Industry Veteran Cirina Catania Talks About Making Movies, Sundance and the Catalyst Film Festival

(L to R) Riki McManus, North MN Film Office Director,
Festival Director Philip Gilpin, Mayor Emily Larson
and Cirina Catania.

This coming October, Duluth will be hosting the Catalyst Content Festival, a gathering of independent media developers, producers, directors and visionaries. Sponsors include St. Louis County, Monaco Air, HBO, and the Abrams Artist Agency, among others. In my effort to learn more I have been interviewing various people and sharing their insights here.

This past weekend I had an opportunity to speak with Cirina Catania, one of the co-founders of the influential Sundance Film Festival. Ms. Catania serves on the advisory board for Catalyst, offering a unique perspective on what Catalyst is striving to accomplish, and why Duluth is an ideal home for bringing the festival to a new level.

The more we talked the more impressed I became in two regards. First, that she had been involved in Hollywood for more than three decades without becoming jaded, with a generous spirit and genuine warmth. Second, because she wore that mantle of cred that comes with experience.

We had a good first "meeting" and this is a portion of what we talked about.

EN: Who is Cirina Catania, besides being a Hollywood insider who has been involved in more than 100 films?

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Cirina Catania: I’m a creative person. I have both a left and a right side of the brain that work.

I spent quite a few years in the studio system in Hollywood. MGMUA and then at the new UA (United Artists) where I was managing up to $200 million a year. I had final responsibility for all the budgets for marketing, PR, research. I have this other side of me that is creative and wants to do fun things with my brain. And doesn’t like to be put in a box.

Before I got into elementary school I was playing with drawing, and got a Brownie Instamatic Camera and I loved photography, which became a way for me to express who I am.

I loved how you could put five people together looking at the same thing and the creative rewards of what they are looking at are going to be completely different. Don’t you love that though? It’s sort of what makes the world go ‘round.

I’m also a mom and a grandma and a family person. I was lucky that I had children when I entered the studio system. It kept me grounded. I had to go to the parties, and get into the limos with the actors and actresses, but it didn’t matter to me because at the end of the day I was going home to my kids. That was more important. I had the best of both worlds.

EN: Among your many other activities you’re also affiliated with Catalyst. What attracted you to what is going on here?

Philip Gilpin

CC: I met Philip Gilpin a few years ago when I interviewed him for my radio show and I was very impressed with him. He and I then stayed in communication and when he was doing town hall meetings in Vermont and legislative lobbying there, he asked if I might be interested in speaking with the local community about what it takes to start a festival because of the Sundance connection.

We met with the governor and did a couple town hall meetings. When the festival moved to Duluth I was really excited because I think the Duluth community is a much better fit. The people in Vermont were awesome and I met some beautiful people there, but they didn’t have the ability to expand to the extent the festival is going to expand.

One of the goals of the festival is to put money in our pockets in this community. And I think it’s going to happen. I’m on the Advisory Board, offering advice and being a cheerleader to help make it happen.

One of the things I’ve been trying to do at this stage in my career is mentor younger people and mentor film makers in the Heartland of America who are always asking, “Should I move to L.A.? Can I make a living here? Will I be happy staying here in my home town?”

I always tell them, if you can make it work, and stay close to your family and friends in your home town, why not? This is a beautiful country.

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EN: You recently came to Duluth to do a film making workshop.

Catania & Gilpin flank Patty Mester, President and GM of WDSE/WPRT

CC: We just did this 2-day master class in film making with WDSE-WRPT. It was a way for me to share what I’ve learned from working inside Hollywood.

I used the example of a non-scripted reality show, like the films I have worked on with National Geographic, and what do you have to do at the end of the filming and in post-production to make sure you are delivering what the network needs in order to meet the contracts that have been signed.

We also invited a group to come out from L.A. They really believe in the local film maker so we brought in people from the “We Make Movies Smart Phone Studio,” Aubrey Mozino and Sam Mestman, helping the creative people in that room to play. I wanted to take the equipment out of the equation. It was thrilling how the teams went from quiet in the beginning to fully engaged and excited by the end.

I have learned so much over the years and so lucky with my career that as I mature although still working I’m thinking more about paying back, giving back to the creative community.

EN: So, tell us about how Sundance got started. You were there right at the beginning.

