Name: An Evening with Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer
Start: 2024-09-13T23:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-09-14T01:00:00+00:00
Location: Dennos Museum Center

Description

An Evening with Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer

Friday, September 13th | 7:00 PM

Nandi Comer is the first Poet Laureate of Michigan in 65 years, and the author of American Family: A Syndrome and Tapping Out. The evening will begin with two readings from a local high school and NMC student, followed by a presentation by Comer.

Presented in partnership with Michigan Writers.

ABOUT THE STUDENT READERS

Chloe Taylor is a senior at Mancelona High School and a part of the Writers Studio program at Career Tech.

August Newell is currently a student at Northwestern Michigan College studying creative writing. His work has appeared in the Spring 2024 issue of the NMC Magazine and he looks forward to working on the magazine in the fall semester.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nandi Comer is the current Poet Laureate of Michigan. She is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Northwestern University Press), which was awarded the 2020 Society of Midland Authors Award and the 2020 Julie Suk Award. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, a Callaloo Fellow, an Academy of American Poets fellow, and a 2019 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow. Her poems and essays have appeared in Green Mountains Review, The Offing, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal of Pan African Studies, and others. Nandi has served as a writer-in-residence in Detroit Public Schools and collaborated with organizations, including YArts and InsideOut Literary Arts Projects. She serves as a poetry editor for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora and is the co-director of Detroit Lit.

Photo credit Khary Mason.

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Date & Time

Fri, Sep 13, 2024 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Venue Details

Dennos Museum Center

1410 College Drive
Traverse City, Michigan 49686

Dennos Museum Center

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