Joseph Featherstone is Professor of Education at MSU.  His volume of poems is titled Braces's Cove.

Dennis Hinrichsen teaches at Lansing Community College.  His most recent poetry collection is The Garden of Earthly Delights (University of Akron Press, 2000), and is the winner of the 1999 Akron Poetry Prize.  His poetry has been published in Third Coast, a literary  magazine published biannually by the Department of English at  Western Michigan University and in Crab Orchard Review, a biannual journal of creative works featuring new fiction, poetry, literary  nonfiction, interviews with authors, and book reviews of small press and university press titles, published by the Department of English, Southern Illinois University.

A Professor at Oberlin College, Watanabe is the author of Writing to the Dead, a finalist for the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award.

An evening of original works by students at Michigan colleges and universities.
 

Author of five chapbooks of poetry and one full-length volume of poems, All That Divides Us (Utah State University Press, c2000), the winner of the 2000 May Swenson Poetry Award.