EVERYbody Reads Welcomes Michigan Notable Author, Jeff Vande Zande and Acclaimed Poet, Ken Meisel!

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Sat Dec 14 2024 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

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2019 E Michigan Ave, Lansing, MI | Lansing, MI

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EVERYbody Reads is very excited to welcome both Michigan Notable Author and Delta College Professor, Jeff Vande Zande- who is bringing his newest work- the gothic horror novel, “The Dance of Rotten Sticks,” to Lansing, and acclaimed poet and psychotherapist, Ken Meisel!
“The Dance of Rotten Sticks,” tells the story of Isaac Fletcher, a recent widower struggling to raise three kids after losing his wife to a bizarre car accident. HIs mother-in-law, aware of Isaac's drinking problem, threatens to take the kids. Hoping to become the father they need him to be, Isaac takes the family to their recently-purchased vacation property on Orphan Island. Strange incidents occur, culminating in their discovery of an abandoned orphanange that some say is haunted. Isaac's youngest begins to hear voices. His eldest has horrific dreams of their dead mother. Only Emily seems to thrive, beguiling Isaac to the true danger that she faces from the island's other inhabitants.
Jeff Vande Zande teaches fiction writing, screenwriting, and film production at Delta College in Michigan. His award-winning short films have been accepted over 200 times in national and international film festivals. His books of fiction include the story collections Emergency Stopping (Bottom Dog Press), Threatened Species (Whistling Shade Press) and The Neighborhood Division (Whistling Shade Press). His novels include Into the Desperate Country (March Street Press), Landscape with Fragmented Figures (Bottom Dog Press), American Poet (Bottom Dog Press) Detroit Muscle (Whistling Shade Press) and Rules of Order (Bottom Dog Press). In 2012,American Poet won a Michigan Notable Book Award from the Library of Michigan. In 2020, Whistling Shade Press released his new collection, The Neighborhood Division: Stories. The Dance of Rotten Sticks (Montag Press) is Vande Zande's first venture intop the horror genre. He maintains a blog atwww.authorjeffvandezande.blogspot.com.
Ken Meisel is a poet and psychotherapist from the Detroit area. He is a 2012 Kresge Arts Literary Fellow, Pushcart Prize nominee, Swan Duckling Chapbook contest winner, and author of six poetry collections: Scrap Metal Mantra Poems (Main Street Rag, 2013), Beautiful Rust (Bottom Dog Press, 2009), Just Listening (Pure Heart Press, 2007), Before Exiting (Pure Heart Press, 2006) and Sometimes The Wind (March Street Press, 2002). His work appears in Rattle, Cream City Review, Concho River Review, Pirene's Fountain, San Pedro River Review, Midwest Gothic, Boxcar Review, Lake Effect, Muddy River Poetry Review, and Ruminate.
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