Royal Oak’s Artist Laureate Roberta Brown Makes Ordinary Extraordinary with Poetry
Brown’s project is called “Poetry in Public Places.”
Poem: A Little Bit of Change
Poem: A Little Bit of Change (Lisa Baek, July 15, 2016) Money is money. Even a little change for us can make a big change for others. A little change for kids with lymphoma or leukemia can get them chemotherapy. A little change for others with melanoma can use the money for surgery.…
Three Poems by Erik Tungate…
Three Poems by Erik Tungate (Greenhouse Effect, Spring, Oh Michigan) (Eric Tungate, from Signposts and Constellations, June 1, 2016) Greenhouse Effect each discovery is a view of the self each movement is a sign of change each is every and every is all the girls return to the summer ball the trend is catching and…
Poem: A Friend Doesn’t Need to be A Work of Art
Poem: A Friend Doesn’t Need to be A Work of Art (Emily Kim, April 15, 2016) Introduction by Cherie Rolfe: My student, Emily Kim of Rochester Hills is a fifth grade student at Brewster Elementary School. We did a poetry unit together and she has continued to write. In the “Emily Dickinson tradition,” we titled…
Poem: For Nostalgia’s Sake
Poem: For Nostalgia’s Sake (Poetry by Vickie Brent-Touray, Sept. 1, 2015 ed) On Friday, January 12th, 8:30 A.M., 4TH FLOOR MATERNITY WARD, RM 418, bed B, Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital, to Joyce Marie — while Silas Brent played his last hand of Bid Whist— a hazelnut colored bundle of vehement lungs heralded her own arrival, and Just…
Poets at the Ferndale Library (video)
With sensitivity, fanciful imagery, memories put to paper and even humor, four poets shared their work at the Ferndale Public Library on April 16. Mary Jo Foirth Gillett, Dennis Hinrichsen, Christine Rhein and D’Anne Withowski kept the crowd in awe with their verses. The event was sponsored by Springfed Arts and focused on Michigan poets.