We asked the 97 contributors to the Nancy Drew Anthology (Silver Birch Press, October 2016) to send photos featuring the book in their home environments for a series we’re calling “Nancy Drew Around the World.” Author Jennifer Hernandez sent this photo of herself and the book in front of the giant walleye at Lake Mille Lacs on a road trip home from the League of Minnesota Poets fall conference. As she tells us, it doesn’t get a whole lot more Minnesotan than this! Jennifer contributed the poem, “Nancy Drew is my kind of princess,” featured below, to the collection.
Nancy Drew is my kind of princess
flashlight scepter in hand
Sleuthing through secret passages,
tunnels, attics, caves
Girl detective slays her own dragons
needs no rescue
Sheathed in smart frocks with
matching handbags
Strawberry blonde hair
tucked behind one ear
Clues deduced
mysteries solved
Blue roadster
speeding into the sunset
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Hernandez teaches and writes in the Minneapolis area. Her work has appeared recently in Mothers Always Write, Rose Red Review, Silver Birch Press, and anthologized in Bird Float, Tree Song (Silverton Books). She has performed her poetry at a nonprofit garage, a bike shop filled with taxidermy, and in the kitchen for her children, who are probably her toughest audience.
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