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.
Gavin Kovite and Chris Robinson are co-authors of the novel War of the Encyclopaedists.
Christopher Robinson is a Boston University and Hunter College MFA graduate, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and a Yale Younger Poets Prize finalist. His writing has appeared in many publications, including The Kenyon Review and McSweeney’s.
Gavin Kovite was an infantry platoon leader in Baghdad from 2004-2005. He attended NYU Law and is now an Army lawyer. His writing has appeared in literary magazines and in Fire and Forget, an anthology of war fiction.
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.
Martin Adams will discuss his book Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World. There will also be a panel discussion of activists, economists, and authors to talk about how sharing the value of land is a key ingredient to promoting housing affordability, ending unemployment, preventing economic recessions, and creating a more fair and equitable world for all.
Joining us will be:
• Alanna Hartzok (author, former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives)
• Lindy Davies (author, educator)
• Jacob Shwartz-Lucas (community activist)
• Edward Miller (community activist)
• Martin Adams (author)
J. Ryan Stradal, author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest, edits the fiction section of The Nervous Breakdown with Gina Frangello. His writing has appeared in The Rumpus, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and McSweeney’s: The Goods, among other places. Born and raised in Minnesota, he now lives in Los Angeles and has worked as a TV producer, notably for the History Channel’s Ice Road Truckers and Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch.
Literati welcomes Ace Anbender, Brian Cook, and Seth Fisher from Mgoblog as they launch Hail to the Victors 2015: an independent, in-depth guide to the 2015 Michigan Football season. The event will feature presentations from the issue’s contents, and copies will be available for sale.
