Donna Salli Donna Salli of Brainerd, an English instructor at Central Lakes College, recently served on a sevenperson panel selecting the 2010 grants to support state poets.

Salli and a panelist from Duluth represented outstate Minn esota to award grants from $2,000 to $6,000 to support poets in various stages of their ca- reers. The funding is coordinated by the Minnesota State Arts Board.

The panel included writers, editors, and arts administrators. The group forwarded the names of 25 Minnesota writers to receive grants.

Salli, a playwright

whose inaugural drama “The Rock Farm” has been

staged in Finland and at CLC in Brainerd, has a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and was a winner in 2000 of a Mentor Series Award in Poetry from The Loft.