Our Upcoming Events:
Citywide Poets Saturday Share Open Mic: Featuring Raych Jackson
May 22nd, 3:00 pm - May 22nd, 5:00 pm
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Join Citywide Poets for Saturday Share Open Mic--a virtual community for creatives!Taking place every other Saturday on Instagram Live, this open mic is free and open to youth and adults artists of all ages!
Although this is the last Saturday Share of the School year, we will continue with monthly open mics beginning in late June featuring youth writers.
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Rachel “Raych” Jackson is a writer, educator and performer. While teaching in Chicago Public Schools for five years, she competed on numerous national poetry teams and individual competitions. She is the 2017 NUPIC Champion and a 2017 Pink Door fellow. Rachel’s work has been published by many—including Poetry Magazine, The Rumpus, and 29Rooms through Refinery29.
This events is presented by Mercedes-Benz Financial Services.
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Citywide Poets is InsideOut’s award-winning afterschool program provides teens with weekly creative writing workshops, publication, and performance opportunities. In this literary community, teens learn their words are powerful and embrace creative expression as a tool for self-development and civic engagement.
Learn more at www.insideoutdetroit.org/cwp
Brainstorm Summer Arts Institute
July 12th, 12:00 pm - July 16th, 4:30 pm
InsideOut’s Brainstorm Summer Arts Institute is a week-long deep dive into creative writing and critical thinking. The topic for this year is Detroit History. Students will be provided with a writing packet including a personal journal and a selection of books chosen by esteemed facilitators LaShaun phoenix Moore and Nadine Marshall. Genres will include poetry, prose, songwriting, and improv. Through these methods, students will discover the artists of color who helped shape Detroit’s legacy, reflect on their communities, and create their own writing to be published in an online anthology of youth work.
This program is FREE and open to students entering 7th-9th grade in the fall of 2021.
Registration is open until May 22nd, 2021. Learn more and register at insideoutdetroit.org/brainstorm/
Brainstorm Summer Arts Institute features:
-Creativity Kits (mailed to all participants) including personal writing journals, poetry books, and multi-sensory materials
-Hands-on activities and performance opportunities
-Interactive connections to music and visual arts
-Virtual experiences with historic Detroit locations
-Guided opportunities for independent, outdoor engagement
Our Past Events:
Citywide Poets Saturday Share Open Mic: Featuring Nadine Marshall
April 24th, 3:00 pm - April 24th, 4:00 pm
www.instagram.com/citywidepoets
Join Citywide Poets for Saturday Share Open Mic--a virtual community for creatives!Taking place every other Saturday on Instagram Live, this open mic is free and open to youth and adults artists of all ages!
Upcoming featured performers include:
Apr 24: Nadine Marshall
Nadine “MARS” is a writer and cultural organizer born and raised in Detroit. Their work has been published in the Lambda Literary Art anthology “Emerge”, Foglifter Journal, Gertrude Press, the Shade Journal, and elsewhere. MARS is a 2019 Lambda Literary Art Emerging Writers Fellow in Poetry. Their Chapbook, FLOWER BOI was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Black River Chapbook Prize, the 2020 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest, and the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition.
Nadine “MARS” works as Director of the Allied Media Conference.
This events is presented by Mercedes-Benz Financial Services.
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Citywide Poets is InsideOut’s award-winning afterschool program provides teens with weekly creative writing workshops, publication, and performance opportunities. In this literary community, teens learn their words are powerful and embrace creative expression as a tool for self-development and civic engagement.
Learn more at www.insideoutdetroit.org/cwp
Centered Catharsis: A Community Writing Workshop
April 17th, 6:00 pm - April 17th, 8:00 pm
Join InsideOut for Centered Catharsis: a Community Writing Workshop in honor of National Poetry Month! This free virtual workshop invites participants of all ages to generate poems and cultivate joy in their writing process. Multiple prompts will be provided, as well as the opportunity for sharing. This event is created and led by InsideOut's Youth Advisory Board.
To sign up, visit bit.ly/cwpeventsignup
Zoom link will be provided the day of the event.
Citywide Poets Saturday Share Open Mic: Featuring Michael Lee
March 13th, 3:00 pm - March 13th, 4:00 pm
www.instagram.com/citywidepoets
Join Citywide Poets for Saturday Share Open Mic--a virtual community for creatives!Taking place every other Saturday on Instagram Live, this open mic is free and open to youth and adults artists of all ages!
Upcoming featured performers include:
Mar 13: Michael Lee
Michael Lee is a Norwegian-American writer, youth worker, and organizer. Winner of the Scotti Merrill Award for poetry from the Key West Literary Seminar, his poetry has appeared in Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel, and Best New Poets 2018 among others. His first book, The Only Worlds We Know (Button Poetry) is now available.
Apr 24: Nadine Marshall
Nadine Marshall is a poet, avid reader, collaborator, and curator with an MSW and B.S. in Psychology/African American Studies. Their work intimately explores the intersection of being genderless, black, and queer – asking what was to lead to what is.. Their words have reached the audiences of TEDxUofM, The National Poetry Slam, The Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam, CUPSI, the ShadeJournal, and Freezeray Poetry Journal
These events are presented by Mercedes-Benz Financial Services.
Citywide Poets is InsideOut’s award-winning afterschool program provides teens with weekly creative writing workshops, publication, and performance opportunities. In this literary community, teens learn their words are powerful and embrace creative expression as a tool for self-development and civic engagement.
Learn more at www.insideoutdetroit.org/cwp