Although Memorial Day weekend is viewed as an unofficial start to summer, the season properly starts on June 20. But being ...

BRAINERD — Heartland Poets, an area chapter of the League of Minnesota Poets, meets 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, June 7, in the large room of the Brainerd Public Library.

The lines in June Jordan’s “These Poems” explain the poet’s modus operandi. Her poems are made “in the dark,” as if by subterranean or subversive means. They are composed of words that ...