![]() Stokes could have added the rich Lansing poetry scene she’s helped nurture over the past few decades. ![]() There are urban gardens, community theater, folk music, so many things.” “But there’s so much below the surface, so much cultural vitality. “We have this image of Lansing being ordinary, unexciting, full of average people living our average, ordinary lives,” Stokes said. Two of Lansing’s hidden treasures, former Poet Laureate Laura Apol and poet Ruelaine Stokes, are among the contest organizers. Lynch is author of “The Undertaking,” the nationally acclaimed memoir of the “dismal trade” that inspired an Emmy-winning 2007 PBS documentary, along with several other award-winning essay collections. The contest judge is no less a literary luminary than Milford-based undertaker, poet, essayist and National Book Award finalist Thomas Lynch. The winning entries will be performed live at UrbanBeat Sept. The project is funded by the City of Lansing Arts Project Grant program and administered by the Arts Council. There is a limit of three poems or two nonfiction prose pieces per entrant. ![]() The contest calls for contributors age 17 or older in Ingham, Clinton or Eaton counties to portray “one specific and real place, person or object” in the Lansing area with a poem of 50 lines or fewer or a prose piece of 100 to 400 words. “My Secret Lansing,” a writing contest launched last month by the Arts Council of Greater Lansing and the Lansing Poetry Club, promises to unroll a treasure map to a place you thought you knew. ![]() There’s a stately palisade of juneberry trees, bursting with tasty berries, in plain sight downtown, if you don’t mind gorging on them in public like a grizzly bear. ![]() There’s a lady with a front-yard garden on Lansing’s north side who will hand you a pair of shears and order you take some flowers if you walk by. There’s a perfectly positioned tree stump near the Potter Park Zoo, equipped with an accidental backrest, where you can watch the river flow, the grass sway and deer quietly graze. ![]()
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