Joyce Sutphen is the author of nine books of poetry, including Straight Out of View, Naming the Stars, and Carrying Water to the Field. She is professor emerita at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. She served as Poet Laureate of Minnesota from 2011-21.

Books by Joyce Sutphen:

Other poems on the web by Joyce Sutphen:
Forty poems
Five poems
"From Out the Cave"
"Crossroads"
Five poems
"Agape House"

Joyce Sutphen's Website.

About This Long Winter:

"How rare to see lyric tenderness sustained over years with no stumble into sentimentality. This remarkable collection wields a keen blade of attention, a nonchalant elegance. The reigning landscape is the Minnesota family farm of Sutphen's girlhood, a world lost not only to her but to America."
—Patricia Hampl

"The writing . . . is faultless. . . . And even more satisfying is the fact that this brilliant technique justifies and is justified by the truth value of these poems, which usher us into the reality of time, change, loss, and memory's belated and beautiful insights."
—Vijay Seshadri

"Sutphen shows us the very heart and soul of her working, rooted prairie people, as shy of being caught in a poem as they once were reluctant to be photographed, but perfectly captured for us in this sweeping account of life that is both specific and universal. A stunning collection of poems."
—Anne-Marie Fyfe