Arts & Entertainment
Lido Gallery Poetry and Fiction Reading
Join us for our Summer Poetry and Fiction Series, Monday Evenings at 7pm. We have a fantastic line-up you won't want to miss.
-Sponsored by Lido Gallery & Springfed Arts. This event is FREE and open to all.
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-Hosted by John D. Lamb
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Monday, August 1st will feature:
Diane Dickinson holds a B.A. in English Literature, an M.L.S. in Library Science, and completed several classes toward a degree in theology and Greek. She was a research analyst for Coopers & Lybrand, now Price Waterhouse Coopers, until she left to become the business manager for Mayfair Accessories, Inc. Diane has a strong interest in art, music, and dance, and studied ballet for several years. She lives in Royal Oak and has been a member of Mary Jo Firth Gillet’s workshop for two years. Her poems have appeared in California Quarterly and Altadena Review, among others.
Dorene O'Brien was born and raised in Detroit where she can still be seen taking photos of the UA Theater Building on Bagley or dining at Lafayette after researching her latest story. She has been a fiction writer for twenty years, and currently teaches creative writing at the College for Creative Studies and at Wayne State University, where she earned her MA in English. O'Brien won the Red Rock Review Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction in 2000, was the 2002 winner of New Millennium's Fiction Award and in 2003 won the Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award. She won the prestigious Bridgeport Prize the following year and is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently working on a novel featuring fossil hunters in Ethiopia and a short story collection that explores the relationship between time, place and memory.
Rick Bailey teaches English at Henry Ford Community College. He has written four books about writing for McGraw-Hill. His freelance work has appeared in Metro Times, Small Business Opportunities, and Real Woman, his poetry and fiction in College English, Oxford Magazine, Chattahoochee Review, and Georgetown Review. He directed the Cranbrook Writers Conference 2006-08.
