Lina Belar’s poetry blends her love for nature and all its creatures, including the human ones, with a foolish love of language. She has been featured in Talking Stick, Lake Region Review, and Poets Across Minnesota. In 2018 Lina received the first prize poetry award at the Brainerd Writer’s Alliance Festival and she published her first chapbook, Rural Score. In 2021 she received a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and in 2024 she published her second chapbook, At the Crossroads. A number of her poems have been translated into Slovenian and in 2026 were celebrated at an event at Triglav National Park in her honor. Most recently, the Northern Lights Library Network has named Lina as the recipient of its 2026 Life Achievement Award, recognizing more than 50 years of extraordinary service to libraries, museums, history and the arts throughout Minnesota.
PRAISE:
From city streets to open Midwestern roads, Lina Belar finds wonder in the places where memory and possibility meet. With an inviting voice and a thoughtful eye, these poems linger over the everyday—a childhood recollection, a passing scene, a turn in the road—and reveal how even small moments can shift our view of the world. Written in the shadow of illness and brought to publication amid recovery from a serious accident, this collection carries a quiet resilience.
–Leah Huete de Maines, Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Northern Kentucky University
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