The Book Beat presents an evening of poetry with area poets Christina Kallery, Noreen Cashen, James Hart III, and Daniel Padilla. They will be reading at the Book Beat on Thursday, July 12th from 7:30-8:30 PM
Poet Biographies:
Christina Kallery's poems have appeared in Failbetter, Rattle, the Hiram Poetry Review, the MacGuffin, Poetry Motel and other publications. She grew up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and currently lives in the Detroit area, where she works as a copywriter and freelance journalist. She will be relocating to New York City in mid-July but will be back to visit often.
Norene Cashen is a poet, editor and arts journalist. Her reviews and articles about music, art and culture have appeared in The Metro Times (DETROIT), New Times (KANSAS CITY), The Rocket (SEATTLE), Rockrgrl Magazine, YOUR FLESH, Alternative Press, Etch (LANSING), MusicHound Guide to R & B (VISIBLE INK PRESS), MusicHound Guide to Rock (VISIBLE INK PRESS), and other publications. Her poetry has appeared in Dispatch Detroit; Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001 (Wayne State University Press); Gender-F Online Arts Project; POETS AGAINST THE WAR; www.markszine.com; thedetroiter.com; and other publications.
She has published comments and reviews about poetry
and literature in An Invitation To Poetry (Robert
Pinsky's Poetry Project), and The Metro Times (Detroit). Norene is the contributing editor for the arts journal, Dispatch Detroit.
James Hart III, of Detroit’s Mexicantown neighborhood, is the curator of the Zeitgeist poetry series and the author of White Holes (Marick Press, 2006) and 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 is the author of Solute (Marick Press, 2006) studied writing at Albion College in Albion, Mich., University of Detroit-Mercy and Washburn University in Topeka, KS., and in several workshops. Also an artist specializing in pastel drawing, his writing is also enhanced by his studies of the visual arts in the streets, galleries and museums locally and throughout the United States as well as in Central America, South America and Europe. He lives and works in his studio in Plymouth.
Even when Padilla’s speakers prove to find themselves immobile, or unmoving, as in “Wanderlust,” even in this static state the body still exists, there is the “I am” of presence, and through it all, even at its darkest hour, the heart still seeks: “my body/ambitious/desire.” Here in these poems, here in this world, “a light remains.” This is a book that, standing at the center of it all, speaking out to us from the heart”s deepest desire, is a voice that conjures up and paints for us a portrait of the artist as a young man, a young man who is a young poet who, like a child who sees more of the world than us adults do with our tired eyes, “build[s]/ ideas/ in a
sandbox/ hoping for rain.”