Poetry Meets Music

Write On is happy to continue our collaboration with Midsummer’s Music, Poetry Meets Music. At one concert in each of Midsummer’s series offerings, a poet will read a poem written in response to a piece of music to be performed. Poets were given recordings in advance with no identifying information as to the title, composer, era, etc., and were asked not to look up this information. The result is a poem composed entirely in response to the emotions or memories the music evokes. 

For tonight’s concert, we are pleased to present poet Sara Dovre Wudali. Tonight’s concert is Mendelssohn Magic. To order tickets, please visit Midsummer’s Music. 

Sara Dovre Wudali is a writer and editor from Saint Paul, Minnesota. She grew up on a farm in southwest Minnesota, where the wind blows through the cottonwoods and box elder bugs rule. Dovre Wudali was a 2023-24 Loft Mentor Series Fellow in poetry. Her poems and essays have been published in literary journals such as under the gum tree, Barrelhouse, Hairstreak Butterfly Review, and Blood Tree Literature. She is the editor of the hybrid anthology chapbook, All You Need is One Avocado. You can learn more and read her work at saradovrewudali.com.