A Blanket of Raven Feathers

Larry Schug's poetry is conversational. He likes the reader to picture themselves sitting across the kitchen table, talking over a cup of tea or coffee. Poetry is an art form, like all others, which is essentially communication between one human being and another. Larry's poetry is an art, which he hopes inspires or causes readers to perhaps think in new ways or feel some sort of emotion.

Larry Schug of Avon, MN

Larry Schug is retired from a life of various kinds of physical labor. He is currently a volunteer writing tutor at the College of St. Benedict and a volunteer naturalist at St. John’s University OutdoorU. He lives with his wife, a dog, and two cats near a large tamarack bog in St. Wendel Township, Minnesota. Larry is the author of seven books of poems–Scales Out of Balance (1990), Caution: Thin Ice (1993), The Turning of Wheels (2001), Arrogant Bones (2008), Nails (2011), and At Gloaming (2014) all published by North Star Press of St. Cloud, Minnesota, and a chapbook, Obsessed with Mud, published by Poetry Harbor, Duluth, Minnesota. Caution: Thin Ice was a 1993 Minnesota Book Award finalist and Arrogant Bones was a 2008 Midwest Book Award finalist. Larry has won three Central Minnesota Arts Board grants and was awarded a 2008 McKnight Fellowship for Writers.