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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
