The Poetry Society of Michigan spring conference will be held on Saturday, May 2, at the Castle Museum (Morley Room) in Saginaw, Michigan (500 Federal Ave., 989-752-2861, castlemuseum.org). All are welcome to attend. Visit the website to register.
10-10:30 Registration/coffee and donuts
10:35 Welcome
10:45 Traveling Trophy Reading (bring a short poem to read)
11:40 Writing Workshop (Jan Worth)
12:35 Lunch provided (talk, eat, smile)
1:10 Writing Workshop (M.L. Liebler)
2:05 Brief Business Meeting
The cost is only $35, which includes lunch and a drink (and we have a $20 student rate)! You can register and pay online at poetrysocietyofmichigan.com (under Events). We look forward to seeing you there!
Brief Notes on Our Presenters:
Jan Worth is a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer from Flint, Michigan. For decades she has been delivering poems, essays, short stories, and the novel Night Blind to the world, writing about her life experiences as a preacher’s daughter, a newspaper reporter, Peace Corps volunteer, social worker, and longtime writing teacher at the University of Michigan – Flint. She spent years as a columnist for Flint’s venerable East Village Magazine before becoming editor from 2015 to 2020. Her book of non-fiction is That’s My Moon Over Court Street: Dispatches from a life in Flint and her new book of poems is Elegies from the Last Days of the Empire from Kelsay Books.
M. L. Liebler is an internationally known & widely published Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist and arts organizer. He was named The 2017-2018 Murray E. Jackson Scholar in the Arts Awardat Wayne State University. Liebler is the author of 15 books and chapbooks including the award winning Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream (Wayne State University Press 2008) featuring poems written in and about Russia, Israel, Germany, Alaska and Detroit. Wide Awake won both The Paterson Poetry Prize for Literary Excellence and The American Indie Book Award for 2009. In 2005, he was named St. Clair Shores (his hometown) first Poet Laureate. Liebler has read and performed his work in Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Russia, China, France, UK, Macao, Italy, Germany, Spain, Finland and most of the 50 States. Liebler has taught English, Creative Writing, American Studies, Labor Studies and World Literature at Wayne State University in Detroit since 1980, and he is the founding director of both The National Writer’s Voice Project in Detroit and the Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers Literary Arts Organization.
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