Bodywearers

"If we were angels, bodiless and pure, we would sing for all eternity. Connie R. Colwell's poems wonder how the body, with its baggy wardrobe of needs, could ever permit such music. But the body is a means. And Colwell's poems are less about leaving the flesh behind and more about discovering how the flaws and desires of daily living operate to bring a second life out into the open."

- Richard Robbins, author of Famous Persons We Have Known and The Untested Hand

Connie R. Colwell is a professional editor, freelance writer, and sometimes English teacher from Cottage Grove, Minnesota. Her published poetry has appeared in a handful of literary journals, including Potato Eyes, Artisan, and The Briar Cliff Review. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Minnesota State University, Mankato, where her graduate thesis won the Toy Blethen Award for Distinguished Poetry in 2002. Currently she lives in Mankato, Minnesota, with her husband and children.