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Poet-performer jessica Care moore Talks Success and Heartbreaknew
She's 36 now, and she's gone from making a big splash as a young prodigy on the stage of the famed Apollo to becoming a real force in the world of poetry and art.
Metro Times |
Norene Cashen |
09-30-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Poetry, jessica Care moore
Detroit's African-American Writers, Playwrights and Poets Get a Space of Their Ownnew
The development of the African American Literature Special Collection at Wayne State University's Purdy-Kresge Library began in April 2005, when Assistant Dean and Development Director Barton Lessin was approached by Don Vest, co-owner of Broadside Press.
Metro Times |
Norene Cashen |
09-02-2008 |
Books
Immigrant Poet Zilka Joseph Straddles Two Worldsnew
Joseph lives, works and studies here in Michigan, but her poetry tells the story of a woman who exists in two different places. Born in Bombay and raised in Calcutta, Joseph has been in this country since 1997. In a physical sense, moving here meant leaving everything behind. In her poems, she shows that it isn't where you live that matters, but what lives on in you.
Metro Times |
Norene Cashen |
08-12-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
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Dan Savage: All Americannew
Dan Savage has slipped the sultry bonds of sex advice to become something more, a sort of ethicist for the growing progressive wing of American culture.
Metro Times |
Michael Jackman |
11-30-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Powerslave!new
How one dude went from tubby taco guy to shredded metal-head.
Metro Times |
Michael Jackman |
07-13-2012 |
Nonfiction
Tags: Lüc Carl, The Drunk Diet
The Books Issue 2012new
Excerpts from Mitch Ryder's memoirs, poetry from Terry Blackhawk, a Q&A with co-author Steve Babson on a biography of attorney Ernie Goodman, pulp fiction from the mean streets of Detroit and suburban Ferndale, and more.
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Mitch Ryder, W. Kim Heron, Michael Jackman, Christa Buchanan and Dan Merritt |
03-21-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Philip K. Dick Keeps it (Un)real:new
Hollywood's favorite sci-fi writer didn't think it was all fiction.
Metro Times |
Aaron Mondry |
12-02-2011 |
Nonfiction
'Curveball' Tells the Story of Toni Stone, the First Female Negro League Baseball Playernew
Stone's life and career -- from neighborhood pickup game to cross-country barnstorming to obscurity in retirement -- are aptly recounted in Martha Ackmann's Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League.
Metro Times |
Sandra Svoboda |
04-11-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
