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Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice (Paperback)

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By Ronald Riekki (Editor), Andrea Scarpino (Editor)
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Description


Focusing on contemporary issues, this text showcases a large collection of regional poets laureate writing on subjects critical to understanding social justice as it relates to the Great Lakes region. Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice includes writing by seventy-eight poets who truly represent the diversity of the Great Lakes region, including Rita Dove, Marvin Bell, Crystal Valentine, Kimberly Blaeser, Mary Weems, Karen Kovacik, Wendy Vardaman, Zora Howard, Carla Christopher, Meredith Holmes, Karla Huston, Joyce Sutphen, and Laren McClung, among others. City, state, and national poets laureate with ties to Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin appear in these pages, organized around themes from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide,” calling on readers to act on behalf of victims of social injustice.

About the Author


Ron Riekki is an award-winning poet, novelist, and playwright. He edited The Way North, Here, and And Here.

Praise For…


“In Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice, Great Lakes poetry washes our souls from the tiredness of the long roads we crossed and makes our journey worth it. Like water, it flows and, without discrimination, reflects our faces one by one.”
 
DUNYA MIKHAIL, 2001 recipient of the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom
of Writing
 

Product Details
ISBN: 9781611863086
ISBN-10: 1611863082
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication Date: March 1st, 2019
Pages: 350
Language: English