Regional Arts

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">Freshly cut hay on a perfect summer day. (Photo by Greg Schieber)</span>

Essay | Making Hay…as Well as Memories

NICOL PHOTO

Poetry | Yggdrasil…Turning green…the voice

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">Karl Unnasch prepares a stained glass panel in his Pilot Mound studio. “Stained glass is a sneaky medium,” says artist Karl Unnasch, “a series of frozen brush strokes.” (Photo submitted by Karl Unnasch)</span>

Profile | In Conversation with Stained Glass Artist Karl Unnasch

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">Artist Mary Denzer is pictured working on Lino prints for her late husband’s book of poetry. (Photo by Delia Bell)</span>

Chiaroscuro — The Making of a Book

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">A foggy morning at the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Root River, captured by photographer Renee Bergstrom.</span>

Root River Song

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">Clay Fulton, Ann Lowe, Luke Hendrickson, and Sarah Peterson kicked off the 2024 songwriters series at the St. Mane Theatre in Lanesboro. (Submitted photo)</span>

Songwriters in the Round

Reclaiming the garden was one of the first projects after moving to the Big Woods. (Photo by Greg Schieber)

Essay | Time is Illusive on Our Farm in the Big Woods

Blooming native bluebells (Mertensia boraginaceae) return to the Root River valley every spring. (Photo by Nancy North)

Poetry | Wandering into Spring

This owl entry came from 12 year old Jue-Hsin Huang of Taiwan, Republic of China. (Photos courtesy of International Owl Center)

Festival of Owls Kids Art Contest Draws Thousands of Entries from Around the World

The Root River on an autumn day inspires one to reflect on the beauty of nature. (Photo by Ella Deutchman)

Forest Bathing: Meditations on Sound and Movement

Each spring, the Mississippi River’s backwater streams gradually return to life across the Reno Bottoms south of Brownsville. (Photo by Ken Lubinski)

Essay | Spring Rising

The author fly fishing on the Root River. (Submitted photo)

Poetry | An Ode…A Shiver…A Loon

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