Great Lakes and Michigan Literature
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Hangdog Reef: Poems Sailing the Great Lakes
Stephen Tudor
From Beaver Island and the Sleeping Bear Dunes to the port towns and industrial cities, Tudor explores the metaphorical rhythm of the Great Lakes.
Over the Graves of Horses
Michael Delp
This first collection of poems by Michigan writer Michael Delp invites the reader to share in the poet’s experiences of love, death, and family relationships.
Contemporary Michigan Poetry: Poems from the Third Coast
Edited by Michael Delp, Conrad Hilberry, and Herbert Scott
Remarkable in its scope and quality, this second anthology offers an arresting look at Michigan life and a special glimpse at the preoccupations that possess residents on the Third Coast.
An Afternoon in Waterloo Park
Gerald Dumas
A complex, lyrical story of life on Dickerson Avenue in Detroit.
Danny and the Boys: Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow
Robert Traver
A collection of tales that capture the genuine flavor of backwoods life in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.