Join us for a special in-person Wednesday Night Sessions (on Friday) with Caroline Harper New on May 10th, 2024, from 7-8 pm at the KickstART Gallery (23616 Farmington Road, Farmington, MI 48336).
Poet Caroline Harper New, winner of the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry (awarded to a poet in the Midwest), joins Mitch Nobis for conversation and a reading from her book “A History of Half-Birds.”
Caroline Harper New is a poet, artist, and anthropologist from southern Georgia, her poetry is rooted in the precarious landscape of the Gulf Coast, where she traces how violence born of devotion manifests not only in our human relationships, but also in our connections to the natural and animal worlds. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, PRISM International, Bellevue Literary Review, Colorado Review, The Malahat Review, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. She is winner of the 2022 Love & Eros Prize, 2023 Malahat Open Season Award, 2022 Robert and Adele Schiff Award, and 2022 John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry. Other work includes ecopoetic short films, painting exhibitions, children’s book illustrations, and ethnographic research in Madagascar. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, and now lives in Ann Arbor, MI.
More information is available here: https://www.carolineharpernew.com/
https://milkweed.org/book/a-history-of-half-birds.
May 11th, 2024: Micro-Memoir & Poetry Workshop with Joy Gaines-Friedler from 2-3:30 pm at the KickstART Gallery.
Join Joy Gaines-Friedler, multiple Pushcart Prize & Best of The Net nominee and author of five books of poetry for this free drop-in workshop. You’ll leave with a packet that includes a craft talk, inspiring pieces of poetry & micro-memoir (under 300 words), and a list of topics you, yourself will create to keep you going.
This workshop is FREE but please register HERE.
Learn more about Joy here: https://www.joygainesfriedler.com/
Wednesday Night Sessions is our reading and discussion series hosted by poet Mitch Nobis. At this time, Wednesday Night Sessions is a mostly virtual event and you can view past events below.