I’m super excited to announce that 2025 is our 30th Anniversary year – that’s right, InsideOut Literary Arts has been serving Detroit youth with high quality creative writing programming for three decades! From our start in a handful of high schools to serving over three…
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“InsideOut Literary Arts will celebrate three decades of serving Detroit’s youth this year and it hopes to commemorate the occasion with a large mural that drives home their mission.”
InsideOut Literary Arts is partnering with City Walls Detroit to celebrate our 30th anniversary of inspiring Detroit youth through poetry!
“Sixteen-year-old Charisma Holly of Detroit helped kick off Detroit Homecoming with a performance of the following poem. The theme of this year’s Homecoming was ‘Detroit 2050,’ and we thought the poem painted such a vivid picture of Detroit’s history and where it is — or could be — heading, we wanted to share it with a wider audience here.” — Crain’s Detroit Business
InsideOut is proud to announce the IF THE RIVER COULD SING poetry contest, seeking poems that celebrate and give voice to the beauty and history of the Detroit River.
Executive Director Suma Karaman Rosen writes about showing up for teens in an Op-Ed for the Detroit Free Press.
Liz Lewin from FOX2 News interviewed InsideOut students Aiyana and Isaiah and Hannan Center poet Janice about the Intergenerational Poetry Workshop at the Hannan Center.
For National Poetry Month, InsideOut partnered with Detroit-based creative agency Lafayette American to erect billboards throughout the city. Catch them all this April!
Executive Director Suma Karaman Rosen and School Programs Manager Shawntai Brown speak with Fox 2 about the impact of MacKenzie Scott’s transformational gift.