poetry

'Do you get it?' Poet questions the struggle to be understood

Lorraine Caron — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:00:02 +0000

Poet Jaswinder Bolina will be reading at WMU's Bernhard Center on Thursday night at 8 p.m. as part of the Gwen Frostic Reading Series. He’ll read from his second book titled Phantom Camera.

Small town poets, Kalamazoo natives hold a reading

Lorraine Caron — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:06:15 +0000

Red-winged and loud my field this morning suddenly full of them. Clinging to mullen stalks and singing from the snow-battered stems of field grass, the gray skeletons of poke. Everyway I look there’s no escape from blackbirds, shaking the air with their sirens, flashing their wing-bars like warnings. Get ready your heart, here comes Spring - "I Asked For A Poem, But Got Blackbirds" by Amy Newday

Poet Jay Baron Nicorvo tackles the tough subject of deadbeat dads

Lorraine Caron — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:59:00 +0000

Severe winter weather prevented poet Jay Baron Nicorvo from reading at WMU as scheduled in late January. The reading was rescheduled for February 28 in the Bernhard Center. Nicorvo teaches writing at Western Michigan University.

Detroit-born poet laureate Philip Levine to read at WMU

Zinta Aistars — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Philip Levine, the most recent poet laureate, is coming to Western Michigan University Friday. Levine was born in Detroit. Some of his most famous poems are about his time working for General Motors, a job he says he didn't like very much.

A Mind Like This: Susan Blackwell Ramsey's poetry book comes with a dash of humor

Rebecca Thiele — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Susan Blackwell Ramsey will read from her book A Mind Like This Wednesday night at the Portage District Library. In her interview with WMUK’s Zinta Aistars, Ramsey talked about how her mind seems to remember only the most trivial things. This is the basis for her title poem “A Mind Like This.”