{"id":74774,"date":"2026-03-31T22:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=74774"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:45:40","slug":"april-18-poetry-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2026\/03\/31\/april-18-poetry-night\/","title":{"rendered":"April 18:  Chris Tysh, Kim Hunter &#038;  Robert Laidler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/A-spring-night-for-poetry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"277\"><br \/>\nJoin us <strong>April 18<\/strong> from<strong> 6:30-8pm<\/strong> at Book Beat for a night of poetry featuring <strong>Chris Tysh, Kim Hunter and Robert Laidler<\/strong> who will read selections from their work.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3poets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"223\"><br \/>\nBased in Detroit, <strong>Chris Tysh<\/strong> is a poet and playwright, author of twelve books. Her latest publications are <em>26 Tears<\/em>, co-authored with George Tysh, (BlazeVOX, 2022), <em>Derrida\u2019s In\/Voice<\/em> (BlazeVOX 2020) and <em>Hotel des Archives: A Trilogy<\/em> (Station Hill Press, 2018). She holds fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Kresge Foundation, as well as a Murray Jackson Creative Scholar in the Arts Award from Wayne State University where she teaches writing. She is the poetry editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/threefoldpress.org\/current\">Three Fold<\/a>, an independent arts quarterly.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong data-wp-editing=\"1\">Robert Laidler<\/strong> is an assistant professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, a graduate of the University of Michigan&#8217;s Helen Zell Writing Program, and the author of a poetic libretto, <em>The Fallen Petals of Nameless Flowers,<\/em> which premiered at Chamber Music Detroit in 2022. Most recently he was a finalist for The 2026 Agnes Starrett Lynch Poetry Prize, and The 2023 National Poetry Series. His poems can be found or at forthcoming in <em>Missouri Review, Ilanot, Driftwood, Oxford<\/em>,<em> Poets.org, The Offing<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Based in Detroit, where he worked for social justice groups in Michigan,<strong> kim d. hunter<\/strong> is a poet and prose writer. He is the author of a collection of short stories, <em>The Official Report on Human Activity<\/em> (Wayne State University, 2018), and two books of poetry: <em>edge of the time zone<\/em> (White Print Inc., 2009) and <em>borne on slow knives<\/em> (Past Tents, 2001). He co-directed the Woodward Line Poetry Series for thirteen years and holds a 2012 Kresge Literary Arts Fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us April 18 from 6:30-8pm at Book Beat for a night of poetry featuring Chris Tysh, Kim Hunter and Robert Laidler who will read selections from their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[814,17,15],"tags":[442,965,349,964],"class_list":["post-74774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-signings-lectures","category-detroit","category-poetry","tag-chris-tysh","tag-kim-d-hunter","tag-poetry","tag-robert-laidler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}