Mary Ann Samyn Book Launch @ Book Suey

Celebrate the launch of esteemed poet Mary Ann Samyn's latest collection, THE RETURN FROM CAVALRY

Mary Ann will be supported by poets Will Langford and Dennis Hinrichsen
Author Bios: 
Mary Ann Samyn is the author of six full-length collections of poetry—Air, Light, Dust, Shadow, Distance, winner of the 2017 42 Miles Press Poetry Award (42 Miles Press/IU South Bend, 2018); My Life in Heaven, winner of the 2012 FIELD Poetry Prize (Oberlin College Press, 2013); Beauty Breaks In (New Issues, 2009); Purr (New Issues, 2005); Inside the Yellow Dress (New Issues, 2001); and Captivity Narrative(The Journal Prize/Ohio State UP, 1999)—and two chapbooks—The Boom of a Small Cannon(Dancing Girl Press, 2010) and Rooms by the Sea (Kent State UP, 1994). Her poems and flash nonfiction have appeared in Field, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review, The Ohio Review, Copper Nickel, Adroit Journal, Parhelion, On the Seawall, The Journal, Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She received her MA from Ohio University and her MFA from The University of Virginia where she was a Hoyns Fellow. Among her awards are a creative artist grant from ArtServe Michigan, the Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America, the James Wright Poetry Award from Mid-American Review, and a Pushcart Prize. She’s also received Eberly College and WVU Foundation awards for outstanding teaching and research, the Gaston Caperton Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing, the Benedum Distinguished Scholar in the Humanities Award, and the Distinction in Graduate Research Mentoring Award.

William T. Langford IV, AKA Will “The Poet” Langford, is a community-engaged teaching artist and Fulbright ETA Alumnus (Kenya). He divides his energy between education and community development projects in Michigan, the U.S, and East Africa—alongside the Children & Youth Empowerment Center in Nyeri, Kenya. Will is also a visual artist—drawing inspiration from Detroit’s vibrant community of mural artists.

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Will is the 2024 Urban Field Station Artist in Residence for the City of Detroit! Learn more about this collaboration with the U.S Forestry Service here, and stay tuned for my June performance at Rouge Park! 🌳😀.

Dennis Hinrichsen was born and raised in the Midwest, living in Iowa and Illinois numerous times before settling and completing his education in Michigan. Following a ten year stint working as a technical writer in the Boston area, he returned to Michigan and taught at writing and lit courses at the local community college. From May 2017–April 2019, he served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing area. dementia lyrics is his twelfth full-length collection. His other Green Linden titles include Dominion + Selected Poems, Flesh-plastique and schema geometrica (winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize) as well as a chapbook, [q / lear]. Other books This Is Where I Live I Have Nowhere Else To Go, winner of the 2020 Grid Poetry Prize, Electrocution, A Partial History, winner of the 2015 Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Prize from Map Literary, Skin Music, the 2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press, Rip-tooth, winner of the 2010 Tampa Poetry Prize, Kurosawa’s Dog, winner of the 2008 FIELD Poetry Prize, and Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights, winner of the 1999 Akron Poetry Prize. Other awards include the 2016 Third Coast Poetry Prize and a 2014 Best of the Net Award.

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