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Made in Michigan Writers Series

Series Editors: M. L. Liebler, Wayne State University; Michael Delp, Interlochen Center for the Arts
The Made in Michigan Writers Series is devoted to highlighting the works of distinguished statewide writers to showcase Michigan's diverse voices. The series publishes poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and essays by Michigan writers with the aim of encouraging the recognition of the state's artistic and cultural heritage throughout Michigan, the Midwest, and the nation.

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these are love(d) letters

Ames Hawkins’s These are Love(d) Letters is a genre-bending visual memoir and work of literary nonfiction that explores the questions: What inspires a person to write a love letter? What inspires a person to save a love letter even when the love has shifted or left? And what does it mean when a person uses someone else’s love letters as a place from which to create their own sense of self?

"Ames Hawkins renders the inheritance of a parent’s love letters into a queer palimpsest of legacy, knowledge, and experience. Letters as collections. Letters as raw theory. Letters as family tracings. Letters as identity archive. This book is essay art at its most exquisite, a brilliant new standard for artifact-based nonfiction." – Carolyn Kuebler, editor of the New England Review

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Enough to Lose

Stories by RS Deeren

Stories of the small-town struggle to reconcile tradition with inevitable change.

Paperback
Available September 2023
ISBN: 9780814350409
$19.99
eBOOK
Available September 2023
ISBN: 9780814350416

What to Count

Poems by Alise Alousi

A lyrical exploration into the personal and political conflicts and identities that frame a life.

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Available August 2023
ISBN: 9780814350706
$17.99
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Available August 2023
ISBN: 9780814350713

The Orchestra of Wind Chimes

Poems by Geoffrey Jacques

Thought-provoking poems that challenge preconceptions of form and style while focusing on themes of everyday experience, class, politics, literature, and more.

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Published: March 2023
ISBN: 9780814350386
$17.99
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Published: March 2023
ISBN: 9780814350393

Divining, A Memoir in Trees

Maureen Dunphy

Essays exploring the intimate yet universal intersection of one human life with trees.

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Published: February 2023
ISBN: 9780814348420
$19.99
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Published: February 2023
ISBN: 9780814348437

stilettos in a rifle range

Poems by Tyrone Williams

Poems about the joys and struggles of complex, contemporary life—and heartbreak.

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Published: December 2022
ISBN: 9780814350188
$17.99
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Published: December 2022
ISBN: 9780814350195
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Psych Murders

Stephanie Heit

Experimental writing that takes you inside psychiatric wards and shock treatments toward new futures of care.

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Published: September 2022
ISBN: 9780814349878
$17.99
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Published: September 2022
ISBN: 9780814349885
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Hadha Baladuna

Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging

Edited by Ghassan Zeineddine, Nabeel Abraham, and Sally Howell

Named a Michigan Notable Book for 2023 by the Library of Michigan! A vibrant collection of essays and poems exploring the diverse range of the Arab American experience, as writers explore the notions of home, belonging, and social mobility.

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Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349250
$25.99
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Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349267
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Raising Bean

Essays on Laughing and Living

W. S. Penn

Essays from a Native American grandfather to help navigate life’s difficult experiences.

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Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349304
$19.99
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Published: June 2022
ISBN: 9780814349311

Far Company

Poems by Cindy Hunter Morgan

Poems that underscore how we commune with those long loved and long gone.

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Published: May 2022
ISBN: 9780814349526
$17.99
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Published: May 2022
ISBN: 9780814349533
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You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Lyrical, hilarious, and heartbreaking collection exploring Asian American identity, love, community, and power.

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Published: March 2022
ISBN: 9780814349410
$19.99
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Published: March 2022
ISBN: 9780814349427
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Mortality, with Friends

Essays by Fleda Brown

A collection of intensely personal lyrical essays about mortality, living well, art, and love.

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Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348741
$19.99
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Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348758
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When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds

Poems by Peter Markus

A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.

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Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348505
$17.99
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Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348512
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Gun/Shy

Poems by Jim Daniels

Poems that seek stability in family and community while coping with a country full of conflict and change.

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Published: August 2021
ISBN: 9780814348789
$17.99
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Published: August 2021
ISBN: 9780814348796

How Other People Make Love

Stories by Thisbe Nissen

Love stories wherein people ask themselves: what is love?

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Published: April 2021
ISBN: 9780814348369
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2021
ISBN: 9780814348376

When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double

Poems by Diane DeCillis

Poems about being a survivor and the choices we make to protect ourselves, our homes, and our hearts.

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Published: April 2021
ISBN: 9780814348321
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2021
ISBN: 9780814348338

You Are My Joy and Pain

Love Poems

Naomi Long Madgett

A collection of lyrical love poems showing Detroit’s poet laureate at the peak of her career.

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Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814348017
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814348024

A Fine Canopy

Poems by Alison Swan

A collection that focuses on the natural world, these are poems of wilderness and of wildness.

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Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814348062
$17.99
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Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814348079
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You're in the Wrong Place

Stories by Joseph Harris

A lyrical deconstruction of postindustrial American life.

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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814348086
$19.99
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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814348093
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Words like Thunder

New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers

Lois Beardslee

Contemporary Native American poetry and prose that celebrate the successes, while acknowledging ongoing challenges.

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Published: April 2020
ISBN: 9780814347485
$17.99
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Published: April 2020
ISBN: 9780814347492
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I Have the Answer

Stories by Kelly Fordon

Short stories that manage to feel both fantastical and disturbingly familiar.

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Published: April 2020
ISBN: 9780814347522
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2020
ISBN: 9780814347539

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