White Lake Lecture Series

January 26, 6 PM
Laura Kasischke - award-winning Michigan poet and novelist
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Join WLMS Host Bob Swan on January 26 at 6 PM as he visits with award-winning Michigan poet and novelist Laura Kasischke. Laura Kasischke was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan. Kasischke has won numerous awards for her poetry, including the Juniper Prize, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award, the Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Rilke Poetry Prize from the University of North Texas. Her poetry collection Space, In Chains (2011) won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Kasischke’s poetry is noted for its intelligent, honest portrayal of domestic and familial life; its explosively accurate imagery and dense soundscapes; and its idiosyncratic use of narrative. According to Stephen Burt in the New York Times: “No poet has tried so hard to cut through suburban American illusion while respecting the lives, young and old, that it nurtures or saves. No poet has joined the chasm of ontological despair to the pathos of household frustration so well as Kasischke at her best.”
Laura Kasischke - award-winning Michigan poet and novelist
Sign up at http://madl.evanced.info/signup/Calendar and a link to these events will be emailed to you
Join WLMS Host Bob Swan on January 26 at 6 PM as he visits with award-winning Michigan poet and novelist Laura Kasischke. Laura Kasischke was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan. Kasischke has won numerous awards for her poetry, including the Juniper Prize, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award, the Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Rilke Poetry Prize from the University of North Texas. Her poetry collection Space, In Chains (2011) won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Kasischke’s poetry is noted for its intelligent, honest portrayal of domestic and familial life; its explosively accurate imagery and dense soundscapes; and its idiosyncratic use of narrative. According to Stephen Burt in the New York Times: “No poet has tried so hard to cut through suburban American illusion while respecting the lives, young and old, that it nurtures or saves. No poet has joined the chasm of ontological despair to the pathos of household frustration so well as Kasischke at her best.”

February 23, 6 PM
Thomas Wikman - founder and conductor Laureate of Chicago’s Music of the Baroque and scholar
“Voice’s Golden Age, the Early 20th Century”
Thomas Wikman - founder and conductor Laureate of Chicago’s Music of the Baroque and scholar
“Voice’s Golden Age, the Early 20th Century”

March 30, 6 PM
George Maniates - Muskegon Community College History Professor
“Beethoven’s Vienna – a Historical Context”
George Maniates - Muskegon Community College History Professor
“Beethoven’s Vienna – a Historical Context”