Genre Bending with Thomas Lynch

Thu, April 2, 2026 2:00 PM - Thu, April 2, 2026 3:30 PM at East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Rd., East Lansing, MI

Join us for a craft talk with poet, essayist, and novelist Thomas Lynch.

Genre Bending will concentrate on how poetry and nonfiction and fiction interact and cross pollinate in the voice and imagination of writers. Spawned by his poem written 35 years ago of the same name, his first novel No Prisoners was just published in September 2025.

Registration is required and is limited to 20 participants. Please click here to register.

 

Thomas Lynch is the author of six books of essays, a book of short fiction and six books of poetry. He was a National Book Award finalist for The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade and is the recipient of the American Book Award, The Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, The Denise Levertov Award, The Great Lakes Book Award, and Michigan Authors Award. He has taught with the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, the Graduate Program in Writing at University of Michigan, and Mortuary Science at Wayne State University. He lives in Michigan, where he worked as a funeral director until his retirement, and in Ireland, where he keeps an ancestral home. His latest title, No Prisoners (Godine, 2025) is his first novel.