Jean Prokott

I think we can flip Brad Finstad in MN-1. A math teacher is running for the DFL in this former-Walz district, home of Mayo Clinic… which is closing six rural offices this year. Farmers are suffering in this district, too, and Brad has done nothing.

25.09.2025 23:23 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Every journalist’s response to “I don’t remember my vote” should be “if you don’t remember why you’re voting the way you are on legislation that impacts your constituents’ literal lives, how can they trust you’re looking out for their interests? Is there a reason your memory is of concern?”

31.08.2025 14:28 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Her grilling of Moore juxtaposed with the lazy interview of Tom Emmer about MN’s school shooting was infuriating. She barely challenged Emmer on his votes for guns (doesn’t push back on “I don’t remember my vote”) and didn’t challenge him on his votes to cut (mental) health care. Embarrassing.

31.08.2025 14:03 — 👍 39    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

A gift from your poet laureate to her city on a difficult holiday:

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04.07.2025 20:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

don’t love that I need this shirt freshly laundered every June since our constitution is apparently a google doc that only radical paid-for anti-American psychopaths have access to (and edit with weaponized faux-historical-illiteracy for profit)

27.06.2025 19:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New exhibit explores the intersection of art, poetry and mental health A new exhibit at Rochester’s Chateau Theatre combines art and poetry in ways that reflect personal and collective experiences of mental illness.

MPR is getting the word of the work of The Academy of American Poets and Trust the Hours to even more people! I couldn’t be more thrilled about this interview. MPR!

(The audio listen is worth it—I read part of the poem and Catharine Richert is the best.)

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

03.05.2025 13:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trust the Hours - A Poetry and Art Collaboration in Rochester - Minnesota Humanities Center If someone asks why write? my answer is: it’s the poet’s job to discover the metaphors with which the universe speaks to us. It’s her job to make life, and […]

We’re one week away from Trust the Hours!

The Minnesota Humanities Center is kindly hosting some of my words on the show and will be joining our reading next Saturday. ❤️

Join us at the Chateau Saturday April 26th, at 6:00.

19.04.2025 13:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m hiding in April’s Rochester Magazine! Find me at a local eatery or coffee-ry and read an amazing profile piece by a brilliant writer & friend. I’m incredibly grateful for the support, in these last weeks especially, as we approach “Trust the Hours” on April 26th.

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01.04.2025 14:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trust the Hours opens Sat. 26 April at 6:00 @ the Chateau! poems from 7:00--8:00, exhibit, community art piece, giveaways, & refreshments available all night; broadside debut; Munchkin the therapy horse from 6:00-6:45. community, empathy, and mental health. one story is one story is our story.

26.03.2025 23:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trust the Hours: Exploring Mental Health Through Art | Lavender Magazine “If someone asks me, ‘Why do you write?’ my answer is that it’s my job to discover the metaphors with which the universe speaks to us, and that this discove ...

Lavender Magazine interviewed some of our 🏳️‍🌈 artists and poets, and I spoke with them about the Trust the Hours exhibit (at the Chateau on April 26th).

I am so grateful they took the time and space for us! Poetry & art are resistance, y’all.

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21.03.2025 23:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

democracy pro-tip: write the protest’s theme in your calendar to stay organized

20.03.2025 22:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please change your mind and vote NO. This inaction is killing us. The people are standing alone & desperate for leadership with guts to take a stand. Think LONG TERM about what hurts us, & do not give in to the tyranny. You can’t say you love the constitution if you don’t do the work to defend it.

14.03.2025 00:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please, please vote NO on cloture! We are desperate for some actual leadership and movement toward change rather than constantly giving in, like the GOP expects we will. Talk some sense into Schumer. A shutdown is on the GOP, and working with them only condones their tyranny. The people are begging.

14.03.2025 00:02 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On Thursday, April 10th, I'll be reading poetry with CHS students at Rochester Public Library, sponsored by the MN Minnesota Humanities Center! I'd love if you'd join us as we celebrate poems from the Latino Poetry Anthology. (And you can win a copy of the book!)

www.mnhum.org/event/roches...

12.03.2025 18:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

we attended an immigrants' rights rally today, organized by Rochester's youth, who are planting seeds of resistance in depleted soil. most students who spoke today read poems they wrote or poems they love. always, always, poetry makes its way to the front of the line. no human is illegal.

02.03.2025 22:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She said that comment, and he countered her and spun and spun more lies and she let him do it without any more pushback—it drives me crazy how Margaret always gives them a platform every Sunday morning, and gives the last word, the last lie, as if they’ve called her out rather than vice versa.

16.02.2025 16:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Voyager” by Jean Prokott America mourns the loss of President Jimmy Carter and celebrates one hell of a life lived. I’ve been reading his poetry this week and came upon this quote: “being president is as diffic…

I cried when I found out Rattle picked my poem for Poets Respond this week—it’s about presidents and space, two of my favorite things—and while all this poetry mess is subjective, you never know if you do right by what you love. I’m beyond grateful.

www.rattle.com/voyager-by-j...

05.01.2025 14:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0