Jean Prokott
@jeanprokott.bsky.social
Rochester, Minnesota’s poet laureate and author of The Second Longest Day of the Year
don’t love that I need this shirt freshly laundered every June since our constitution is apparently a google doc that only radical paid-for anti-American psychopaths have access to (and edit with weaponized faux-historical-illiteracy for profit)
June 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
don’t love that I need this shirt freshly laundered every June since our constitution is apparently a google doc that only radical paid-for anti-American psychopaths have access to (and edit with weaponized faux-historical-illiteracy for profit)
MPR is getting the word of the work of The Academy of American Poets and Trust the Hours to even more people! I couldn’t be more thrilled about this interview. MPR!
(The audio listen is worth it—I read part of the poem and Catharine Richert is the best.)
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
(The audio listen is worth it—I read part of the poem and Catharine Richert is the best.)
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
New exhibit explores the intersection of art, poetry and mental health
A new exhibit at Rochester’s Chateau Theatre combines art and poetry in ways that reflect personal and collective experiences of mental illness.
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May 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
MPR is getting the word of the work of The Academy of American Poets and Trust the Hours to even more people! I couldn’t be more thrilled about this interview. MPR!
(The audio listen is worth it—I read part of the poem and Catharine Richert is the best.)
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
(The audio listen is worth it—I read part of the poem and Catharine Richert is the best.)
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
We’re one week away from Trust the Hours!
The Minnesota Humanities Center is kindly hosting some of my words on the show and will be joining our reading next Saturday. ❤️
Join us at the Chateau Saturday April 26th, at 6:00.
The Minnesota Humanities Center is kindly hosting some of my words on the show and will be joining our reading next Saturday. ❤️
Join us at the Chateau Saturday April 26th, at 6:00.
Trust the Hours - A Poetry and Art Collaboration in Rochester - Minnesota Humanities Center
If someone asks why write? my answer is: it’s the poet’s job to discover the metaphors with which the universe speaks to us. It’s her job to make life, and […]
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April 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We’re one week away from Trust the Hours!
The Minnesota Humanities Center is kindly hosting some of my words on the show and will be joining our reading next Saturday. ❤️
Join us at the Chateau Saturday April 26th, at 6:00.
The Minnesota Humanities Center is kindly hosting some of my words on the show and will be joining our reading next Saturday. ❤️
Join us at the Chateau Saturday April 26th, at 6:00.
I’m hiding in April’s Rochester Magazine! Find me at a local eatery or coffee-ry and read an amazing profile piece by a brilliant writer & friend. I’m incredibly grateful for the support, in these last weeks especially, as we approach “Trust the Hours” on April 26th.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I’m hiding in April’s Rochester Magazine! Find me at a local eatery or coffee-ry and read an amazing profile piece by a brilliant writer & friend. I’m incredibly grateful for the support, in these last weeks especially, as we approach “Trust the Hours” on April 26th.
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Trust the Hours opens Sat. 26 April at 6:00 @ the Chateau! poems from 7:00--8:00, exhibit, community art piece, giveaways, & refreshments available all night; broadside debut; Munchkin the therapy horse from 6:00-6:45. community, empathy, and mental health. one story is one story is our story.
March 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Trust the Hours opens Sat. 26 April at 6:00 @ the Chateau! poems from 7:00--8:00, exhibit, community art piece, giveaways, & refreshments available all night; broadside debut; Munchkin the therapy horse from 6:00-6:45. community, empathy, and mental health. one story is one story is our story.
Lavender Magazine interviewed some of our 🏳️🌈 artists and poets, and I spoke with them about the Trust the Hours exhibit (at the Chateau on April 26th).
I am so grateful they took the time and space for us! Poetry & art are resistance, y’all.
lavendermagazine.com/featured-hom...
I am so grateful they took the time and space for us! Poetry & art are resistance, y’all.
lavendermagazine.com/featured-hom...
Trust the Hours: Exploring Mental Health Through Art | Lavender Magazine
“If someone asks me, ‘Why do you write?’ my answer is that it’s my job to discover the metaphors with which the universe speaks to us, and that this discove ...
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March 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Lavender Magazine interviewed some of our 🏳️🌈 artists and poets, and I spoke with them about the Trust the Hours exhibit (at the Chateau on April 26th).
I am so grateful they took the time and space for us! Poetry & art are resistance, y’all.
lavendermagazine.com/featured-hom...
I am so grateful they took the time and space for us! Poetry & art are resistance, y’all.
lavendermagazine.com/featured-hom...
democracy pro-tip: write the protest’s theme in your calendar to stay organized
March 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
democracy pro-tip: write the protest’s theme in your calendar to stay organized
On Thursday, April 10th, I'll be reading poetry with CHS students at Rochester Public Library, sponsored by the MN Minnesota Humanities Center! I'd love if you'd join us as we celebrate poems from the Latino Poetry Anthology. (And you can win a copy of the book!)
www.mnhum.org/event/roches...
www.mnhum.org/event/roches...
March 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
On Thursday, April 10th, I'll be reading poetry with CHS students at Rochester Public Library, sponsored by the MN Minnesota Humanities Center! I'd love if you'd join us as we celebrate poems from the Latino Poetry Anthology. (And you can win a copy of the book!)
www.mnhum.org/event/roches...
www.mnhum.org/event/roches...
we attended an immigrants' rights rally today, organized by Rochester's youth, who are planting seeds of resistance in depleted soil. most students who spoke today read poems they wrote or poems they love. always, always, poetry makes its way to the front of the line. no human is illegal.
March 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
we attended an immigrants' rights rally today, organized by Rochester's youth, who are planting seeds of resistance in depleted soil. most students who spoke today read poems they wrote or poems they love. always, always, poetry makes its way to the front of the line. no human is illegal.
I cried when I found out Rattle picked my poem for Poets Respond this week—it’s about presidents and space, two of my favorite things—and while all this poetry mess is subjective, you never know if you do right by what you love. I’m beyond grateful.
www.rattle.com/voyager-by-j...
www.rattle.com/voyager-by-j...
“Voyager” by Jean Prokott
America mourns the loss of President Jimmy Carter and celebrates one hell of a life lived. I’ve been reading his poetry this week and came upon this quote: “being president is as diffic…
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January 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I cried when I found out Rattle picked my poem for Poets Respond this week—it’s about presidents and space, two of my favorite things—and while all this poetry mess is subjective, you never know if you do right by what you love. I’m beyond grateful.
www.rattle.com/voyager-by-j...
www.rattle.com/voyager-by-j...