Leland Township Library to host poetry workshop

From staff reports

On Saturday, June 15, at 10:30 am, Leland Township Library will host poet, professor, and Leelanau-enthusiast Mary Ann Samyn for a poetry workshop titled “Where to Now?: A Sense of Direction for Poets”. During the workshop Samyn will encourage participants to “start a new poem and consider the many ways it could go, the discoveries it could make, thesatisfactions it could offer.” Samyn chose this topic because she has observed that “(p)oets often write about the same topics, but they do so in strikingly different ways. And we are drawn to poems not just because of what they say but also because of how they say it.”

Samyn, a Michigan native, is the author of six collections of poetry — most recently, Air, Light, Dust, Shadow, Distance, winner of the 2017 42 Miles Press Poetry Award, and My Life in Heaven, winner of the 2012 FIELD Poetry Prize. A Professor of English, she teaches in the MFA program at West Virginia University. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, and Royal Oak.

There is no charge for the workshop, which will take place in the Munnecke Room at the Library. For more information, call 231-256-9152 or visit lelandlibrary.org.