‘Minnesota Skyline’ and the history of local literature
The League of Minnesota Poets once published an anthology that was loaded with Twin Ports poets and topics. Minnesota Skyline was printed in twelve editions, 20,000 copies.
I’m curious about the authors within, including Luella Bender Carr.
According to the Proctor Historical Society:
Luella D. Carr (née Bender) (1889 – ?) was a poet and author. Born in Cloquet, Carr grew up on Minnesota’s Iron Range, where her father opened grocery stores at new mining locations. As an adult, she moved to Proctor with her husband, State Representative and State Senator Homer Carr, and was 50 when she began writing poetry. Carr released a book of poems in 1941 called When Tamaracks Are Golden. In her remaining years, she saw her poems published in numerous magazines and in 1961 released a young adult novel called A Way to California.
Carr (pictured above) was prolific. She was reprinted in the Park Bugle. She wrote a novel, published in 1961. She found a poem published in The Desert.
Do readers of PDD have stories to tell about Luella?
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