There’s a new festival in town, Sept. 20-22, and LCC is part of it!
Lansing LIT is a weekend-long celebration of Lansing’s thriving literary scene with author events, a bookstore crawl, a book swap, and several LCC events, all taking place downtown and around Lansing.
LCC Faculty Authors will be reading from their books at The Robin Theatre on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 1 p.m. Featured authors are Rob Edwards reading from his novel Prison, Melissa Lucken who writes as Isabelle Drake, reading from her Christmas novella Not Home for the Holidays, Kenya Nelson reading from her novel Ungrateful, and Dave Schwinn reading from the non-fiction work he co-wrote with Carole Schwinn titled The Transformative Workplace. See links below for more information on the writers and/or their work.
LCC is helping kick off Lansing LIT on Friday, Sept. 20 with A Way with Words in Dart Auditorium at 7 p.m. Emceed by spoken word poet and Lansing poet laureate emeritus Masaki Takahashi, an LCC alumnus, it features The Bee, a slam poet from New York, Hard of Hearing poet Tai Dorsette from Detroit, an LCC student-created poem, and short presentations on Deaf culture and the science of speech impediments. The event will be interpreted by students in the LCC Sign Interpreter Program under the guidance of a certified interpreter. The evening is a collaboration between LCC’s Sign Language Interpreter and Performing Arts programs and The Poetry Room, supported by the LCC Arts and Sciences Division. Admission is free – all are welcome. Dart Auditorium is at 500 N. Capitol Ave., Lansing, with free street parking and in the Gannon Ramp on N. Grand Ave. Please note: some poems contain adult language and address substance and physical abuse as well as intimacy.
Links to LCC Faculty Authors for more information about their books:
Not Home for the Holidays: https://www.facebook.com/IsabelleDrakeAuthor/, Melissa Ford Lucken, LCC Creative Writing faculty; Melissa writes as Isabelle Drake.
Prisons: https://www.rob-edwards.net/copy-of-home, Rob Edwards, LCC Digital Media faculty and producer.
The Transformative Workplace: http://www.transformativeworkplace.com/, Dave (and Carole) Schwinn, LCC Management faculty.
Ungrateful: https://luxiferseries.wordpress.com/, Kenya Nelson, LCC English faculty.
Other bookstores participating in Lansing LIT include A Novel Concept, Schuler Books, Hooked, Everybody Reads, Socialight Society, Deadtime Stories, Wayfaring Books and Summit Comics & Games. The festival is supported by an array of area organizations including The City of Lansing, Lansing Community College, the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, REACH Studio Art Center, Downtown Lansing, Inc. and The Poetry Room. For the latest events, visit Lansing LIT Facebook.
