Lost Lake Folk Opera V5N1

Special Poets Laureate Issue

to celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of Folk Opera

 30 Stellar Contributors, including 6 past & present poets laureate


Poets Laureate
Joyce Sutphen • Minnesota Poet Laureate. Four Poems of the Road. Ken McCullough • Winona Poet Laureate. The Bear Husband – John Osa & Ursula. Rob Hardy • Northfield Poet Laureate. Three Poems – Rebecca, Jane & Light. Nicholle Ramsey • Winona Associate Laureate. Two Poems – Water and Sand. Jim Johnson • Duluth Laureate Emeritus. Two Trout Tales from Minnesota and Iowa. Emilio DeGrazia • Winona Laureate Emeritus. Late Thoughts – at the Mayo Clinic ER. 

Short fiction & essays                        

Anne Muccino. Dalia & J.T. Christopher Bremicker. Relapse. Justin Watkins. John Bass & other prose.  Jim Miles. My First Hunt. Steve Cooke. Lawn Adventures. Roger McKnight.Burnt Potatoes. John Torgrimson. Feast & Requiem. James Petrillo. Ashyer. Dan Coffey. Nowhere to Go. Nancy Palker. Zipper Lady. Ken Kakareka. Cabrón. Ken Fliés. Dog Days of Winter

Poetry                     

Steve McCown. Six Poems. Lee Henschel Jr. Forty Lenten Haiku. Tufik Y. Shayeb. Three Poems. Robert Wooten. Four Poems. Michael Ceraolo. Eighty Days. Kay Bosgraff. Three PoemsSteve Toth.Three Poems. Steve Schild. Three Poems. Ed Schwartz. Five Poems. Marcus Hines. Three Poems. Nicole Borg. Waiting for the Prince. Ken McCullough. The Levee: Then and Now


Everybody has one — Op-Ed                        

Tom Driscoll v5n2. My Crystal Ball

Lost Lake Folk Opera – V3N2

Special Winter Sun Issue

Featuring the Rural Economic Development Roundtable

held in Plainview, Minnesota, on December 1, 2015.


With Rochester and Mayo Clinic’s Destination Medical Center promising to alter the dynamics of small communities throughout southeast Minnesota, four individuals active in growing sustainable rural economies weigh-in on a wide range of issues.

Dean Harrington, Sheila Kiscaden, Gary Smith and John Torgrimson drill deep into the many issues affecting sustainable rural economic development. 

Contributors: Sheila Kiscaden. John Torgrimson. Gary Smith. Dean Harrington. Dan Munson. Roger C. Morris. Judi Bergen. Merle Hanson. Larry Johnson. John MacLean. Arnetta L. Lane. Andy Roberts. Sean Lause. Mark Metzler. Ron Hardy. Molly McDonald. Tom Farrell. Tom Driscoll.

Lost Lake Folk Opera – V2N2

Winter Solstice Issue

$7.99 – Buy a print copy online


Contributors: Dan Coffey. Kitty Baker. William Burleson. Morgan Grayce Willow. Lee Henschel Jr. Stephen L. Snook. Sally Niemand. Emilio Degrazia. Ty Cronkhite. Brandt Roberts. Michael Edwin Q. Steve Schild. Andy Roberts. Tom Driscoll.

 

Lost Lake Folk Opera – V2N1

Special Vietnam War Turns 50! issue

In this Issue
The Vietnam War Turns 50!
 
Tim Walz Interview
 
Don’t Dodge the Draft
 
Ron Glasser
 
Odyssey across America
 
Hal Cropp
 
Time has come to clarify.
 
Emilio DeGrazia
 
61
 
Larry Johnson
 
What is Vietnam, after Iraq?
 
Steve Sarvi
 
The Unseen
 
Lee Henschel Jr.
 
Back from Vietnam
 
Dee Slinde
 
What do Baby Trolls Eat?
 
Rose Arrowsmith DeCrux
 
Forty-seven Years Cold
 
J.P. Johnson
 
Warm Sundays
 
Jake Teeny
 
There was a Man Who Lived
 
Molly McDonald
 
Let Us be Merry
 
Nicole Borg
 
Unwise Words – 2 poems
 
James Scannell McCormick
 
Metamorphoses
 
Ed Bok Lee
 
Lanesboro’s Crown Jewels
 
Bucheit & Seiler
 
I Hear a Folk Opera
 
Tom Driscoll
 

Lost Lake Folk Opera Magazine V1N1

Special Destination Lanesboro issue

 

Lanesboro. Shipwreckt Books Publishing Company is proud to introduce readers to the first issue of Lost Lake Folk Opera magazine. The arts heartbeat and journalistic pulse of rural Mid-America is available in stores and online now!

LLFO V1-N1 features a close look at LAC’s John Davis through our special Folk Opera Glasses. John talks about the Arts Campus vision being realized right now in Lanesboro.

A post-Romantic lyric clipped from Commonweal resident artist Scott Dixon‘s play, A Midnight Dreary.

Stunning photography by David Tacke.

Enjoy poems – wild geese on iron wings – by Robert Morris, Haley Thompson, Jon Welsh, Anne Barngrover & Eddy J.Rathke.

Mind-bending fiction from Mary Lewis, Solveig Blegen & Lisa Lundquist.

A bramble of essays knitted by Shipwreckt authors Pixie Youngdahl & Nancy Overcott, PLUS an operatic duet, The Nuterator, by Peggy Hanson & Frank Wright.

And Folk Opera editor, Tom Driscoll, digs behind the Dam Mystery of Lost Lake, and offers as well his humble opinion about Opinion.

Guilty literary, graphic and journalistic pleasures from folks you probably thought you knew.