What Dread — Book Review by Norene Cashen Smith

What Dread
Zilka Joseph
Finishing Line Press
20 Pages
What Dread is a little chapbook with big ideas, great sensitivity and boundless wonder. Zilka Joseph’s last book, Lands I Live In, looked inward to her cultural identity and what it means to experience the duality of being from two different places: the U.S. and India. 
This new collection sets its [...]

“A Discussion of Truth” – by Daniel Davies and John Marchione

Upon discussion of the comic, it is often decided that the form is to be considered lesser than, a genre for children or the regressed adult. Such names as Frank Miller, Alan Moore and R. Crumb are left out during study of both artistic and literary classics, although their works have been considered as such by a small but devoted audience…

Nocturnal Emissions or Something Like That

Artist Explore the Dreams of Detroit Writers, Thinkers & Entrepreneurs
Friday, May 14, 2010, 6:30pm – 11:00pm
Dreams fascinate. We think about them. We tell our friends about them. We try to assign meaning, believing that hidden somewhere within them is a little key to who we are. If we could just understand the damn things we [...]

“Exposed:  The Art of Getting Published”

[ May 1, 2010 2:00 pm to May 15, 2010 2:00 pm. ] At Pontiac’s Creative Arts Center from May 1 to May 15, 2010
The reception will be held on Saturday, May 1 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Exposed: The Art of Getting Published is a multi-media exhibit hosting the works of John Cohassey and Steven Mitchell. The reception is a “meet and greet” artist event. John [...]

Spring Classes at the BBAC Start April 12th

For some it is the brackets of March madness and for others it is the sprouting of buds. But sure signs of spring are also evident at the BBAC where the season of creativity blooms April 12 with a new crop of classes designed to refresh and reinvigorate the artist in us all.
Spring art classes [...]

Detroit Writer’s Guild Entertainment Writing Seminar at WSU

Saturday, April 10, 2010, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m
The seminar is for all who wish to write movies and songs that complement scenes for movies. Learn what’s happening in Detroit’s world of opportunities in film, how to write movies and develop theme music. Be enlightened by Ms. Erica Hill, Film Detroit; Zelmer Bothic III, [...]

A Full Length Graphic Novel: “The Road To God Knows …”

by Von Allan
at Green Brain Comics in Dearborn

Mental illness remains one of Western society’s greatest taboos.  Those who suffer from various mental health disorders often suffer in silence, with very little support from society.  Family members and other loved ones of those afflicted also suffer and are often forced to understand and cope alone.  [...]

Detroit’s Poet Laureate Naomi Long Madgett at the Virgil Carr Center

A Women’s History Month Poetry Reading
Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 3pm

Naomi Long Madgett
Detroit’s Poet Laureate Naomi Long Madgett, Poets Hilda Vest and Marilynn Rashid will read. In addition, Melba Joyce Boyd will perform her poetry in concert with jazz bassist, Marion Hayden. The event is co-sponsored by the Arts League of Michigan [...]

The Downtown Poetry Series at The Scarab Club

Annual Women’s Month Reading
Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 2 pm
Linda K. Sienkiewicz
a longtime Metro Detroit Writers member, is a fiction writer, poet and artist who recently earned her MFA in Fiction at the University of Southern Maine. Her short stories have appeared in journals such as the Cleis Press anthology “Frenzy,” A Twist of [...]

Book Release: Blair’s “Moonwalking” and The Boyfriends at The Park Bar

Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 9:00pm – 12:00am

A new book being released on Penmanship Books of New York. The book is called “Moonwalking.” It’s a collection of poems regarding the life, career and influences of Michael Jackson, The King of Pop. Blair will be reading poems from the manuscript and then his band Blair [...]