April 22 – Donovan Hohn will read on Earth Day. He’s author of Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea, a New York Times Notable Book and runner-up for two major awards. His essays appear in Harper’s, Lapham’s Quarterly, and Best Creative Nonfiction. His The Inner Coast: Essays, is forthcoming.
Featured reader is followed by an open mic. All events take place in the Crazy Wisdom Tea Room from 7-8:30 pm.
July 22 – Esperanza Cintrón is author of three books of poetry: Visions of a Post-Apocalyptic Sunrise, the Naomi Long Madgett Award-winning What Keeps Me Sane, and Chocolate City Latina. Her interconnected stories of Shades, Detroit Love Stories, was published by WSU Press. She has recent work in Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets.
Featured reader is followed my open mic. All events take place in the Crazy Wisdom Tearoom from 7-8:30 pm.
February 26 – Bradley K. Meyer is a poet and photographer working from Dayton, OH. His poems and prose poems have appeared in decomP, DASH, Toad, Superstition Review, Rust+Moth, and Black Heart Magazine. He is author of the chapbook, Hotel Room, and edits Pouch Magazine, which lives at pouchmag.com. The Opossum is his favorite animal.
Paul Bernstein is a self-taught poet who publishes regularly in journals and anthologies. His book-length collection What the Owls Know was published by Kelsay Books in August 2019. Recent work has appeared in Third Wednesday, Down in the Dirt, Muddy River Poetry Review, and U.S. 1 Worksheets.
Featured reader is followed by an open mic. All events take place in the Crazy Wisdom Tea Room from 7-8:30 pm.
7-8:45 p.m.: Featured Readers followed by an open mic. All writers are welcome to share their own or other favorite poetry.
Chris Tysh is author of several plays and collections of poetry. Her latest proj
ect, Hotel des Archives, features verse “transcreations” from the novels of Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and Marguerite Duras, published by Station Hill Press. She holds fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the Kresge Foundation.
George Tysh has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kresge Foundation. His 11 books of poetry include The Slip (2015) and The Imperfect (2010), with a new collection, Twisted Flesh, forthcoming in 2020. He teaches film studies and poetics at College for Creative Studies in Detroit.
All events take place from 7 to 8:45 P.M. in the Tea Room at
The Crazy Wisdom Bookstore
114 South Main Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48014
January 22 – Khaled Mattawa has published five books of poems, translated several books of poetry, and edited anthologies of Arab American writing. His Mare Nostrum recently appeared from the Quarternote Chapbook Series of Sarabande Books. He received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2014. He teaches creative writing at U-M and edits Michigan Quarterly Review.
Featured reader is followed by an open mic. All events take place in the Crazy Wisdom Tea Room from 7-8:30 pm.
7-8:45 p.m.: Featured Reader followed by an open Mic reading. All writers welcome to share their own or other favorite poetry. Sign-up begins at 6:45 p.m.
Dennis Hinrichsen served as the first Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing area from M
ay 2017 to April 2019. His poetry collection, Skin Music, won the 2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. His most recent work is [q / lear], a chapbook from Green Linden Press.
All events take place from 7 to 8:45 P.M. in the Tea Room at
The Crazy Wisdom Bookstore
114 South Main Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48014
7-8:45 p.m.: Featured Reader for 50 minutes, followed by an open Mic reading. All writers welcome to share their own or other favorite poetry. Sign-up begins at 6:45 p.m.
Jenifer DeBellis, M.F.A., is author of the poetry collection Blood Sisters, founding director of aRIFT Warrior Project, and editor of Pink Panther Magazine. She directs the Detroit Writers’ Guild. A former Meadow Brook Writing Project fellow, she teaches writing for Saginaw Valley State University and Macomb Community College.
All events take place from 7 to 8:45 P.M. in the Tea Room at
The Crazy Wisdom Bookstore
114 South Main Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48014
