M. L. Liebler
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JANUARY 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.
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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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
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)
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Home Page
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Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202 USA
www.ymca-artsdetroit.org
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