BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11437@cranbrookartmuseum.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250222T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250222T143000 DTSTAMP:20250128T202500Z URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/poetry-showcase/ SUMMARY:Detroit Poetry Showcase DESCRIPTION:Join us in a special partnership with InsideOut Literary Arts t o showcase some of Detroit's finest youth and adult poets for a poetry rea ding celebrating all things Detroit! This reading\, in conjunction with th e How We Make the Planet Move: The Detroit Collection Part 1 exhibition\, will include featured performances\, an open mic\, and Q &\; A. Hosted by La Shaun phoenix Moore. \n\nDesigned to acknowledge the long-standing history of artists who have called Detroit home and the area’s rich and diverse community of practitioners\, the Detroit Collection is particularl y focused on art from the 1960s to the present in a variety of media. How We Make the Planet Move takes its title from a poem by Detroit-born poet\, jessica Care moore\, A Poem Saved My Life: An Homage to Detroit. This eve nt celebrates the next generations of Detroit’s great poets. \n\nFounde d in 1995\, InsideOut Literary Arts has served over 70\,000 students from the Metro Detroit area with high-quality\, life-enhancing literary arts ex periences in the classroom and in the community.\n\nLa Shaun phoenix Moore is a Detroit-based vocalist\, spoken word artist\, activist\, culture cre ator and the coach of the InsideOut Literary Arts Performance Troupe. Moor e’s interdisciplinary work is infused with her love for the city of Detr oit\, hip-hop\, God\, social justice\, and her black momma.   \n\nInsid eOut Literary Arts Youth Performance Troupe Biographies:  \n\nAniya Davis is a member of the 2024 InsideOut Literary Arts Youth Performance Troupe. She has been writing since 2021 and loves to learn new ways to express he rself through writing. Starting out in an afterschool program at Jalen Ros e Leadership Academy\, Aniya learned to share her gifts with the world thr ough spoken word poetry.  She hopes to continue penning words that bring voice to her experiences and that speak truth to power for others.\n\nFait h Coats is a Black 17-year-old poet based in Detroit. She is a member of t he 2024 InsideOut Literary Arts Youth Performance Troupe\, a musician\, a sister\, a friend\, and an artist. Her work centers around discussing the issues that young teens and adults face when discovering themselves.  She has discovered herself through this expression of art and hopes anyone wh o reads her work will do the same. \n\nJessica Lee also known under MissJ exiLee and 李洁茜 is a multimedia artist based in Detroit and a member of the 2024 InsideOut Youth Performance Troupe. Her work centers around th e Asian American experience and explores how femininity contrasts and effe cts that experience as a first-generation immigrant. She writes for those who came before her and those who will come after her. Jessica is the co-f ounder of Detroit Film and Art Collective.  \n\nJordyn Mousa-Sage (Jj) i s a queer\, Lebanese-Iraqi literary artist who works in English and Arabic . Born in Beirut\, Jordyn and their family are immigrants to the land we k now but do not despair of cultural divides. Jj began writing poetry in the ir sophomore year of high school with after rereading some of their mother ’s poetry. They later became a member of the 2024 InsideOut Youth Perfor mance Troupe\, publishing in the Michigan Reading Association’s Kaleidos cope Magazine that same year. \n\nPoet Biographies:\n\nKahn Santori Davis on is currently a freelance journalist for the “Detroit Metro Times” a nd “Model D.”  He’s a Cave Canem fellow whose works have been featu red in The Alabama Poetry Society\, The Baltimore Review\, Barbaric Yap\, Callaloo\, and Black Renaissance Noire\, among others. He’s the author o f the poetry book Blaze and is a recipient of the 2015 Kresge Literary Art s Fellowship and the recipient of the 2019 Documenting Detroit photography fellowship.  \n\nNandi Comer is the Poet Laureate of Michigan. She is the author of two poetry collections\, American Family: A Syndrome and Tap ping Out which was awarded the 2020 Society of Midland Authors Award and t he 2020 Julie Suk Award. She has won numerous awards and fellowships inclu ding a 2019 Kresge Arts in Detroit award. She currently serves as a poetry editor for Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora and is t he co-director of Detroit Lit\, a program dedicated to providing opportuni ties to narrative makers of color in Detroit.   \n\nAshley Adams known as “Galaxy” is an award winning spoken word artist who was born and ra ised in Detroit. She began writing poetry as a form of expression while pu rsuing her Bachelor’s Degree at Eastern Michigan University.  Since gra duation she has performed for crowds both in-person and virtually\, reachi ng audiences all over the world. She is always excited for the opportunity to share her poetry with the world and perform thought provoking pieces. She works as a Writer-in Residence at InsideOut Literary Arts.  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/wp-content/upload s/2024/12/sarafaraj_InsideOut-IftheRiverCouldSing2024-5019.jpg CATEGORIES:Events,How We Make the Planet Move: The Detroit Collection Part 1,How We Make the Planet Move: The Detroit Collection Part I,Lectures + Talks LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bl oomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bloom field Hills\, MI\, 48304\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Cranbr ook Art Museum deSalle Auditorium:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR