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Please join us for a poetry reading with Laura Apol, Jan Shoemaker, and Mary Anna Kruch. The natural world surrounds and infuses all of life and carries mystery and interpretation. Through poetry and prose, writers will share their ideas about and interactions with the natural world, whether dormant or in full flush.
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Laura Apol is the author of several collections of poetry, including A Fine Yellow Dust and most recently, Cauterized. Laura is a winner of the Midwest Book Award for Poetry, two-time winner of the Oklahoma Book Award, and silver-medal winner of the Independent Publishers Book Award. Laura is a professor at Michigan State University and past poet laureate for the Lansing area; she conducts writing workshops locally, nationally, and internationally.
Jan Shoemaker is the author of two essay collections: Slow Learner and Flesh and Stones, and the poetry collection, The Reliquary Earth. A recipient of the Greater Lansing United Nations Association’s Loy LaSalle Award for Outstanding Contributions to Global Education and International Understanding, she was also awarded Confrontation Magazine’s Poetry Prize.
Mary Anna Scenga Kruch is a lifelong educator, writer, and photographer who is inspired by the natural world and her Italian ancestry past and present. She is the author of a textbook, Tend Your Garden: Nurturing Motivation with Young Adolescent Writers, a poetry chapbook, We Draw Breath from the Same Sky, a full-length hybrid memoir, Grace Notes, and her latest poetry collection, Water Marks. Her poetry and photographs appear in numerous national and international journals.
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950 Abbot Rd, East Lansing, MI, United States, Michigan 48823