Cirina shooting Black Magic camera
@Mosquito Creek

CC: I was associate director of Utah State Film Commission working under Governor Scott Matheson (1977-1985). John Earle was director of the film commission. It was our mandate to try to bring more film making into the state of Utah.

We did location scouting and produced a book of all the crews and resources for acquiring equipment. We were having dinner one night with Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle and I, going over some business things, and we started talking about how the governor had contacted us and asked what else we could do. And the light went on and I said, “Let’s start a film festival.”

But then everybody we subsequently talked to said, “No, there’s already one in Texas. We don’t need another film festival. What do you want to do a film festival for?” This was in 1978. We didn’t listen, and as I told you I don’t listen, and so we did it and it was probably the hardest I’ve worked in my life.

Sterling directed it the first year. The festival went into debt. The board was thinking about disbanding it. They didn’t know if they could continue. Local merchants were owed a little bit of money—not a whole lot. We had no money in the bank, no offices, no furniture. And we wanted to do the festival another year. So Governor Matheson called me and said, “I really want to continue with the festival and if I give you a six month leave of absence, paid, will you take over the festival and direct it?

I said, “Sure.”

So I went around town—very similar to what Philip [Gilpin, Catalyst Director] is doing—and met with all the merchants, told them what we want to do. A lot of them believed in us. Some provided offices, some provided furniture.

Whatever it takes to get the shot. (Photo by John Heino)

I remember climbing down into the basement of Utah Bank and picking out used furniture. The president of the bank said, “You can have anything in this room.”

In our second year, 1979, we actually made a very small profit. And it was pretty much clear sailing from then.

It’s not easy to do a film festival. It is very time consuming and takes a lot of dedication. But let me tell you, I have seen that in Duluth. You go to an event, any event that’s creatively motivated like a theater like the Zeitgeist, and there are lines outside the door. People attend lectures to talk about photography, to talk about art, to talk about whatever it is, they are so involved and so enthusiastic.

It's not this way everywhere. I think that Duluth is the perfect home for this festival.

When we did this 2-day workshop I could see it. I could see the excitement in peoples’ eyes. The willingness to try something new. Their willingness to work together in teams. And to play. The joy of creating something. And I’m hoping the festival will be like that for people.

Related Links

MASTER CLASS: BUILDING YOUR SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN FILM
https://www.wdse.org/masterclass

SAMPLES from the Workshop
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnAsrW7oNh5SWoKLBvTmlURkTcuUfl1SP

Catalyst Content Festival
https://www.catalystcontent.org/schedule

TIME Magazine – 2010 History of Sundance
http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1956952,00.html

Twin Ports Arts Happenings the Next Ten Days of September

Mind if we start with a riddle?

Which is heavier, one gallon of water or 10 gallons of butane?  
(answer at bottom of page)

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Here is a partial listing of what’s happening. Esther Piszczek’s Twin Ports Art Blog includes yoga activities, ballet, farmer’s markets, classes and much more. If you want to know what’s really going on, bookmark the Twin Ports Art Blog (TPAB).

Many of the listings here are abbreviated. The TPAB has more complete descriptions.

Wednesday, September 4, 7-9 p.m.
Last night was the Paint Duluth Artist Reception, Pizza Luce, 11 E. Superior St.
“Paint Duluth is a collaborative exhibit of 20 artist works from the Lake Superior Watercolor Society. On View: till October 6

TONIGHT--Thursday, September 5, 5-8 p.m.
Carlton/Cloquet Art Crawl. There is a lot of creative activity just south of Duluth, with great music and events at both the Oldenburg House and Scott House. The CC Art Crawl is a trio of other locations where we can gather to enjoy the visual arts and share an evening with friends of the arts.
The Coquet Pine Knot—5 to 7 p.m.
Magnolia Café—6 to 8 p.m.
The Encore Theater—6 to 8 p.m.
Carlton and Cloquet are just a hop skip and a jump away Twin Ports. Do yourself a favor and get to know our neighbors to the South. You’ll be glad you did.

