Great Lakes and Michigan Literature

Sister Water

Nancy Willard

An absorbing story about childhood and the search for a sense of place in the urban and natural environments of the Midwest.

Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood

Anne-Marie Oomen

Blending artful language and style with the dirt, blood, and sweat of farm life, this collection of essays tells a moving story of growing up in rural Michigan.

A Different Image: The Legacy of Broadside Press

Edited by Gloria House, Albert M. Ward, and Rosemary Weatherston

A collection of work from six of Broadside Press’s most influential poets during the 1960s and 1970s.

Chasing Dreams in the Boondocks: A Golf Course Comes to Life

Bill Haney

The true story of a man who moved his family to the Michigan countryside to construct a golf course on a former popcorn farm.

The Last Good Water: Prose and Poetry, 1988–2003

Michael Delp

In his latest collection of poetry and prose, Michael Delp takes the reader back to nature and details his spiritual awakening within the freshwater of Michigan.

Bobweaving Detroit: The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson

Edited with a postscript by Ted Pearson and Kathryne V. Lindberg

From a poet whose vision and vistas embrace Detroit’s glass-strewn streets and soaring high-rises, this collection is universal yet site-specific in its evocation of jazz and its improvisations on the classics.