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Citywide Poets



A list of Citywide Poets events is located in our News & Events section. Be sure to check out the Citywide Poets Anthologies ZerO Gravity, Fresh Ink, and City Breaths!

Citywide Poets is InsideOut's award-winning after-school workshop for high school poets. You’ll meet once a week to improve your writing and performing abilities and perform annually at venues around Detroit and the region.

To find out more:

  1. Download the application as a Word Document.
  2. Call us at the office or email citywidepoets at insideoutdetroit dot org.




Performances


CWP have performed at events and venues including:

  • The Brave New Voices National Youth Poetry Slam:
    2002 : Ann Arbor
    2004 : Chicago
    2005 : San Francisco
    2006 : New York City
  • Noel Night
  • Detroit Festival of the Arts
  • Arts in the City
  • Java and Jazz at the Detroit Public Library
  • Starbucks Coffee Shop
  • Barnes and Noble Bookstore
  • 1515 Broadway
  • ArtServe Governor’s Art Awards
  • University of Michigan
  • Wayne State University
  • Wayne County Community College
  • Hamtramck Public Library
  • Marygrove College
  • Brown Bean Cafe
  • Detroit People Mover
  • The City Club
  • Orchestra Hall
  • Tangent Gallery
  • Art Exchange Gallery

Awards


CWP have won awards, including:

  • Four Friends /Variety Creative Writing Scholarship
  • Lotus Press High School Poetry Prize
  • Michigan Youth Arts Festival, Merit Award
  • Controlled Burn Seminar for Young Writers Scholarship
  • University of Virginia Writing Seminars Scholarship
  • VONA (Voices of Our Nations) Summer Writing Workshop Scholarship
  • Cave Canem Scholarship


Publications


CWP poems and publicity have been featured in:

  • Teen Voices Magazine
  • Detroit Free Press / YAK
  • InsideOut Gala Program
  • WTVS, Channel 56
  • WDTR Radio
  • WDIV, Channel 4
  • The Furnace
  • Strut Magazine
  • Comcast TV


Collaborations


CWP writers have met and worked with local and national prominent poets, including:

  • Lucille Clifton
  • Terrance Hayes
  • Nikki Giovanni
  • Toi Derricotte
  • Naomi Long Madgett
  • Tyehimba Jess
  • Sekou Sundiata
  • Quincy Troupe



This program is funded in part by a grant from the Skillman Foundation.

Created Aug. 25, 2005 Article #235 :: Last Update: Aug. 13, 2008