Poet shares music and lore of Finnish immigrants
September 27, 2019
For a woman raised in Minnesota, poet and musician Diane Jarvenpa has gained a pretty decent following in her grandparents' homeland of Finland, where she is known as "Minnesotan Satakieli," or the Minnesota Nightingale.
Starting at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jarvenpa will read from her latest book of poems, "The Way She Told Her Story" and perform on the kantele, a traditional Finnish stringed instrument that is plucked, at the Cloquet Public Library.
Jarvenpa said she wrote the book after receiving a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board to research Finnish immigrant women stories and their d...
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