 Students at Central Lakes College in Brainerd had a chance to hear from an award-winning poet this afternoon as part of the college's Versus Like Water series. Mary Shibbast is an award-winning poet from Portland, Oregon, and she visited Central Lakes College sharing her poems and signing books afterwards. Shibbast writes a variety of different poetry and has traveled to traveled the country sharing her love for the art. Writing a poem is like being alive twice how you go back and you reconsider and you reconsider your own imagination and how it operates. I love being in conversation with other people about real things that matter and that's what poetry is. Versus Like Water brings four poets a year to the college as a way to promote poetry and imaginative literature. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.