Craig Planting

Craig Planting is a writer who lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two kids. Besides publishing short stories and poems he has written about the Twin Cities’ music scene which is one of the best local music scenes in the country. Craig is currently writing his first novel, entitled Some Great Sin.

New Writing: “Three Fathers“

Bibliography

Short Fiction:

  • Planting, Craig. “The Kitchen Table.” The Sun Oct. 2002: 38. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “On a Night Too Cold for Snow.” The Minneapolis Observer Jan. 2005: 10-11. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Slim” received an honorary mention in the Dylan Days Creative Writing Contest, 2007 (Self-Published by Snake Gilmore Press, 2008).
  • Planting, Craig. “Day Shift” Talkin’ Blues May 2008: 15-18. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Telling Him.” The Sun Oct. 2010: 28-30. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Boys and Girls.” Finalist in the B.J. Rolfzen Creative Writing Contest, 2012

Poems:

  • Planting, Craig. “Across Lake of the Isles.” The Weekly Alibi Albuquerque Feb. 11, 1999: 29. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “To the Ghosts of Lakewood.” The Southwest Journal Minneapolis Apr. 11, 2011: Focus B9. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Radiant Child (for Eric).” The Southwest Journal Minneapolis Nov. 8, 2011: Focus B13. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “A Brief Defense of Our Cold Land.” The Southwest Journal Minneapolis Mar. 30, 2013: Focus B6. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “The Catskills vs. the Future.” The Southwest Journal Minneapolis Sep. 29, 2013: Focus B6. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “The Six Short Months of Last Winter.” The Southwest Journal Minneapolis Dec. 4-17, 2014: Focus B17. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Ideal Corners: A Song for Nye’s.” The Southwest Journal Minneapolis Apr. 9-22, 2015: Focus B13. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Good Sleeping Weather.” The Southwest Journal Minneapolis Sep. 10-23, 2015: Focus B13. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Across Lake of the Isles.” The Southwest Journal Minneapolis Dec. 3-16, 2015: Focus B17. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “26th and Bloomington.” The Southwest Journal Minneapolis June 16-29, 2016: Focus B12. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “No One Ever Listens.” The Southwest Journal Minneapolis Dec. 26, 2019-Jan. 8, 2020: Focus B9. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Don’t Look Down.” The Southwest Journal Minneapolis Oct. 29-Nov. 11, 2020: A14-15. Print.

Articles:

  • Planting, Craig. “Memorial Service: An anonymous Vietnam Veteran uses his art to draw attention to the young lives lost in Iraq.” The Minneapolis Observer Feb. 2005: 5. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Bold as Love: The Story Behind Little Man.” The Chord Minneapolis Dec. 2008: 1-3. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “It’s Too Late To Stop Now: The Belfast Cowboys and St. Dominic’s Trio.” The Chord Minneapolis April 2009: 9-11. Print. (An early version of this article was published on-line by The Pulse, 3-7-07.)
  • Planting, Craig. “Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers’ Upper Mississippi Shakedown.” The Chord Minneapolis Fall 2009: 5-8. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Revisiting the Suburbs: Chan Poling Reveals the Stories behind Five of the Band’s Classic Songs.” The Chord Minneapolis Winter 2009: 3-4. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Don’t Be Denied: A Conversation with Ol’ Yeller’s Rich Mattson.” The Chord Minneapolis Spring 2010: 6-10. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Bob Dylan: The Witmark Demos 1962-1964.” The Chord Winter 2010 1-3. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Joe Fahey’s Resolution.” The Chord Minneapolis Spring 2011: 7-10. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Cosmic Dancer: A Conversation with Little Man’s Chris Perricelli.” The Chord Minneapolis Fall 2011: 1-4. Print.
  • Planting, Craig. “Between a Tran Wreck and a Happy Accident: A Conversation with Molly Maher.” The Chord Minneapolis Winter 2011: 1-4. Print.
  • Craig, Planting. “Rich Mattson honors Paul Wellstone, Uptown Bar on Ol’ Yeller’s Levels.” City Pages Minneapolis Dec. 7, 2012. Web.