Klecko is an award-winning poet and the author of seven books. He has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press and Next Avenue, a digital publication of PBS.

Art is probably the only thing that can save the world. It gives us hope. In art, there is no right and there is no wrong – it’s your own personal connection.”

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– Klecko

COMING IN SPRING 2026

Exhausting Jesus at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Klecko’s latest book is an account of the 100 hours he spent, over nearly a year, with one painting – Christus Consolator (1851) by Dutch-French painter Ary Scheffer – in Gallery 357 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Klecko is an award-winning poet and the author of seven books. He has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press and Next Avenue, a digital publication of PBS.

Art is probably the only thing that can save the world. It gives us hope. In art, there is no right and there is no wrong – it’s your own personal connection.”

“

Exhausting Jesus at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

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