POETRY & ZINE LIT NIGHT AT BOOK BEAT MONDAY, APRIL 21

Join us at Book Beat on Monday, April 21st at 7:30 PM for Detroit poets M. L. Liebler, and Dawn McDuffie who will join novelist Tim W. Brown for a reading and booksigning event at Book Beat, located at 26010 Greenfield, in Oak Park. Please call 248-968-1190 for more information. Beside the live poetry reading and new book releases, we will discuss the recent lost era of zines and zinemaking with expert Tim Brown. This will be an interesting evening of disussion and poetry and of importance to anyone with an interest in Detroit poetry, Zines or Zine making.

M.L. Liebler is a professor of English at Wayne State Universty, director of the Springfed Literary Arts Center, a publisher and founder of The Magic Poetry Band. M.L. Liebler is an energetic high-profile poet-performer who is driven to promote poets and poetry within Detroit and beyond. Author of thirteen books and four CDs, Liebler was awarded Best Detroit Poet by the Detroit Free Press in 2004. His latest book is the newly released Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream (Wayne State University Press). His latest collection of surreal Jazz-backed poems, The Kurl of the Butterfly's Tongue is available now on CD.

Dawn McDuffie has taught high school in Detroit classrooms for 25 years. Her first poetry collection was Carmina Detroit (2006), published by Adastra Press. McDuffie teaches creative writing at the Scarab Club and at Springfed Arts. A finely produced letter press book, Carmina Detroit explores her memories and muse, the landscape and history of Detroit. In a Metro Times interview "Cupid comes to Detroit", McDuffie stated; "Poetry is one of the most powerful forces a teacher can invite into the classroom. My students at Mumford High loved reading poetry and loved writing original poems. I still have their work, and I'm still impressed that young people struggling with so many issues could write wholeheartedly about love. I believe that love for metaphor, passion to create a work of art, the desire to share one's artistic vision with other people are all an intrinsic part of human nature."

Tim W. Brown's novel THE WALKING MAN is a metafictional biography of Brian Walker, the most famous zine publisher in America. THE WALKING MAN is an absorbing and believable look inside the mechinations of celebrity, fandom and underground culture spawned by the Zine Revolution. Tim is author of the novels Deconstruction Acres and Left of the Loop. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in over 200 publications. From 1982-1999 Tim published and edited "Tomorrow Magazine" - a poetry zine featuring a wide range of underground and performance poets. Time Brown lives in New York City.

“With a good eye for detail and a playful touch of humor, Tim W. Brown remembers a largely forgotten shadow world of American bohemia in the last decades of the 20th Century. Like the fanzines that bore witness to this scene, Walking Man is a welcome reminder that great culture bubbles up from the underground." – Stephen Duncombe, author of Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture

"It's safe to say that no one knows the mysterious, sure-footed Brian Walker better than Tim W. Brown – certainly not his fans, and perhaps not even his own family. Anyone who enjoys zines will relish this account of the most famous zinester ever." – Chip Rowe, editor, The Book of Zines.

The Book Beat is an independent bookstore serving the Detroit area since 1982. For more information please call 248-968-1190 or visit us online at: http://thebookbeat.com

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