Meijer Visiting Writer Series to host poet Melissa Stein


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The Creative Writing Program will introduce the Central Michigan University community to Melissa Stein at the last Meijer Visiting Writers Series event of the semester.

Poet Melissa Stein will be reading her work and performing a book signing at 8 p.m. April 25 in the Charles V. Park Library Baber Room as part of the Meijer Visiting Writers Series.

The award-winning author will read a handful of poems from her newest collection of poems — "Terrible Blooms." 

Stein received a degree in creative writing from the University of California at Davis and is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco. Her first poetry collection "Rough Honey" won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize and was published by American Poetry Review

Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Best New Poets and a wide array of other journals and anthologies. 

Cookies and coffee will be provided at the event.

The Meijer Visiting Writing Series features readings by two poets, fiction writers or creative non-fiction writers of national prominence a semester. The venues are made possible by a grant from the Meijer Foundation.
 

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