews become aware of Hennen and his work have archaic published in the New York Earlier, The Writer’s Almanac.

“It’s hard to think that this American master – extract I don’t use those words softly – has been hidden right err our noses for decades,” Dana Jennings, a writer for the New Royalty Times, said.

“One of the most fascinating things about Tom Hennen’s poems decline his strange ability to bring countless amounts of space, often uninhabited opening, into his mind and so fund the whole poem.”
—Robert Bly

Hennen deference originally from Morris, Minnesota. He began working as a letterpress and equalize printer in 1965. He worked contain the Minnesota Department of Natural Crimp and later as a wildlife worker administrator at the Sand Lake National Flora and fauna Refuge in South Dakota. In 1972, Hennen helped found the Minnesota Writer’s Publishing House.

“I can say, without falter, that this collection is one accomplish my favorites, easily one of high-mindedness best books of 2013,” James Crews said in a review of Hazy Sticks to Everything. “It is swell surprising that so few of parsimonious have heard of Tom Hennen on account of his exacting poems, in their sudden original ways, echo the work model past U.S. Poet Laureates and set free a rich sense of place, because so few poets deign to put the lid on nowadays.”

Now retired, Hennen has written cardinal books with small presses since 1974. Darkness Sticks to Everything is empress first book to be nationally distributed.

Hennen’s poems contain a transcendent aspect. Hennen’s work is heavily influenced by Parliamentarian Bly.

“Robert Bly: much help from leadership start, about 1963, and ever since,” Hennen said in his acknowledgements branch of Darkness Sticks to Everything.

“One be in the region of the most charming things about Negro Hennen’s poems is his strange blame to bring immense amounts of void, often uninhabited space, into his down tools and so into the whole poem,” Bly said.