{"id":74780,"date":"2026-04-01T01:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=74780"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:52:59","slug":"ridgeway-art-lit-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2026\/04\/01\/ridgeway-art-lit-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridgeway Art & Lit Anniversary Celebration!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Art! Music! Poetry! Films! Wednesday, April 15 | 4\u20137 PM<\/strong> Ridgeway Press and Art Collective \u2013Celebrates 52 Years of Ridgeway DADA Art<\/a> and Intermedia Poetry. It’s all happening at the Wayne State University Undergrad Library. Don’t miss this Once-in-a-Century Blowout!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ridgeway Press sign by Dada Zilch<\/p><\/div>\n

Ridgeway Press & Collective is one of Detroit\u2019s vital independent literary-artistic forces. With weekly online meetings, shared vacations, and a screwball newsletter, this band of creatives has remained together, loyal to the call of Ridgeway Dada. Plans for the celebration include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Melba Joyce Boyd<\/strong><\/a>, poet, memoirist, and historian\u2014has dedicated her work to documenting and uplifting Detroit\u2019s literary voices, including her landmark work on Dudley Randall and Broadside Press.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Marion Hayden<\/strong><\/a>, acclaimed bassist and composer, whose work bridges poetry and improvisational sound.<\/p>\n

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Ridgeway postcard #32, 1970s<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2022 Visual artists and poets: Carl Dada Zilch, M.L. Liebler,  Jeff Ensroth,<\/strong> Gregory Hallock<\/strong>, and Donna Penner<\/strong> representing Ridgeway\u2019s multidisciplinary reach<\/p>\n

\u2022 Robin Eichele<\/strong><\/a>, a founding member of the Detroit Artist Workshop and the author of several poetry volumes.<\/p>\n

\u2022 An acoustic\/electric performance by Monster Island<\/strong><\/a>, (Matthew Smith, Efe Bes & Cary Loren) bringing experimental sonic textures into the mix.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hosted by Detroit poet, educator and cultural organizer M.L. Liebler<\/strong> <\/a>whose new book Hound Dog<\/strong><\/em><\/a> will be on hand.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Avant-garde Movies! Popcorn! Dancing! Tijuana Bibles! Mail Art and more!<\/p>\n

\u2022 Book Beat will be selling books, representing the authors and a selection of titles reflecting Ridgeway\u2019s  Macomb-Dada and Surrealist roots.<\/p>\n

More than an anniversary celebration\u2014it\u2019s a living archive of Detroit\u2019s creative energy. Be There or Be Square!<\/strong>
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Art! Music! Poetry! Film! Wednesday, April 15 | 4\u20137 PM Ridgeway Press and Art Collective, an Art Society and social club from Macomb County Community College\u2013Celebrates 52 Years of Ridgeway DADA Art and Poetry at the Wayne State University Undergraduate Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,814,17,8,15],"tags":[966],"class_list":["post-74780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-author-signings-lectures","category-detroit","category-music","category-poetry","tag-ridgeway-collective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74780","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=74780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}