River Gallery Hosts Poetry Symposium on Sept. 29

The River Gallery in Chelsea will feature three Michigan poets during a symposium titled "The Language of Love" on Sept. 29.

Keith Taylor, David Stringer and Andrew Carrigan will speak at 1 p.m., followed by a question and answer session and light refreshments.

Keith Taylor is the author/editor of 13 books, most recently Marginalia for a Natural History, a chapbook of short poems, and Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them, a collection of contemporary Michigan ghost stories co-edited with Laura Kasischke. Unlike his colleagues at this reading, he continues to work, now as the coordinator of the undergraduate creative writing courses in the English Department at the University of Michigan.

Andrew Carrigan is the author of nine collections, Moondogs and Friends the most recent. About his poems one reader has said, “Carrigan’s poems sing with surprises. We follow his sweet and agile eye and mind as he explores, in language that is always fresh, the mysteries of love, the parks of Saline, the stars and their inhabitants, his loverdog Amy, and most of all, the joy of language itself. The poems are in motion, slipping in and out of waking dreams, each graced with the poet’s self-effacing humor.”

David Stringer has most recently Inhale/Exhale, a collection of love poems, and an ebook: What’s My Zip Code?: The Promise of my Brother’s Life, His Descent into Mental Illness, and his Brutal Murder. A retired Huron High School teacher, he lives with his wife Kim in Michigan and Florida.

The program is free and open to the public.