MAKING WAVES: RESISTANCE

Written By Nicole Bernadette Birkett

A West Michigan Review

Issue 2 | Fall 2022

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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.

Coax the Flame
Colleen Alles
Confession #68
Colleen Alles
Electricity Wars
Rohan Buettel
A -
Dr. Michelle DeRose
A Woman Resists Faith
Taylor Franson
The Red People
Judd Hess
Her Name
David Jibson
Inevitable
David Jibson
In Tune
Greg Mahr
Say it with Irises
Edward Morin
A Mother Speaks for Her Daughter Who Swims in an Autistic Sea
Linda Nemec Foster
Privilege
Katie Hughbanks
The fetus in my jewelry box
Riley O'Connell
Words Divided
Carrie Cantalupo-Sharp
Words Frequently Confused: Superflous, Supercilious
Phillip Sterling
Words Frequently Confused: Fate, Fortune
Phillip Sterling
Sonnet 14: To Loose Her Hair
Olivia Stogner
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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