The Wellspring Literary Series featuring Keith Taylor
Schedule
Mon Sep 23 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:15 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Art Reach of Mid Michigan | Mount Pleasant, MI
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Please join us for the first event in this, the 13th year of the Wellspring Literary Series, featuring acclaimed poet Keith Taylor. These town-favorite cultural evenings feature readings by prominent and emerging Michigan writers, as well as student readers, live music by local musicians, and complimentary food. ALL ARE WELCOME! DETAILS:
MUSIC by: Magdalena Fanning
OPENING POETS: MPHS student, and Janessa Shepard (CMU MA in Creative Writing candidate)
FEATURED READER: Keith Taylor
An alumnus of CMU’s MA in English program, Keith Taylor is originally from Western Canada, but has lived for the past 50 years in Michigan. He has authored or edited 20 books and chapbooks. Before the very recently published All the Time You Want: Selected Poems 1977 – 2017, and the brand new collection What Can the Matter Be?, his last full length collection, The Bird-while won the Bronze medal for the Foreword/Indies Poetry Book of the Year. His poems, stories, reviews, essays and translations have appeared widely in North America and in Europe. Six years ago he retired from the University of Michigan, where he taught Creative Writing for 20 years. Before that he worked as a bookseller in Ann Arbor for another 20 years. Taylor has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. He has been Writer/Artist In Residence at Isle Royale National Park (twice), the Detroit YMCA, The International Writers’ and Translators’ Centre of Rhodes, Greece, the University of Michigan Biological Station, and Greenhills School.
For more, visit: https://wellspringliteraryseries.wordpress.com/archive/
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Where is it happening?
Art Reach of Mid Michigan, 111 E Broadway St, Mt Pleasant, MI 48858-2312, United States,Mount Pleasant, MichiganEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
