MAKING WAVES:

Written By Nicole Bernadette Birkett

A West Michigan Review

Issue 1 | fall 2021

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VISUAL ART

AUDIO

Several members of Ludington Writers are visually impaired and their advocacy and input on how Ludington Writers, Making Waves, and our world as a whole could be more inclusive, led us to seek to provide author-read audio of each of the pieces selected for this issue.

We are grateful to each author who participated in this endeavor.

GENESIS
Barry Matthews
SCARY
Jeanie Mortensen
SEE YOU IN THE SPRING
Jeanie Mortensen
LETTER TO MY DEAD FATHER-IN-LAW
Kathlene Barrett
THE PLACE WHERE I WILL BE BURIED
Hilde Muller
EASTER MORNING IN CHICAGO: For Beverly
Dr. Michelle DeRose
THE BIRTH OF EXURIBIA
Marc J. Sheehan
FICTION
Garrett Stack
CRATERS AND WOULD BE PONDS
L. Ward Abel
AMBERGRIS
Lauren Scharhag
YELLOW HOUSE
Helene Macaulay
SOUND FORMS
J. Alan Nelson
ROCK A BYE
Jennifer Ferderer
HUNGER IS FENCING IN THE MEADOW
Travis Stephens
DO YOU HAVE ARMS
James Rogers
OLD PEOPLE IN THE GROCERY STORE
Michael Hill
Nicole Bernadette Birkett

Nicole Bernadette Birkett is the editor in chief of Ludington Writers’ relaunched publication, Making Waves. An award-winning poet from the boglands of rural West Michigan, Nicole raises goats, sheep, and miscellaneous fowl and equine.

 

When not writing or triaging, Nicole assists the Michigan Education Association from their Ludington field office and leads the Ludington Writers group and the Mason County 4-H creative writing program. Her work has appeared in Variety Pack and MSU presses the Offbeat and OATS.

 

@nbbirkett

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