Saturday, September 7, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Nice Girls of the North 2nd Saturday Marketplace, Lakeside Lester Park Community Center (the former Lakeside Library), 106 N. 54th Ave. East

Saturday, September 7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Harvest Fest, Bayfront Festival Park, 350 Harbor Drive
"Listen to music and treat yourself to handmade craft items. Eat something fresh and healthy (or maybe just a little bit indulgent). Learn about backyard composting or backyard chicken-raising or beekeeping. Meet your neighbors—and meet the people who grow your food. It’s food, it’s learning, it’s growing, it’s fun. It’s something for everyone, and it’s free. Why not make a day of it? Admission and parking are free to the public. Check for updates on Facebook!

Monday, September 9, 5-9 p.m.
Hawks on High: Art Opening Reception and Book Release and Reading, Zeitgeist Arts, 222 E. Superior Street
"Hawks on High: Everyday Miracles in a Hawk Ridge Season is a book with poems by Phil Fitzpatrick and drawings by Penny Perry. WOODBLIND will be performing live music from 7-9 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. For a full list of Hawks on High events visit their Facebook page at Hawks on High." On View: through September

Get to know Phil and Perry
"Phil Fitzpatrick Talks About His New Book of Poems, Hawks on High: Everyday Miracles in a Hawk Ridge Season" 
"A Visit with Penny Perry: Long Time Arts Advocate and Duluth Art Scene Asset"

Spied at Art on the Planet, Superior.

Mondays, September 9, 16, 23, 30, 5:30 p.m.
Tangling Mondays, Mount Royal Library, 105 Mount Royal Shopping Circle
This group meets in the the old Yarn Harbor space, which was taken over by the library awhile back (on the left when you walk in). It is open to anyone, but primarily focused on pattern drawing. Bring your supplies and something you want to finish or start. No instruction, no fee, no organization. It's wonderful to tangle together, if schedules align, and lovely to tangle alone. If you find yourself alone, no worries, another Monday is right around the corner. Enjoy!

Tuesdays, September 10, 17, 24, 12:30-3 p.m.
Open Studio at the Duluth Depot, 506 W. Michigan StreetThe Duluth Art Institute offers a regular Tuesday open art-studio session at the Depot. People of all abilities practicing all artistic mediums are invited to bring their own supplies and join the weekly group. Cost: $5 plus a DAI membership (first session is free).

Wednesday, September 11, 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Zentangle (R) & Wine with Esther Piszczek, CZT, Master Framing Gallery, 1431 London Road
Come experience the fun and relaxation of drawing simple, repetitive line patterns with pen and ink and pencil shading. No previous drawing experience necessary. Class Cost: $35; Supplies: $10 (or use supplies provided without additional cost). RSVP to episzczek@gmail.com. Seats are limited.You can read about one student's experience here: Local Art Seen: First Lesson in Zentangle with Esther Piszczek, by Ed Newman, Ennyman's Territory, August 18, 2019.

Spied in my studio.

Wednesday, September 11, 7:30-9 p.m.
This one falls slightly out of my normal sphere, but it sounded so interesting I have included it anyways.
Flamenco Vivo: Live Flamenco Music and Dance Performance, Teatro Zuccone, Zeitgeist Arts, 222 E. Superior Street "Audiences are invited to Join the following locally and internationally recognized Flamenco artists for an evening filled with raw emotion and expression embodied in the sultry rhythm, sound and movement of Flamenco; dancer Sachiko “La Chayí” (Minneapolis 2017 McKnight Dancer Fellow), singer Alfonso Cid (Seville, Spain & New York City), guitarist Kris “El Cuervo” Hill (Phoenix, AZ) and guitarist Ross “El Vecino” Fellrath (Minneapolis).

"FLAMENCO VIVO, in its distinctly Southern Spanish tablao-style, offers a twist of spontaneity and skilled improvisation to traditional dance and music, which comes to life through the high-spirited collaboration between the dancer, singer, and guitarists performing together on stage."

Friday, September 14, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Enkindle Dance Theater Performance, Sacred Heart Music Center, 201 W. 4th Street
"Enkindle Dance Theatre is a new nonprofit modern-and-contemporary dance company based in Duluth. The group is being led by two local artists whose mission is to bring a diverse group of dancers together to perform original dance works. The performances will consist of a collection of 10-12 pieces created by 3-4 choreographers. This activity is made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, thanks to appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature’s general and arts and cultural heritage funds.

"Tickets are available at sacredheartmusic.org. Adult admission is $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Student admission is $7. Visit facebook.com/enkindledancetheatre for more information."

