This week’s podcast brings you a variety of Detroit poets reading at Poets and Pies, a regular event hosted by the Detroit Writers’ Guild. This set of readings was recorded in August at the St. Clair Shores library.
Joyce Jenkins is a Detroit native who has spent much of her life in Berkeley, California. Joyce has long been a noted Bay Area poet and the editor of “Poetry Flash,” as well as the producer and sponsor of the Northern California Book Reviewers and the Northern California Book Awards.
Caroline Maun teaches creative writing and American literature at Wayne State University, and she is the Chair of the English Department. She is also the editor of The Collected Poetry of Evelyn Scott, and author of Mosaic of Fire: The Work of Lola Ridge, Evelyn Scott, Charlotte Wilder, and Kay Boyle. Her poetry publications include the volumes The Sleeping, and What Remains.
Pat Barnes is a longtime Metro Detroit poet who is a favorite with poetry audiences. Her work is witty, funny and always leaving audiences with a good vibe and food for thought.
Alinda Dickinson Wasner the author of 4 collections of poetry, the most recent being, When You Don't Know Who You Are published by Crisis Chronicles Press. Winner of several U.S. poetry prizes and an international prize, her work can be found in numerous print and online journals. Called "one of Detroit's best poets" by poet laureate, M.L. Liebler, Wasner is currently at work on a new collection, Too Much Love: Detroit Poems.
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