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Bill Castanier

Bill Castanier has been an award-wining weekly newspaper editor, advertising and public relations executive in his 40 year career. In addition, he has been an executive with a newspaper trade association and founded Michigan’s first technology association, I-TE@M. He writes a weekly newspaper feature on Michigan authors and is on the Board of the Kerrytown BookFest and the Michigan Notable Book Awards. He has the only daily blog on Michigan literature (Mittenlit) and founded Spartanpodcast.com.

Bonnie 2015

All we have left are her stories-Bonnie Bucqueroux leaves a legacy of compassion, creativity and passion

By Bill Castanier on October 30, 2015

Bonnnie Bucqueroux may be gone but her stories will always be with us

Posted in Community & Opinion, News | Tagged Bonnie Bucqueroux, LansingOnlineNews.com, obituary | Leave a response

Day 30: Poem-a-Day: Schools Out by Alice Cooper

Day 30: Poem-a-Day: Schools Out by Alice Cooper

By Bill Castanier on April 30, 2015

Rock poetry rules

Posted in Literary Lansing, News, Poem/a/Day | Tagged Alice Cooper, I am a Rock, LansingOnlineNews.com, poem a day, Poetry in Motion | Leave a response

Day 29: Poem-a-Day: Prelude by Stephanie Glazier

Day 29: Poem-a-Day: Prelude by Stephanie Glazier

By Bill Castanier on April 29, 2015

Nature at its best

Posted in Literary Lansing, News, Poem/a/Day | Tagged Antioch University, poem a day, Portland, Stephanie Glazier | Leave a response

Day 28: Poem-a-Day: Our Day Pistoia by Jack A. Drew

Day 28: Poem-a-Day: Our Day Pistoia by Jack A. Drew

By Bill Castanier on April 29, 2015

A poem by a World War II veteran describes the tedium of behind the lines

Posted in Literary Lansing, News, Poem/a/Day | Tagged artprize, Deb Drew Brown, Jack A. Drew, Lansing Goes to War, LansingOnlineNews.com, poem a day, WW II | 1 Response

Day 27: Poem-a-Day: The Moveen Notebook by Thomas Lynch

Day 27: Poem-a-Day: The Moveen Notebook by Thomas Lynch

By Bill Castanier on April 27, 2015

Death is a decidedly different place

Posted in Literary Lansing, News, Poem/a/Day | Tagged LansingOnlineNews.com, Moveen County, National Poetry Month, poem a day, Thomas Lynch | Leave a response

Day 25 and 26: Poem-a-Day: Night Syrup and Dibiki-Ziigwaagaame by Margaret Noodin

Day 25 and 26: Poem-a-Day: Night Syrup and Dibiki-Ziigwaagaame by Margaret Noodin

By Bill Castanier on April 26, 2015

Poetry Anishinaabemowin and English

Posted in Literary Lansing, News, Poem/a/Day | Tagged Anishinaabemowin, LansingOnlineNews.com, Margaret Noodin, poem a day | Leave a response

Day 24: Poem-a-Day: Hick Orpheus with Harmonica and Train by Dennis Hinrichsen

Day 24: Poem-a-Day: Hick Orpheus with Harmonica and Train by Dennis Hinrichsen

By Bill Castanier on April 24, 2015

Old Susanna

Posted in Literary Lansing, News, Poem/a/Day | Tagged Dennis Hinrichsen, LansingOnlineNews.com, poem a day | Leave a response

Day 23: Poem-a-Day: Death Poem by John Wilkes Booth and David Herold

Day 23: Poem-a-Day: Death Poem by John Wilkes Booth and David Herold

By Bill Castanier on April 23, 2015

John Wilkes Booth put his hand to poetry before his death

Posted in Literary Lansing, News, Poem/a/Day | Tagged John Wilkes Booth, LansingOnlineNews.com, Lincoln assassination, Poem-a-Day. Civil War | Leave a response

Day22: Poem-a-Day: Wisconsin,1929 by Cindy Hunter Morgan

Day22: Poem-a-Day: Wisconsin,1929 by Cindy Hunter Morgan

By Bill Castanier on April 22, 2015

WISCONSIN, 1929 Lake Michigan What he knew of death was a brood mare in a barn stall heaving quietly in the dark – contraction and silence. When the canvas on the lifeboats hummed in the wind and lanterns slammed against bulkheads and fire-grate doors swung on their hinges, he heard music and felt, only, the […]

Posted in Literary Lansing, News, Poem/a/Day | Tagged Cindy Hunter Morgan, LansingOnlineNews.com, Michigan State University, poem a day, Wisconsin | Leave a response

Day 21: Poem-a-Day: folktale by Janet Homer

Day 21: Poem-a-Day: folktale by Janet Homer

By Bill Castanier on April 21, 2015

A watch is more than a timepiece

Posted in Literary Lansing, News, Poem/a/Day | Tagged Janet Homer, Lansingonlinews.com, poem a day | Leave a response

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