One week from today BathHouse Events will be hosting one our first in person events since 2020! While this is an excellent opportunity to experience writing from these prolific and exceptional writers, it also provides a chance for the writing community of Southeast Michigan to reunite after three years of virtual readings and creative isolation….
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Poetry from The Bloc
Last fall the Creative Writing program at EMU offered a graduate course listed as CRTW 550: Community Outreach for Creative Writers, with the subtitle “Poetry, Pedagogy, Abolition,” which nourished a creative collaboration with incarcerated women at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility (WHV), while examining the prison industrial complex. Through this partnership, the class researched…
TONIGHT @ 6pm || BathHouse Events || Joyelle McSweeney
Please register for the event HERE: https://emich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpduugpj8rGd2N0IW20bR8HfUKa-X1vhqg
BHJ ISSUE #23 — NOW AVAILABLE!
BathHouse Journal’s 23rd issue — Fractured — has arrived! As verb and noun, in content and form, in aesthetic and design — BathHouse Journal‘s 23rd issue is visually and thematically Fractured. In fact, the issue itself is fractured with the featured works and authors broken in two by the inclusion of a special section: Poetry from The Bloc. Click Here to view the…
Jackie Wang | The Prison Abolitionist Imagination | An Introduction by Parker Wilson
This past autumn, BathHouse Events had the honor of hosting Jackie Wang as part of our Fall 2021 reading series. This event featured a powerful reading and discussion of Wang’s books Carceral Capitalism and The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void, leaving the audience with a “vibrational awakening” as Wang calls…
Mark Nowak | Social Poetics | An Introduction by Andi Pontiff
This past autumn, BathHouse Events had the honor of hosting author Mark Nowak for our Fall 2021 reading series. The event featured compelling reading and discussion of Nowak’s recent book, Social Poetics (Coffee House 2020). For Nowak, “social poetics” is a way to think and practice the relation between poetry and social action, as it strengthens the …
Alumni Feature | Two Sonnets
Alumni Adam Malinowski and David Kuhnlein are two poets living and working in the Detroit Metro area. In this rare alumni feature, we share two of their recent formal poems. A untitled Sonnet by Adam Malinowski. Sonnet to the Sea by David Kuhnlein He wants to know What words are for & I speak Them…
Poetry Fellowship Opportunity
This is the last two days for this opportunity! The 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship is open now and seeks submissions. To apply gather 10 of your strongest poems, and craft a short statement about our work. This Fellowship is open to Emerging Poets, between the ages of 21-31. The Submission…