Lansing Poetry Club Reading & Open Mic
The Copper Chimney Lounge Poetry Series is curated by the Lansing Poetry Club, an organization working to engage the local community with poetry and the literary arts.
Join us for a Sunday reading and book signing of Hollie Hardy’s second poetry collection, Lions Like Us, plus an open mic.
Featuring:
Hollie Hardy
Jo Gram
Hosted by:
Ruelaine Stokes, Poet Laureate of Lansing, MI
Sunday, September 8, 2024
4pm
University United Methodist Church
1120 S. Harrison Rd
East Lansing, MI
Free Event
Hollie Hardy is a writer, educator, and author of the newly released Lions Like Us (Red Light Lit Press) and How to Take a Bullet: And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press) winner of the Annual Poetry Center Book Award at San Francisco State University. She holds an MFA in Poetry from SFSU, teaches private writing workshops online, and hosts the long-running monthly reading series Saturday Night Special: A Virtual Open Mic. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Bay Area Generations, Cobalt Poets, Colossus, The Common, Dispatches from Quarantine, Eleven Eleven, Fourteen Hills, Migozine, Milvia Street Journal, Mixed Bag of Tricks, Parthenon West Review, Passionfruit Review, sPARKLE & bLINK, Transfer, and elsewhere. She lives in Austin, TX.
Jo Marie Gram is a rapidly emerging poet on the Lansing poetry scene. Formerly a teacher at Western Michigan University and an analyst for the State of Michigan, Gram is a pillar of the Lansing-area writing community and a longtime supporter of the arts.
