St. Paul, Minnesota, Poet Laureate Carol Connolly offers an unforgettable collection of new poems and selected favorites that are sure to inspire the artist in all of us.
Carol Connolly (neé McLellan) was born in 1934. In addition to her first career raising seven, Connolly has been variously known as a political candidate, activist, journalist, poet, and playwright. She began writing poetry in 1976 by accident, when the fiction class she wanted to take was full. She signed up for a poetry class instead and published her first collection Payments Due, in 1985. In July 2006, she was named Saint Paul's first poet laureate.