John Jeffire is the Detroit author of two novels and three poetry collections. His novel Motown Burning won the 2005 Mount Arrowsmith Novel Competition and the 2007 Independent Publishing Awards Gold Medal for Regional Fiction. In 2022, his novel River Rouge won the American Writing Award for Legacy Fiction. His recent poetry collection is A Temple for Tomorrows.
John’s recorded reading is now part of the archives on our YouTube channel.
Anita Skeen is the author of six volumes of poetry, including collaborations with visual artists such as The Unauthorized Audubon (2014), a collection of poems about imaginary birds accompanied by the linocuts of anthropologist/visual artist Laura B. DeLind. A professor in the Residential College of Michigan State University, Anita is director of its Center for Poetry.
Email cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com for Zoom link.
The link will be sent via email a day or two before the event. The reading will be followed by an open mic. Participants are welcome to read a poem of their own or a favorite. If you have attended an event in the past two years, you are already registered.
Your hosts: Ed Morin, David Jibson and Lissa Perrin.
All times are Eastern Time Zone
May 28 – Naomi Shihab Nye – Palestinian-American writer, editor and educator, grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, TX. Teaches at Texas State University, has been Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S., poetry editor for New York Times magazine and The Texas Observer, visiting writer in 100+ schools and communities all over the world. She has written or edited 30+ books, most recently Grace Notes – Poems About Families.
Email cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com for Zoom link.
The link will be sent via email a day or two before the event. The reading will be followed by an open mic. Participants are welcome to read a poem of their own or a favorite. If you have attended an event in the past two years, you are already registered.
Your hosts: Ed Morin, David Jibson and Lissa Perrin.
All times are Eastern Time Zone
Jeff Gundy has published eight books of poems including Without a Plea, Abandoned Homeland, and Somewhere Near Defiance, for which he was named Ohio Poet of the Year. His latest prose book is Wind Farm: Landscape with Stories and Towers. Former Fulbright lecturer at U. of Salzburg, he’s now Writer in (Non)residence at Bluffton University.
Colleen Alles is a native Michigander and award-winning writer living in Grand Rapids. The author of two novels and a poetry collection, she’s also a contributing editor with Great Lakes Review and Barren Magazine. She enjoys distance running and corralling her kiddos. You can find her online at http://www.colleenalles.com.
7:00 PM – 8:45 PM, Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Email cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com for Zoom link.
The link will be sent via email a day or two before the event. The reading will be followed by an open mic. Participants are welcome to read a poem of their own or a favorite.
If you have attended an event in the past two years, you are already registered.
Your hosts: Ed Morin, David Jibson and Lissa Perrin
John Hoppenthaler has had four books of poetry published by Carnegie Mellon U. Press, including Night Wing Over Metropolitan Area—due out this October. Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at East Carolina University, he also serves on the Advisory Board for Backbone Press, specializing in publication and promotion of marginalized voices.
7:00 PM – 8:45 PM, Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Email cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com for Zoom link.
The link will be sent via email a day or two before the event.
If you have attended one of our events in the past two years, you are already registered.
The reading will be followed by an open mic. Participants are welcome to read a poem of their own or a favorite.
Your hosts: Ed Morin, David Jibson and Lissa Perrin
A twin bill for our monthly reading on a special date (due to Thanksgiving)
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
7 – 8:30 PM Via Zoom
Email cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com to request the meeting link.
Link will be emailed to you the day before the event.
Featured reader is followed my open mic.
Missed it? See it on YouTube.
Judith McCombs grew up nomadic in a geodetic surveyor’s family. Her poems appear in Poetry, Shenandoah, Nimrod, and in five books including The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected & New. She has taught at Wayne State U. and in the Washington, D.C. area. She received awards from Michigan and Maryland State Arts Councils
Molly Spencer has recent poems published in Blackbird, Los Angeles Review, and Prairie Schooner. She is the author of the poetry collections If the House, winner of the Brittingham Prize, and Hinge, winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition. She teaches writing at the University of Michigan.
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.
This event will be held online via Zoom. Email cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com to request the meeting link. Link will be emailed to you the day before the event.
Featured reader is followed my open mic.
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.
Crazy Wisdom Poetry Circle 