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"Man's Fate"--12"x 24" Acrylic on panel

Don't forget there's always something to see at the Tweed Museum of Art on the UMD campus, and the Duluth Art Institute galleries in the Depot, as well as a dozen framing shops, another dozen art galleries and an assortment of local eating establishments that support local artists and display their work.

And if you're an artist with a desire to scan your work for producing giclee reproductions, or simply for posterity, contact Kelly and Jeff at Custom Photo Lab (CPL Imaging). Voted Best in the Northland for 30 years straight.


ANSWER: The water. 
No matter how much you have, butane will always be a lighter fluid.

BOOKMARK THE TWIN PORTS ART BLOG

https://twinportsart.blogspot.com/

Calling All Humor Writers. Does Your Writing Smell Funny To Your Friends?

COMEDY DEPOT

This writing challenge pays $1000 to the winner, and they're not joking.

Slackjaw Humor Writing Challenge

Photo by Patrick Schneider on Unsplash

Slackjaw has announced a humor writing challenge, which is currently live until September 21. You can find more information on joining the challenge here. “Slackjaw is Medium’s most-read humor publication with 90,000+ followers, and we want your funny writing! We also want to support humor writers — and aspiring humor writers — everywhere. That’s why we’re announcing our first Humor Writing Challenge.”

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Is being funny something you do? It's not easy being a comic, and writing funny can be even more challenging.

Here's a chance to see what you're made of.

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And here are a few quips to close this off so I can post it and get the word out.

1.
A ham sandwich walks into a bar and orders a beer. 

The bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve food here."

2. What do you call an alligator detective?

An investi-gator.

And finally, for a finale:

3.
A fly feels a bug on its back and asks, “Hey, bug on my back, are you a mite?” 

 “I mite be,” giggles the mite. 

 “That’s the worst pun I’ve ever heard,” the fly groans. 

 “What do you expect?” asks the mite. “I came up with it on the fly.”

Local Art Seen: Heidi Pollard at the JNG

Detail from larger piece. 

The small backroom space at Joseph Nease Gallery features Heidi Pollard's Heaven and Other Realms.

The press release describes her work in this manner:
Heidi Pollard's work approaches the dichotomies of daily life – the contradictory beliefs, feelings, and experiences we all hold in tension – with a sense of wonder and beauty. Employing her impressions and memories, she makes the unfathomable tangible in her drawings, paintings, and sculpture. Full of symbol and metaphor, her work reaches beyond her own experiences and thoughts to become something new and nameless, a mirror for the viewer.

Here is a link to the full press announcement and a link to her persona website.

Every picture has a story behind it. Here are some images you will find.

OF NOTE

Friday is will be your last chance to see Matthew Kluber's exhibition in the primary gallery space. The Kluber show, which has been up since spring, features a number of mesmerizing optical projections that remind me of some of Kathy McTavish's work. (cf. Chance)

Friday I'm In Love. This is an eight-foot wide projection.

NOW FOR SOMETHING REALLY INTERESTING

Kluber's projection pieces make a great setting to take some original selfies. 

This photo is a work of fiction.

IF YOU GO

Take some Selfies.

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NEXT MONDAY
@ the Zeitgeist Atrium:

A Visit with Penny Perry: Long Time Arts Advocate and Duluth Art Scene Asset

The quantity of framing galleries in the Twin Ports region is a pretty good indicator that we have a thriving visual arts community here. Yelp lists 16, from the North Shore to Carlton and Superior to Miller Hill Mall. Perry Framing is located right downtown in what has now been designated Duluth's Historic Arts & Theater (HART) District, a couple doors down from the Zeitgeist Cafe.

Proprietor Penny Perry, an artist herself, has served the arts community in a number of capacities. In addition to framing and hanging shows for the Zeitgeist, she's helped our Duluth Dylan Fest hang shows in the Atrium there. She's also served on the Duluth Public Arts Commission (DPAC) and worked with a wide cross-section of artists to give their work its proper presentation.

This past year she's been creating illustrations for Phil Fitzpatrick's book of poems, Hawks on High: Everyday Miracles in a Hawk Ridge Season. With the official book launch next Monday (Details below) it seemed a good time to share a bit of Penny Perry's story.

EN: How long did you serve on DPAC?

