Find Me When You’re Ready with Perry Janes and Linda Nemec Foster

Michigan Poet, Perry Janes, shares his debut collection tracing the coming-of-age story of a young man in five acts.

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About the Book:

Find Me When You’re Ready, written in five acts, traces the coming-of-age story of a young man journeying from Detroit to Los Angeles.

As he leaves home and forges toward California, the speaker in these poems considers how we learn and mislearn ideas about manhood, confronts the aftershocks of childhood sexual abuse, examines the cost of personal ambition, and questions the human need for belonging.

Anyone who has left their home—in the “Rust Belt,” in “Flyover Country,” in middle or rural America—to strike out for one of the US’s coastal meccas, only to find that journey less straightforward than they imagined, will see flickers of their own coming-of-age in Find Me When You’re Ready. As the collection arcs toward adulthood, the speaker embodies a vision of healing that refuses easy binaries and embraces the joys of intimacy.

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About the Author:

Perry Janes (he/him) is a poet and filmmaker from metro Detroit, Michigan. A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, his work has appeared in POETRY, Poem-a-Day, Electric Literature, The Adroit Journal, Zyzzyva, and others. He holds a BA from the University of Michigan, where he was a 5-time recipient of the Hopwood Award, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. A winner of the AMPAS Student Academy Award, he splits his time between the Bay Area and Los Angeles, where he works as a screenwriter for A24, Amazon Studios, FilmNation, and others. His debut collection Find Me When You're Ready is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books in September 2024.

About the Conversationalist:

Poet and writer Linda Nemec Foster is the author of twelve poetry collections, including the critically acclaimed books The Lake Michigan Mermaid (2019 Michigan Notable Book), Amber Necklace from Gdańsk, Talking Diamonds, and The Blue Divide. Her first full-length book of prose poems, Bone Country, was published in 2023.