Performances, Readings and Competitions
CWP Scratch The Page Series
Citywide Poets Present 2009 Scratch the Page Visiting Writer Series. Through Scratch the Page, InsideOut brings together students from all of the CWP sites to meet some of the best and most exciting poets working today. This year's poets are
Patrick Rosal (January 31st),
Tyehimba Jess (February 28) and
Karyna McGlynn (March 28). The first Scratch the Page will be held at the Boll Family YMCA. at 7pm.
Donation: $5 adults, $3 students
For more info phone: 313.965.5332
email:
citywidepoets@insideoutdetroit.org
Patrick Rosal is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop and was a finalist for the organization's literary awards. His second collection, My American Kundiman, won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award in Poetry and the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award. His chapbook Uncommon Denominators won the Palanquin Poetry Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken. His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Harvard Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, North American Review, The Literary Review, Pindledyboz, Black Renaissance Noire, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Non-Fiction, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art , The Beacon Best and Language for a New Century.
Created Jan. 16, 2009 Article #1630 :: Last Update: Jan. 22, 2009
