Great Lakes and Michigan Literature

New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry

Edited by Michael Delp, Conrad Hilberry, and Josie Kearns

The most recent Third Coast anthology, this is a lively, and carefully-crafted collection of poems from a variety of Michigan voices.

Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001

Edited by Melba Joyce Boyd and M. L. Liebler

A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to the present.

The Long Winter Ends

Newton G. Thomas

A reprint of the 1941 edition, The Long Winter Ends tells the story of a year in the life of a young emigrant miner who leaves Cornwall to work in the copper mines of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

The Coast of Nowhere: Meditations on Rivers, Lakes, and Streams

Michael Delp

In this collection of short prose meditations and poetry, Delp demonstrates the way one can literally build an inner landscape out of the places of water one frequents.

Michigan in the Novel, 1816–1996: An Annotated Bibliography

Compiled by Robert Beasecker

This exhaustive bibliography records 1,735 novels published from 1816 through 1996 that are set wholly or partially in the state of Michigan.

Early Midwestern Travel Narratives: An Annotated Bibliography, 1634–1850

Robert R. Hubach

A comprehensive study of Midwestern American travel literature in the frontier and early settlement periods.