Roger Mitchell states in the forward that even though Americans are a nation of movers, we want to come from somewhere, not just the U.S., and have that place matter.“‘And Know This Place’is a quilt of the state’s mind as it takes shape today,” he says.
Some of my favorite poems are:“Sanctuary” by Joseph Heithaus,which is an ode to the Putnam County Library on its centennial, “The Piankashaw in the Sycamore” by Norbert Krapf, about an Indian lying on a branch up in a sycamore tree over the river his people used to live along, Mary Solt’s concrete poem “Forsythia” and “Washington Street, Indianapolis at Dusk 1892-1895” by Dick Pflum, which is nostalgic for a time gone by.
April is National Poetry Month. It’s a monthlong national celebration of poetry that promotes living poets and our poetic heritage.
Copies of “And Know This Place”are available at Black Dog Books.