Skazat Poetry Series March 19, 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 -- 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

Official Website: http://skazatpoetry.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/next-reading-march-19-2012-at-700-p-m/