Norman Minnick’s books of poetry include To Taste the Water and Folly. He is the editor of Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-First Century and Work toward Knowing: Beginning with Blake, by Jim Watt. His poetry and essays have appeared in the Writer’s Chronicle, Georgia Review, Teachers & Writers, Poetry International, Oxford American, Columbia Review, Southword (Ireland), Stand (England), and Notre Dame Review, among others.
Humberto Ak’abal in 2013 / Courtesy of LiteraturhausSalzburg
For nearly a decade I ran a visiting writers series at a liberal arts university in Indiana. The series was very well endowed, which meant…