Recorded Programs
Northwords & Music: Wordplay Show for GLPF
April 11, 2025
Join 2022 Marquette Writer of the Year B. G. Bradley and his friends for an evening of music, stories, poetry, and skits sure to make you laugh, cry, clap, and sing for those crossroads in our lives. The show features two-time U. P. Poet Laureate Marty Achatz; celebrated musicians Linda Smith and Seamus Collins (Big Lake Acoustic), actress Jacque Love, and guests Jim Edwards and musician John Mallow.
Great Lakes Poetry Festival: Josh Brindle ( JJ Brinski ) Book Launch
April 4, 2025
Mad Space Poet Josh Brindle (JJ Brinski) reads from his most recent collection of poems, Beasts of Our Burdens: Ballads of Wing & Hoof.
Great Lakes Poetry Festival: Kathleen L. Heideman Book Launch Reading
April 2, 2025
Poet Kathleen M. Heideman reads from her recently released collection of poems, The Caving Grounds, from Modern History Press.
NEA Big Read: Christine Saari “A Stitched Life” Reading
April 1, 2025
Writer/artist Christine Saari reads from her newly released memoir in poems, A Stitched Life. The book details Saari’s childhood experiences growing up in Austria during the rise of Adolf Hitler to her eventual settlement in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Join us for this powerful testament to the human spirit overcoming authoritarianism, war, loss, and grief to find this place we call home.
NEA Big Read: Tyler Tichelaar
March 29, 2025
Tyler Tichelaar (award-winning author). Tyler Tichelaar will present information on local historical figure Charles Kawbawgam based on his book Kawbawgam: The Chief, the Legend, the Man.