A directory of individual member
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The Crazy Wisdom Poetry Circle of Ann Arbor
Founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan, The Poetry Circle has presented virtual and live poetry readings by a variety of poets and writers for over 20 years. Live readings are on an extended hiatus, but poetry workshops continue on the second Wednesdays of each month and focused poetry craft workshops on some fourth Wednesdays.
Ludington Writers
Ludington Writers is dedicated to supporting and sustaining writers, and to promoting written and oral storytelling within the local community. LW publishes an annual literary journal, the Driftwood Review, relaunched as MAKING WAVES: A West Michigan Review, holds weekly activities.
Diana Dinverno
Diana is the author of When Truth Comes Home to Roost, a poetry chapbook published in 2022 after being selected as a winner in the Celery City Chapbook Contest. She is the recipient of the Michigan Poetry Society’s 2019 Margo LaGatutta Memorial Award, the Barbara Sykes Memorial Humor Poem Prize, and the 2022 Chancellor’s Prize. Diana, A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, currently writes from her desk in Houston, Texas.
David Jibson
David is the PSM Webmaster and editor of 3rd Wednesday Magazine. He lives in Ann Arbor, where he coordinates events for The Crazy Wisdom Poetry Circle. His poetry often works in sequences, exploring mythic, cosmological, or historical themes through grounded, sensory detail. I’m interested in the lyric as a tool for the excavation of history of self.
Laurence W. Thomas
Larry is the founding editor of Third Wednesday Magazine. He remains active now as an associate editor. Laurence has been around long enough to know the sting of rejection and the salve of acceptance. His shelves are lined with his own books as well as the work of many other poets.
Thomas Ford Conlan
Thomas lives, writes, and tends his modest grapevines on a small farm in the highlands of Northern Michigan. Before settling down, he sailed the world’s oceans from the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic and on to warm Caribbean currents. Tom has travelled extensively through the American West. He finally settled down near the Great Freshwater Seas. Tom takes pleasure in poetry, minding his grapevines, and the search for the elusive brook trout in backwater streams.
Ellen Lord
Ellen began writing as a kid, first stirred to poetry by Edgar Allen Poe’s raven and various morbid nursery rhymes. She is inspired by forays in nature, along with feasts and foibles of the human condition. She was raised in the wilds of the Upper Peninsula and often returns to her ancestral home. She is a behavioral health therapist, specializing in addiction and trauma. She resides in Charlevoix County and Trout Creek, Michigan.
Nellie was born and raised in Ontario, Canada to Dutch immigrant parents. She graduated from Fanshawe College in London, in 1977, and immigrated to Grand Rapids, Michigan to work as a registered nurse. In 1998 she graduated from Kuyper College with a B.S. in Ministry and Leadership. In 2013 she began writing poetry.
Japanese Garden: Four Seasons of Poems is Nellie’s debut book of poetry.
Poetry Society of Michigan 