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.
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 -- 350 Madison St.-- from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. after the program 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.