poetry

Continuing our conversation with Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard about how to respond to an active shooter situation and what can be done to mitigate gun violence. Then a new book explains why Patti Smith Still Matters. To close the show, we share the final chapter of a 25-year-old loon love story.

Kalamazoo-based poet Diane Seuss has been writing acclaimed works of literature for decades, and this month she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her evocative memoir, frank:sonnets.

On today’s show, we discussed what took place at the recent Livingston County Republican Lincoln Day dinner, and talked with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss. Plus, reporter Dustin Walsh joined to talk IVF under Roe v. Wade and baby formula supplies, and lastly Cheers! returned with a new spring-time libation.

How one local health official decided to spend COVID funds. Metro-Detroit poet discussed his latest work. Just how expensive has political petition gathering got?

Understanding what the current dip in COVID cases means in the greater scope of the pandemic. A look into Frances Kai-Hwa Wang's new poetry collection, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids. How pursuing your dream job can foster workplace inequality.

Marquette photographer Bugsy Sailor talks about how documenting the daily sunrise (he's at 1,000 and counting) helped him get through the pandemic. Then, a conversation with poet Jonah Mixon-Webster about the inherent contradictions in how Black Americans are expected to conduct themselves.

The sadness, isolation, and loss of the past year and a half can be so hard to talk about, but sometimes poetry provides the exquisitely precise language we need to name our hurt.

Today, two Michigan lawsuits challenge vaccine requirements at public universities. Writer Peter Markus talks about an abrupt pivot into poetry during his…

The American Academy of Poets has chosen Flint’s Poet Laureate, Semaj Brown, as one of twenty-two 2021 Poet Laureate Fellows. Brown will receive $50,000…

In his debut poetry collection Stereo(TYPE), Jonah Mixon-Webster expresses the tensions and traumas he endures as a Black man, a queer individual, and a…