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- Description:
- Small collection of Edgar A. Guest's poetry distributed by the Detroit Free Press as a supplemental booklet printed on newsprint. Photo portraits of Guest and other family members are printed alongside poetry. Well-known Guest poems, "Home" and "It Couldn't Be Done," are included.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Journal of Paul Homann's finances in 1915 and 1916. Also includes a copy of the most popular frontier poem "Lasca" by Frank Desprez, Christmas poems, and various other poems Homann performed, copied from newspapers and pasted in over his expense records from January- June 1915. July 1915-June 1916 shows financial records for eggs, sold, income, and feed.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Poet Mark Yakich, professor of English at Central Michigan University, talks about his education, developing an interest in poetry while working in Brussels, Belgium, his writing style, the cover of his book "The making of collateral beauty", and the relationship between teaching and writing. Yakich is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-03-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poets Jack Ridl and Chris Dombrowski talk about teaching and the writing of poetry and the use of landscape in their writings. Ridl and Dombrowski are interviewed by Michigan Stae University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-04-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Patricia Clark, poet and Professor of Writing at Grand Valley State University, explains how landscape, travel, and teaching relate to her writing. She also talks about the Grand Valley State University National Poetry Festival held on the GVSU campus. Clark is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-03-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Leila Tarakji, a graduate student in the Department of English at Michigan State University, delivers a presentation on the book "E-mails from Scheherazad" a collection of poems by Syrian-America poet Mohja Kahf, associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Arkansas. Tarakji reads a poem from the book and plays a recording of Kahf reading a poem. She prepares the audience to discuss the book and poses a series of questions to spur discussion.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-03-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet and author Josie Kearns, professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Michigan, talks about teaching and writing, natural scenery in Michigan, her editorship of the book "New Poems From the Third Coast", her book "New Numbers", and other works in process. Kearns is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson from the Michigan State University Libraries for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-11-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Award winning poet Stephen Dunn reads from his new book "Different hours" and a poem from a previously published book, as the featured speaker at the annual Michigan State University English Department Awards celebration. MSU Poet in Residence Diane Wakoski convenes the event and introduces the winners of the Jim Cash Creative Writing Awards.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-02-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet and author Carolyn Forché discusses her travels as a poet, meeting other poets in war-torn countries, and the role of poetry in politics, current events and in the academy. Michigan State University Professor Anita Skeen, arts coordinator and director of the MSU Residential College in the Arts and Humanities' Center for Poetry introduces Forché. Forché also takes questions from the audience. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Cosponsored by the RCAH Center for Poetry. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-04-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet Elinor Benedict talks about her book "All that divides us", Christianity in her life and her writings, her family and relatives in China, and her work in process. Benedict is interviewed by librarian Stephanie Mathson for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-04-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Jane Arnold, humanities collection coordinator at the Michigan State University Libraries, interviews poet Katherine Fishburn on why she chooses to be a poet, her book "The dead are so disappointing", the healing power of writing poems, how she brings in her relationship with her parents, especially her father, into her poems, nature as a theme in her poems, her in-progress works.
- Date Issued:
- 2000-03-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Author Jeff Vande Zande talks about teaching and writing, poems vs. short stories, developing characters in his stories based on his personal experience, and his current projects. Vande Zande is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Kara Gust for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-02-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet Robert Fanning explains how he began writing and publishing, the challenges of being a poet, people who have influenced his writings, working for the "InsideOut Literary Arts Project" in Detroit, and the role Michigan has in his poems. Fanning is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Sara Miller for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-02-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet Judith Minty describes how she leads people to read and enjoy poetry, her poem "A Sense of Place," the role her heritage and background plays in inspiring her works, and other works in-progress. Minty is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Jane Arnold for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-04-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Poet and writer Keith Taylor, coordinator of the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan, talks about his youth, leaving college to write, how he came to be a poet and trying to be published. He also talks about how living in Michigan has influenced his writing, his work translating the writing of Greek poet Kostas Karyotakis into English and writing about Hemingway's formative years spent in Michigan. Taylor is interviewed for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-10-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local Authors Collection
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Poetry Club Collection
- Description:
- Rays of Sunshine is a publication by Alva G. Ruff. Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- 1927-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Description:
- A collection of publications and materials about and by Lansing-area local authors, gathered by staff of the Lansing Public Library and the Capital Area District Libraries over the years. The majority of the collection is poetry chapbooks or smaller independently-published items. There are several editions of locally-compiled and published educational booklets, as well as sheet music and lyrics, small memoirs, articles and short stories, and sometimes correspondence concerning a particular piece of writing in its file. The collection is broken into three series: Individual Publications, Group Publications, and Other Local Author Related Material. This collection is added to on an ongoing basis. If you are an Ingham County author or publisher, or you have written about the greater Lansing area or its people, and you would like to see your work added, please contact the Forest Parke Library and Archives.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local Authors Collection
- Description:
- This series contains digitized Lansing Poetry Club yearbooks beginning with the first copy in the collection (1940-1941). The first yearbook is not held, and there are some other gaps in the run.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Poetry Club Collection