Main Library/Finishing Poetry- For poets who seek to get their drafts edited and performance or pri
nt-ready. Participants bring two to three of their original poems to works
hop through to finished pieces. We'll explore the difference between poems
on the page versus poems on the stage. \; Led by Jim Ferris\, and Joe
l Lipman with guest poet\, Kevin Coval\, on 4/11/18. \; The culminatin
g performance on 4/25/18 will include featured poet\, Erin Adair-Hodges.\n Jim Ferris is the current Poet Laureate of Lucas C
ounty. \;He is an award-winning poet and performance artist\, author
of Slouching Towards Guantanamo\, Facts of Life\, and The Hos
pital Poems. \;Ferris\, who hold a doctorate in performance stud
ies\, has performed at the Kennedy Center and across the United States\, C
anada\, and Great Britain\, recent performance work includes the solo perf
ormance piece Scars: A Love Story. \;His writing has appeare
d in dozens of publications\, ranging from the Georgia Review to
Text &\; Performance Quarterly\, from the Michigan Quarter
ly Review to weekly newspapers. \;He has won awards for creative
nonfiction and mathematics as well as performance and poetry. Ferris hold
s the Ability Center Endowed Chair in Disability Studies at the University
of Toledo\, where he directs the Disability Studies Program.
Kevin Coval \;i s a poet and community builder. As the artistic director of Young Chicago Authors\, founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival \, and professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago&mdash\;where he tea ches hip-hop aesthetics&mdash\;he&rsquo\;s mentored thousands of young wri ters\, artists\, and musicians. \; \;He is the author and editor o f 10 books\, including A People's History of Chicago published in 2017. \;
\nErin Adair-Hodges \;is the auth or of Let's All Die Happy\, winner of the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starre tt prize from the Pitt Poetry Series. A Rona Jaffe-Bread Loaf scholar\, Cl audia Emerson-Sewanee scholar\, and winner of the 2014 Loraine Williams Po etry Prize from The Georgia Review\, her poems can be found in The Kenyon Review\, Crazyhorse\, Boulevard\, and other journals. She is currently a v isiting professor of creative writing at the University of Toledo. \;< /p>\n
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