M. L. Liebler

 

M. L. Liebler

 

Scheduled Appearances

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JANUARY 2010

Sunday, January 3 at 7:30 p.m.: Memoirist and poet Anne-Marie Oomen (author of the forthcoming An American Map) and special guest poet (with musical accompaniment by Sire Recording Artist and member of Fireking & Figures on a Beach Anthony Kaczynski) M.L. Liebler (author of 13 books, including Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dreamat The Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College announces its January Reading Series. All readings are held in the Founder's Room of Pine Manor College located at 400 Heath Street in Chestnut Hill. MA (Boston). Copies of authors' books will be available for sale after all readings; cash-bar receptions will follow the readings on January 3 and 7. Pl! enty of free parking! 
 
January 7, Thursday at 7:00pm-9:00pm.  M.L. Liebler Presents Detroit Tonight Live at The Jazz Cafe at The Music Hall featuring Blues Legend Howard Glazer, Detroit poets Anita Schmaltz & Diane Shipley DeCillis with special guest roots musician Maggie McCabe. Free. Close Lighted parking. Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts is located at 350 Madison (across from Ford Field, Gem Theater and Comerica Park) . Detroit, Michigan 48226. For directions and information www.musichall.org 
 
January 15, Friday at 8:00pm M.L. Liebler & The High Strung, Jo Serrapere and The Willie Dunns and Blackhat live at Alvin's On Cass Bar located on the Wayne State University Campus at 5657 Cass between Palmer Street and I-94 Overpass. Plenty of free lighted parking. $5 Cover. www.alvinsoncass.com (313) 638-6300

The 2010 Downtown Literary Arts held Sundays and hosted by Metro Detroit Writers Director M.L. Liebler at The Scarab Club located at 217 E. Farnsworth at John R in the heart of the Cultural Center / Wayne State University Campus. The Scarab Club is directly behind the Detroit Institute for the Arts. We have our own free, safe, and close parking area. For Directions (313) 831-1250.

January 31 at 2:00pm

Joy Gaines Friedler (author of Like Vapor from The Mayapple Press http://joygainesfriedler.com/default.aspx)

Ken Meisel (author of the new Bottom Dog Press book Beautiful Rust)

Lori A. May  (Canadian poet/writer  & author of suspense novels The Profiler and Moving Target & new poetry collection Stains http://www.loriamay.com/ )

John Sinclair & Musical Guests (Blues & Jazz Poetry Legend from Amsterdam http://johnsinclair.us/)

FEBRUARY 2010

February 1, Monday at Noon The Wayne State University @ Noon Series kicks off with Detroit legend John Sinclair and WSU Poet M.L. Liebler plus musical guests in the 10th Floor Conference Room of The Wayne State University Department of English located at 5057 Woodward Avenue at Putnam across from Detroit Public library and next to WSU Welcome Center. FREE. (313) 577-2450. This series will continue with national and local writers through April on Mondays @ Noon. All Invited-Open to the Public.

Feb 11 with Faruq and Robert in Big Rapids.

The 2010 Downtown Literary Arts held Sundays and hosted by Metro Detroit Writers Director M.L. Liebler at The Scarab Club located at 217 E. Farnsworth at John R in the heart of the Cultural Center / Wayne State University Campus. The Scarab Club is directly behind the Detroit Institute for the Arts. We have our own free, safe, and close parking area. For Directions (313) 831-1250.

February  28 at 2:00pm

Wardell Montgomery, Jr. (Detroit Folk Poet & Motown Songwriter) 

Lori Goff (author of Spirits Walking: Stories of Appalachia http://www.lorigoff.com/)

Rhoda Stamell (author of The Art of Ruin and Detroit Stories http://rhodastamell.com/

Dr. John Tellford (author of the new memoir A Life on the Run http://lifeontherunbook.com/)

John D. Lamb (Acclaimed, Award Winning Metro Detroit Singer Songwriter & Retreat Host Supreme www.springfed.org

 

MARCH 2010

 March 15-17 Liverpol, UK March 18 NYC for B&N Award, etc.

The 2010 Downtown Literary Arts held Sundays and hosted by Metro Detroit Writers Director M.L. Liebler at The Scarab Club located at 217 E. Farnsworth at John R in the heart of the Cultural Center / Wayne State University Campus. The Scarab Club is directly behind the Detroit Institute for the Arts. We have our own free, safe, and close parking area. For Directions (313) 831-1250.

