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Meet The Editors: Dom Fonce, Poetry
Dom Fonce joined the Great Lakes Review team as a poetry editor in February 2020. He also serves as a co-editor-in-chief of Volney Road Review, founded in 2018, and you can find his work in numerous literary magazines, journals, and …
“Tangents Are The Point” Q & A with Milwaukee author Todd Lazarski
Q&A with Milwaukee author Todd Lazarski (pictured above at a Dunkirk social club) as he romanticizes and sometimes denigrates: Chris Paul; sarcasm’s hidden kindness; self-destruction as research; necessary meanness in food writing; and thoughts of his father, dead at 39 …
The Love Boat: Writer recounts getting hitched while living on Lake Michigan
A young woman in the big city meets a fella, they fall in love and get married. It sounds like a familiar formula. But the guy happens to live on a boat. And we’re not talking like the quirky dude who …
Andrea Scarpino, new U.P. poet laureate: ‘My desire is to get poetry out into the community’
Michigan doesn’t have an official, state-supported poet laureate. But a grassroots campaign has created a position in the Upper Peninsula. Andrea Scarpino was recently named the poet laureate of the U.P. for 2015-2017. She succeeds Russell Thorburn, the first laureate …
TOUGH, MAGIC, REGIONAL: An interview with Julie Babcock
INTERVIEW BY MEREDITH COUNTS When I talked with poet Julie Babcock this winter she was finishing the semester teaching at the University of Michigan, excited about starting a new journal, and enjoying the events surrounding the November 2014 release of Autoplay (MG …
Bestseller spotlight: Ellen Airgood
Ellen Airgood’s 2012 novel South of Superior has come in at numerous slots on the Michigan bestseller list over the past few months. Tell us a little about your book and how it came to be? When I started writing South …
Bestseller spotlight: Tobin Buhk
Tobin Buhk is at #14 on the Michigan bestseller list for his true crime book Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids. Tell us a little about your book and how it came to be? Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids details …
Bestseller Spotlight: Joseph Heywood
Joseph Heywood’s novel, Killing a Cold One, is currently number 5 on the U.P. Bestseller list. Tell us a little about your book and how it came to be? Mountains of the Misbegotten is the second in a new series intended to …