Join local authors M. Bartley Seigel and Stephanie Carpenter as they read from their most recent works. A book signing will follow the reading and books will be available for purchase as a fundraiser to benefit the library.
M. Bartley Seigel’s In the Bone-Cracking Cold (Wayne State University Press, 2025) is a collection of artfully-wrought poems tracing the intimate contours of self, nature, and history through the backdrop of the Upper Peninsula. Seigel’s work navigates the terrain of the tangible and the mythical to capture the essence of the region’s mining towns and dense forests and the vastness of Lake Superior.
Stephanie Carpenter’s literary-historical novel, Moral Treatment (Central Michigan University Press, 2025), is set in 1889-90 at a psychiatric hospital modeled after the former Northern Michigan Asylum, in her hometown of Traverse City. In alternating sections, Moral Treatment tells the stories of the hospital’s aging medical superintendent and of a newly-admitted seventeen-year-old woman, Amy Underwood. The novel unfolds across the course of a year, as the characters navigate a space that’s intended to heal yet often causes harm.
M. Bartley Seigel is a former poet laureate of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, whose works have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. He lives with his family in Houghton, where he’s Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing and director of the Writing Center at Michigan Technological University.
Stephanie Carpenter’s debut novel, Moral Treatment, is the inaugural winner of the Summit Series Prize from Central Michigan University Press. Her collection of stories, Missing Persons, won the 2017 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in literary journals including Ecotone, Copper Nickel, Witness, and The Missouri Review. A resident of Hancock, she’s Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and director of the English program at Michigan Technological University.
This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Calumet Public Library.
For more information, visit the library or call 337-0311 ext. 1107
(In case of bad weather, when school is cancelled, all library programs are cancelled.)
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