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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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The Lake Michigan Mermaid

A Tale in Poems

Linda Nemec Foster and Anne-Marie Oomen
Illustrated by Meridith Ridl

A modern-day fairy tale told in conversation between a young girl and the mermaid of Lake Michigan.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: March 2018
ISBN: 9780814342206
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2018
ISBN: 9780814342213

Eco-dementia

Poems by Janet Kauffman

Poems inspired by a love of the living world and the actions that destroy what sustains us.

Paperback
Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814343814
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814343821
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Somewhere We'll Leave the World

Poems by Russell Thorburn

Poems suggesting that living on Earth takes a lot of practice.

Paperback
Published: September 2017
ISBN: 9780814342541
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2017
ISBN: 9780814342534
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States of Motion

Stories by Laura Hulthen Thomas

Idealistic characters fight to hold onto a life that is slipping out of their grasp.

Paperback
Published: May 2017
ISBN: 9780814343142
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2017
ISBN: 9780814343159
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The Goat Fish and the Lover's Knot

Stories by Jack Driscoll

Beautifully-crafted prose from one of Michigan’s most original voices.

Paperback
Published: April 2017
ISBN: 9780814342954
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2017
ISBN: 9780814342961
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Harborless

Poems by Cindy Hunter Morgan

Poetry that recounts Great Lakes shipwrecks through imagination and history.

Paperback
Published: March 2017
ISBN: 9780814342428
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2017
ISBN: 9780814342435
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Rowing Inland

Poems by Jim Daniels

Charts the emotional, political, and economic landscapes of the working-class Metro Detroit community and its residents.

Paperback
Published: February 2017
ISBN: 9780814342183
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2017
ISBN: 9780814342190
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The Bird-while

Poems by Keith Taylor
With illustrations by Tom Pohrt

Short poems that look closely at small moments in a personal history, in art, and in the natural world.

Paperback
Published: February 2017
ISBN: 9780814342404
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2017
ISBN: 9780814342411
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Bob Seger's House and Other Stories

Edited by Michael Delp and M. L. Liebler
with a Foreword by Charles Baxter

New short fiction by some of Michigan’s well-known and highly acclaimed authors.

Paperback
Published: May 2016
ISBN: 9780814341940
$25.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2016
ISBN: 9780814341957
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Sharp Blue Search of Flame

Poems by Zilka Joseph

Stirring, atmospheric poems that journey through memories of growing up in India, and the myth, death, loss, and rebirth that surrounds that experience.

Paperback
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814340493
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eBOOK
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814340509
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 0814340490
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Lying in the River's Dark Bed

The Confluence of the Deadman and the Mad Angler

Poems by Michael Delp

A rollicking meeting of two wildly different yet incredibly similar personas . . . the Deadman in the shape and form of a trickster and the voice of an apprentice river shaman, the Mad Angler.

Paperback
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814341988
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814341995
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I Want to Be Once

Poems by M. L. Liebler

Poems that take a poignant look at societal issues and contemporary American topics, such as working-class life and twenty-first century war.

Paperback
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814342022
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eBOOK
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814342039
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Seasonal Roads

Stories by L. E. Kimball

Three generations of women in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula live at the center of this linked short story collection.

Paperback
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814341452
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814341469
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Know the Mother

Stories by Desiree Cooper

Short, searing glimpses of how race and gender shadow even the most intimate moments of women’s lives.

Paperback
Published: March 2016
ISBN: 9780814341490
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eBOOK
Published: March 2016
ISBN: 9780814341506
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To Light a Fire

20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project

Edited by Terry Blackhawk and Peter Markus

Twenty-three writers reflect on their experiences working with public school students as part of Detroit’s innovative InsideOut Literary Arts Project.

Paperback
Published: August 2015
ISBN: 9780814341179
$25.99
eBOOK
Published: August 2015
ISBN: 9780814341186
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Weweni

Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English by Margaret Noodin

Modern Anishinaabemowin poetry in conversation with English translation.

Paperback
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340387
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340394
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That That

Poems by Ken Mikolowski

Playful and profound short poems inspired by everyday insights and philosophical concerns.

Paperback
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340653
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340660
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Love, Sex, and 4-H

A Memoir by Anne-Marie Oomen

A unique take on the tumultuous 1960s from a young woman growing up in rural Michigan.

Paperback
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340783
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340790
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Trumbull Ave.

Poems by Michael Lauchlan

Free verse poems driven by a narrative impulse and informed by decades of work in and around Detroit.

Paperback
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340967
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814340974
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Garden for the Blind

Stories by Kelly Fordon

Captivating linked stories that follow a group of characters from an upscale suburb of Detroit over several decades.

Paperback
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814341049
$20.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2015
ISBN: 9780814341056

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