Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making

Leslie Schultz (Northfield, Minnesota) has published three collections of poetry, Still Life with Poppies: Elegies, Cloud Song, and Concertina (Kelsay Books, 2016, 2018, 2019), and two chapbooks: Larks at Sunrise: Light-hearted Poems for Dark Times (Green Gingko Press, 2021) and Living Room, (MWPH). Her poetry has appeared in Able Muse, Blue Unicorn, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Little Patuxent Review, Mezzo Cammin, MockingHeart Review, Naugatuck River Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Poet Lore, Third Wednesday, The Midwest Quarterly, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and The Wayfarer. On certain days, she is a new formalist. On other days, her work takes organic form. Schultz has won the Pablo Neruda Prize from McNeese State University, the River City Books Prize, and has three times had winning poems in the Maria W. Faust sonnet contest (2013, 2016, 2019). She has served as a judge for the contest since 2021, and has written published sonnets and sonnet sequences, including an eighteen-sonnet c