Sunday, April 12, 2:00 p.m. Multipurpose Room.

Please join us for a Poetry Workshop and Open Mic led by M.L. Liebler and his band The Magic Poetry Band. M. L. Liebler is an internationally known & widely published Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist, and arts organizer. He was named The 2017-2018 Murray E. Jackson Scholar in the Arts Award at Wayne State University. Liebler is the author of 15 books and chapbooks including the Award winning Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream (Wayne State University Press 2008) featuring poems written in and about Russia, Israel, Germany, Alaska and Detroit. Wide Awake won both The Paterson Poetry Prize for Literary Excellence and The American Indie Book Award for 2009. In September 2020, M. L. was awarded the Michigan Humanities Champion of the Year. His new memoir Hound Dog: A Poet's Memoir of Rock, Revolution and Redemption from Cornerstone Press/University of Wisconsin will be released in early 2026.