Poetically Speaking

This summer marks the 32nd season for the Stone Circle.Poet Terry Wooten is known for having created this space for poetry, storytelling and music on a…

As part of our series "Poetically Speaking," we're highlighting Michigan poets.West Bloomfield’s Diane DeCillis’ first book of poetry, Strings Attached,…

TarfiaFaizullah was born in Brooklyn, raised in Texas, and now makes her home in Detroit.Her first book of poems called Seam, won the Crab Orchard Series…

Our ongoing series "Poetically Speaking" continues. On occasion we will bring you interviews with poets and writers, or we will post a poem, like this…

Our special series "Poetically Speaking" highlighting poets and poetry in Michigan continues. Julie Babcock grew up in the late 70's and early 80's when…

Michigan poets and multimedia artists, Michelle BonczekEvory and Robert Evory, will be the first artists-in-residence at the Gettysburg National Military…

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Broadside Press. It was founded in 1965 by African-American poet and publisher Dudley Randall.This groundbreaking…

Christine Rhein is the author of Wild Flight (Texas Tech University Press), a winner of the Walt McDonald Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in many…

From a drive along Trumbull Avenue in 1981, to a despairing young mother in the depths of the Depression, to the backyard ice rink of a boyhood home.These…

All through April, in honor of National Poetry Month, we’ve been exploring Michigan’s poets with our series "Poetically Speaking."But now, we turn to…