Siaara Freeman is featuring and opening for her is:

Masaki Takahashi, Juliette Givhan, Justin Tokarski, Korey Deans, Claire Donohoe, Ryler Dustin & Great Dane

Siaara Freeman is from Cleveland Ohio, where she is the current Lake Erie Siren & a teaching artist for Center For Arts Inspired Learning and The Sisterhood Project in conjunction with the Anisfieldwolf Foundation. She is a 2021 Premier Playwright fellow recipient with Cleveland Public theater. She is a 2020 WateringHole Manuscript fellow, a 2018 winter tangerine chapbook fellow and a 2018 Poetry Foundation incubator fellow. Her work appears in, The Offing, BOAAT, Tinderbox, Josephine Quarterly and elsewhere. She has toured both nationally and internationally. She is the co-founder of Outsiders Queer Midwest Writers Retreat. Chances are she’s by a lake, thinking about Toni Morrison and talking to ghosts. In her spare time she is growing her afro so tall God can use it for a microphone and speak through her.

The Lansing Poet Laureate is brought to you by RCAH Center For Poetry at Michigan State University, Lansing Poetry Club, The Poetry Room & LEAP

This event was made possible by grant from:
MCACA
Reo Town Association

Additional sponsorship was provided by:
Loomis Law
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