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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Stilettos in a Rifle Range
Poems about the joys and struggles of complex, contemporary life—and heartbreak.
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Psych Murders
Experimental writing that takes you inside psychiatric wards and shock treatments toward new futures of care.
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Hadha Baladuna
Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging
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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ISBN: 9780814349250
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ISBN: 9780814349267
Raising Bean
Essays on Laughing and Living
Essays from a Native American grandfather to help navigate life’s difficult experiences.
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ISBN: 9780814349304
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ISBN: 9780814349311
Far Company
Poems that underscore how we commune with those long loved and long gone.
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ISBN: 9780814349526
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ISBN: 9780814349533
You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids
Lyrical, hilarious, and heartbreaking collection exploring Asian American identity, love, community, and power.
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ISBN: 9780814349410
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ISBN: 9780814349427

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Mortality, with Friends
A collection of intensely personal lyrical essays about mortality, living well, art, and love.
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ISBN: 9780814348741
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ISBN: 9780814348758

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When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds
A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.
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ISBN: 9780814348505
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ISBN: 9780814348512

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Gun/Shy
Poems that seek stability in family and community while coping with a country full of conflict and change.
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ISBN: 9780814348789
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ISBN: 9780814348796
How Other People Make Love
Love stories wherein people ask themselves: what is love?
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ISBN: 9780814348369
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ISBN: 9780814348376
When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double
Poems about being a survivor and the choices we make to protect ourselves, our homes, and our hearts.
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ISBN: 9780814348321
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ISBN: 9780814348338
You Are My Joy and Pain
Love Poems
A collection of lyrical love poems showing Detroit’s poet laureate at the peak of her career.
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ISBN: 9780814348017
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ISBN: 9780814348024
A Fine Canopy
A collection that focuses on the natural world, these are poems of wilderness and of wildness.
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ISBN: 9780814348062
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ISBN: 9780814348079

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You're in the Wrong Place
A lyrical deconstruction of postindustrial American life.
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ISBN: 9780814348086
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ISBN: 9780814348093

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Words like Thunder
New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers
Contemporary Native American poetry and prose that celebrate the successes, while acknowledging ongoing challenges.
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ISBN: 9780814347485
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ISBN: 9780814347492

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I Have the Answer
Short stories that manage to feel both fantastical and disturbingly familiar.
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ISBN: 9780814347522
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ISBN: 9780814347539

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Grief's Country
A Memoir in Pieces
An intimate look at widowhood.
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ISBN: 9780814347393
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ISBN: 9780814347409

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Gut Botany
Poetry that inhabits and queers bodies and lands in an ecosomatic investigation.
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ISBN: 9780814347638
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ISBN: 9780814347645

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These are Love(d) Letters
Intimate and unwavering exploration of love, loss, and the queer possibilities inherent in artistic aspiration.
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ISBN: 9780814347263
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ISBN: 9780814347270

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come see about me, marvin
An imagined personal exchange with Marvin Gaye, in verse, on life in Michigan.
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ISBN: 9780814347225
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ISBN: 9780814347232