FIELD TRIP #2
10/26 with Kamelya Omayma Youssef, Dan Magers, and Casey Rocheteau.
Join us for poetry readings by Kamelya Omayma Youssef, Dan Magers, and Casey Rocheteau.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
at 7:00 p.m. EDT
Book Suey
10345 Joseph Campau Ave
Hamtramck, MI 48212
SAVE THE DATE:
Field Trip #3:
Saturday, November 23
Laura Goldstein, Aiko Fukuchi, and Katelyn Rivas
About the artists:
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.
Casey Rocheteau was born on Cape Cod, and raised as a sea witch. They are an author & visual/sound artist living in Detroit, Michigan. Their third poetry collection, Gorgoneion, was released on Noemi Press in late 2022, and was shortlist for the PEN Open Book Award in 2023. Winner of inaugural Write A House permanent residency in 2014, Rocheteau resides in a home they won with poems. They are a Callaloo Writer’s Workshop, Cave Canem, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference fellow. They currently serve as the Communications Director of the Detroit Justice Center.
Dan Magers’s first book of poems, Partyknife, (Birds, LLC)is described by Thurston Moore “as if poet-ghost adrift thru dressing rooms backstage taking notes…Writing poems like these is just as good as starting a band.” His writing has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Notre Dame Review, Hyperallergic, Vice, Fanzine, the Pen America blog, Barrelhouse, and others. Dan lives in Chicago.