Love in Michigan, by Adrienne Wright

Poetry, chapbook, 20 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Love in Michigan is a meditation on love, loss, and the quiet beauty of passing time. Rooted in the landscapes of Michigan,  these poems explore the ache of absence and the ways memory lingers in familiar places. The rustle of a warbler, the hush of snowfall, and the steady flight of geese unfold moments of longing, tenderness, and remembrance, grounding personal  history in the rhythms of nature and revealing how love endures in the spaces we return to. With language that is both spare and evocative, Love in Michigan moves with quiet reverence through personal history, carrying a deep awareness of time’s gentle and relentless passage. The poems embrace the bittersweet and celebrate what remains even as they reckon with change. At its heart, this chapbook is an invitation to see, in Michigan’s quiet corners, the echoes of our own love stories. Adrienne Wright is the author of two poetry collections, Coming Clean (Mayapple Press, 2003) and Compared to This (Finishing Line Press, 2005). Her work has appeared in numerous print and online literary journals. After nearly two decades away from writing, she now spends her days connecting with volunteers in Vandalia, IL—a town of 7,000, including a few thousand reluctant residents. She once taught English at a college that no longer exists and at others that, against the odds, still do. Married and mostly content, she’s learning to write again, just to see what happens.