Wellspring Literary Series: A Reading by Andrew Collard

Each Wellspring Literary Series features poetry readings, musical performances and complimentary food.

Our featured poet is Andrew Collard. The evening will also feature a CMU student poet and a high school poet.

Set in the metropolis centered on Detroit, Andrew Collard’s first book, Sprawl, won the Hollis Summers poetry prize and was published in March of 2023 by Ohio University Press. Poems from Sprawl have appeared in Ploughshares, AGNI, Best New Poets, and many more journals and magazines. Andrew received a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University and currently teaches as a Visiting Professor at Grand Valley State University. He lives with his son in Grand Rapids.