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Downtown Series Diane Wakoski is an American poet who is associated with the “deep image” poets and the Beats. Diane was born in Whittier, California and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where she participated in Thom Gunn’s poetry workshops. Her early work was part of the “deep image” movement that also included Jerome Rothenberg and Robert Kelly, among others. She also cites William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg as influences and her later work is more personal and conversational in the Williams mode. She has published over forty books of poetry, including Emerald Ice : Selected Poems 1962-1987 (1988) and the four volumes of her The Archaeology of Movies and Books sequence, Argonaut Rose (1998), The Emerald City of Las Vegas (1995), Jason the Sailor (1993), and Medea the Sorceress (1991). A book of essays, Towards a New Poetry was published in 1980. She is best known for a series of poems collectively known as “The Leather Jacket Diaries.” She won the prestigious William Carlos Williams award for her book Emerald Ice. Jim Daniels is an award-winning poet and Thomas Stockham Baker Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. He is author of Punching Out (Wayne State University Press, 1990), Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies, Street, and Show and Tell: New and Selected Poems, among other books and screenplays. His new book from the Wayne State University Press is In Line for the Exterminator. This book is the final collection in Jim Daniels’s trilogy of books explaining the urban working-class landscape. Daniels, who grew up near the Eight Mile Road boundary between Detroit and suburban Warren, Michigan, walks the razor’s edge of the borderline in this collection, examining complex issues of race and class that are a part of daily life there. John Sinclair with Jeff “Baby” Grand on guitar John Sinclair is legendary as the man who guided the rock-and-revolution MC-5 to early fame, and as the political prisoner in the early days of the War on Drugs whose 1971 release from a 9-1/2-to-10-year sentence for possession of two joints was secured by high-profile supporters like John Lennon and Stevie Wonder. But in subsequent years John Sinclair forged a whole new legend as a New Orleans-based preacher of the power of blues and jazz, “his love and knowledge of which form the basis of his wonderful spoken-word performances” (John Strausbaugh, New York Press) and popular award-winning music programs for WWOZ Radio. Relentlessly criss-crossing the USA and western Europe to deliver his verses in front of a variety of high-energy musical ensembles, Sinclair is sort of a 21st-century American griot who’s been called “The Last of the Beatnik Warrior Poets” (Mick Farren, Los Angeles Weekly) and “The Hardest-Working Poet in Show Business” (Ben Edmonds, San Francisco Chronicle). Tim W. Brown is a former editor of OYEZ Review (Chicago) and a talented fiction writer. He was raised in Rockford, IL and now lives in New York. He is the author of Deconstruction Acres (III Publishing, 1997), Left of the Loop (Xlibris, 2001), Walking Man (Bronx River Press, 2008). His work has appeared in the following journals: Another Chicago Magazine, Small Press Review, Bridge, Slipstream, Chiron Review, Rain Taxi, Bloomsbury Review, American Goat, Strong Coffee, American Book Review, After Hours, Children Churches & Daddies, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Quarterly Review, Skylark Magazine, Oyez Review, Fiction Review, Tomorrow Magazine, New Observations, RE:AL, Rockford Review, Ledge, Letter eX. Don’t miss this rare chance to see Tim W. Brown live in Motown. The 2008 Downtown Series is presented by Springfed Arts-Metro Detroit Writers, Poets & Writers, Inc & The Scarab Club. All readings are on Sunday afternoons from 2:00 pm-4:00 pm at The Scarab Club located directly behind The Detroit Institute of Art at 217 E. Farnsworth at John R. All readings are FREE and PARKING is FREE! For directions, please call (313) 831-1250. |
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