Z.G. Tomaszewski is a rambler, fisherman, musician, and author of three books of poems: All Things Dusk (winner of the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize), Mineral Whisper, and River Nocturne. His work expresses a fragile, learned confidence—a spiritual wavering of breath exhaled, a dream cross-hatched through memory.
7:00PM – 8:45 PM • Wednesday, July 25, 2018
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Wednesday hosted
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Laura Bernstein-Machlay
is a Detroiter whose poetry
and essays have appeared in The
Georgia Review, The
American Scholar, and
Michigan Quarterly Review.
Her new collection of lyrical prose, Travelers,
brings to life her recovering city’s survivor spirit and the
indefatigable nature of family. She teaches at College for Creative
Studies.
7:00
PM – 8:45 PM • Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tearoom 114
S. Main St., Ann Arbor http://crazywisdom.net
734-665-2757
Featured reader is followed by Open Mic reading. • FREE. All
writers welcome • Read your own or other favorite poetry. •
Sign up begins 6:45 p.m. • Poetry Series readings every fourth
Wednesday hosted
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Richard Tillinghast
has published twelve books of poetry and five of creative nonfiction.
His most recent publication is Journeys
into the Mind of the World: A Book of Places.
He has taught at Harvard, U. of Michigan, U. Cal Berkeley, and
Sewanee. Retired, he’s lived in Ireland and now Hawaii, spending
summers in Tennessee.
Kevin Gerard Rashid
worked as a groundskeeper at Wayne State U. while earning an M.A. in
English and then teaching composition, creative writing and American
Studies. He now coordinates Honors College courses there and basic
literacy tutoring for Detroit Public Schools. His poems have appeared
in Working
Words, Inclined
to Speak,
and Dispatch
Detroit.
7:00
PM – 8:45 PM • Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tearoom 114
S. Main St., Ann Arbor, Michigan http://crazywisdom.net
734-665-2757
Featured reader is followed by Open Mic reading. • FREE. All
writers welcome • Read your own or other favorite poetry. •
Sign up begins 6:45 p.m. • Poetry Series readings every fourth
Wednesday hosted
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Jan Worth-Nelson
pounds out journalism as editor of Flint’s venerable East Village Magazine, while producing a steady stream of stories and poems recently in Belt, Hypertext, The MacGuffin, Midwestern Gothic and Exposition Review. She is author of the novel Night Blind, based on wrenching Peace Corps experiences in the Kingdom of Tonga.
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Dawn
McDuffie
has lived and worked in Detroit since 1968. Her poems
explore the
city landscape and an inner world of memory, imagination, and dreams.
She’s published three chapbooks: Carmina
Detroit, Bulky
Pick Up Day, and Flag
Day in Detroit,
and a new book—Happenstance
and Miracles.
7:00
PM – 8:45 PM • Wednesday, March 28, 2018 114
S. Main St., Ann Arbor http://crazywisdom.net
734-665-2757
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Katherine Edgren has a new book of poems, The Grain Beneath the Gloss. Her two poetry chapbooks are Long Division and Transports.
Her poems have appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Christian Science Monitor, Barbaric Yawp, and elsewhere. A retired social worker and former Ann Arbor City Council member, she lives in Dexter.
Jennifer Burd is 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 & Women of Lenawee County, Michigan, is creative nonfiction.
She teaches creative writing and literature online and also for Jackson Community College.
Laszlo Slomovits
is one of the twin brothers in Ann Arbor’s folk music duo, Gemini (GeminiChildrensMusic.com). 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.
7:00 PM – 8:45 PM • Wednesday, February 28, 2018 114 S. Main St., Ann Arbor http://crazywisdom.net
734-665-2757
Jamie Thomas is author of Etch and Blur, which won the Brick Road Poetry Prize. He also won an Academy of American Poets Prize. His poems have appeared in New Ohio Review, Third Coast, Missouri
Review, and Verse Daily. He lives in Detroit and teaches Writing and Literature at Ferris State University
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Zilka Joseph teaches creative writing. Her chapbooks Lands I Live In and What Dread were both nominated for a PEN America and a Pushcart award, respectively. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, and The MacGuffin. Wayne State University Press recently published her book of poems, Sharp Blue Search of Flame.
7:00 PM – 8:45 PM • Wednesday, November 29, 2017 114 S. Main St., Ann Arbor http://crazywisdom.net 734-665-2757
Featured reader is followed by Open Mic reading. • FREE. All writers welcome • Read your own or other favorite poetry. • Sign up begins 6:45 p.m. • Poetry Series readings every fourth Wednesday hosted by Joe Kelty, Ed Morin, & Dave Jibson. See our blog at Facebook/Crazy Wisdom Poetry Series.
Diane DeCillis owned an award-winning art gallery near Detroit. Her first poetry collection, Strings Attached, was honored as a Michigan Notable Book for 2015, and won The Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry. Her poems have appeared in Minnesota Review, Nimrod, and Connecticut Review. Lebanese culture and magic realism inform her work.
7:00 PM – 8:45 PM • Wednesday, October 25, 2017 114 S. Main St., Ann Arbor http://crazywisdom.net 734-665-2757
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