Join us on Thursday June 6 for an open mic and a very special DOUBLE FEATURE of two phenomenal writers: Noam Keim and Nandi Comer!
Doors and sign-ups for the open mic open at 7pm. Be there on time to make sure you get a spot! Admission is $5 donation or pay what you can. No one is turned away for lack of funds.
MORE ABOUT OUR FEATURES:
NANDI COMER:
Nandi Comer is the current Poet Laureate of Michigan. She is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Northwestern University Press), which was awarded the 2020 Society of Midland Authors Award and the 2020 Julie Suk Award. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, a Callaloo Fellow, and a 2019 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow. Her poems and essays have appeared in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal of Pan African Studies, and others.
Nandi has served as a writer-in-residence in Detroit Public Schools and has worked in collaboration with organizations, including YArts and InsideOut Literary Arts Projects. She serves as a poetry editor for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora and is the co-director of Detroit Lit.
NOAM KEIM:
noam keim (they/them) is a trauma worker, medicine maker and flâneur freak.Born a settler of Occupied Palestine in an Arab Jewish family hailing from Morocco, noam grew up in France, first in Mulhouse at the German and Swiss border, before moving to Paris for their studies. Their non-fiction writing weaves themes close to their heart: reverence to the land, healing, queerness, colonialism, plants, abolition.
They are a Lambda Literary ’22 Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellow, a Roots.Wounds.Words ‘23 fellow, a Tin House Winter Workshop ‘23 participant and a Sewanee. noam was an independent study fellow at POCOAPOCO in Oaxaca and will be an artist-in-residence at Space A in Kathmandu in the Fall of 2023. They are a Periplus ‘23 Fellow mentored by Grace Talusan. noam’s essays have been published in Dardishi Vol.3, ALOCASIA and Foglifter.
Their essay collection titled The Land is Holy won the 2022 Megaphone Prize and will be published on May 28. 2024 by Radix Media.