Hannah Ensor, a poet living in Ypsilanti, has published on topics of pop culture, sports, and mass media. She co-wrote the chapbook, at the intersection of 3, and was associate editor of Bodies
Built for Game, an anthology of contemporary sports literature. Love
Dream With Television is her first book of poems.
Suzi F. Garcia is an editor at Noemi Press and a representative for the Latinx Caucus. She is also a CantoMundo Fellow and a Macondista. Her writinghas been featured in or is forthcoming from theOffing, Vinyl, Barrelhouse Magazine, Fence Magazine, andmore. She can be found at: www.suzifgarcia.com.
Featured Reader(s) for 50 minutes. Open Mic reading for 1 hour. All
writers welcome to share their own or other favorite poetry. Sign-up
begins at 6:45 p.m. at The Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tearoom in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Ken Mikolowski is the author of six books of poetry, most recently THAT
THAT. His poems have been recorded by the Frank Carlberg Group and Michael Gould. Mikolowski taught poetry writing at the UM Residential College and, along with his wife Ann, was publisher, editor, and printer of The Alternative Press.
7:00 PM – 8:45 PM • Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tearoom 114 S. Main St., Ann Arbor http://crazywisdom.net
734-665-2757
Featured reader followed by Open Mic. • 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.
7:00 PM – 8:45 PM • Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Featured Readers:
Jaimy
Gordon
won the National Book Award in 2010 with her fourth novel, Lord
of Misrule;
it also won the Tony Ryan Award for the year’s best book about horse
racing. A long-time member of the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts
Work Center in Provincetown, she teaches in the Prague Summer Program
for Writers.
Richard
Katrovas,
author of fifteen books of prose and verse, has had work in many
literary journals and anthologies, and has received numerous grants
and awards. Katrovas taught many years at University of New Orleans,
and since 2002 at Western Michigan University. He is founding
director of the Prague Summer Program.
7:00
PM – 8:45 PM • Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tearoom 114
S. Main St., Ann Arbor http://crazywisdom.net
734-665-2757
Feature is followed by Open Mic. • 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.
Our featured reader,Marilyn L. Taylor, is the former Poet Laureate of Wisconsin and the author of six poetry collections. Her award winning work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Poetry, Third Wednesday, American Scholar and Light. Her monthly “Poet-to-Poet column on craft appeared for five years in The Writer magazine.
You will find Dr. Taylor’s Poetry Foundation profile page with a more complete bio and several of her poems HERE.
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 by Joe Kelty, Ed Morin, & Dave Jibson.
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
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.
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
by Joe Kelty, Ed Morin, & Dave Jibson. See our blog at
Facebook/Crazy Wisdom Poetry Series.
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
by Joe Kelty, Ed Morin, & Dave Jibson. See our blog at
Facebook/Crazy Wisdom Poetry Series.
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.
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
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
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.
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