Join Detroit Mercy’s Department of English as we welcome poet (and alum!) Cal Freeman to campus for a poetry reading and conversation about his latest book, The Weather of Our Names (Cornerstone Press, 2025). Books will be available for purchase.
Thursday, October 23rd at 12:45 pm
McNichols Campus Library, Bargman Room (2nd floor)
Free and Open to the Community!
Cal Freeman is the author of the books Fight Songs (Eyewear 2017) and Poolside at the Dearborn Inn (R&R Press 2022). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals, including Atticus Review, Image, The Poetry Review, Verse Daily, Under a Warm Green Linden, North American Review, Willow Springs, Oxford American, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Advanced Leisure. He is a recipient of the Devine Poetry Fellowship (judged by Terrance Hayes), winner of Passages North’s Neutrino Prize, and a finalist for the River Styx International Poetry Prize. Born and raised in Detroit, he teaches at Oakland University and serves as Writer-In-Residence with InsideOut Literary Arts Detroit. His chapbook of poems, Yelping the Tegmine, came out in 2024, and his hybrid full-length collection, The Weather of Our Names, has just been released by Cornerstone Press.
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