NER contributor Laura Kasischke will be honored by the Michigan Library Association with the 2013 Michigan Author Award next month. Kasischke has been a long time resident of Michigan and is currently the Allan Seager Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan.

Kasischke has previously contributed to NER and her poetry will appear in the upcoming issue of NER (34.2). Kasischke’s poems “Space, between humans & gods”, “Time,” “View from glass door,” and “Cigarettes” have been featured on the NER website.