<![CDATA[JAN SHOEMAKER - Engagements & News]]>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:05:59 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Slow Learner, book launch event!]]>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:47:56 GMThttps://www.janshoemaker.com/engagements--news/slow-learner-book-launch-event
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Thursday, January 4, 2024 - 6:30pm
Schuler Books
1982 W Grand River Ave
Okemos, MI 48864
Join award winning  essayist, poet, and sometime bookseller,  Jan Shoemaker to celebrate her new book at her home bookstore!

This event is free to attend. However it helps us in planning to receive your RSVP. Please register here so we know you plan to join us: https://events.humanitix.com/jan-shoemaker

]]><![CDATA[Beal Botanical Garden 150 Years - Poetry Installation]]>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.janshoemaker.com/engagements--news/beal-botanical-garden-150-years-poetry-installation
2023 marks the 150th anniversary of the Beal Botanical Garden at Michigan State University.

Jan Shoemaker was honored to have a selection of her poems installed throughout the garden for the summer and fall of 2023 as a part of this historic celebration.

You can find more information about the 150 year celebrations HERE, and more information about the the gardens HERE.

Thank you to all the wonderful folks at the Beal who made this special project happen!
]]><![CDATA[Wandering Words & Wild Euphony]]>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:32:10 GMThttps://www.janshoemaker.com/engagements--news/wandering-words-wild-euphony
Thursday, March 9, 2023
5pm-7pm
FREE
Sorrento Hotel's Fireside Room
900 Madison St, Seattle, WA 98104

Join AWP Conference guests in the Sorrento Hotel's Fireside Room where musical improv virtuoso Xitlalic Hernandez will accompany readings by fifteen writers from Wandering Aengus Press and Trail to Table Press. Emceed by writer and publisher Jill McCabe Johnson. Readers include: Marcia Aldrich, Lucy Ferriss, Gail Folkins, Jessica Gigot, Andrew C. Gottlieb, Steven Harvey, Amanda Hawkins, Holly J. Hughes, Jed Myers, Julie Riddle, Tina Schumann, Jan Shoemaker, Ana Maria Spagna, Alina Stefanescu, and Tarn Wilson. Maximum fifty attendees. Come early to get your seat and order any food and beverages!
]]><![CDATA[Writer-in-Residence]]>Sat, 25 Apr 2020 18:30:24 GMThttps://www.janshoemaker.com/engagements--news/writer-in-residenceJan Shoemaker will be the Writer-in-Residence at Good Hart, Michigan from 9-15-20 through 9-29-20.
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]]><![CDATA[Ray Walsh Reviews The Reliquary Earth]]>Wed, 15 May 2019 17:16:42 GMThttps://www.janshoemaker.com/engagements--news/may-15th-2019Picture
"Verse of Okemos poet lingers after last page turned" 
Lansing Sate Journal Review
By Ray Walsh

" The Reliquary of Earth by Okemos

award-winning poet Jan Shoemaker is a

slim but impressive collection of verse

that will linger long after the last page is

​turned. "

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]]><![CDATA[Lansing’s Rally of Writers Conference]]>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:03:44 GMThttps://www.janshoemaker.com/engagements--news/lansings-rally-of-writers-conferenceFriends and writers: Please save the date--April 6th—and join us at Lansing’s Rally of Writers Conference. Jan will be running a session on the personal essay and memoir. Let’s make those haunting memories sing!
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]]><![CDATA[City of Lansing public installation award!]]>Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:37:29 GMThttps://www.janshoemaker.com/engagements--news/city-of-lansing-public-installation-award
Jan Shoemaker has been honored as one of eight poets, selected by the Lansing Poet Laureate, and representatives from the City of Lansing, the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, and the Lansing Poetry Club to have their work embedded into the sidewalks of Lansing Michigan celebrating the power of art to enrich our lives.

Please join Jan and the other poets in celebration on Thursday Aug 30 from 6-8pm at the Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center. The program will feature readings of the winning poems, a short documentary film about the project, and opportunities to create your own "Poetry Art." Attendees are invited to exercise their own poetic and artistic licenses in "Build a City/Write about that City." Photos of Lansing will be available for participants to tear and rearrange as a collage, under which you can write a short, spontaneous poem.

This project is supported by a grant from the City of Lansing, Michigan - Government, the LEAP, and the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, and was awarded to the Lansing Poetry Club in the fall of 2017.

The event is FREE and open to the public.

For more information, contact Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center, Dennis Hinrichsen or Ruelaine Stokes.
Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center
119 N Washington Sq, Ste 101, Lansing, Michigan 48933
(517) 374-6400
lansingartgallery@gmail.com

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