Martin Luther King Jr./Arc of Justice Workshops For the past three years, InsideOut poets have created group pieces for the Wayne State University annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Luncheon at Orchestra Hall, opening for such greats as Dr. Benjamin Carson and Kareem Abdul Jabaar. This year, our MLK Workshops…

A sincere thank you to the 40 enthusiastic Detroit Public School principals and teachers who graciously volunteered a beautiful summer afternoon for lunch and a firsthand look at InsideOut’s multi-layered impact on schools and students.  Current and interested principals enjoyed a screening of IO’s “A Poet in Every Classroom,” video….

Thank you from our slam team . . .

The White House, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Erb Family Foundation and Time Magazine all agree that the InsideOut Literary Arts Project is nurturing top-notch talent in a town where young voices are often silenced by sadness. Now it’s your turn to see, for free, why poems from…

“I don’t know if I would have lived had I not found poetry.” award-wining poet Jimmy Santiago Baca said during his first ever visit to Detroit, where he lead a youth writers workshop and a public reading at the Detroit Artists Market.

Join us for an evening of readings by InsideOut students and writers in the schools, a trailer screening of a documentary on InsideOut’s work in the schools, plus performances & an exhibit of visual art by students who have participated in arts-intensive workshops with jessica Care moore, Buddy Budson, Henry…

Emily Dickinson Read-a-thon Friday, May 13, 6-10pm DIA, 5200 Woodward, Detroit (free to Detroit residents and museum members) Please join InsideOut Literary Arts Project for the concluding event in Detroit’s 2010-2011 Big Read. During the evening, members of the community will give voice to the poems of Emily Dickinson. Readers…

Scratch the Page is a student workshop and reading held at Virgil H. Carr Center, 311 E. Grand River, Detroit. The readings (Saturdays at 5 p.m.) are free and open to the public. Donations can be made to InsideOut. For more info, contact CWP Coordinator Matthew Olzmann (matthewolzmann@gmail.com)

Jane Eberwein, Distinguished Professor of English, emerita, Oakland University, and noted Emily Dickinson scholar, will give a keynote speech on Dickinson. Dr. Eberwein is a founder of the Emily Dickinson International Society, author of Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation and co-editor of the essay collection Reading Emily Dickinson’s Letters. Her talk…

Scratch the Page is a student workshop and reading held at Virgil H. Carr Center, 311 E. Grand River, Detroit. The readings (Saturdays at 5 p.m.) are free and open to the public. Donations can be made to InsideOut. For more info, contact CWP Coordinator Matthew Olzmann (matthewolzmann@gmail.com)