Date: Thursday, July 18
Time 7:00 p.m. EST
Location: Hybrid: At the Roethke House (1805 Gratiot Avenue, Saginaw, Michigan 48602) and online via Zoom.
Cost: Donations welcome, not required.
Montana poet Marc Beaudin, formerly of Saginaw, reads from and discusses his latest collections: These Creatures of a Day (FootHills Publishing, 2024) and Life List: Poems (Riverfeet Press, 2020). In both books, the poems are often rooted in his mid-Michigan homeland and his adopted home in the northern Rockies. In either case, a connection to the land and waters of these disparate places grounds his poetry to the Earth and its creatures – as New York poet and memoirist Nick Flynn puts it, “These poems rise up out of the natural world, the wings and the sky and the brittle trees.”
The reading and discussion, which will include Roethke related/inspired material such as the poem “At Roethke’s Grave,” moves through Beaudin’s recent work for which Idaho poet CMarie Furhman notes, “Beaudin is one of our finest nature poets, and his writing—pure, authentic, and timely—is a call to humanity, a nod to ancestors, and a pure joy to read.”
“Exquisite and full of life like the birds themselves. In each poem we find clarity and compassion as we stand on the razor-edge of uncertainty.” – Terry Tempest Williams
About Marc Beaudin
Beaudin is a poet, theatre artist, and bookseller based in Livingston, Montana. He is originally from Bay City and Saginaw, where he helped produce the weeklong Theodore Roethke Poetry Festival every spring, and was a founding director of the 303 Collective. In addition to These Creatures of a Day, he is the author of Life List: Poems, Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals, and the spoken word album From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco-Jazz Suite featuring music by members of the bands Morphine and Twinemen: Dana Colley, Billy Conway, and Laurie Sargent. Widely anthologized in publications dedicated to environmental and social justice, he believes the Brahms Violin Concerto in D is more powerful than all the guns, bombs, and boardrooms of the world.
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