About

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 Northern Lights Library Network’s Poets Across Minnesota. Lina received the first prize poetry award at the Brainerd Writer’s Alliance Festival in 2017 the same year her first book, Rural Score, was published.

During the Covid pandemic she spent much time promoting the poetry of others including the regional collections Poems of Hope and Reassurance and More Poems of Hope and Reasurrance as well as the annual collection Minnesota Voices.

A resident of Minnesota since 1974, she has written regular newpaper columns in which she displays her genuine affection for local history. Her second chapbook, At the Crossroads, will be published in 2024. Lina is working on her third chapbook.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Lake Region Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage fund.