Lido Gallery Poetry & Fiction Series

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Join us for our Summer Poetry and Fiction Series, Monday evenings beginning July 11 at 7pm. We have a fantastic line-up you won't want to miss.

Monday July 11, 7PM

Terry Blackhawk

Terry Blackhawk is the founder and director of Detroit 's acclaimed InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a poets-in-schools program. Her poetry collections include Body & Field (Michigan State University Press, 1999), Escape Artist (BkMk Press, 2003), selected by Molly Peacock for the John Ciardi Prize; and The Dropped Hand (Marick Press, 2007). She has published two chapbooks, Trio: Voices from the Myths (Ridgeway Press, 1998) and Greatest Hits 1989-2003 (Pudding House Press).  Terry is the recipient of the 2010 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize from Nimrod International. 

Ed Haworth Hoeppner

Edward Haworth Hoeppner teaches at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He's published poetry in a wide variety of magazines and journals, including Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, Passages North, Prairie Schooner and Shenandoah, and is the author of two books: Echoes And Moving Fields (criticism) and Rain Through High Windows (poetry).

KarinHoffecker

Karin Hoffecker has a Master's Degree in English Literature from Oakland University and has been writing poetry for twelve years. She was a finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize at the North American Review and won a First Place Prize in a Graduate Alumnus Poetry Contest at Oakland University. Her poems have appeared in literary journals including Penumbra, The Comstock Review, The MacGuffin, Mona Poetica, Passager, and Spire.

Save the date for the rest of our excellent series

Monday, July 18, 7pm :  Desiree Cooper, George Dila, Phillip Sterling

Monday, July 25, 7pm:  Lori Volante, Alise Alousi,

Monday, August 1, 7pm:  Dorene O’Brien, Rick Bailey

Monday, August 8, 7pm:  Winners from the 2011 Springfed Arts Writing Contest

*These events are free and open to all.  Sponsored by Springfed Arts Org.