Author Chad Faries pens Amasa Speaker Factory poetry collection

Happy Memorial Day weekend.

Chad Faries sifts through abandoned mines, family history, and the quiet damage of loving Iron County, Michigan--a place that keeps trying to break him. His poetry mines the U.P.'s economic decline, stubborn resilience, and awkward small-town rituals, balancing bleak humor with bruised affection.

Sponsored by Modern History Press, author Frank Demith, Moravian Sons Distillery and Doc Chavent.

Both a personal autopsy and a regional love letter, Faries proves that identity, like iron, is forged under pressure and usually leaves a mess behind.

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