Mark your calendars: poetry haps in Detroit

Some cool things worth seeing/hearing coming up in my neck of the woods:

Sept. 4, 2008: Detroit Tonight Live with M.L. Liebler at The Jazz Cafe. Open mic 7-8 p.m. followed by my good friend Mary Jo Firth Gillett, Oakland University's Poet In Residence and professor of my very first college English class Edward Haworth Hoeppner, and Detroit poet francine j. harris who had a couple of awesome poems in the McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets (McSweeney's Books, 2007), my favorite poetry anthology ever. The Jazz Cafe is at The Music Hall for Performing Arts: 350 Madison in Detroit (48226). Phone number: 313-887-8501.

Oct. 18, 2008: Ferndale Arts/Coffee Beanery Poetry Series. Come out and see my friend Liz Volpe as well as poets Diane DeCillis, Carol Was and Christine Rhein. The Coffee Beanery is in Berkley at 28557 Woodward Ave, 2 blocks south of 12 Mile.