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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th
M.L.
Liebler
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m,
M. L. Liebler is an internationally known and widely published
Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist and arts
organizer, and he is the author of 13 books including the Award
winning Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream (Wayne State
University Press 2008) featuring poems written in and about Russia,
Israel, Germany, Alaska, and Detroit. Wide Awake won both The
Paterson Poetry Prize for Literary Excellence and The American Indie
Book Award for 2009. In 2005, he was named St. Clair Shores (his
hometown) first Poet Laureate. Liebler has read and performed his
work in Israel, Russia, China, France, UK, Macao, Italy, Germany,
Spain, Finland, Turkey, and most of the 50 states. M. L. Liebler has
taught English, American Studies, Labor Studies, Canadian Studies,
and World Literature at Wayne State University in Detroit since
1980, and he is the founding director of both The National Writer's
Voice Project in Detroit and the Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit
Writers Literary Arts Organization. He was recently selected as Best
Detroit Poet by The Detroit Free Press & Detroit's Metro
Time, and in he is nation's first ever Artist in Residence for a
Public Library at the Chelsea District Library for 2008 - 2009. In
2010, he received The Barnes and Noble Poets & Writers Writers
for Writers Award with Maxine Hong Kingston and Junot Diaz.
www.mlliebler.com
FREE and open to the
public.
Second Floor
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21st
Joy
Gaines-Friedler
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m,
Joy's essays and poetry have won numerous awards, including, First
Place in The Litchfield Review, 2006 contest for series of
poems she wrote based on Jim's diary he so lovingly
"willed" to her, and First Place in the 2004 Mandy Poetry
Contest for her poem Welfare In America. Her poems Capitalism,
South Carolina was a Finalist in the 2007 Margie, poetry
contest, and she was a finalist in the 2008 Paunamauk Poetry
Contest. Her poems have been featured in various literary journals,
including, The Driftwood Review, Pebble Lake Review, Lilliput,
HazMat Review, RATTLE, Margie, The New York Review, and
others.
FREE and open to the
public.
Second Floor
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18th
Mono
D'Angelo
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m,
Author of novel "Power of Fate"
Editor of four books of poetry
Past President, Poetry Society of Michigan
Director, Downriver Poets and Playwrights Literary Group
Director of "Parlor Series" monthly poetry readings at the
DCA
Member of Downriver Council of the Arts Gallery Committee
Workshop leader for Grosse Ile Alliance for the Arts
Publishing Credits:
Detroit News
Detroit Free Press
Heritage Newspapers
Trips and Journeys Travel Magazine
Peninsula Poets Poetry Anthology
Other Publications:
Essay in "Golden Snapshots" published by WCCAHH
Essay in "1967 Detroit Riots"
Short stories online
FREE and open to the
public.
Second Floor
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16th
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m,
Event details to be announced at a later date.
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