sponsored by with Special Guest Betty DeRamus Betty DeRamus is a published author and a former columnist for The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press, the Associated Press, the Michigan Chronicle and the British Broadcasting Corporation. She has received an array of awards for her writing including: a 2011 Headliner Award…

Former Citywide Poets Coordinator Headlines in March Say the name Nandi around IO and eyes invariably light. She was a force on the page and in the lives of young students she led as a long-time leader of the CWP. We’re bringing her home to headline the March installment of…

The Talk of ‘12 5,037 K-12 students for yearlong weekly creative writing workshops this year. 32 top writers-in-residence worked with IO in classroom and after-school programs. 31 schools around Detroit embraced our 25-week core classroom programming. 5,771 people attended 50 events and readings through InsideOut Literary Arts Project, primarily free…

Roger Bonair-Agard is his own revolution… —Patricia Smith Scratch the Page, IO’s reading and workshop series, is back with a big literary name on the mic: Roger Bonair-Agard. You’ve seen him on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and on the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour. He descends on Detroit to work with our students…