Marion Starling Boyer
Marion Boyer and Gail Griffin: Poetry Reading "From London's Palace to Norfolk's Pubs"
Wed, Oct 16
|Bookbug & this is a bookstore
Marion Starling Boyer and Gail Griffin join together to present an evening of poetry. Gail Griffin will read from her collection of poems in the voice of Elizabeth I and Marion Starling Boyer will read from her new book THE SEA WAS NEVER FAR, about the quirky characters in Norfolk, England.
Time & Location
Oct 16, 2019, 6:30 PM
Bookbug & this is a bookstore, 3019 Oakland Dr, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA
About the event
this is a bookstore is thrilled to bring two friends for a celebration and reading of their poetry. This evening will take us on a trip to England and through time.
The Sea Was Never Far, by Marion Starling Boyer takes readers to Norfolk. Marion describes the book as “not a book of collected poems as much as it is like a novel in verse, written after I discovered a secret my grandmother kept for her whole life.”
Gail Griffin will be reading from her award-winning, and as yet-unpublished chapbook, Virginals: A Book of Elizabethan Interiors. Seven of the poems appeared in the fall 2018 issue of The Missouri Review.
Marion Starling Boyer is a professor emeritus at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. She earned her BA from Purdue University and a Masters in Communication from Western Michigan University. She is author of four poetry collections: The Sea Was Never Far…