Join the event by coming to Bay Books April 25th at 5pm.
Bay Books is pleased to present the second in a two-part series of Poetry Month events: A Day of Wine and Poets. Please join us for wine, hors d’oeuvres, and readings from local poets Jeanne Sirotkin and Gordon Henry!
About Jeanne Sirotkin
Jeanne Sirotkin (Haynes) has lived in Traverse City for 15 years. Born in Detroit, she lived in California, Colorado, and Texas before returning to Michigan where she and her husband raised four kids and numerous dogs.
Jeanne has published her poems in many journals, including The North American Review, Cimmaron Review, Northville Review, Arcade, Ekphrasis, and the Tule Review, among others. Her work is also featured in the anthology This is Womens’ Work.
Her collection of short stories, Wrestling the Bear, was the 2011 winner of the Stephen F. Austin Prize in Fiction, published in 2013 by SFA Press.
She currently serves as the Poet Laureate at the Botanical Garden at Historic Barns Park in Traverse City, Michigan.
About Gordon Henry
Gordon Henry is an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinaabe Nation in Minnesota. He is an Emeritus Professor at Michigan State University, where he served as the Leslie Endowed Chair in American Indian Literature. While at Michigan State, he taught courses in American Indian Literature, Creative Writing, and the Creative Process. He also served as Senior Editor of the American Indian Studies Series at the Michigan State University Press.
Recipient of an American Book Award for his novel The Light People, Henry’s poetry, fiction and essays have been published extensively across the U.S. and Europe. In 2019, Henry co-edited a published collection of essays titled Afterlives of the Indigenous Archives for the University of New England Press. His poetry is included in When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, published in 2020, and Living Nations, Living Words in 2021. His poetry collection Spirit Matters: White Clay, Red Exits, Distant Others came out in 2022.
In January of 2025, Gordon Henry was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
