Poetry Hut Blog

21st Detroit Festival of the Arts — it’s over by Wayne State.

Friday - Sunday, June 8th - 10th, 2007

Friday: 4:00 - 11:00pm
Saturday: noon - 11:00pm
Sunday: noon - 9:00pm

I went there last summer & saw Thomas Sayers Ellis read and ate a Sander’s [pronounced Saunders haha] Hot Fudge Creampuff, which have become hard to find & are quintessentially Detroit. You should go if that is in your neck of the woods.

My friend Chris McCall, who I played in bands with when I was young and skinny haha, is going to be playing at the Festival: Saturday, June 9, 2007, 4:00 to 4:30 PM, Music and Literary Lounge Tent, corner of Cass and Putnam. (By the library and around the corner from the Detroit Institute of Arts.) Be there or be square.

LASALLE BANK MUSIC & LITERARY STAGE

FRIDAY

4:00
Lola Valley
Hip Hop, Rock & Soul

5:45
The Oblivion Project
Tango Nuevo

7:30
The Screaming Orphans
Irish Pop Rock

SATURDAY
12:00
Dr. Terry Blackhawk’s Inside Out - City Wide Poets
Area High School Poets

1:00
Festival Open Mic
Stage Side Sign-In

2:30
Kawita Kandpal
Poet

2:45
Aurora Harris
Spoken Word

3:00
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
New Jersey Poet

3:30
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Pennsylvania Poet

4:00
Chris McCall
Songstress

4:30
John D. Lamb
Springfed Arts Singer-Songwriter

5:50
Allan Harris & Cross That River
Music of the Black Cowboy

7:30
The Dansettes
60s Soul/R&B

SUNDAY
12:00
2007 Metro Detroit Writers
Writing Awards’ Winners

1:20
Valerie Taylor
Winner of the 2006 Town Hall Slot @ Lit Fest 2007

1:30
Festival Open Mic
Stage Side Sign-In

2:00
Detroit Slam Poets: Versiz, Cassie Poe, Kahn Davison, LaShaun Phoenix Moore

2:30
Detroit Artists’ Workshop Reunion with Bill Harris, Robin Eichele, Ron English & The Magic Poetry Band with Faruq Z. Bey

3:30
Sadiq Bey & Friends
Electro Jazz & Poetry

4:00
Michael Crittenden
Grand Rapids Songwriter, Troll For Trout

4:30
The Hummingbirds
Alternate-Country Duo

5:00
Allan Harris & Cross That River
Music of the Black Cowboy

6:45
The Dust Poets
Manitoba Folk Rock