This fall I worked on a collaborative art piece with the talented watercolor artist Alexa Grambush. Alexa splits her time between Traverse City and Malibu and water finds its way into much of her work. I loved creating this piece with her, featuring a watercolor print from her series “Our Mother Lake”. The 8x10 print is of her painting entitled “Your Baptismal Waters”, and my poem “Tideless Lake” is letterpress printed onto the page. It is available for purchase in my online shop. Printing done by Freshly Squeezed Print Shop out of Grand Rapids.

Tideless Lake

You move as though the moon
pulls you, but its sway is nominal
when compared to the wind,
the atmospheric pressure,
the will of your waves
to creep up the shore
and caress the dunes,

reminding me I do not need
a moon to move.

Select poetry and photography from Letters to Lake Michigan is currently showing at the new Blue Heron Mercantile in Empire, Michigan. Now through mid-June, you can view and purchase limited edition letterpress poems, pressed by Freshly Squeezed Print Shop in Grand Rapids, MI, along with a series of images.

I am pleased to announce after a bit of a delay during the wild months of summer, I am finally opening the Letters to Lake Michigan Shop! You will now be able to purchase blank postcard packs of six different postcards, as well as poem postcards that will be mailed directly to you! In the coming month I plan to also add 5x7 and 8x10 prints of Lake Michigan photographs, so that you can add the beauty of Lake Michigan to the walls of your homes.

Click here to shop, and if you have any questions, feel free to send me an email!