Michigan in Books reviews “Relative Sanity”

Relative Sanity by Ellen Lord   I’m the last person who should be allowed to review poems. Many poems simply go over my head at the altitude of a jetliner. I don’t even understand some of the glowing remarks by the authors on the back of this book. But if…

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Ellen Lord’s chapbook Relative Sanity reflects on life in Northern Michigan with poems of loss, longing, betrayal, and forgiveness

https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s544/audio/2023/08/int-ellenlordwalloon-final.mp3 Click on the player above to listen to Ellen Lord’s interview Michigan native Ellen Lord has released her first chapbook, Relative Sanity, which features her elegiac and nature-centered poetry. Currently residing in Charlevoix County, Ellen has an Upper Peninsula connection with an ancestral home in Trout Creek. Her writing…

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