Norman Minnick

Norman Minnick (b.1970) is an American poet. His poetry collection, To Taste the Water (2007), won the First Series Award from Mid-List Press. His second collection is entitled Folly (2013). He is is the editor of Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-First Century (2010) and Work toward Knowing: Beginning with Blake by Jim Watt (2015). His poems and criticism have appeared in such publications as The Writer's Chronicle, The Georgia Review, Teachers & Writers Magazine, The Oxford American, The Christian Science Monitor, The Columbia Review, Southern Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Texas Observer, Chelsea, and Notre Dame Review.

Biography
Born Norman Minnick, Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky, he was given the nickname “Buzz” by his parents. In the early 80s he got involved in the underground punk scene and later formed the hardcore band Bush League. He attended Marian University where he earned degrees in Art and English and Florida International University where he received his MFA in Creative Writing in 2001. He lives in Indianapolis and teaches literature and writing as an adjunct professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and University of Indianapolis.

Praise
Minnick's first collection of poems, To Taste the Water (2007), was widely praised. In a review in NUVO, David Hoppe wrote, "Minnick...has published a book of poems as clear and still as a mountain pond." He continues, "Minnick’s diction is limpid, his rhythms off-beat just enough to keep one paying attention." Lou Harry wrote that the poems are "beautifully captures a special kind of stillness

In the introduction to his work as "featured poet" in Atticus Review, the editor wrote, "There’s a kind of electricity here, a blend of wit, risk, accessibility, and brevity that permeates not only these five poems, but all the poems throughout Folly and To Taste the Water.

Poetry

 * Folly (2013), Wind Publications, ISBN 978-1936138593
 * To Taste the Water (2007), Mid-List Press, ISBN 978-0922811748

Editor

 * Between Water and Song: New Poets for the Twenty-First Century (2010), White Pine Press, ISBN 978-1935210078
 * Work toward Knowing: Beginning with Blake (2015) by Jim Watt, Kinchafoonee Creek Press, ISBN 978-1312990401

Antholigies

 * Barbara Shoup, ed. Not Like the Rest of Us: An Anthology of Contemporary Indiana Writers, (2016), Inwords Press, ISBN 978-0996743839
 * Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, ed. Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems, (2011), Accents Publishing, ISBN 978-1-936628-07-0
 * Marianne Worthington, ed. Motif 3: All the Livelong Day, an Anthology of Writings about Work, (2011), MotesBooks, ISBN 978-1-934894-46-0
 * Jenny Kander and C. E. Greer, eds. And Know This Place: Poetry of Indiana, (2011), Indiana Historical Society, ISBN 978-0871952929
 * Chris Jansen, ed. It Has Come To This: Poets of the Great Mother Conference, (2008), Kinchafoonee Creek Press, ISBN 978-0615262109
 * Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad, eds. Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry, (2007), Poem written in collaboration with Julianna Baggott, Soft Skull Press, ISBN 978-1933368184
 * Tracey Broussard, ed. Irrepressible Appetites, (2002), Rock Press, ISBN 978-0967674827