March 28 at 2:00pm (The Annual International Women's Month Reading)

Meg Kearney (New York Poet, Director of Pine Manor College M.F.A. Program and author of  the 2009 Home By Now - Four Way Books)  http://www.megkearney.com/

Shayla Hawkins (Detroit Poet & ArtServe of Michigan Grant Recipient) 

Therese Becker (Oakland County Poet & author of The Fear of Cameras)

APRIL 2010

The 2010 Downtown Literary Arts held Sundays and hosted by Metro Detroit Writers Director M.L. Liebler at The Scarab Club located at 217 E. Farnsworth at John R in the heart of the Cultural Center / Wayne State University Campus. The Scarab Club is directly behind the Detroit Institute for the Arts. We have our own free, safe, and close parking area. For Directions (313) 831-1250.

April 25 at 2:00pm (National Poetry Month Celebration)

Bonnie Jo Campbell (Author of American Salvage & 2009 National Book Award Finalist www.bonniejocampbell.com

Brad Leithauser (Poet/Novelist & author of the new novel set in Detroit The Art Student's War http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=17241)

Mark James Andrews (Published Metro Detroit Writer)

Blair (Detroit Poet, Performer & Singer Songwriter)

Spring-Summer 2010 M.L. Liebler reads and lectures for The US State Department in Israel, Kazakhstan / Қазақстан, Russia, UK, Turkey and elsewhere.  Watch the website for tour updates.

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Recent Appearances

 

M.L. Liebler has performed/read at the following venues:

6th Street Garden Theater, New York, NY
8th Street Coffeehouse, Escanaba, MI
 42nd Annual Writer's Conference at Schoolcraft College in Livonia. For more info call Sandie Shroyer at 734-462-4470 or visit www.schoolcraft.edu
Alchemy Prague, Prague, Chekozvokia
Artworks, Big Rapids, MI
Ashe Cultural Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Aquinas College Literary Festival, Grand Rapids, MI
Arts Celebration at Amiri Baraka’s Basement Night Club, Newark, NJ
Atomic Cafe, Munich, Germany
Attic Bar located in Hamtramck at 11667 Jos. Campau,north of Caniff, Hamtramck. 313-365-4194.
AWP Conference, Palm Springs, CA
AWP Conference in Chicago, IL
Backstage Pass on WTVS, Channel 56, Detroit, MI
The Baldwin Public Library's Youth Poetry Slam  Downtown Birmingham.   248-554-4656  www.baldwinlib.org
Barnes and Noble, Huntington Beach, CA
Barnes and Noble, Oradell, NJ
Bay de Noc Community College, Escanaba, MI
Bear River Writers Conference, Petoskey, MI
Berkley High School, Berkley, MI
Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
Binghamton University, Poets Live Series,  Binghamton, NY at 
Bittersweet Coffee House, Detroit, MI
Blue Goose at 28911 Jefferson Ave between 11 Mile Road and 12 Mile Road in St. Clair Shores. (586)296-0950
Book Beat Bookstore, Oak Park, MI. 
The Book Cellar & Cafe, 840 West Ann Arbor Trail in Plymouth, MI 48170.  (734) 455-2704 or e-mail cherrion@aol.com
Borders Books and Music, Great Lakes Crossing, Auburn Hills, MI
Bowery Poetry Club located at 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012  / 212.614.0505 $6.00 www.bowerypoetry.com
Brew Pub, Laguna Beach, CA
Brighton Public Library located at 100 Library Drive, Brighton, MI 48116.
Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle WA
The Buzz Bar, Oak Park, IL
Cadieux Cafe,
 www.cadieuxcafe.com, Detroit, MI
Cafe Picasso, New Orleans, LA
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. FREE. http://cmu.edu 
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
The Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies located at 301 Frederick Douglass (between John R & Brush Street) in The Cultural Center of Detroit, MI
Charleston College in Charleston, SC.   Professor Allen at alle7383@bellsouth.net 
Chelsea Public Library Temporary Location in Chelsea close to I-94 Exit located at Washington Street Education Center, in the Media Center of the Old High School at 500 Washington Street. FREE. MapQuest or call (734) 475-8732 
Cheyenne Writer's Voice, Cheyenne, WY
Cheyenne Family YMCA Summer YArts Camp Cheyenne, Wyoming
The Zen Bistro & Coffeehouse in Downtown Cheyenne, WY

