The most common definition of “exhume” — to dig out or remove (something buried) from beneath the ground* — is fertile soil on its own, but the term’s fundamental concept — to unearth, bring to light* — expands BHJ22‘s theme’s scope by compelling the exposure of that which is obscured. Click Here to view the featured…
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Experimental Narrative with Eugene Lim
As part of Creative Writing @ EMU and BathHouse Event’s Winter 2022 reading series, experimental novelist and writer Eugene Lim shared inquisitive writing methods and innovative story construction. Likewise, Lim discussed the ‘sudden beauty’ of evaporating expectations within a narrative, as well as acknowledging the quality of re-reading. Perhaps most notably, Lim shared his thoughts…
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…