2026 NEWS

Next stop, Marquette: Great Lakes Poetry Festival, April 21, 6:30pm!

"Still Wild" book party at Iggy Library - a good time was had by all!

 

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• "Still Wild: Poems from Bear Shack"​                                     

At the age of 60, Suzanne Sunshower moved into an ancient, semi-off grid hunt camp trailer that no one had ever lived in year-around before, in a remote area of Michigan's U.P.  This poetic collection is her story of adventure, discovery and adjustment.  Order your copy from Amazon, or attend a U.P. Library launch party in St. Ignace on Dec. 7 @ 3pm or at Marquette Library on a to-be-determined date in April 2026! [The original Dec. 9 date was postponed due to weather.] 

Welcome to my first interview for "Still Wild"! Here's a link to the podcast: INTERVIEW.  If responding to the "For the Love of Books" giveaway, contact me at: [email protected] with the winning phrase: "Remain spirited and always stay a little wild!" 

​   2024 NEWS

The Yooper Poetry anthology is out! Our book launch was held at the library in Marquette, Mi. on April 23, 2024 as part of the Great Lakes Poetry Festival.  [Our editor Raymond Luczac's ASL interpretation of my anthologized poem "Tonight" can now be enjoyed live here: TONIGHT​! Please enjoy our long distance collaboration!]​

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2024 "Yooper Poetry" book launch authors photo

                 

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I have a poem in the inaugural issue of Bear Paw Arts Journal. 

Here's a link for the two fun MCTV short films: "Kitty Trip & Skywalk"!
Here's the link for my MCTV poetry film "Late-Winter Walk Around the Pond"!
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"Revolving Doors: My Short Covid Career," an account of my breathless days working at a hospital during the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, debuted in the Summer 2020 issue of Rain and Thunder.

In both 2018 and 2020, I was humbled to be awarded a monetary poetry prize from the Writing Center at Saginaw Valley State University.  My poems "Late-Winter Walk Around the Pond"  and "Northerner Plays with Fire in Water"  were published in their annual literary journal Still Life.  The prize award parties were held at the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum (2018; kicking off the Theodore Roethke Poetry & Arts Festival) and at the Saginaw Art Museum (2020), with a poetry slam included.

I finally finished up my double-short film project, it debuted on MCTV in late-2020. The two mini videos are called "Kitty Trip" and "Skywalk."  So okay, maybe I didn't learn as much as I'd hoped from my first film, but at least I had fun making these two new shorts come together.  

In a recap of 2019...
I made a film based on my prize-winning poem "Late-Winter Walk Around the Pond".

As always...
Check out my chapter "Billie Jean King" in the book 100 Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Stars and Their Stories (ABC-CLIO).  Don't forget to pick up the poetry anthology I edited How Can You Say We Are Not Related?   And, of course, my co-authored collection From the Lonely Cold is still available from Scurfpea Publishing as well.