Club Clearview, Dallas, TX
Cody's Bookstore, 2454 Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, CA. www.poetryflash.org
Coffee Beanery  located at 28557 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI.
The Colony Cafe in Downtown Woodstock. http://www.colonycafe.com
The College of Mount St. Vincent , Bronx, NY
Cornelia Street Cafe West Village, New York, NY
Costa Mesa High School, Costa Mesa, CA
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room located at 114 South Main Street in Downtown Ann Arbor. www.crazywisdom.net/poetry.htm  (734)665-2757
Crossing Borders: Multicultural Celebration of Urban Poetry and Music, Hamtramck, MI
Del Rio Bar, Ann Arbor, MI
Detroit Festival of the Arts, Hudson's Stage,  Detroit, MI
Detroit Festival of the Arts Lit Fest on the Lawn, Detroit, MI 
Detroit Opera House, The Cadillac Cafe on Madison Avenue at Broadway. Detroit, MI
Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI
Detroit Public Library's Mark Twain Branch
Drum and Bass at Coom Theater, Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY 
Eek Authors' Festival,Eek, AK
Elliot Bay Book Store, Seattle, WA
Exoterica, Bronx, NY
Fairbanks Arts Association, Fairbanks, AK
Farmington Family YMCA, Farmington Hills, MI
Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI
Fifth Avenue Ballroom, Novi, MI 
Fly By Night Club, Anchorage, AK
Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival, Detroit, MI
Georgia Tech University Writers hosted by Thomas Lux. For more info contact Ginger at ginger.murchison@lcc.gatech.edu
Grand Cafe, farmington Hils, MI
Great Lakes Book & Supply Inc., Big Rapids, MI
Grounds Coffeehouse at The university of Detroit-Mercy Livernois & 6 Mile Road campus. 
Hamtramck's Urban Break Coffeehouse, Hamtramck, MI
Heidelberg, Ann Arbor, MI
High Plains Book Festival in Billings, Montana.
Hyperpoets, Venice, CA
Inkwood Books, Tampa, FL
Jam Rag, Ferndale, MI

Jerusalem
David Yellin College of Education in Jerusalem, Israel. . http://dye.macam.ac.il/newmaincenter.htm
Tel Aviv University Creative Writing Workshops at Tel Aviv University in Israel http://www.tau.ac.il
Hebrew University in Jerusalem www.huji.ac.il/huji/eng/
Tmol Shilshom Cafe in Jerusalem, Israel located at 5 Solomon St, http://www.tmol-shilshom.co.il
The Jazz Café at The Music Hall for the Performing Arts located at 350 Madison Detroit, MI 48226 – (313) 887-8501

Joffrey's Internet Cafe, St. Petersburg, FL
John Wood Community College Literary Festival, Quincy, IL
Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch, Pomeroy, OH
Kent State University Jawbone Festival, Kent, OH
Kirtland Community College in St. Helen's, MI
The Knitting Factory, New York NY
 Langston Hughes Annual Black Poetry World Festival, St. Louis, MO
Left Bank Bookstore, St. Louis, MO
Lili's 21, Hamtramck, MI
Macon State College, Macon, Georgia. Free.  Contact Professor Cantwell for info kcantwel@mail.maconstate.edu
The MacGuffin journal’s Literary Festival, Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI
Macomb Community College South Campus, Warren, MI
Macomb YMCA, Mt. Clemens, MI
McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA
Michigan Opera Theater, Detroit, MI
Midwest Poets and Writers Conference, Detroit, MI
Monroe Community College, Monroe, MI
Moscow, Russia The Amerikan Poetry Center
Mother Earth’s Café, Albany, NY
Munich and Ludwig Maximillian University Germany
Muskegon Public Schools, Muskegon, MI
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
City College of New York Citywide Poetry Festival with   Barry Wallenstein, Billy Collins, Rick Pernod and many, many others. City College Theater. All Day. FREE. www.ccny.cuny.edu 
Northern Central Michigan College, Petoskey, MI
Northern Michigan University, Poet-in-Residence, MFA Summer Program, Marquette, MI
Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center in their Kalman Auditorium located at 18101 Oakwood Blvd-Dearborn.
Old Miami Bar, Detroit, MI
Olean Public Library, Olean, NY
Ottawa Canada  at The Sasquatch Literary Series.  www.e-sasquatch.ca
Out Loud Poetry Festival, Woodstock, NY
Paterson Poetry Center in Paterson, NJ Paterson NJ Poetry Center
Paterson Poetry Festival, Paterson, NJ 
Paterson Public Schools’ Artist-in-Residence, Paterson, NJ 

Passaic Community College in Downtown Paterson in the college auditorium. FREE. http://www.pccc.cc.nj.us/poetry

Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington Street, Petaluma, CA
Poet-in-Residence at St. Clair Shores Public Library, St. Clair Shores, MI
PoeticLicense series, Moondog Café, Los Angeles, CA
Poetry @ the Opera House, Detroit, MI
Poetry in Motion Series, Grand Café, Farmington, MI
Pontiac Performing Arts Center, Pontiac Michigan
Popular Culture Conference in Las Vegas, NV PCA/ACA Regional Meetings
Red Eye Coffee House, Saginaw, MI
Redford Township Public Library, Redford, MI

Roadrunner’s Raft, Hamtramck, MI
Print Gallery at 29173 Northwestern Hwy., Southfield, north of Twelve Mile Road. Info: 248-356-5454 or at www.everythingart.com
Romeo District Public Library ( Main Graubner Library) located at 65821 Van Dyke / Washington, MI 48095 / (586)752-0603, http://www.libcoop.net/romeo

Santa Barbara Poetry Series, Santa Barbara, CA
Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
Seattle Poetry Festival, Seattle, WA
Shaman Drum Bookshop, Ann Arbor, MI
Spillway Literary Review Series, Huntington Beach, CA
St. Clair Shores Public Library, St. Clair Shores, MI
St. Clair Shores Library's Galley Cafe located at 22500 Eleven Mile Road at Jefferson Avenue.   (586) 771-9020 http://www.macomb.lib.mi.us/stclairshores/
St. Mark’s Poetry Project, New York, NY
Sterling Heights High School, Sterling Heights, MI.
Substanz Music Club, Munich, Germany
Swords to Plowshares, San Francisco, CA
Theodore Roethke Poetry Festival, Saginaw, MI
Troy Public Library, Troy, MI
University of Alaska-Fairbanks,Fairbanks, AK
 University of Detroit-Mercy-McNichols Campus in The Student Center
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
University of Macau, Macau, China
University of Malta. ,  ISSEI MALTA 2006 Introduction
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
Unplugged Show at CB’s 313 Gallery, New York, NY
Upfront & Company, Marquette, MI
Uptown Poetry Slam, Chicago, IL
Upstate New York State Prison in Ellensville, NY
U.S. Embassy's CLASS program in Jerusalem, Israel.  More details U.S. Embassy Israel
Village Book Shop, Romeo, MI
Walloon Writers’ Retreat, Boyne City, MI
WCCC Downriver....A POETRY SYMPOSIUM.  info contact Nancy Skrocki at nancyts923@msn.com
Wayne State University American Studies Open House, Detroit, MI
WDET 101.9 FM - Detroit Public Radio
The Westland Public Library, Westland, MI.
The Woodstock Playhouse in Woodstock, New York www.woodstockrecords.com
Woodstock Public Library, Woodstock, NY
Woody Guthrie Free Folk Festival, Okemah, OK
World Bicycle Relief benefit,  Heartland Cafe, 7000 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago's Northside
Writer’s Center, Bethesda, MD
 Writer's Garret - Home Dallas, Texas
WWOZ, New Orleans, LA
Wyoming Arts Council, Jackson Hole, WY
Xhedos Café, Ferndale, MI
YMCA of Billings, YMCA Faculty Training Seminar, Billings, MT
 
YMCA of St. Petersburg Russia
MCA of Novosibirisk, Siberia - Russia
YMCA Writer's Voice & YArts Retreat, Hartford, CT
YMCA Writer's Voice of Hartford, CT
YMCA of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
YMCA of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
The YMCA International Conference  YMCA of the USA, Indianapolis, IN

YMCA of the USA International Conference, Mexico City, Mexico
YMCA Young Adult World Conference, New Orleans, LA
Zeitgeist Theater, Detroit, MI
Zen Restaurant Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Zingger’s Saloon, Saginaw, MI

 

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Faculty-Wayne State University-Detroit - Dept. of English & Labor Studies
Director-Arts & Humanities-YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit
Director-The YMCA Writer's Voice Project-Detroit
Executive Board-American Association of University Professors/AFT-WSU Chapter
National Faculty-YMCA of the USA
(313) 577-7713 (WSU/anytime)
(313) 267-5300 (YMCA) Ext. 338
(586) 294-0474 (FAX)
www.MLLiebler.com  M. L. Liebler Home Page
c/o Department of English
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202 USA

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For more information, contact us:
M.L. Liebler and The Magic Poetry Band
P.O. Box 120
Roseville, MI 48066
(313) 577-7713
(810) 294-0474 fax
MLLiebler@aol.com

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