Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic

Hear great funny poems at the “CAN POETRY BE FUNNY?” reading on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 7 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library in the Van Deusen Room on the third floor.  Special guest speakers are Don Cooney, Lori Moore, Dennis White, Marshall Washington, Judy Sarkozy, Garrard McLeod, Michael Cockrell, and Bonnie Jo Campbell.  This event is free and open to the public. Local poets reading their work are Jennifer Clark, Joe Gross, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Kit Almy, Janet Ruth Heller, Deborah Gang, Melanie Crow, Margaret DeRitter, Kurt Luchs, Robin Church, Alison Kennedy, and Gemma Wesolowski.  This event is sponsored by Friends of Poetry.  This reading is free and open to the public.  The Kalamazoo Public Library’s address is 315 S. Rose St., Kalamazoo MI 49007.  For more information, please e-mail Elizabeth Kerlikowske at mme642@aol.com  or phone the Kalamazoo Public Library at 269-342-9837.