Jeffrey Boldt Writes

The May 2018 issue of  Mistake House  is out and  it’s very exciting to see my short-story The 2013 Holiday Letter and my poem Conversation Overheard at the Upscale Market included. The issue features poet Rajiv Mohabir and a cover by and interview with artist Rudy Shepherd.  

One of the pleasures of literature is discovering new writers that dazzle and inspire. Writers like Kristiana Kahakauwila , whom I  encountered first in Mistake House , the literary journal of Principia College.  This is Paradise, Kahakauwila's remarkable debut story collection, takes us deep into the lives of a diverse group of  Hawaiians.     Here’s a wonderful interview   that the journal did with this author to remember.  I'm also very pleased to have a short-story and a poem forthcoming in the next Mistake House .

As I contemplated applying to grad school again, I realized that the hardest part of the process might be getting letters of recommendation for my creative work. But I would like to thank two people who vouched for me.  Jacob  Silkstone, managing editor at the U.K. and Pakistan based international journal The Missing Slate , vouched for me by way of  the pieces  I'd published there. I also reached out to a professional writing contact, Judge JoAnne Kloppenberg, now  the presiding judge of the  Wisconsin Court of Appeals . I was lucky enough to have Jo Anne represent many of my decisions in the  environmental protection unit of the Department of Justice. She vouched for my quasi-judicial decisions and lawyerly writing. With their help, I was accepted into the  MFA program  in fiction at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.  Thanks to both for your support, and more on Augsburg in a later post. 

Some recent short story cites here  and poetry here.  A recent essay is here. Some old poetry cites from when I used to go by Jeffrey D. Bolt, here . And Jeffrey Bolt here  and here.

Nice Minnesota Public Radio story about the  Lake Superior poetry anthology  launch and reading in Duluth this weekend. It was a pleasure to meet Jim Pearlman, the other anthology editors and to meet and hear so many fine poets and artists who, like me, love the sweet water sea. Another highlight was the lyrical and inspired singing of Sara Thomsen .You can buy the anthology here .

Here's an article by attorney Christa Westerberg about some of my recent decisions in my day job as an administrative law judge, Groundwater: Diminishing Resource, Increasing Conflict . It was the cover story in this month's Wisconsin Lawyer.

My poem The North , intended as a response to  Jorge Luis Borges’  The South   (El Sur), has been accepted into a book that’s coming out this summer—called Amethyst and Agate: Poems of Lake Superior   to be published by   Holy Cow! Press . It was first published in The MacGuffin in 1990.