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 Michiganâ€™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.

Day 22: Poem-a-Day: Is the monk delivered from sin or from pleasure?

By Bill Castanier on April 22, 2014

The poet Thomas Lynch of Milford, Michigan describes this poem as a post Ishtar, post lenten piece: an extension of Heaney’s, “St. Kevin and the Blackbird.” It places in the monk’s biography the countervailing impulses of the pagan feast of Ishtar (celebrating sex and fecundity) and the Christian feast of Easter (and its themes of mortification, death, […]

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Day 21: Poem-a-Day: It’s not a wedding reception without “YMCA”

By Bill Castanier on April 21, 2014

Today’s poet, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, is the winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry for 2011 for her manuscript, “A Mind Like This.” Ramsey received an Irving S. Gilmore Emerging Artist Grant in 2002 for her poetry. When she found herself without a job, the victim of bookstore closure in 2006, Ramsey was admitted into […]

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Day 20: Poem-a-Day: All hail Liverpool

By Bill Castanier on April 20, 2014

The following poem by M.L. Liebler is from a collection tentatively titled Underneath My American Face from Made in Michigan Series of Wayne State University Press. Liebler says the poems in the collection were all written in Liverpool. Upon Christ’s Entry into Liverpool After Adrian Henri & The Liverpool Scene “BUT ALL WILL BE WELL, AND […]

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