Preorder now - publication October 8, 2026
The Confluence is now at the printer. Preorder your copy for shipment as soon as books arrive, or choose free pickup at the anthology launch.
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Doors open at 5:00 p.m.
Anthology open mic from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
The Chapel at Fountain Street Church
24 Fountain St. NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The entire evening will be an open mic featuring readings from the anthology. Come out and meet the poets!
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
Preorder now - publication October 8, 2026
The Confluence is now at the printer. Preorder your copy for shipment as soon as books arrive, or choose free pickup at the anthology launch.
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Doors open at 5:00 p.m.
Anthology open mic from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
The Chapel at Fountain Street Church
24 Fountain St. NE, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The entire evening will be an open mic featuring readings from the anthology. Come out and meet the poets!
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
