John Jeffire is the Detroit author of two novels and three poetry collections. His novel Motown Burning won the 2005 Mount Arrowsmith Novel Competition and the 2007 Independent Publishing Awards Gold Medal for Regional Fiction. In 2022, his novel River Rouge won the American Writing Award for Legacy Fiction. His recent poetry collection is A Temple for Tomorrows.
John’s recorded reading is now part of the archives on our YouTube channel.
Anita Skeen is the author of six volumes of poetry, including collaborations with visual artists such as The Unauthorized Audubon (2014), a collection of poems about imaginary birds accompanied by the linocuts of anthropologist/visual artist Laura B. DeLind. A professor in the Residential College of Michigan State University, Anita is director of its Center for Poetry.
Email cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com for Zoom link.
The link will be sent via email a day or two before the event. The reading will be followed by an open mic. Participants are welcome to read a poem of their own or a favorite. If you have attended an event in the past two years, you are already registered.
Your hosts: Ed Morin, David Jibson and Lissa Perrin.
All times are Eastern Time Zone
May 28 – Naomi Shihab Nye – Palestinian-American writer, editor and educator, grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, TX. Teaches at Texas State University, has been Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S., poetry editor for New York Times magazine and The Texas Observer, visiting writer in 100+ schools and communities all over the world. She has written or edited 30+ books, most recently Grace Notes – Poems About Families.
Email cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com for Zoom link.
The link will be sent via email a day or two before the event. The reading will be followed by an open mic. Participants are welcome to read a poem of their own or a favorite. If you have attended an event in the past two years, you are already registered.
Your hosts: Ed Morin, David Jibson and Lissa Perrin.
All times are Eastern Time Zone
Shonda Buchanan is author of the memoir, Black Indian, and of
forthcoming books: The Lost Songs of Nina Simone and Children of the Mixed Blood Trail. She is a California Arts Council Established Artist Fellow, a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, and Oxfam Ambassador. She teaches English at Western Michigan University.
Email cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com for Zoom link.
The link will be sent via email a day or two before the event. The reading will be followed by an open mic. Participants are welcome to read a poem of their own or a favorite. If you have attended an event in the past two years, you are already registered.
Your hosts: Ed Morin, David Jibson and Lissa Perrin.
All times are Eastern Time Zone
M.B. McLatchey is recipient of the American Poet Prize from the American Poetry Journal and author of six books, including award-winning poetry collections, The Lame God and Smiling at the Executioner. Currently Florida’s Poet Laureate for Volusia County, she is Professor of Classics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. www.mbmclatchey.com
See the recorded reading on YouTube.
Ron Koertge has had poems twice in Best American Poetry and grants from the NEA and California Arts Council. His novels for young adults won two P.E.N. awards. An animated film made from his flash fiction, Negative Space, was shortlisted for the 2018 Academy awards. Billy Collins calls his presentations “deliciously smart
and entertaining.”
Katherine Edgren has authored four collections of poetry, the most recent being Keeping Out the Noise. Her work has appeared in Coe Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Third Wednesday. Before retirement, she headed a department at University of Michigan Health Service and served as a City of Ann Arbor Council Member.
Leslie Schultz has five collections of poetry; Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making is her most recent. Her poetry has appeared widely in Poet Lore, Able Muse, and other journals. She also publishes photographs, essays, and fiction, and happily mucks about in a garden plagued by shade and rabbits.
Sandra Cisneros is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer who explores the lives of working people. Her classic novel, The House on Mango Street, celebrates its 40th anniversary. Poetry collections include Loose Woman (1995) and Woman Without Shame (2022). She has a MacArthur Fellowship and a truckload of other awards.
The link will be sent via email a day or two before the event. The reading will be followed by an open mic. Participants are welcome to read a poem of their own or a favorite.
If you have attended an event in the past two years, you are already registered.
September 25, 2024
Judith Kerman is a poet and multi-artist (singer, performer, crafter). She has published eleven books or chapbooks of poetry, most recently Definitions (Fomite Press, 2021), and three books of translations. She founded Earth’s Daughters magazine (1971) and Mayapple Press (1978). A retired college professor, she lives in Woodstock, NY.
Helen Ruggieri has 2 new books of poetry—The Sapphires and Blue Elegies: Poems for the Birds. Her book of essays and haibun about natural things is Camping in the Galaxy. She lives in upstate New York, where her whole front yard is a garden rather than grass.
Email cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com for Zoom link.
The link will be sent via email a day or two before the event. The reading will be followed by an open mic. Participants are welcome to read a poem of their own or a favorite. If you have attended an event in the past two years, you are already registered.
Your hosts: Ed Morin, David Jibson and Lissa Perrin.
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