This book contains 30 poems written about Canal Park, an area in Duluth, Minnesota offering lodging, dining, shopping, recreation, and entertainment. The poems are written in a variety of poetry forms, and each poem is accompanied by a color photograph taken in Canal Park. Included attractions are the Aerial Lift Bridge, the Lighthouse, Lake Superior Maritime Museum, Great Lakes Aquarium, and the SS William A. Irvin.
Leslie Anne Perry, PhD, was born in New York, and currently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina with her husband of 60+ years. A classroom teacher in Missouri for seven years, and a remedial reading teacher in Mississippi for six years, she is a professor emerita in the Clemmer College of Education at East Tennessee State University – where she taught children's literature and language arts for 20 years. She is the author or co-author of four traditionally published books, two traditionally published tests, and 68 articles in 58 different journals and magazines. Most of her 57 independently published books available on Amazon are short, and 31 are poetry books.