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From 2005-2007, Patricia Clark was the poet laureate of Grand Rapids. Now, she's a poet-in-residence and professor in the Department of Writing at Grand… -
Michael Collins’ second collection of poems, Appearances, functions as a spiritual guide of sorts for the non-believer. The poems follow Collins’ trips to… -
The poems in Zilka Joseph’s second book, Sharp Blue Search of Flame, sear with poignant images and brilliant diction. Whether she’s reinventing myths from… -
By any measure, Airea D. Matthews’ collection of poems, Simulacra, is an auspicious debut. Awarded the 2016 Yale Younger Poets Prize by Carl Phillips,… -
Michael Delp’s newest collection of poems, "Lying in the River’s Dark Bed", reads like a surreal, post-apocalyptic novel-in-verse. The characters who… -
Keith Taylor is a naturalist as well as a poet. Every summer, he spends several weeks at the University of Michigan’s Biological Station.The poems in his… -
Thomas generously gives us the whole messy life. This is deeply satisfying, but you have to pay attention.In the story "An Uneven Recovery," two women,… -
In Lorraine Boissoneault’s book, The Last Voyageurs, the author immerses the reader into the 1977 reenactment of La Salle’s expedition and the perils of… -
The prose poems in Kathleen McGookey’s latest collection, Heart in a Jar, oscillate between the elegiac and surreal. “How can we use the poetic… -
Tyehimba Jess has won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his book Olio. It's a book of sonnets, songs and narrative that examines the lives of mostly…
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