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Joyce Sutphen

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August 10, 1949

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Joyce Sutphen (born 1949) is an American poet, currently serving as Minnesota's Poet Laureate. She is the state's second laureate, appointed by Governor Mark Dayton in August, 2011. Sutphen also serves as a professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. ...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 352 ratings · 44 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Naming the Stars: Poems 4.25 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems by Joyce Sutphen, Ted Kooser (Introduction) 4.30 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First Words 4.32 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coming Back to the Body: Poems 4.38 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Straight Out of View 3.90 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Love & Other Myths 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present (Many Minnesotans Series) by Joyce Sutphen (Editor), Thom Tammaro (Editor), Connie Wanek (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Words 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Long Winter (The Cox Family Poetry Chapbook Series) 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Other Life (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I am all that I am not, and I am not
what I shall become—who knows?”
― Joyce Sutphen

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“The Kingdom of Summer In my mother’s cellar there were realms of golden apple, rooms of purple beet, hallways of green bean leading to windows of strawberry and grape. In her cellar there were cider seas and pumpkin shores, mountains of tomatoes— pickle trees. When I walked down the steps and pulled on the light, I saw where she kept the Kingdom of Summer.”
― Joyce Sutphen, First Words

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“Losing Faith”

Thinking about something does not make it
happen. I was thinking about calling

you, but I didn’t; I was hoping that you
would call me, but the phone never rang. Once,

I had the power to will things into
being. I would dream about you, and you

would appear from thousands of miles away;
we answered each other before we called.

No one would believe how we were back then.
What I liked the most was the way the old

people smiled at us even though they knew
our fortune was not to be together.

They liked the way we accepted our fate;
they knew that heaven sometimes comes too late.

Gettysburg Review (vol. 32, no. 3, Autumn 2019)”
― Joyce Sutphen

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