A Detroit Tonight Live Special Event featuring Meredith Quartermain, Chris Tysh, and George Tysh

Please join us at Detroit's fabulous Jazz Cafe in Music Hall on September 26th for a poetry reading hosted by M.L. Liebler.

Meredith Quartermain

Meredith Quartermain's most recent book is the novel Rupert’s Land (NeWest Press 2013). She has also recently published the volumes of poetry Recipes from the Red Planet (Book Thug 2010), Matter (Book Thug 2008), and Vancouver Walking (NeWest 2005); Vancouver Walking received the the BC Book Awards 2006 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.  Her chapbooks include Terms of Sale (Meow 1996), Abstract Relations (Keefer Street 1998), Veers (Backwoods Broadsides 1998), Spatial Relations (Diaeresis 2001), Inland Passage (housepress 2001), The Eye-Shift of Surface (Greenboathouse 2003), and [with Robin Blaser] Wanders (Nomados 2002).  Her book of prose poems, A Thousand Mornings (Nomados 2002), is about Vancouver's oldest neighborhood, the dockside area of Strathcona. She has taught English Literature and Composition at the University of BC and Capilano College, and Creative Writing at the Naropa University Summer Writing Program. With husband Peter, she runs Nomados Literary Publishers.

Chris Tysh

Poet and playwright, Chris Tysh is the author of several collections of poetry and drama. Her latest publications are Molloy: The Flip Side (BlazeVox, 2012) and Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic (Les Figues, 2013).  She is on the creative writing faculty at Wayne State University.  Her play, Night Scales, a Fable for Klara K was produced at the Studio Theatre in Detroit under the direction of Aku Kadogo in 2010.  She holds fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the Kresge Foundation.

George Tysh

From 1980 to 1991, George Tysh directed LINES: New Writing at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and (with Chris Tysh) edited In Camera, a project devoted to works of the sexual imaginary. In 2010, United Artists Books published his tenth collection of poetry, The Imperfect. He currently teaches film studies, visual culture, and poetry at the College for Creative Studies.

2013-2014 Season Grand Kick Off
M. L. Liebler Presents Detroit Tonight Live at The Jazz Cafe of The Music Hall


Award Winning Ann Arbor Poet & Fiction Writer and Director of Bear River Writers' Retreat
Keith Taylor


Popular Oakland County Poet and Winner of 

 Sophia Rifkin
 
                   Acclaimed Metro Detroit Poet                        Therese Becker
                      
                      Syracuse Poet & Writer
  Mary Stebbins Taitt             Detroit Songwriter & Former Magic Poetry Band Guitarist and Music Director
                          Junkbaby
 
              Short Fiction Author & Novelist Home Invasion and Monkey Justice
                          Patti Abbott
 
 
                Popular Detroit Folk and Labor Singer/Songwriter
                          Stephen Jones
 
                  Hosted by M. L. Liebler

DETROITS LOOONGEST RUNNING ALL R&B SHOWCASE OF ITS KIND, R&B LIVE DETROIT. RETURNS TO CLOSE OUT THE SUMMER WITH A BLAST FEATURING ONE OF THE HARDEST WORKING LIVE BANDS IN THE MOTOR CITY. .
 
 R&B LIVE DETROIT
 presents. . .
 
 LATE NIGHTS. .EARLY MORNINGS
 
 https://www.facebook.com/LNEMSOUL
 
 Late Nights Early Mornings (LNEM) is a high energy R&B Soul band based out of Detroit, Michigan. LNEM is comprised of two singers, Larry and Jerel Duren, keyboardist, Frank Simmons, drummer, Chioke Bracy, bassist, Philip Simmons, saxaphonist, Michael Hardiman, and trumpeter, Charles Mitchell. Offering original music and show-stopping covers of your favorite songs, the LNEM experience is one that is best experienced in person.
 
 LNEM offers live shows with a wide variety of musical styles. Ranging from R&B, (neo) Soul, Jazz, to Gospel. All of which have influenced each of the band members. With a combined total of over 30 years of professional experience
 
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 BRANDON MARCEAL (Jazz Flutist) http://www.brandonmarceal.com/
 
 DRIZZ (poet)
 http://www.drizznation.com/
 
 KEISHA LYNN (vocalist)
 http://www.reverbnation.com/keishalynn
 
 
 
 HOSTED BY JAY MICHAELZ
 

Detroit's HIT Monthly Poetry and Music Event is BACK!!!
 
 It's our 3RD and FINAL SEASON of A Man Can Change!!!
 
 We're busy lining up a night of some of the ILLEST talent Detroit
 has to offer...THIS ONE IS FOR US!
 
 DETROIT LIBRE!!! (FREE DETROIT)
 
 

Trumpet Summit featuring Randy Brecker, Jeremy Pelt & Leon Jordan Jr.

Friday, September 13 and Saturday, September 14, 2013  (Jazz Cafe) ADV. $30 DOS $40 BUY TICKETS

This unique tribute to Clifford Brown brings together 3 of America’s treasured Trumpet musicians. 

Randy Brecker has been shaping the sound of Jazz, R&B and Rock for more than four decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Parliament-Funkadelic to Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, David Sanborn, Jaco Pastorius, Horace Silver and Frank Zappa.

Artist Bio

Alise King better known as “Lee Lee” was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Alise started singing at a very young age. While attending high school, she developed a love for writing and performing arts. Her favorite classes being solo and ensemble, and creative writing. She excelled in the arts receiving many music awards, and writing certificates. After high school Alise begin to write her own music and develop her voice and sound. Alise has written 9 stage plays, multiple poems, many short stories and over 250 songs.
 

WOMEN. FIRE. DANGER. JAZZ. ...Just The Basics. TORCH WITH A TWIST! 

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DDP was formed in the Woodbridge area of Detroit 2009. The current lineup features an All-star cast of Detroit musicians and vocalists well known from their own projects and also multiple award winners at the Detroit Music Awards as well as multiple national and local Emmy award winners.
 Coming together for the love of you and Soul music.