Join us for a reading from our October Artist of the Month, Margaret DeRitter! Margaret (she/her) will share excerpts from her poetry collection, "Singing Back to the Sirens," and from the anthology "Love Is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends." Get a chance to speak with the poet and purchase book copies after the reading.
This event will take place on October 19th from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at OutFront Kalamazoo. Light refreshments will be provided.
About the Artist
Margaret DeRitter (she/her) is the author of the full-length poetry collection "Singing Back to the Sirens," which has been described by Pulitzer-winning poet Diane Seuss as a collection of "achingly beautiful and gutsy poems" that "represent an autobiography of love." DeRitter was also a winner of the 2018 Celery City Chapbook Contest for "Fly Me to Heaven by Way of New Jersey." Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and appears in the 2025 anthologies Love is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends, We've Got Some Things to Say: Reshaping Narratives Around Sexual Violence, and Living Our Blessings: Aging, Mortality and Gratitude. Margaret worked full time as a journalist for 30 years, including 22 years at the Kalamazoo Gazette, and has taught journalism at Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University. She lives in Kalamazoo and serves as copy editor and poetry editor of Encore magazine.