Perhaps you’ve noticed. Literary art helps us to stay calm and engaged, to feel a sense of possibility as we process difficult truths, and to feel a sense of community. Join me!

I host Eco Book Club at Literati Bookstore. Join us for our third-Monday-of-the-month conversations. On July 20, 2026, at 6:30 PM, upstairs, at Literati Bookstore (124 E. Washington, Ann Arbor, Michigan), we’ll discuss the very timely Great Lakes for Sale, updated edition, by Dave Dempsey. What do data centers need? Water! Our reading choices are informed by the climate, extinction, and land-abuse crises; environmental racism; and the need to foster a sense of possibility. Find a list of books we have read here. And click here to go to Literati Bookstore’s website.

The wonderful people at Poet Tree Town fill Ann Arbor with poems each year during Poetry Month (April). This year, they posted my poem, “We Are All Shell Shocked,” in the window of the downtown Ann Arbor District Library.