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    • A Reflective Conversation with Jane Piirto
    • A Journey Through Creativity as a Writer and Researcher: An Interview with Jane Piirto
    • Don’t Fence Me In (Interview)
  • Speech for Honorary Doctorate
  • UP Writings
    • T47N R27W Rocks (essay)
    • The Company (a poem)
    • The Mathers of Ishpeming and Cleveland: A Social History
    • Does It Snow in Vietnam? (a short story)
    • Helvi’s Sauna (a short story)
    • Grandma, You Used To (a poem)
    • Young Mather in Ishpeming (an essay)
    • Crosscountry (poem)
    • Grass Fires (short story)
    • 18 Maple Trees (a poem)
    • The Big Birds (poem)
    • A Blessing (poem)
    • Raspberries . . . Blueberries (two poems)
    • Behind (poem)
    • Meditation at Helen Lake (poem)
    • Blueberry Season (short story)
    • The Lilacs of Ishpeming (poem)
    • Meteor Showers
    • Seney Stretch Spectre (poem)
  • Other Literary Works
    • Poems
      • Amish Angelus
      • Srebrenica
      • I Will Never Love Anyone the Way I Loved James Dean (poem)
      • Blue (poem)
      • People of Bone and Water (poem)
      • Delphi (poem)
      • 2 poems from Rapport
      • All Those Little Brown Birds
      • 18 Maple Trees (poem)
      • The Big Birds (poem)
      • At the Top of the Ladder is the Sky
      • Sweet Breath
    • Fiction
      • Fish Scream (short story)
      • Does It Snow in Vietnam? (short story)
      • Helvi’s Sauna (short story)
      • The Blanket (short story)
      • Snowman (a short story)
      • The Small Death (short story)
      • The Personals (A short story)
    • Creative Nonfiction
      • Why Does A Writer Write? (Essay)
      • Swimming the Midwest
      • There Are Places You Know the Flow (essay)
      • A Week in Creativity
      • Mae (An Essay)
      • T47N R27W Rocks (essay)
      • Fragile Calm
  • Finnish-related
    • The Search for Anna Karna (Essay)
    • Let’s Steam Up (essay)
    • Juhannus (poem)
    • Karhu (poem)
    • The Finnishness of My Americanness
    • A Charm for Singers (poem)
    • Here (poem)
    • For the Clubbers (poem)
    • Sauna(poem)
    • Savu Sauna (poem)
    • The Development of Orchestra Conductors in Finland
    • German Soldier at MMA (poem)
    • TANGO Argentina/Finland (poems)
  • Piirto Pyramid
  • Principal: A Memoir
  • Selected Scholarly Works
    • Organic Creativity for 21st Century Skills
    • A Week in Creativity
    • How We Go Within: Creative Process in Writers
    • What Creative Writers Say About Their Schooling
    • Creative Writing Scholarship List
    • Dabrowski theory articles
    • General scholarly articles
      • Parenting Talented Children
      • Guidance and Counseling Needs of the Talented
      • Krishnamurti and Me
    • Gender scholarly works
      • Female Teacher/Researcher
  • e-Books
  • Jane’s Annual Poem, 1973-2020
  • Winter essay

Poems--Selected. See CV for full list.

  • Amish Angelus (poem with audio)
  • Srebreniça (poem with audio)
  • I Will Never Love Anyone the Way I Loved James Dean (poem with audio)
  • Blue (poem with audio)
  • A Charm for Singers (poem with audio)
  • Juhannus  (poem with audio)
  • People of Bone and Water (poem with audio)
  • At Delphi (poem with audio)
  • 2 Poems from Rapport
  • All Those Little Brown Birds
  • The Company (poem with audio)
  • Grandma, You Used To (poem with audio)
  • The Big Birds (poem)
  • Behind
  • Meditation at Helen Lake, Michigan
  • A Blessing
  • The Lilacs of Ishpeming
  • At the Top of the Ladder is the Sky
  • sweet breath
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