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Five Voices in Winter: Women Speak In-Person
Come enjoy coffee, conversation and audience participation for an afternoon of poetry, fun and ideas. Five area women poets reading poems about 5 subjects in rotation, each giving their spin on the topics. Readers include: Mary Anna Scenga Kruch is inspired by the natural world--the magic and memories of water, family, and her heritage. She has published a chapbook, a full-length hybrid collection, and her new book, Water Marks; Tari Muñiz is long-time Lansing Lesbian Latina poet, performer, and producer. Her poetry and essays span topics from gardening to radical justice; Margo Krusinga lives on sixty acres where she and her husband grow their own garden vegetables and raise meat chickens. Her poems often have themes of nature and the meaning of life; Mary Fox, Writing at the Ledges current leader and the author of two poetry chapbooks (Waiting for Rain and Reading Lessons), and Sarah Smith, who has been writing plays, poetry, and prose since childhood. Sarah lives and loves in Lansing with her author husband and their two fur boys, Carlin and Boogaloo. Each approach poetry in different ways and from different backgrounds.
It's a fast-paced, different kind of reading, full of engaging and provoking poems to engage an audience of both poetry fans and those unfamiliar with its performance. Topic themes include: After I Found Myself;Things I Whisper; Finding My Tribe; Good Grief; The Best of Everyday Memories
Recommended Age: High School to adult.
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