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PSA FOR AMERICAN PARENTS: WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE THE NEXT SCHOOL SHOOTING
Our phones were charging in the bedroom. My husband and I were in our Barcaloungers watching 1923, reveling in a rare night home alone. Who has not both enjoyed and endured heaps of family time these last four years? Pandemic-related job changes, school closures, and general upheaval have turned our house into a revolving door for our four 20-something kids.
May Reading List: Pick Up These 9 Books by Michigan Women Authors — SEEN Magazine
Take a break from Netflix and pick up one of these must-read books by female Michigan authors By Zoe Makhool Featured photo by Nick Fewings Marlena By Julie Buntin Julie Buntin teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan. Her debut novel, “Marlena,” follows a 15-year-old who moves to a rural town in Michigan following her mom’s divorce. Everything about her new town is lonely — until she meets her eccentric neighbor Marlena.
Review: I Have the Answer by Kelly Fordon
April 1, 2021 Written by Ellen Birkett Morris Explore More I Have the Answer By Kelly Fordon April 7 2020, Wayne State University Press Review by Ellen Birkett Morris Kelly Fordon’s latest collection of short stories I Have the Answer deals with the unexpected losses that life hands out; deaths of spouses and children, unwanted advances, family secrets, hidden heroism and love that takes surprising forms, with insight and humor.
Enclosure | Kenyon Review Online
Kelly Fordon My mind is an enclosure. A small cell where I reside. • • enclose (v.) enclosen, “to surround (a plot of ground, a town, a building, etc.) with walls, fences, or other barriers,” early 14c., from en- (1) + close (v.), and partially from Old French enclos, past participle of enclore: “surround; confine; contain.” • • My grandmother spent forty years in self-imposed exile. Forty years living a life of quiet remove. And prayer. Lots of it. Mimi was a staunch Catholic.
I have the Answer by Kelly Fordon
I am sitting here on day one of social distancing and thinking of all the people in the apartments next to me, seemingly doing the same exact thing. I do not know any of my neighbors names or what their lives entail. This is mainly my fault as I have extreme anxiety surrounding not so much knowing about my neighbors, but my neighbors knowing details about me. I thrive on being a secretive, protected person in my cubby hole of isolation.
Book review: “Elemental,” essays that reflect “survival, transformation and grit” of Midwest lit
Listen to Kelly Fordon's review of "Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction" Wayne State University Press has released a new compilation of 23 essays by award-winning Michigan authors titled Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction. As writer Kelly Fordon tells us in her review, we are lucky to have this many extraordinary writers living in our state.
KNOW THE MOTHER - Desiree Cooper
TRAILER INTERVIEWS EXCERPTS REVIEWS While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector—at the center of each mother is an individual who is attempting to manage her own fears, desires, and responsibilities in different and sometimes unexpected ways. In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations.
Michigan Bookmark: “The Bird-while” delves into the truth of beauty, evanescence in nature
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 newest collection contain a close, almost scientific, attention to detail. This is a collection that delves into the truth of beauty, evanescence and life through communion with the natural world.
Michigan Bookmark: In “Contrary Motion,” humor elevates story of man with “performance anxiety”
I first became aware of the writer Andy Mozina when he published a short story collection titled Quality Snacks, with Wayne State University Press’ "Made in Michigan" series back in 2014. Mozina is a rare combination: both a literary writer and a really funny one. More times than I can count, I laughed out loud reading Quality Snacks. I couldn’t wait to get my hands on his first novel, Contrary Motion, published by Spiegel & Grau in 2016.
Michigan Bookmark: “Olio” takes unique approach to tell stories of post-Civil War black performers
Michigan Bookmark is a series that features Michigan authors reviewing Michigan books. Find more reviews here. I first encountered the work of the poet Tyehimba Jess back in 2014, when he returned to Detroit to speak to a group of writers at Inside Out Literary Arts. His second poetry collection, Olio, had not yet been published. But that afternoon he shared some of his work, and I remember leaving the room with the conviction that I had just witnessed pure poetic genius. Jess was born in Detroit.
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