The Coolidge-Wagner Anthology of Recorded Poetry | Ann Arbor District Library

1. Du’a #10 Contrapuntal With My Mother’s Wisdom 2. Journey to Iraq 1 (I try to visit in my dreams and am stopped on the tarmac) 3. Dream Market  4. Dream Market 5. چمة 6. American Dream Market 7. Dream Market (silly sonnet for l) 8. رشاد  9. طین Noor Al-Samarrai is a deeply committed poet, journalist, and educator who earned her MFA in creative writing at UM-Ann Arbor, where she was recognized as...

1. Sculpture 2. Half Full Moon 3. Trying To Reach The Ocean 4. Spring Visions 5. April Night 6. Versos De Terra Primavera 7. Moons Enough 8. New York Poem 9. Summer Solstice Ode 10. My Body Held You in Water 11. For Kim 12. Solstice List 13. Aquarius Supermoon Carmen Malis King is a Detroit-rooted writer, mother, community herbalist, and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. She is a...

1. Please Forgive Me 2. The Last Harvest 3. July at Valley Drive 4. Nearly 5. You Lied To Me 6. I’ll Talk To God When You Stop Answering 7. Must I Marry Elvis 8. Pittsburgh Diorama Sarah Good-Lang is a poetry writer from Pittsburgh, PA now living in Ann Arbor, MI. She graduated from University of Pittsburgh in 2024 with a BA in History & English Writing. Her poems have been featured in publication...

1. And So Comes The Night 2. Untitled Poem 3. I’m Alone and I’m Walking 4. For Carter 5. November Yesterday 6. Lavendar Lady 7. Connies House 8. I’d Like To Be A Child Again 9. Happy Lobsters About the Artist: Katie Geddes is a lover of music, poetry, and words. She likes arranging words for the way they sound as well as for the way they look on the page. Her poetic influences include her mother,...

1. Rainbow after “The Night Blooming Cereus” 2. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus after “The Peacock Room” 3. Lying in Bed, Thinking of Dumplings after “Elegies for Paradise Valley” 4. Chinatown Koan after “Words in the Mourning Time” 5. Manistique, Michigan after “Stars” 6. Primavera after “Monet’s Waterlilies” 7. Fairytale after “Theme and Variation” 8. A Ringlet in a Ruth Asawa Sculpture after...

1. Pied Piper 2. Heiligenstadt 3. Ode To The Violin 4. Technical Solace 5. Blood and Soil 6. Survivor Guilt Rebecca G. Biber is a collaborative pianist and music teacher living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in Cutthroat, Lilith, The Lyric, The Passionfruit Review, The Petigru Review, and the forthcoming Bop Book. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Building Bridges Poetry Prize and...

1. Did you Eat means I Love You 2. Poignant Truth, Precarious You, and Preparing for the Sriracha Apocalypse, an Excerpt 3. Crying on Airplanes 4. Tsundere Pride or You Are So Prickly, An Excerpt 5. What ever happened to Wang Da Zhong? 6. You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids 7. Grandfather Walking 8. Academic Love Affair 9. The Arteries of our City 10. The Traveler 11. Ready to Take Flig...

1. A Wat Is To Temple As To Escape Is To Survive 2. A Discussion of Monsters 3. An Archaeology of Snow Forts 4, Babylon Gallery 5. Burning Eden One Branch At A Time 6. Cameos 7. DemocraCIA 8. E Pluribus Unum 9. Five Fragments 10. In The Beginning 11. Jaew: Hot Sauce 12. Japonisme, Laoisme 13. Khop Jai For Nothing, Farangs 14. Returning 15. The Buddha of Bombies 16. Ypsilanti, 1982 17. Zelkova Tree...

1. Coshocton Tribune 2. Before (What was there…) 3. Before (The cares…) 4. Before (I call you…) 5. Tide Pool Mammal 6. Goldenrods 7. Subject Lines 8. Un-titled Artist's Statement "These poems are meditations on ancestry and descent. They start with my more recent ancestors and move back in time through assimilation and colonization, back to home, far, far back through my ancestors across species t...

Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe: Volume IV 1. Oranges 2. TETRA Ritual #24: This is Hungry Work 3. The Black Filipina Dictionary 4. Promised Land Artist's Statement Decolonizing is an incredibly intimate act. These poems move through self-definition and mirror work to find joy and liberation. About the Artist Named "Medicine Woman of Racial Healing" by the elders of her tradition, Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe...

1. Shadow Man 2. Reopen The Economy 3. Hex As A Language 4. Truth About Blackbirds Artist's Statement I believe in the magic and spellwork and offense of the poem. Like, going on the offensive. And I think these poems, delivered in this order, comprise a long-form spell. Poems are often positioned as defensive--healing and holding, a response to, an interpretation and reclaiming of. But I think wr...

Artist's Statement "I have lived many lives, I often say, and that is true of all my work. My books, my poems, my prose, express aspects of my background, geographies, histories, cultures, religions, mythologies, cuisines, and are journeys in time and space. Drawing deeply from my life in India, my Bene Israel (Indian Jewish) roots, my experiences in the US, immigration and displacement, racism an...

Artist's Statement: Poetry is prayer and perhaps that is how I stumbled on the art of reading and writing them. These words I hope are meditations on what becomes of grief over time, space, and memory. It encourages us to seek where does love begin and grief end? This is a small collection that is part of a larger collection in the works. About the artist: Kyunghee Kim is a public school educator...

1. Autobiographies 2. Granny Is The Revolution 3. Blood 4. My Self Portrait #1 (After Adam Zagajewski 5. What The Bullet Said 6. Goodbye To The Gods 7. The Garden (Where My Sister Used To See Me) 8. Family Time 9. Boogie On, My Darling (For Bridget) 10. Fuck A Brain 11. Stone Soup Bones 12. Detroit Dream World 1 - 4 13. Community Service Blues 14. Laid Off At the Laugh Factory (for Michael Richard...