Connie Wanek Presents “Marshmallow Clouds”

Zenith Bookstore welcomes Connie Wanek for a live, in-store event to present Marshmallow Clouds: Two Poets at Play Among Figures of Speech. Wanek will be in conversation with former Duluth Poet Laureate Ellie Schoenfeld. Marshmallow Clouds is the newest collaboration between Wanek and Ted Kooser, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, along with illustrator Richard Jones.

Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required to attend this event, as is the wearing of face masks over nose and mouth for everyone ages 2 and up.

Wanek is the author of five books of poetry, including Rival Gardens and her newest book Consider the Lilies: Mrs. God Poems. She is also the author of Summer Cars, a book of stories set in and around Duluth, where she lived for 25 years. She has won several awards, including the George Morrison Artist of the Year, given to someone who has made contributions to the arts in Northeast Minnesota over a period of many years. She was also named a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress, an honor given to just two poets in the United States each year, by then-Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.