All poets invited to compete in a poetry slam judged by a randomly chosen panel from the audience. The program begins with a poetry open mike and (occasionally) a short set by a featured poet.
8-11 p.m. (sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m.), $5 suggested donation. A2poetry.com.
Reading by Warren Wilson College (Asheville, NC) creative writing professor Matthew Olzmann, a widely published Detroit-bred poet whose collection Mezzanines won the Kundiman Prize. The program begins with open mike readings.
Crazy Wisdom Poetry Series at Crazy Wisdom Tearoom , hosted by Joe Kelty and Ed Morin • Second and Fourth Wednesdays of each month, 7-9 p.m. • Free. Call Ed at 668-7523; eacmorso@sbcglobal.net or cwpoetrycircle.tumblr.com.
Fourth Wednesdays: Featured Reader for 50 minutes, Open Mic Reading for one hour • All writers welcome to share their own or other favorite poetry. Sign up begins at 6:45 p.m.
July 22 • Zen Master Ikkyu (1394-1481) • Ikkyu turned the eye of enlightenment to politics, pine trees, meditation, sex, and wine. He influenced Japanese calligraphy, Noh theater, tea ceremony, and rock gardening. Kidder Smith (scholar) and Sarah Messer (poet) present their translations from Having Once Paused, Poems of Zen Master Ikkyu.
Paul Thompson will present from his latest, From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone. Thompson has been a leading scholar in food ethics for over thirty years. He was present at the founding of three professional societies for food ethics and has served in an advisory capacity for the U.S. National Research Council, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Genome Canada, and Wageningen University and Research Institute in the Netherlands, among others. He edited the Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (Springer) and writes a blog for Thornapple Community Supported Agriculture in Lansing.
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Tom Clynes will read from his latest, The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star.
Clynes writes regularly for National Geographic and Popular Science, where he is a contributing editor. His work has also appeared in Men’s Journal, Nature, New York, The Sunday Times Magazine (London), the Washington Post, and many other publications. He is also the author of the book Wild Planet!
Recent contributors to Pacifica Literary Review will read: Cody Walker, Caitlin Johnson, Yma Johnson, and Ben Alfaro. Copies of the latest issue of Pacifica Literary Review will be available for sale.
Pacifica Literary Review is a small literary arts magazine based in Seattle, WA, with print editions are published biannually in winter and summer.
Elizabeth Pilar, an award-winning short-story author, reads from her memoir A Blue Moon in China about the two months she traveled through Communist China in 1988. Question and answer session follows. Free. (310) 924-9587; elizabeth@elizabethpilar.com; http://www.abluemooninchina.com
All poets invited to compete in a poetry slam judged by a randomly chosen panel from the audience. The program begins with a poetry open mike and (occasionally) a short set by a featured poet.
8-11 p.m. (sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m.), $5 suggested donation. A2poetry.com.
In conjunction with the release of volume 7 of the Prison Creative Arts Project Lit Review, Build Your Catacomb Anywhere But Here, Literati is pleased to present an evening of brave and experimental new work by emerging writers from Michigan prisons.
The Prison Creative Arts Project’s mission is to collaborate with incarcerated adults, incarcerated youth, urban youth and the formerly incarcerated to strengthen our community through creative expression.
Drawing in a far more diverse constituency than an average undergraduate organization, PCAP’s active participants include college and high school students, faculty, staff, currently and formerly incarcerated people, and community volunteers. Additionally, the organization works directly with administrators, teachers, and staff at adult prisons, juvenile detention centers, and Detroit high schools.
PCAP’s Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity of Michigan’s incarcerated writers. The review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers – writing that comes from the heart, and that is unique, well-crafted, and lively.
Copies of Build Your Catacomb Anywhere But Here will be available for sale.
Book signing and talk with Martin Adams, author of Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World Adams is a social innovator, systems thinker, and community organizer. Free. Call 734-665-2757 or email rachel@crazywisdom.net for more information.
