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Detroit Michigan Writers’ Retreat
Sep 17 & 18
The 1st annual Detroit Michigan Writers’ Retreat will include a reading concert, presentations, panel talks, open mics and a gala reception. Thomas Lux, Patricia Smith, Quincy Troupe, Khaled Mattawa, Meg Kearney, Michael Thomas and Melba Joyce Boyd are on staff for this inaugural Springfed Arts event.
The reading concert will happen Friday, September 17, 7:30 pm at the Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium at the College for Creative Studies. This event is co-sponsored by Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies and will be open to the public.
On Saturday, September 18, 10 am - 10 pm, Lux, Smith, Troupe and Thomas will offer craft talks and a panel discussion about Emily Dickinson at The Arts League of Michigan-Virgil H. Carr Center. The Dickinson discussion (part of the NEA project called The Big Read) is sponsored by InsideOut Literary Arts and will be introduced by their director Terry Blackhawk. After the open mic, strolling dinner is served at the Gala reception. The evening festivities feature music from The Brothers Groove and words from SA-MDW writers Desiree Cooper, Matthew Olzmann and Vievee Francis.
The event will be hosted by M.L. Liebler and John D. Lamb. The retreat is also sponsored in part by Michigan Council for the Arts, Cranbrook Writers Guild, Arts League of Michigan, The Department of Africana Studies at Wayne State University and Metro Times.
Out-of-towners are encouraged to take advantage of special room rates for DMWR attendees at The Inn on Ferry Street (just a few blocks from CCS).
DMWR 2010 Schedule page.
Register online at Springfed E-store.
Printable registration form
Friday, September 17, 6:30 pm - Reception
College for Creative Studies Center Galleries
201 East Kirby, Detroit, MI 48202-4034
7:30 pm - Reading open to the Public featuring Thomas Lux, Quincy Troupe, Patricia Smith, Michael Thomas, Meg Kearney, Khaled Mattawa and Melba Joyce Boyd.
College for Creative Studies, Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium, Walter B. Ford II Building (located next door to the Center Galleries on Frederick Douglass between John R. and Brush Streets)
Saturday, September 18 from 10 am to 10 pm.
All of Saturday's programs will take place at The Arts League of Michigan - Virgil H. Carr Center
311 E. Grand River, Detroit, MI 48226 (313) 965-8430
www.artsleague.com
This is a beautiful recently restored building in the heart of Downtown's Paradise Valley, very near the Detroit Opera House and YMCA. Easy parking in the Opera House parking structure.
We will be adding more information to this website throughout the summer.
The Brothers Groove will be performing at the 7 pm DMWR Gala. Strolling dinner, drinks and dancing! To attend only the DMWR Gala get $25 tickets here.
$10 Tickets for the Friday night reading only.
$150 To attend the Friday night reading and all Saturday workshop/presentations, panel discussions and including the Saturday evening gala with strolling dinner.
$100 if you are a member of Springfed Arts- Metro Detroit Writers. It's easy to join starting at $40.
$25 To attend the Saturday night Gala only.
All tickets may be purchased online at Springfed E-Store or fill out form and send check by mail.
Thomas Lux - eminent poet (The Cradle Place, Split Horizon), NEA recipient, former Guggenheim Fellow, son of a milkman.
Patricia Smith - poet/author (Blood Dazzler, Teahouse of the Almighty), Nat. Book Award finalist, winner of Hurston /Wright Award, Cave Canem faculty, 4-time National Poetry Slam champion.
Quincy Troupe - poet/performer/author (Miles: The Autobiography, James Baldwin: The Legacy), American Book Award, NFA Fellow, co-author of The Pursuit of Happyness.
Khaled Mattawa - poet/author (Benghazi,1963), born in Libya, emigrated 1979 to US, winner of American Academy of Poets award, Alfred Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.
Meg Kearney - poet (An Unkindness of Ravens, The Story of Me, Home by Now), winner of the PEN New England LL Winship award, Patterson Poetry Prize finalist, director of Solstice MFA Creative Writing program.
Michael Thomas (2010 Cranbrook Writers Guild Fiction Chair) - author (Man Gone Down) among Times Book Review top 5 of 2009, winner of IMPAC Dublin Award, a large international literary prize.
Melba Joyce Boyd - poet (Cat Eyes and Dead Wood, Song For Maya), educator, editor, Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Distinguished University Professor Department of Africana Studies at Wayne State University.
 Quincy Troupe  Thomas Lux
 Patricia Smith  Meg Kearney
 Khaled Mattawa  Michael Thomas
 Melba Joyce Boyd
Program Director-M.L. Liebler, Executive Director-John D. Lamb
 
  
Great accommodations are just a few blocks away. Mention Springfed Arts and the Detroit Michigan Writers' Retreat to get a special rate of $125 per night plus tax for a Queen Superior Room. The Inn on Ferry Street, 84 E Ferry Street, Detroit, MI 48202
313.871.6000 www.theinnonferrystreet.com
Included in the overnight room rate is: Breakfast each morning in the Scott House, Parking, WiFi Internet Connection, and Shuttle Service anywhere within a five mile radius of the Inn.
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