Reconnect to self
Poet’s Bios & Recordings

collaboration w/ Marquette Fringe

Marty Achatz

served two terms as U. P. Poet Laureate, traveling across the Upper Peninsula from the Keweenaw to Sault Ste. Marie to promote poetry in schools, libraries, and arts organizations.  As Poet Laureate, he also raised thousands of dollars for charitable causes, including Room at the Inn and the Keweenaw Flood Relief.  Martin works for Peter White Public Library as Adult Programming Coordinator and teaches in NMU’s English Department.  He recently released a spoken word album, Slow Dancing with Bigfoot, with the band STREAKING IN TONGUES, which is available on all streaming platforms and in CD format.

A. Lynn Blumer

lives in Marquette, MI where she enjoys the outdoors and being involved in her local poetry scene. She works with two non-profits, mills wood for money-needs, and spends her free time writing and printing zines as Pyre Publishing. Her personal work has appeared in Maiden Voyage by Gordon Publications, Horror Sleeze Trash: Poems and their anthology Prose in Poor Taste, Paper and Ink Literary Zine: Issue 16, as well as online with Cephalo Press. You can follow her on Instagram @pyre_publishing and on GoodReads.

Lisa Fosmo

is a poet from Escanaba MI. She is a member of The Michigan Poetry Society, and a member of The Marquette Poetry Circle. Her poetry has been published in, The Walloon Writers Review, The poetry Society of Michigan’s five year anthology. Rocky Mountain Musings, and represented the USA in the Bangladesh Star international poetry addition. She was a winner of The Susan Lane Foundation’s Heritage Haiku contest. Lisa was a featured poet and workshop conductor at the annual Ziggies Poetry Festival, Denver CO. She is a current judge for the National Federation of States Poetry Society National poetry contest. In her spare time Lisa enjoys time in nature, and advocating for native bees and safe habitat.