Poetry and Written Word: Katherine Edgren, Jennifer Burd, and Laszlo Slomovits

When:
February 28, 2018 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Where:
Crazy Wisdom
114 S Main St
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
USA

Fourth Wednesdays have a featured reader for 50 minutes and then open mic for an hour. All writers welcome. Sign up begins at 6:45 p.m. Free. Contact Ed at 668-7523; eacmorso@sbcglobal.net or cwpoetrycircl.tumblr.com.

Katherine Edgren has a new book of poems, The Grain Beneath the Gloss. Her two poetry chapbooks are Long Division andTransports. Her poems have appeared in Birmingham Poetry ReviewChristian Science MonitorBarbaric Yawp, and elsewhere. A retired social worker and former Ann Arbor City Council member, she lives in Dexter.

 Jennifer Burd is the author of a new poetry collection, Day’s Late Blue, and the earlier Body and Echo. Her book, Daily Bread: A Portrait of Homeless Men and Women of Lenawee County, Michigan, is creative nonfiction. She teaches creative writing and literature online for Jackson Community College.

Laszlo Slomovits is one of the twin brothers in Ann Arbor’s children’s folk music duo, Gemini. Besides his music for children, he has set to music the work of many poets, including ancient Sufi mystics Rumi and Hafiz and contemporary poets Naomi Shihab Nye and Jennifer Burd

7-9 p.m., Crazy Wisdom, 114 S. Main. Free. 665-2757

 

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