Anne Carson in Detroit
Two nights with Anne Carson featuring Nandi Comer, Emily Roll, Kamelya Omayma Youssef & Catharine Batsios
Essayist, translator, and living legend Anne Carson will headline two readings in Metro Detroit this month.
UPDATE: EVENTS ARE SOLD OUT
Sunday, February 23rd, 6 pm
Book Suey in Hamtramck
Anne Carson, Nandi Comer, Emily Roll, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, Catharine Batsios & Christine Kanownik
Information on the Book Suey event here.
About the Artists
AC was born in Canada and now works much of the time in Iceland.
Nandi Comer is the Poet Laureate of Michigan. She is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Northwestern University Press), which was awarded the 2020 Society of Midland Authors Award and the 2020 Julie Suk Award. She is a co-director of Detroit Lit, a project that organizes salons and professional development for narrative makers of color in metro Detroit.
Emily Roll (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist and performer. Their performance pieces are a vehicle by which they explore anxiety, vulnerability, and transparency. Realized in combinations of written, vocal, physical or verbal forms; Emily’s work can take the form of anything from abstract one-person stage plays to experimental sound pieces.
Catharine Batsios (she/they) is from Flint, MI & has been living in Detroit as a community arts programmer/writer-in-residence since 2013. She is a member-owner at Book Suey Bookstore Co-op in Hamtramck where she facilitates, hosts, & coordinates community readings, events, & clubs.
Kamelya Omayma Youssef, author of A book with a hole in it (Wendy’s Subway, 2022), is a text and performance worker who teaches, edits, and organizes events. Her work is published by 1080Press, Mizna, Sukoon, the Margins, Poem-a-Day and elsewhere. She and you will see a free Palestine in this lifetime.
Christine Kanownik is a poet and environmental writer living in Southeast Michigan. She is the author of two books of poetry: HEAD (Trembling Pillow Press, 2018) and King of Pain (Monk Books, 2016). Most recently, she published the chapbook Blood Bath with the Philadelphia horror poetics press, Cul-de-sac of Blood.