Picnic Basket Press

01/10/2024

Attention Poets!
A poem a day
Keeps your brain in play. 😉

ATTENTION ALL POETS: Friends of Roethke is excited to partner with local poet, Donny Winter, Writer, on his Oct/POEM/ber poem writing challenge! We encourage you to participate if interested. The challenge asks poets to write one poem a day for 31 days. You can either follow a prompt-focused track or an independent track. We'll be putting out a submission call at the end of the challenge and will select a number of poems for publication on our website! For more details on the challenge, visit: https://tinyurl.com/octpoember2024

01/10/2024

Lots of people FINDING LILACS this fall!!

Lilacs are back in bloom!

27/07/2024

Encountered lovely advice and a beautiful mural on my morning walk today.

13/07/2024

❤️

🐛🦋 Know your neighbors...

02/06/2024

01/06/2024

Find YOUR lilacs today at Charlin’s Book Nook at the River Place Shops in Frankenmuth!

18/05/2024

14/05/2024

Stop by!!

23/03/2024

This is a fantastic event!

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13/03/2024

This week we will be featuring authors visiting the library for Women’s “Writes”, an Area Women Author’s Showcase on Thursday March 14 from 6pm - 8pm. Next up:

Barbara Powers-Harris - Educator, Fulbright Researcher, Sacred Artist

Co-authored “The Promise: the Moving Story of a Family in the Holocaust” with Eva Geiringer Schloss, stepdaughter of Otto Frank, father of diarist Ann Frank.

Created “Heaven’s Gate: Tribute to Children in the Holocaust,” forty-eight portrait collages, video montage, first exhibited at Notre Dame’s Hall of Tolerance in Cleveland, OH

Conducted presentations for schools and community groups with Eva Schloss worldwide.

13/03/2024

This week we will be featuring authors visiting the library for Women’s “Writes”, an Area Women Author’s Showcase on Thursday March 14 from 6pm - 8pm. Next up:

Shetan Noir is the current owner of Squatch GQ magazine LLC and also a Michigan-based author and paranormal travel journalist.
She also teaches courses on the paranormal history of the Great Lakes and cryptozoology of North America at Owens and Kellogg Community Colleges. Shetan has written several books on cryptozoology and is working on more upcoming book projects. Her current book is The Hounds Tooth cookbook, Bone Arfp'etit!

13/03/2024

This week we will be featuring authors visiting the library for Women’s “Writes”, an Area Women Author’s Showcase on Thursday March 14 from 6pm - 8pm. Next up:

After attending a Young Authors Conference in second grade, Cynthia Birk knew she wanted to be an author. She kept the dream alive while earning an engineering degree and building a decades-long career in the automotive industry. Finally, in 2022 she published her first novel, "Finding Lilacs", a modern Cinderella story about a woman who travels to Mackinac Island in search of happy memories and bold new experiences. In 2023, she followed up with "Butterflies on Daisies", a children's book which she both wrote and illustrated. A lifelong Michigan resident, Cynthia enjoys travel, hiking, and photography. She is currently working on her next novel.

12/03/2024

This week we will be featuring authors visiting the library for Women’s “Writes”, an Area Women Author’s Showcase on Thursday March 14 from 6pm - 8pm. Next up:

Loraine J. (Lori) Hudson lives and writes in Eagle, Michigan. There are five books in her Beale Street mystery series, with more on the way. When she isn’t writing mysteries, she enjoys creating youth adventure tales under her pen name, Judith Wade, inviting dragons, mermaids, and other creatures into her books.

12/03/2024

This week we will be featuring authors visiting the library for Women’s “Writes”, an Area Women Author’s Showcase on Thursday March 14 from 6pm - 8pm. Next up:

Amy Nemecek was awarded the Paraclete Poetry prize for The Language of the Birds and Other Poems, which is her first published collection. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her husband, son, and two cats. When she isn't crafting words, she enjoys exploring new places with her family and taking long walks in nature.