Garrett Stack is a teacher and writer at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. His work has been published in many journals and anthologies, including a runner-up selection in the Grand Rapids-based Dyer-Ives Poetry Competition. His first book of poetry, Yeoman’s Work, was released as part of Bottom Dog Press’ Working Lives Series in August 2020 and includes two Pushcart Prize nominees. He lives 39 miles east of the lake with his wife and twin boys.
He is currently working on his sophomore collection of poetry, which focuses on the flyover, and will include poems published so far in The Ilanot Review, Great Lakes Review, and bee house. He will spend his time in Good Hart writing, revising, and connecting with Michigan and its residents north of Mecosta County.
During his stay, Garrett will be working with teacher Kelly Wilson, and he will provide a writing workshop for the students at Lakeview High School in Petoskey.
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Two Writers-in-Residence Participating in
Petoskey District Library NEA Big Read
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Petoskey District Library is the lead organization for the NEA Big Read program featuring the book An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo. The intent of the NEA Big Reads program is to broaden our understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. The Library's partners for the program includes Crooked Tree Arts Center, Good Hart Artist Residency, Harbor Springs Festival of the Book, Little Traverse Bay Bands Niigaandiwin Education Department, Little Traverse Literary Guild, and North Central Michigan College. Petoskey District Library's programming for the NEA Big Read programming will take place between March-May 2022.
As part of the collaboration, Good Hart Artist Residency will be hosting two Indigenous writers in April-May. Writers Cecelia LaPointe and Margaret Noodin will participate in programming with the library that is yet to be announced.
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Cecelia LaPointe
In Residence April 16-23, 2022
Nigig-enz Baapi nindizhinikaaz. Ajijaak doodem. Kchiwiikwedong miinawaa Mashkiziibi nindonjibaa. Naaminitigong nindaa.
My name is Little Laughing Otter. I am crane clan. I come from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibway. I live in the Land Beneath the Trees (Manistee, MI).
Cecelia is Ojibway/Métis and is Mashkiziibi (Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibway or LaPointe Band of Ojibway) and Kchiwiikwedong (Keweenaw Bay Indian Community).
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They are enrolled in Mashkiziibi and maintain a strong community affiliation to Kchiwiikwedong. Cecelia is the Founder and Executive Director of the Native Justice Coalition. They are also the Founder and Owner of Red Circle Consulting and Waub Ajijaak Press. They identify as Two-Spirit based in their Ojibway culture from an old school and decolonial framework. Their poetry and writing is featured in 25 anthologies, booklets, chapbooks, dissertations, exhibits, journals, magazines, and online Indigenous-Native publications.
They have a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and a Master of Arts in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Other cool facts include (1) quintessential traditional Anishinaabe runner (2) sobriety 12 years strong and (3) they are proud to be Generation X.
Artist Statement
Poetry as infinity is the best way I can describe my connection to it in the most expansive form. It is comfort in countering oppression, racism, discrimination, and marginalization. The words and formation of a poem can bring healing. It is connected to my identities, family, relations, cultures, community, land, water, and homelands.
The comfort of expression to describe the world and how I see it. Never denying a feeling or expression. A poem may change or coalesce with another idea. The work is ongoing. Always in progress. This is the beauty of my art.
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Margaret Noodin
In Residence April 30 - May 8, 2022
Margaret Noodin received an MFA in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in English and Linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is a Professor of English and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she also serves as the Associate Dean of the Humanities and Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education.
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She is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature, Weweni and What the Chickadee Knows (Wayne State University Press) which are both bilingual collections of poetry in Anishinaabemowin and English. To hear her work, visit www.ojibwe.net.
While in residence Margaret will be completing the final edits on a book manuscript for Michigan State University Press titled Aanikanootaage: Anishinaabe Translations of Global Literature which will contain translations of a range of world literature by Sappho, Hafiz, Chaucer and Shakespeare along with the Indigenous literature that would have long been exchanged in North America including excerpts of Lakota warrior narratives by George Sword and passages from the Kayanerenko:wa (Great Law of Peace) of the Haudenosaunee. She also plans to write one poem of thanks in Anishinaabemowin each day to be shared via the ojibwe_net Instagram account to celebrate the beauty of the language, the land and the lake.
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Your contribution supports both the resident artist’s work, and their collaboration with local community partners.
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The Good Hart Artist Residency is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowable by law.
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