Just Friends: An Evening of Poetry and Jazz featuring David Ferreira, Mark Vinz, and Bill Law will be presented Tuesday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Weld Hall Glasrud Auditorium. The event is part of the McGrath Visiting Writers Series and is free and open to the public. The trio has given jazz and poetry performances […]
Presidential Written by English Professor Emeritus Mark Vinz for Roland Dille’s funeral Sorting through old files today I came across a letter dated over thirty years ago, an apology you didn’t need to make but always did, for those who were slow to understand, who made demands, who had yet to know your door was always open, even for those […]
By: John Lamb, INFORUM MOORHEAD – Seven years after retiring from Minnesota State University Moorhead, Mark Vinz has two book projects in the works. That’s enough to make the 71-year-old seem pretty busy – to everyone but himself. “I see people like David Ferreira, and I don’t think I’m doing anything,” Vinz says with a laugh, referring to his friend […]
By Mary Ann Grossmann mgrossmann@pioneerpress.com www.twincities.com/entertainment Mark Vinz, fiction writer, poet and retired professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead, is winner of the Minnesota Book Awards 2014 Kay Sexton Award for outstanding work in fostering books, reading and literary activity. Sponsored by Common Good Books, the award honors Kay Sexton, who was an influential book buyer at B. […]
Why is it that Labor Day always seems to sneak up on us? No matter what the holiday might mean to us individually, the one thing most people seem to agree on is that it usually comes too soon. Read more of Mark Vinz’s thoughts on Labor Day by clicking the live link.