Anne Carson in Detroit
Essayist, translator, and living legend Anne Carson will headline two readings in Metro Detroit this month.
UPDATE: events are SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 22nd, 6:30 pm
Book Beat in Oak Park
Anne Carson, Cameron McLeod Martin, Monica Rico & Stephanie Glazier
More info on the Book Beat event here.
Sunday, February 23rd, 6 pm
Book Suey in Hamtramck
Anne Carson, Nandi Comer, Emily Roll, Kamelya Omayma Youssef, Catharine Batsios & Christine Kanownik
More info on the Book Suey event here.
About the Artists
AC was born in Canada and now works much of the time in Iceland.
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.
Cameron McLeod Martin (they/them) is an essayist and poet. They hold an MFA from the University of Idaho and their work has appeared in Fence, Black Warrior Review, The Journal, and elsewhere. They currently live in Clawson, MI.
Monica Rico is the author of the poetry collection, Pinion.
Stephanie Glazier’s poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Alaska and Michigan Quarterly Reviews and others. Her manuscript Of Fish & Country has been a finalist in the National Poetry Series, the Airlie Press Prize, the Perugia Press Prize, Milkweed's Ballard Spahr Prize and Changes Press. She lives and works in Detroit.