Join Fleda Brown, author of The Woods Are on Fire: New and Selected Poems, for a reading and discussion of poetry on October 23 and a writing workshop on October 24. The first 25 people to register for either event will receive a free copy of The Woods Are on Fire: New and Selected Poems.

Author Reading and Book Signing
Wednesday, October 23: 6-7:30 pm
Bos Winery
135 Ames Street, Elk Rapids

Poetry Writing Workshop
Thursday, October 24, 1:00-3:00 pm
Grass River Natural Area
6500 Alden Hwy, Bellaire, MI

Both events are free and open to the public.

Fleda Brown’s tenth collection of poems, Flying Through a Hole in the Storm won the Hollis Summers Prize from Ohio University Press and was an Indie finalist. Earlier poems can be found in The Woods Are on Fire: New & Selected Poems. Her work has appeared three times in The Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her recent memoir is Mortality, with Friends, MIPA Winner and Midwest Book Award winner in memoir. She was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001-07.