Michigan author Melissa Dey
Hasbrook publishes poetry collection

Melissa Dey Hasbrook's collection of poems The Land, Once Called DeWitt, has been published on the web site http://deyofthephoenix.com
  This ecological story of glaciers and generations is arranged in three sections, across which Hasbrook connects continents, cultures, and communities. Inspired by the land where five generations of her family lived, Hasbrook braids what often separates: migrations and land use over time and space between peoples.
  Hasbrook is a mixed-blood of Cherokee, Irish, and Prussian ancestry. In The Land, Once Called DeWitt, she respects the land of which she writes as the home of the People of the Three Fires, the Anishinabeg tribes of the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi.
   On Thursday, April 30, Hasbrook will read from The Land, Once Called DeWitt at Feminist Poetry Night, a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, held at Everybody Reads, 2019 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, Michigan from 7:30-9:00 pm. Call 517-346-9900 with questions about the event.
   Hasbrook has also written Blame It on Eve! (2007) and coauthored Echoes of Women (2006). She began performing by invitation at and vigils for non-profit groups in 2006. FEM Magazine interviewed Hasbrook about her community work as a poet and activist. She resides in Flanders, Belgium and originally is from DeWitt, Michigan.