On sale now - free pickup at Poetry Saves Lives
Order your copy of The Confluence for shipping, or choose free pickup at the Poetry Saves Lives Festival.
October 15-17, 2026
106 Gallery
106 Division Ave S, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Choose free pickup at checkout and collect your copy during festival hours. View the festival schedule.
At the place where voices meet, a city becomes a chorus.
The Confluence gathers 208 poems by 76 writers connected to the Grand Rapids poetry community. Established authors, emerging voices, page poets, and performers meet in a wide-ranging portrait of a living literary community.
Rivers and lakes, neighborhoods, family histories, and public memory flow beside poems of love, grief, faith, work, illness, justice, nature, and joy. Lyric meditation, narrative, formal invention, humor, and spoken-word energy reveal a region not through one defining story, but through many distinct currents.
Published under Grand River Poetry Press, the publishing imprint of Grand River Poetry Collective, this 2026 anthology includes notes on the contributors and acknowledgments of previous publications.
Paperback - 6 x 9 inches - 234 pages
Edited by Christine Stephens-Krieger and Scott Krieger
ISBN-13: 978-1-968226-10-7
$15
On sale now - free pickup at Poetry Saves Lives
Order your copy of The Confluence for shipping, or choose free pickup at the Poetry Saves Lives Festival.
October 15-17, 2026
106 Gallery
106 Division Ave S, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Choose free pickup at checkout and collect your copy during festival hours. View the festival schedule.
At the place where voices meet, a city becomes a chorus.
The Confluence gathers 208 poems by 76 writers connected to the Grand Rapids poetry community. Established authors, emerging voices, page poets, and performers meet in a wide-ranging portrait of a living literary community.
Rivers and lakes, neighborhoods, family histories, and public memory flow beside poems of love, grief, faith, work, illness, justice, nature, and joy. Lyric meditation, narrative, formal invention, humor, and spoken-word energy reveal a region not through one defining story, but through many distinct currents.
Published under Grand River Poetry Press, the publishing imprint of Grand River Poetry Collective, this 2026 anthology includes notes on the contributors and acknowledgments of previous publications.
Paperback - 6 x 9 inches - 234 pages
Edited by Christine Stephens-Krieger and Scott Krieger
ISBN-13: 978-1-968226-10-7
$15
