After taking leave part of the summer to Belgium, I am eager in mid-August to return to Michigan’s heat. Yes, I cherish Great-Lakes-State nights of fireflies and lightning, the air bursting with life. I am at a loss with temperate seasons, being accustomed to extremes of my watery land base.
With my return comes a feature performance on Tuesday, August 16. A Women’s Banquet: Finding Strength Within is a benefit dinner for the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing. I look forward to performing select poems from my forthcoming book “Circle…Home,” its publication being a collaboration with the WCGL.
In celebration of the evening’s theme, I also will share part of my recovery story for the first time in public: how I find the strength within to live a sober life, and how this journey gave life to my poetry collection “Circle…Home.”
A Women’s Banquet: Finding Strength Within is a free event with limited seating and advanced reservation. Seats may be reserved until Friday, August 5, by phone (517) 372-9163. The dinner on August 16 is at the Radisson Hotel of Downtown Lansing, and begins promptly at 6:00pm concluding by 8:00pm. The program also features vocalist Yvette Morgan and poet Diane Garden.
Meanwhile, advance orders for “Circle…Home” are available at a discounted price of $16 through Everybody Reads Bookstore until August 16! Your support of this publication is most welcome and needed, alongside a grant from the Arts Council of Greater Lansing and printing donated by the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing.
