Nancy Louise Cook
Projects

The Witness Project
https://www.facebook.com/witnesswriting/
The Witness Project’s goal is to create opportunities for traditionally silenced voices to be heard and thereby serve as catalysts for cross-cultural understanding. The main program consists of free monthly generative workshops of three hours’ duration. More....
https://www.facebook.com/witnesswriting/
The Witness Project’s goal is to create opportunities for traditionally silenced voices to be heard and thereby serve as catalysts for cross-cultural understanding. The main program consists of free monthly generative workshops of three hours’ duration. More....

Pandemic Penpal Poets Project
https://mnpoets.org
PenPal Poets Project is a COVID-motivated set of initiatives that connects poets and artists with residents in congregate living facilities through poem packets, postcard poems, virtual workshops, and poetry serenades. More....
https://mnpoets.org
PenPal Poets Project is a COVID-motivated set of initiatives that connects poets and artists with residents in congregate living facilities through poem packets, postcard poems, virtual workshops, and poetry serenades. More....

Literary Documentary
https://www.minneapolisparks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Phase-1-Community-Engagement-Part-2.pdf
This past year, the Witness Project undertook to compile a “literary documentary” of several regional parks, interrogating the past, present, and future of the parks through a literary lens. As lead artist, I curated a compilation of essays and poems about the parks which was then presented to the Minneapolis Parks & Rec Board as evidence of important perspectives on the parks. More....
https://www.minneapolisparks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Phase-1-Community-Engagement-Part-2.pdf
This past year, the Witness Project undertook to compile a “literary documentary” of several regional parks, interrogating the past, present, and future of the parks through a literary lens. As lead artist, I curated a compilation of essays and poems about the parks which was then presented to the Minneapolis Parks & Rec Board as evidence of important perspectives on the parks. More....

Meet the Farmers
To aid in development of sustainable agriculture nonprofits, I'm interviewing and writing the stories of immigrant and refugee farmers. The stories will soon be appearing on social media sites and in promotional materials.
To aid in development of sustainable agriculture nonprofits, I'm interviewing and writing the stories of immigrant and refugee farmers. The stories will soon be appearing on social media sites and in promotional materials.