FIELD TRIP #5 is on 4/4
with edie roberts, Isaac Pickell & Owólabi Aboyade
Hello friends! We are back for another thrilling month of POETRY and whatnot.
I’ve been embracing the Big Aries/Spring energy recently. And I’ve got three brilliant poets for FIELD TRIP #5: RAM on Friday, April 4 at 7 pm: edie roberts, Isaac Pickell & Owólabi Aboyade.
I make a playlist for every reading, built around the theme. This month, I’m feeling The Cranberries but actually paying attention to what Dolores O'Riordan is saying. Yoko Ono handing you a knife. Solange’s righteous anger. Sonic Youth but only the Kim Gordon songs.
Anyway, I hope to see you on 4/4. And on Saturday, 4/5, for Field Trip #1 alum Stephanie Sutton’s chapbook launch with me + talia gordon. Hosted by our friends at pitymilk press.
Or maybe at Field Trip #6 on 5/3 with playwright Mariam Bazeed and poet Raven Eaddy (plus another writer TBD)!
About the poets
edie roberts is a gender mess blessed with excess anxiety and midwestern disposition. they currently live in Detroit, MI where they curate events and conversations all while dreaming of fully-automated leisure utopias and the end of scarcity. their books include Everywhere You Go (bathmatics, 2019), Ain’t Life Grand (pitymilk, 2020), WHAT IF LOVING YOU WASN’T ABOUT ME (bathmatics, 2022 w/ Chelsea Tadeyeske), Thank You (bathmatics, 2023) and If You Need It (bathmatics., 2024) and All Of The Sudden Vol. 1 and 2 (bathmatics, 2024, 2025) - among others. They lend hands and eyes and heart at pitymilk press and run a hapdash production site called bathmatics when there is time and purpose bubbling. Follow along at https://edieroberts.wordpress.com/ - IG @squabtastic or bluesky @edieroberts.bsky.social
Isaac Pickell (he/him) is a poet, PhD candidate, and adjunct instructor in Detroit. A Cave Canem Fellow, he is the author of two collections of poetry, everything saved will be last (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) and It’s not over once you figure it out (Black Ocean, 2023). Isaac has taken a seat in all fifty states, and has so much to look forward to.
Owólabi Aboyade is a multidimensional essayist/ poet/ critic/hip hop artist (Will See Music) from Detroit. He studies nonfiction in Pacific University’s MFA program (class of 2025). His poetry chapbook, Lee,Young Lee was published by AWE Society Press in 2024. He is a contributor to Riverwise, Geez, Therapeutic Edgelands, and Against The Current magazines. He’s currently working on collapse, collected essays about grief, culture, and family in gentrifying Detroit.