1. Coshocton Tribune
2. Before (What was there…)
3. Before (The cares…)
4. Before (I call you…)
5. Tide Pool Mammal
6. Goldenrods
7. Subject Lines
8. Un-titled
Artist's Statement
"These poems are meditations on ancestry and descent. They start with my more recent ancestors and move back in time through assimilation and colonization, back to home, far, far back through my ancestors across species to the beginning of life. Then they move forward again with a new understanding of what ancestry means, coming through the present to the future into a vision of interconnectedness, joy, sorrow, and love." - Emily Nick Howard
About the Poet
Emily Nick Howard is a small potato (said lovingly) poet, writer, and maker. They have lived in the Ann Arbor area for over 15 years and very lightly hold a doctorate in English from the University of Michigan. You can find more of their work at emilynhoward.com.
About the Cover Artist
Shannon Rae Daniels is a Cantonese American visual artist and writer whose recent work has explored questions of impermanence, goodness, and beauty as they relate to the self and to communities at large — particularly American Chinatowns, which she is deeply invested in as someone with strong roots in New York City’s Chinatown. In 2023, she was selected for the Emerging Artists Program hosted by The Guild of Artists and Artisans in Ann Arbor, Michigan and then was chosen by a jury to show and sell her work at the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair. She has taught arts and humanities classes at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Boston Arts Academy. She was born and raised in New York City and currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
About the Coolidge-Wagner Anthology of Recorded Poetry
The Ann Arbor District Library, Fifth Avenue Studios, and 1473 are proud to present The Coolidge-Wagner Anthology of Recorded Poetry. This series was created to celebrate and document the art of poetry in recorded form. Featuring poets from Ann Arbor, metro Detroit, and beyond, we hope that this series showcases and archives the incredible poetry scene here in Ann Arbor, metro Detroit, and beyond.
The Coolidge-Wagner Anthology of Recorded Poetry is named after and dedicated to two of my high school teachers, Judi Coolidge and Tom Wagner (RIP) of Bay High School (Ohio), who encouraged in me, as well as thousands of their other students, a lifelong appreciation and open-minded love of the arts.
-Chien-An Yuan, 1473
