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Remembering Mary Oliver: Gary Boelhower reads "Mindfulness"

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published January 21, 2019 at 9:42 AM CST

Poet Mary Oliver wasn't "from here," but so many of us feel drawn to the work of the woman the New York Times called the "poet of the natural world."

Mary Oliver died January 17. All this week on Northland Morning, local poets will be sharing their favorite Mary Oliver poems, and we began this morning with Duluth's Poet Laureate, Gary Boelhower, reading Mary Oliver's "Mindfulness":

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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