Citywide Poets News
Citywide Poets Introduce "Scratch the Page" Series
For the third consecutive year, the Citywide Poets program will feature prominent poets in the newly-named
Scratch the Page Visiting Writers Series. The series brings together students from all four CWP sites to meet some of the best and most exciting poets working today. All Scratch the Page performances are open to the public and will be held at 1515 Broadway. Doors open at 6:30pm and the program starts promptly at 7pm. Donation for each performance: $5 adults, $3 students.
For more info, call: 313.965.5332 or email:
citywidepoets@insideoutdetroit.org
2008 SCRATCH THE PAGE VISITING WRITERS SERIES
SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008
BLAIR and
CASSIE POE
Cassie Poe is a local Detroit artist who loves spoken word and the art of writing. Once upon a time, she was host of the highly successful open mic series at Camillian Cafe in downtown Detroit. Cassie was on the Detroit Slam Team in 2003, 2004 & 2005 and was coach for the 2006 Picnap Detroit team. Currently, she is Slammaster for the Beans n' Bytes cafe, a weekly series hosted by LaShaun phoenix Moore and managed by Christina Archer, and it is their goal to send a winning team to national competition in 2008. Her other ambitions include becoming a published novelist and interior decorator. Check her out at myspace/mscassiepoet.
Blair is a poet / singer-songwriter / performer and spoken word artist who has performed in venues nationally and internationally. Blair’s poetry has been published in a myriad of journals and newspapers around the country including Alabama State University's
Punch and in Black Renaissance Noire (NYU Press). In 2004, Blair was a writer-in-residence with Inside Out Literary Arts Project. In 2005 he was the featured artist on the HBO Def Poetry Jam website. Blair is a National Poetry Slam Champion (2002 Team Detroit) and Detroit Grand Slam Champion (2003). His new one-man show
Burying the Evidence has intrigued and amazed sold-out audiences around the country. Blair is the recipient of the 2007 Bent Mentor Award, a Poets & Writers Grant and a member of the 2008 Detroit Poetry Slam Team.
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2008
ROSS GAY, author of
Against Which.
Ross Gay's first book,
Against Which (CavanKerry, 2006), was a finalist for the ForeWord poetry book of the year. His poems have appeared in
American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry and
>Fishouse, an online audio archive of emerging poets. Ross is currently a professor of poetry at Indiana University and in the low-residency MFA program at New England College. He has also been a demolition man, an art mover and installer, a high school teacher, a house painter. Lately, though, he's been dancing.
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2008
JEN CHANG and
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI
Jennifer Chang's first book of poems,
The History of Anonymity, will be published by University of Georgia Press/VQR Poetry Series in Spring 2008. Her poems are forthcoming in
Boston Review and
The Kenyon Review, and have recently appeared in
Black Warrior Review, New England Review, The New Republic, and Poetry Daily. She has received fellowships and scholarships from Asian American Writers' Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. Currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia, she co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, an Asian American poetry organization based in NYC.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, a Jones Lectureship in Poetry at Stanford University and a Rona Jaffe Woman Writers' Award. Her first collection,
The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea Books, 2005), was shortlisted for the Northern California Book Award and won the 2006 Connecticut Book Award in Poetry. She lives in Los Angeles and currently teaches in the MFA program at California College of Arts in San Francisco and in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Warren Wilson College.
** Don’t miss the Citywide Poets Slam April 18th, 2007 @ The Boll Family YMCA***
Created Dec. 11, 2007 Article #1599 :: Last Update: Feb. 7, 2008