Penny Perry: I served during part of the terms of three administrations, Doty, Bergson and Ness.

EN: What are some of the responsibilities of DPAC that people are unaware of?

PP: The mission priorities change with administrations, but it is a voluntary commission tasked with promoting local arts, cataloging and prioritizing the maintenance and preservation of public cultural properties, serving as an advisory board when local 1% for Public Art is applied, and in general, being a resource for the public to communicate arts issues and advocacy.

EN: You've been framing and part of the art community for more than four decades. How would you describe the evolution of our arts community during this period of time?

PP: Subjectively, I think artists used to be more like islands, either individually, by discipline, or even according to related studio spaces. We are fortunate in this community to have strong, involved, practicing artists across many disciplines.

There is a history of collaboration among poets, musicians, dancers, actors and visual artists in Duluth. Some leaders of these collaborative efforts that have inspired me personally are Ellie Schoenfeld, Sara Thomsen, Ann Klefstad, Chris Monroe, Julie Ahasay and Lisa McKhann, to name a few. If you asked ten others to name ten other influential working artists, they could do it in a minute and they would be equally diverse across disciplines. That is the art community I now know and appreciate. You might guess modern communication and social media plays a big part, but still, people have to show up, and they do.

EN: Birds seem to be a recurring theme in your work. How did that begin and what is it that makes birds so endlessly fascinating?

PP: My first truly personal artwork was a colored pencil drawing that included a blackbird and was inspired by Truman Capote's Grass Harp & A tree of Night.

I grew up on a farm and have ridden wooded trails on horseback all my life. My whole family feeds, observes and loves birds. Yet, it is the metaphysical aspects and questions about birds that continue to impose themselves into my work. They are, at once, vulnerable and strong and the magically reliable harbingers of the seasons.

EN: How did you come to be involved with Phil's project?

PP: A little bird named Ellie Schoenfeld suggested it to Phil. I had a show at the Duluth Art Institute at the time, Phil checked it out, and asked me if I would be interested in his project. I thought, “poetry, birds and ink drawings” and couldn't say yes fast enough. We found our collaborative footing quite easily.

EN: What was the most rewarding aspect of this project for you?

PP: I might not even know that yet, but the rewards of bringing this project to fruition were many. It was a great opportunity to be asked to add a layer of imagery to Phil's poems, but, I challenged myself to try and be biologically accurate enough to please birders without losing the underlying wonder of the subjects of the poems. Over the last year and a half I spent a lot of time observing, photographing, researching and finally drawing with the kind of focus that is rare. For an artist, there's nothing better.

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BOOK LAUNCH DETAILS
The book launch will be at the Zeitgeist Atrium on Monday, September 9 from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. Ryan Frane will be playing during the reception and art show (5-6), and Woodblind will play from 7-9 after the poetry reading.

Books can be purchased at Hawk Ridge, at Zenith Bookstore, as well as directly from the author and the artist.

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Sprucing Up the Neighborhood with Tom Napoli

While driving past Ganucci's recently I noticed Tom Napoli as at it again, either adding to the murals on the outside walls or brightening. Not only has restaurant itself been a great addition to the neighborhood--primo Italian fare--but the murals which have been spreading across its exterior have added zest, like good Italian seasoning.

I first met Napoli while he was painting the long horizontal mural on the West side of the Earth Rider brewery last year.

It was also Tom Napoli who created the delightful "bookshelf" store front for Bob & Angel Dobrow's Zenith Bookstore just down the block, across from the new West Theater. While there I learned that Napoli was the artist who brought to life the story of the Tortoise and the Hare on the East side of Tortoise and Hare Footwear (40th Avenue West & Grand) which you can see on Tom's website here.

What follows are a handful of images to show you the versatility and flavor of this artist's work.

Detail, far right end of Tortoise and Hare Footware.

As I've said before, it is wonderful to see all the public art. 

Thank you, Tom, for your contributions to our community. 

Phil Fitzpatrick Talks About His New Book of Poems, Hawks on High: Everyday Miracles in a Hawk Ridge Season

Photo by Margie Menzies.

I've gotten to know Phil Fitzpatrick through our mutual affiliation with the Duluth Dylan Fest in recent years. A Harvard grad and career teacher, he's passionate about golf, poetry and life. His new book is titled Hawks on High: Everyday Miracles in a Hawk Ridge Season.

