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Toby Altman and the Art of Making Space
April 14, 2026 - Jess Watley ’27, RCAH Senior Communications Intern
RCAH faculty member and Center for Poetry Director Toby Altman centers creative storytelling, engagement, and relationship-building to create learning spaces rooted in trust.
Arts Council of Greater Lansing Announces Next Lansing Poet Laureate
March 27, 2026 - Arts Council of Greater Lansing
Suban Nur Cooley, PhD, to serve as 2026-28 Lansing Poet Laureate.
Tracie Morris to perform "Colors through Darkness" at MSU Broad Museum of Art
March 17, 2026
Morris's original performance was composed in response to Jan Tichy's "Darkness" Winter/Spring 2026 exhibit at the MSU Broad Art Museum.
Pamela Anderson wins 2026 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize
February 17, 2026
Anderson will receive a $1,000 prize and publication by MSU Press.
Singing Under Snow, Wheelbarrow Books' 15th Title, Now Available
January 20, 2026
Wheelbarrow Books' 15th title, Singing Under Snow, is now available!
Printing as a Form of Poetry
October 28, 2025 - Gabrielle Yeary
In an age where poems live and die in the scroll of a screen, a clatter of metal and ink still echoes through the basement of Snyder-Phillips— where the letterpress keeps poetry tactile, intentional, and alive.