Dr. Jane Piirto is a native of Ishpeming, Michigan, and is of Finnish heritage. She is the author of twenty books and chapbooks, as well as numerous poems, stories, essays, studies, and articles. Her poetry has been translated into Finnish and read by Garrison Keillor on NPR’s “The Writer’s Almanac”….
Garden Sleeping, Garden Growing: A Year-Long Love Letter to Natural Gardening Click on the triangle below to listen to the interview! https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5sxgy8jz5zwsn953/audio1100129782.m4a I wrote Garden Sleeping, Garden Growing as a book that speaks from the garden’s point of view. Each spread represents a month of the year, and a…
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5pguwa/audio1750531592.m4a Ann Dallman has lifelong roots in Michigan’s UP. She started out as a newspaper reporter/photographer and returned to journalism after retiring from teaching. In Cady and the Birchbark Box, Cady Whirlwind Thunder solves the mystery behind a weathered journal found inside a very old birchbark box. Why was the…
“This book turned out to be unlike any writing reference book I have read. Of the thirty-odd writing books in my collection, many have spoken to my identity as one who loves the written word, as a recovering perfectionist, as a person who thinks in rhythm and will rewrite a…
Summers at the Lake is a delightful collection of essays centered around the author’s beloved “Little cabin in the Big Woods” beside Crooked Lake in the Upper Peninsula. The humorous and meditative essays, that read like prose poetry, track the progression of the seasons. Stott aims to evoke for readers…
