Please join us for the first ever "Detroit Night" at Burlesque Poetry Hour. Four readers venturing from half away across the country,
Daniel Padilla, Caroline Maun and
James Hart III are taking it off for Lolita and Gilda at Bar Rouge in Washington D.C. Monday, February 26. Reading will begin at 8:00 p.m. in The Dark Room at Bar Rouge.
Caroline Maun is an educator and poet living in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. She is Assistant Professor of Critical Literacies in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University, a post she assumed in 2004. She has published three books,
The Collected Poems of Evelyn Scott (2005)
The Sleeping (2006), the latter being a collection of her own poems, and
Virtual Identities: The Construction of Selves in Cyberspace (2007).
The Sleeping was published by Detroit's Marick Press, headed by Mariela Griffor.
The Sleeping contains two poems nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize and won "Poetry Book of the Year" from
Chickenbones. Prior to her appointment at Wayne State University, Maun was the founding Writing Center Director at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
James Hart III is author of
White Holes (2006), published by Marick Press of Detroit, MI. He is the curator of the Zeitgeist poetry series and also the author of the
watchable book (Weightless Press, 2003). His work has also appeared in the
Café Review, Wayne Literary Review; Dispatch Detroit, Volumes 6 and 7;
pasttentspress.com and
thedetroiter.com.
Daniel Padilla, both a visual artist and a poet, was born and raised in Michigan. He was co-founder of the literary magazine
the furnace. He has studied at the Wayne State University's Writers' Workshop and the Kenyon Review's Summer Writers' Program at Kenyon College. He has read at the Grosse Pointe Artist Association, Izzy's Raw Art Gallery, and the DIA. He also has shown his art at Frameworks in Plymouth and Izzy's Raw Art Gallery. His first book of poetry,
Solute, was published by Marick Press in 2006. Daniel Padilla now lives and works in Plymouth, MI.
