June/July 2009 News
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MEMBERSHIP DRIVE 2009
We need your support to continue our many programs, workshops, craft talks and more.

Join MDW online at Springfed Arts E-Store

Springfed Writers' Retreat,
October 8-11, Harbor Springs. Register Now!

The Detroit Festival of the Arts
is now Midsummer Nights
in Midtown!
The Detroit Festival of the Arts is not being produced this year but the University Cultural Center Association (UCCA) and Wayne State University (WSU) are pleased to announce a new summer series for Midtown Detroit - Midsummer Nights in Midtown, which will take place every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in the month of June.

M. L. Liebler Presents
Detroit Tonight Live
Thursday, June 4 7:00pm-9:00pm
The Jazz Cafe @ The Music Hall
STARRING
Barry Wallenstein New York City Jazz Poet
 Alan Scheurman Great Detroit Singer Songwriter
Zilka Joseph Metro Detroit & UM Poet
  Kathleen Spencer Metro Detroit Poet & Nurse
Some Open Mic Too!! Come Early! 
9:00 pm: The Inside Story (Jazz & Blues)
featuring Mark Kieme-sax • Dave Sobolewski-keyboard
Jack DiFranco-guitar • Steve Bostick-bass
Steve Tocco-drums 
The Jazz Cafe @ The Music Hall is located at 350 Madison Avenue, across from the Gem Theater, between Brush and Randolph, adjacent to ample lighted, secure parking and steps from some of the city?s trendiest restaurants and nightspots. www.musichall.org  
COMING TO Detroit Tonight Live in July
• July 2 = M.L. Liebler & The Magic Feng Shui Cursives featuring members of The White Mud Experience (Dr. Hormone,Hank Chief Sobah, Jef Reynoldz & Mo) 
July 9=Edward Morin  Ann Arbor Poet
              Gerard Smith  Irish Folk Guitarist & Kuru All Star
              Berkeley, CA Poet  Joyce Jenkins w/ Clay St. James

Summer Poetry Scarab Mondays
Springfed Arts announces our summer series of poetry readings Monday nights at 7pm, July 6 – August 10. They take place at the historic Scarab Club, now air conditioned.

POETS FOLLIES
READINGS SERIES
Presents John Jeffire Thursday, May 21, 7pm

Downtown Literary Arts
Concludes 2009 Series
by Mary Sitto

The Birmingham Bloomfield
Art Center
Writer’s Retreat Series
From songwriting to screenwriting, the BBAC’s summer-long writing series offers a variety of exciting new classes to suit your writing skills and interests.

Announcing the Springfed Arts
Literary Contest Winners
The awards for best prose short stories go to:
1st place – The Deep End by John Jeffire
2nd place – My Pompeian Orphan Dress by Maria Costantini
3rd place – Feathers by Dennis Hurley
Honorable mentions: Obsessive Possessive by Linda Sienkiewicz
and The Suit Man by Ann Forsaith.
Thanks to our prose judge, novelist Jack Driscoll who described
the winners stories as “quite strong.”
*The awards for best poems will be announced
on the Springfed Arts MDW website by June 1.

“Write Now!”
A one-day conference for writers at Tollgate Education Center in Novi May 30

Literary News & More

Detroit’s C-Pop Gallery Bids Farewell

Light Bulb Bash 2009 Photos

Springfed Arts-Metro Detroit Writers
Provides Inspiration to Members

A Sunday Afternoon at the Scarab Club

Cultural Evening with City Poets at MOCAD

Cranbrook Writers Guild Disbands,
Hands Reins to Springfed Arts

Jeffire Chimes in on Springfed Writers' Retreat

I Went to Lamb’s Songwriters Showcase

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