I've had my head down the last few months working on an anthology about and from the city I love. And now it's actually taking shape. It is going to be a real thing. And seeing it just takes my breath away.
We debut our cover today, with design by Haley Stone and photography by Amy Sacka of Owen Was Here.
We scheduled our Detroit book launch and you and everyone you know is invited! Think: drink, food, stories, music, bonfire.
Saturday, May 31
7pm
Practice-Space
2801 14th Street
Detroit, MI 48216
And most importantly, we've released our table of contents. These are the extraordinary makers behind this book. I assure you, they will bend your mind, break your heart, make you laugh, and leave you amazed.
Overture
Introduction
Anna Clark
Act I
We Love Detroit Even If You Don’t
Aaron Foley
Notown
Thomas J. Sugrue
I’m From Detroit
Shannon Shelton Miller
Turner Ronald Carter the Third
Kat Harrison
Gas Station on Second Avenue
Matthew Olzmann
Hommage à l’avenir: Desire Lines
Michael Eugene Burdick and Francis Grunow
Things I Lost in the Fire
dream hampton
Letter from Detroit
Ingrid Norton
Infernal
Tyehimba Jess
Greektown 1983
John Counts
Coming Soon
Nichole Christian
what you’d find buried in the dirt under charles. f. kettering sr. high school (detroit, michigan)
francine. j. harris
Fort Gratiot
Steven Pomerantz
Sketches of Eastern Market
Nina Misuraca Ignaczak
When the Trees Stop Giving Fruit
Shaka Senghor
Hungry Days in Detroit
Tracie MacMillan
There Are Birds Here
Jamaal May
Per Fumum (After Smoke)
Jamaal May
Desolation Angel
John Carlisle
Detroit: A City of Superheroes
Ingrid LaFleur
Hommage à l’avenir: Streetcar Tracks
Burdick / Grunow
Legally Blind In The Motor City: A Pedestrian’s Lament
Pamela Sabaugh
On the Automobile
Rachel Reed
Carlessness
John G. Rodwan, Jr.
The Line
Maisha Hyman Sumbry
January in Detroit
Ken Mikolowski
Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha
M.L. Liebler
Intermission
For the Long Haul
Desiree Cooper
still of it
adrienne maree brown
In the House Where Poetry Lives
Peter Markus
Belle Isle Song
Nandi Comer
The Imam I Knew
Omar Syed Mahmood
The Fixer
John Carlisle
The Next Move
Ryan Healy
Hommage à l’avenir: Ghost Shops
Burdick / Grunow
The Fauxtopia’s of Detroit’s Suburbs
James D. Griffioen
Act II
My Detroit
Joseph Lichterman
By the Time This Reaches You
Deonte Osayande
Music As The Missing Link
Keith A. Owens
Awakening
Maisha Hyman Sumbry
Game Not Over
Veronica Grandison
Misguided Faith
Karen Minard
Leaning To Roll Our Tongues, Detroit 1986
Nandi Comer
Up in the Morning & Off to School in Detroit
Tracey Morris
Hommage à l’avenir: Apartments v. Houses
Burdick / Grunow
Stand
Steve Hughes
SOBs and Dummies
Karen Minard
Down in Detroit
Terry Blackhawk
Playing Ball
J.M. Leija
Night, Briggs Stadium, 1960
Gail Griffin
Lost in Hockeytown
Matthew Lewis and Aaron Mondry
Hommage à l’avenir: Street Lights
Burdick / Grunow
Lily-Livered New Yorker Seeks Lion-Hearted Detroiters
Jaclyn Trop
Motown Atlantis
Chantay “Legacy” Leonard
Strange City
Chantay “Legacy” Leonard
The Detroit Virus
Shaun S. Nethercott
Detroit’s Good-Food Cure
Larry Gabriel
Planting Seeds of Hope
Grace Lee Boggs & Scott Kurashige
The Kidnapped Children of Detroit
Marsha Music
With photography by David Clement, James D. Griffioen, Kofi Handon, Patricia Lay-Dorsey, Aaron Mondry, Kevin Robishaw, Gabriela Santiago-Romero, Amy Sacka, Melanie Schmitt, Joseph Smedo, Megan Snow, and Aaron Waterman.
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