Next Reading: October 15th at 7:00 p.m.

What better way to welcome Fall than to come read on the open mic at Skazat! or buy a mug of something warm at Sweetwaters Cafe and Tea at 123 W. Washingon, sit back and listen in?

Whether you’re a page poet, slammer, performance artist or refuse a label, we want to hear your work on the open mic and we want to see you in the audience for our feature reader!

Sign up! 7:00 p.m.

7:15 p.m. – Open mic

8:00 p.m. – Featured Reader

This month join us for local legend, Dennis Hinrichsen!

Dennis Hinrichsen is the author of seven books of poetry.  His most recent is Rip-tooth, winner of the 2010 Tampa Poetry Prize.  His other works include Kurosawa’s Dog, winner of the 2008 FIELD Poetry Prize, and Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delight, winner of the Akron Poetry Prize.  New work can be found online at Interrupture, Linebreak, and Solstice and in The Portland Review.  He lives and teaches in Lansing.

Next Month, join us for metro Detroit writer, John Freeman!

Next Reading: September 17, 2012 @ 7:00 p.m.

Skazat! returns from its brief summer vacation with a bang. Come on down (up, over, around) to Sweetwaters Cafe and Tea at 123 W. Washington to join our awesome reading series. Whether you’re a page poet, slammer, performance artist or refuse a label, we want to hear your work!

Sign up! 7:00 p.m.

7:15 p.m. – Open mic

8:00 p.m. – Featured Reader TYLIAS MOSS!

Thylias Moss’s books of poetry include Tokyo Butter (2006), Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse (Persea Books, 2004), Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler (1998), and Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems (1993). She is the developer of Limited Fork Theory, which involves “poetry as a complex adaptive system” and multimedia “acts of making.” She has also written a memoir, Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress (1998), two plays, and a book for children. Among her honors are a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Dewar’s Profiles Performance Award, a Witter Bynner Award for Poetry, and a Whiting Award. She lives with her husband and two sons in Ann Arbor, where she is a professor of English at the University of Michigan.

Next Reading: July 16th, 2012 @ 7:00 p.m.

Come on down (up, over, around) to Sweetwaters Cafe and Tea at 123 W. Washingon to join our awesome reading series. Whether you’re a page poet, slammer, performance artist or refuse a label, we want to hear your work!

Sign up! 7:00 p.m.

7:15 p.m. – Open mic

8:00 p.m. – Featured Reader

This month join us for local legend, Sarah Messer!

Sarah Messer has received fellowships and grants from the Provincetown Fine Arts WorkCenter, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the NEA, and the Mellon Foundation. In 2008-2009 she was a fellow in poetry at the Radcliffe Institutefor Advanced Study (Bunting) at Harvard. She is the author of a hybrid history/memoir, Red House (Viking), and a poetry book, Bandit Letters (New Issues). Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and Ploughshares, among others. She teaches at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and runs One Pause Poetry, a reading series in Ann Arbor, Michigan (www.onepausepoetry.org).

 

Next Month:
We’re taking the traditional August break to give folks a chance to prepare for the coming academic year and retreat from the heat. SO JULY WILL BE THE LAST TIME YOU’LL SEE US UNTIL SEPTEMBER!!!

Next Reading: June 18th, 2012

Come on down (up, over, around) to Sweetwaters Cafe and Tea at 123 W. Washingon to join our awesome reading series. Whether you’re a page poet, slammer, performance artist or refuse a label, we want to hear your work!

Sign up! 7:00 p.m.

7:15 p.m. – Open mic

8:00 p.m. – Featured Reader

This month join us for local legend, Raymond McDaniel!

Raymond McDaniel, is originally from Florida, and is now a celebrated local author of two poetry collections, most recently Saltwater Empire (Coffee House Press, 2008). His first collection, Murder (a violet) (Coffee House Press, 2004), was a National Poetry Series winner. He graduated from University of Michigan with an MFA. He teaches at the University of Michigan and writes book reviews for The Constant Critic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next Month:  Join us for local poet and One Pause founder, Sarah Messer!

Next Reading: Monday, May 21st at 7:00 p.m.

Come on down (up, over, around) to Sweetwaters Cafe and Tea at 123 W. Washingon to join our awesome reading series. Whether you’re a page poet, slammer, performance artist or refuse a label, we want to hear your work!

Sign up! 7:00 p.m.

7:15 p.m. – 8:30 – All open mic with special guests!

Celebrating Women Poets at Skazat!

In the past few years, we have lost several women poets, namely Ai, Lucille Clifton, Wislawa Szymborszka, Dorothea Tanning,  and most recently, Adrienne Rich. We wanted to take an opportunity to remember these women this month and devote our feature time to tributary poems.

This month we will give everyone 3 minutes if you have your own work, and 5 minutes if you’ve brought in a poem by a well-known woman poet who has passed on within the last 5 years.

Your hosts will bring in an array of stuff and we should have a few special guests as well. It should be a fun month.

We look forward to seeing you.

Next Month: Back to our regular scheduled programming with feature Raymond McDaniel!

Next Reading: April 16th, 2012 @ 7:00 p.m.

Come on down (up, over, around) to Sweetwaters Cafe and Tea at 123 W. Washingon to join our awesome reading series. Whether you’re a page poet, slammer, performance artist or refuse a label, we want to hear your work!

Sign up! 7:00 p.m.

7:15 p.m. – Open mic

8:00 p.m. – Featured Reader

This month join us for Jamaal May!

Jamaal May is the author of two chapbooks, The God Engine and The Whetting of Teeth. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. A graduate from Warren Wilson’s MFA program, Jamaal is a two-time finalist for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a two-time Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, and three-time Rustbelt Poetry Slam Champion, with poems appearing in Callaloo, Indiana Review, and Blackbird, among other journals. For several years he coached Detroit’s youth slam team and taught poetry in Detroit Public Schools. Currently, Jamaal is the 2011-2013 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University where he hosts a poetry slam, acts as associate editor for West Branch, and edits his first full-length manuscript, which was a finalist for The National Poetry Series as well as the Levis Prize from Four Way Books.

 

Next Reading: March 19, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.

Come on down (up, over, around) to Sweetwaters Cafe and Tea at 123 W. Washingon to join our awesome reading series. Whether you’re a page poet, slammer, performance artist or refuse a label, we want to hear your work!

Sign up! 7:00 p.m.

7:15 p.m. – Open mic

8:00 p.m. – Featured Reader

This month join us for Samiya Bashir!

Ace Deuce native Samiya Bashir’s work includes Gospel, Where the Apple Falls, and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art. A founding organizer of Fire & Ink, recognized as the most influential supporter and advocate for LGBT writers of African descent, and Cave Canem alumnus, her work has most recently appeared in Callaloo, Encyclopedia Vol 2 F-K, Reverie: Midwest African American Literature, and online @ PoetryFoundation.org, TheRumpus.net, and Torch: Creative Writing by African American Women. Currently, she is back home among the Ann Arbor trees, teaching writing at the University of Michigan