Hawk Ridge is a Nature Reserve here in Duluth, Minnesota. It is a book of poems inspired by this very special place, with pen-and-ink drawings by local artist Penny Perry.

It's exciting to see that the book is now in print, which makes it a good time to share Phil's story, learn more about his motivations and discover new insights regarding raptor watching.

EN: What prompted you to produce a book of poems about hawks and other raptors?

Phil Fitzpatrick: This book is a happy accident born of my fascination, if somewhat belated, with flight and migration introduced to me in the fall of 2017 by my friend and college classmate, Elizabeth Hunter, who has been watching raptors at Rockfish Gap in Virginia for years. But more specifically, the first poem came a few days after we had started watching. One poem followed another until I started thinking I could capture some of the more ineffable qualities not just of migration but of all the folks who work and who visit up at Hawk Ridge.

EN: What is it that makes Hawk’s Ridge such an unusual geographic/topographic place to watch migrating hawks?

PF: Raptors hate to fly over water, but they love catching thermal currents that rise up off the bluffs of Lake Superior's North Shore. The rock ridge is composed of a form of basalt called diabase, and it is a billion years old. The age of the location, the fantastic view of Lake Superior far below, and the always fascinating birds that fly overhead make it a spectacular raptor watching site, one of the most renowned in the country, if not the world.

Cover design, illustration by Penny Perry

EN: How many other such places do you think there are in the world?

PF: There are hundreds of such sites in the world, and I would hate to guess how many thousands of people watch, study, write about, band, and photograph these birds. Yet with all this attention year after year, there are so many mysteries and secrets the birds possess. We only know part of the story, and it is this mystery and this history that intrigue me. The poems that were hardest to write are the ones that make an attempt to imagine what goes on during migration and to imagine how far back such activity actually got started.

EN: The book is illustrated by local artist Penny Perry. How did you come to choose Penny for this project?

PF: I did not know Penny before we began our collaboration. I just knew she had a shop downtown, two doors west of the Zeitgeist Arts Cafe (where our book release party will be held). I was planning to use photographs to illustrate at least some of the poems, but I'm not a photographer which meant that I'd have to beg, borrow, steal, pay for the photos others have taken. That seemed like a huge, not to say sprawling, challenge and a big distraction. My friend and fellow poet Ellie Schoenfeld suggested I ask Penny if she'd illustrate the poems. I followed through on the suggestion, and to my surprise and delight, Penny said yes. That choice and the choice to ask Mike Savage to publish the book remain the two smartest choices I have made in this project. (You can read how I really feel about Penny's contributions in the Acknowledgments section of the book.)

Illustration by Penny Perry

EN: Can you name two or three poets who especially inspire you?

PF: I am inspired by more poets than you are permitting me, including several local poets. For this book alone, I am continually "guided" by Philip Larkin, John Ashbery, and Jane Hirshfield. I suppose there are a few poems that contain some of Mary Oliver's influence as well as a little bit of Robinson Jeffers. But even just naming these few masters here makes me feel like I am barely in the foothills of the true craft of poetry.

There was, and still remains so much work to do to cut through all the bullshit surrounding human existence to arrive at some small amount of truth that underlies the absolute miracle of avian flight and migration. Not just the science of it, either, but the quintessential nature and truth of it. If I come anywhere close to that in even just one poem, I will have achieved something extraordinary. And there is simply the "miracle" of Hawk Ridge itself, the fact of countless numbers of people--staff, volunteers, first time visitors and seasoned veterans--all regularly working to expand our collective knowledge of and familiarity with this miracle, this "everyday miracle" we have here in Duluth every autumn.

EN: What is the biggest surprise or most interesting lesson you’ve learned from watching the hawk migrations at Hawk Ridge?

PF: How little we really know, how little we really truly know about what migration can teach us about our planet, the birds that surround us, and believe it or not, about ourselves.

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BOOK LAUNCH DETAILS
The book launch will be at the Zeitgeist Atrium on Monday, September 9 from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. Ryan Frane will be playing during the reception and art show (5-6), and Woodblind will play from 7-9 after the poetry reading.

Books can be purchased at Hawk Ridge, at Zenith Bookstore, as well as directly from the author and the artist.

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