ONLINE JOURNAL: Flurry*

From 2009 to 2011, Todd coped with Minnesota winters by publishing "wintry poems, intermittently" in an online journal he called Flurry*. It was only published seasonally, between the winter solstice and spring equinox. Poems were solicited and submitted. Todd served as editor and publisher, drawing upon his experience as a reader for Alaska Quarterly Review as an undergraduate at The University of Alaska – Anchorage.

In its inaugural year, Flurry* published poems exclusively by fellow Minnesotans. But Todd expanded the journal's scope to welcome Wisconsin poets in its second year, then North and South Dakota poets in its third. It featured poems by Ethna McKiernan, Alex Lemon, Raúl Sánchez, Deborah Keenan, and many other fine poets.

We all need a little light and loveliness to get us

through the darkness of deep winter. Todd Boss understands that.

—Laurie Hertzel, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Over the course of its three-year span, Flurry* published nearly 100 poems about snow and the snowy season. Subscribers received new "precipitations" on an irregular basis, singularly and in accumulations.

The journal is no longer online. Read the full Minneapolis Star Tribune story about Flurry* here.

Starting a literary journal was my way of celebrating the poets whose work I admired, while encouraging those whose work was new to me. I liked how regional, time-sensitive, and thematic the endeavor was. Those limitations made it more special somehow. And it made the cold winter a little warmer.