| When: | Friday, February 22, 2019 |
| Where: | The Country Club of Lansing, 2200 Moores River Drive |
| Speaker: | Dennis Hinrichsen, Author |
| Topic: | Lansing Poet Laureate |
| Time: | Noon |
| Chair of the Day: | Barb Whitney |
| Remembrance: | Diane Sanborn |
| Chair of the Month: | Barb Whitney |
| Invocator: | Hari Kern |
| Greeter: | Darwin Brewster |
| Editarian: | Joe Wald |
DENNIS HINRICHSEN is the author of seven books of poetry & two chapbooks. His most recent is Skin Music, co-winner of the 2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. His previous books have won the Akron, FIELD, and Tampa Poetry Prizes.His work has also received a Best of the Net Award for 2014 and the Third Coast Poetry Prize for 2016. He has recently been the Visiting Writer at West Virginia University and Western Michigan University. For many years, he taught at Lansing Community College. Since May 2017, he has been serving at the first Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing Area.
