Night Train Red Dust: Poems of the Iron Range Womens Health Toshi navigates a changing world

Toshi navigates a changing world that's slowly becoming more accepting

like teenagers in any intolerant time and place--here

With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day

she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life

Night Train Red Dust: Poems of the Iron Range Womens Health Toshi navigates a changing worldSheila Packa has received two Loft McKnight Fellowships, in both poetry and prose, and numerous other awards. She was Duluth's Poet Laureate of 2010 2012. According to Leah Rogne, PhD, of Minnesota State University in Mankato, "Sheila Packa's poetry is at once deeply personal and widely universal in its evocative exploration of fundamental human experience. Using the red ore dust with which she was raised, she paints vivid images of birth and death,