Norman Minnick
Norman Minnick
Other items of interest:
Norman Minnick and Maurice Manning at Poets House in New York City May 13, 2010
Read an interview with Norman Minnick in The Southeast Review
“Minnick does not look like a poet. Walt Whitman, who was a famous poet, had a long, white beard. Minnick is as clean-shaven as a choirboy.”
—Abe Aamidor, Indianapolis Star
Norman Minnick was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He received his BA from Marian University in Indianapolis and an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University where he received the Academy of American Poets Award in 2001. Minnick’s poems have appeared in many journals including The Christian Science Monitor, Notre Dame Review, The Seattle Review, Chelsea, Isotope, Poetry East, Southern Indiana Review, Zone 3 and The Texas Observer, as well as the anthology, Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. His collection of poems, To Taste the Water, (Mid-List Press, 2007) won the First Series Award. He is the editor of Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-First Century (White Pine Press, 2010). He lives near Indianapolis.
Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-First Century
I’m impressed by these voices, voices of anxiety, of pain but also of patience and understanding. From angry prayers to prayers of disbelief, a whole gamut of letters to the invisible is present here. Younger poets are not asleep, they have been placed on alert. By who? By poetry itself, I guess.
—Adam Zagajewski
Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them.
—Jane Hirshfield
