New book features poems set in Nobles County

New book features poems set in Nobles County

WORTHINGTON — Minnesota native and poet Nancy Simmonds has published a collection of her Ekphrastic poetry in the book, To Somewhere Else. The poems are set in Nobles County at the turn of the last century through the imaginary lives of the real J. Casper Becker family, ancestors of Simmonds. She writes of her ancestors in actual places and events, fabricating their interaction with others who lived in southwest Minnesota between 1885 and 1918. …