Description
Findley Place: A Street, a Ballpark, a Neighborhood
It's the early 1950's and you find yourself on Findley Place, a small one-way street in South Minneapolis-the sweetest spot in the city: just half a block from Nicollet Base Ball Park, home of the Minneapolis Millers. This collection of poems celebrates ordinary lives: kids playing Pom Pom Pullaway, housewives hanging clothes on the line, summertime fears of polio--all against the backdrop of the ballpark. Through a wide range of poetic forms-free verse, heroic couplets, jazzy riffs, blues, a ghostly ballad, you share in the bustle of game days, follow the lives of the street's residents, and listen to gossip from The Neighbor Lady. A mix of historical facts and imagined characters, these poems jostle the street, the ballpark, and the neighborhood to life.
About the Author: Rita Moe’s poetry has appeared in Water~Stone, Poet Lore, Slipstream and other literary journals. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Sins & Disciplines and Findley Place; A Street, a Ballpark, a Neighborhood. Now retired from an investment firm in Minneapolis, she lives in Roseville, MN
