Jeffire & Studstill Debut New Collections
Detroit poetry superstars John Jeffire and Felecia Studstill will debut their first collections of poetry in this month.
John’s collection, Stone+Fist+Brick+Bone is a hard-hitting, yet loving remembrance of his life and Detroit. John is also the author of the Gold Medal IPPY-winning novel Motown Burning. John lives in St. Clair Shores and is a teacher. Reviews for John’s poetry are ecstatic, including Gary Goshgarian’s analysis: “Reading Jeffire’s poetry is like reading William Blake’s Songs of Innocence channeled through Philip Levine, Iggy Pop, and the MC5. The terrain he covers is not 18th Century England but 1960’s Detroit, and while the voice is raw, it is ultimately true.” In Speaking No Evil, Felecia Studstill’s poems are sensual, religious, and philosophical at the same time. Studstill, a past winner of Wayne County Council for the Arts, History & Humanities’ Artists Among Us, stirs complex emotions with poems such as “Batman Lied to Me” and “Newtonian Physics.” Studstill is from Inkster and a member of MENSA. Both authors are being published by Aquarius Press and are scheduled for local readings. For more information on either poet, email aquariuspress@sbcglobal.net or visit www.aquariuspressbookseller.net Submitted by Heather Buchanan, M.A., Publisher of Aquarius Press, an award-winning writer, editor, playwright, poet and publisher. Her poetry appears in a variety of anthologies, including Daimler-Chrysler’s The Spirit in the Words. She is the author of Dark River: a Novel of Suspense. Heather is on the faculty of The University of Michigan-Dearborn, The College for Creative Studies and Wayne State University, and is publishing several local poets and writers.