Often authors are asked how much of their writing is based upon their own lives. Such a question was posed during the lively question and answer session following the author and poet’s presentation “A Feast of Poems: Belle and Roethke” at the Roethke House Museum in Saginaw, Michigan. The response to that question and related follow-up questions is addressed in this blogpost.
Read moreMarty Grimes on Composing Poetry as Belle and the Creative Process
During Q&A portion of the Feast of Poetry presentation at Madonna University on April 18th, 2017, poet Martha Buhr Grimes received the following question from an audience member: “Marty, how did you happen to compose poems as Belle for Paul’s novel and how did the creative process work between the two of you?”
Read moreUM Bicentennial Symposium, “Poets at Michigan: Then and Now”
Author Paul Dimond participated in this symposium at the Michigan Union, as a part of three-day “Spring Festival Celebration of UM Bicentennial." The morning panel of the Poetry Symposium explored how Robert Frost, President Burton and the Hopwood Awards showed the way to make a place for poets and other creative writers in higher education.
Read moreThe Permanence of Robert Frost and His Poetry
On the 100th anniversary of Amherst College first hiring Robert Frost as a faculty member, Paul Dimond, author of The Belle of Two Arbors, hosted a symposium on how Frost’s poetry, work and teaching at Amherst, Michigan, and Dartmouth made an important place for poets and other creative artists in higher education.
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