Made in Michigan Writers Series

Poetry that uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of family, art, and masculinity.

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

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

Poetry that recounts Great Lakes shipwrecks through imagination and history.

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

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

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.

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

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