If not, Winter: Anne Carson Reads at Book Suey

Anne Carson is one of the great writers of our times. Her writing gracefully avoids categorization, blending together elements of poetry, essays, memoirs, and translations. Originally from Canada, Carson now divides her time between Ann Arbor and Reykjavik. Her strikingly relevant translations of Ancient Greek texts upended how Classic texts are understood and translated.

AC was born in Canada and now works much of the time in Iceland.

Read an interview with Paris Review here: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04/17/throwing-yourself-into-the-dark-a-conversation-with-anne-carson/

Joining us at Book Book Suey in Hamtramck, Carson will perform her work alongside local poets and performers— both up-and-coming and well-established;

Nandi Comer is the Poet Laureate of Michigan. She is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Northwestern University Press), which was awarded the 2020 Society of Midland Authors Award and the 2020 Julie Suk Award. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, a Callaloo Fellow, an Academy of American Poets’ Poet Laureate Fellow, and a 2019 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow. Her poems and essays have appeared in Green Mountains Review, The Offing, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal of Pan African Studies, and others. Nandi has served as a writer-in-residence in Detroit Public Schools and collaborated with organizations, including Y-Arts and InsideOut Literary Arts Projects. She is a co-director of Detroit Lit, a project that organizes salons and professional development for narrative makers of color in metro Detroit.

Emily Roll (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist and performer. Their performance pieces are a vehicle by which they explore anxiety, vulnerability, and transparency. Realized in combinations of written, vocal, physical or verbal forms; Emily’s work can take the form of anything from abstract one-person stage plays to experimental sound pieces. In addition to this original work, Emily has been a theater actor and has also toured internationally with XV, a critically acclaimed experimental punk band they acted as the vocalist, drummer, and frontperson of. Emily has received multiple Masters degrees, one in Drama Therapy in Montreal, QC and one in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and is presently working as a therapist in Michigan.

Catharine Batsios (she/they) is from Flint, MI & has been living in Detroit as a community arts programmer/writer-in-residence since 2013. She is a member-owner at Book Suey Bookstore Co-op in Hamtramck where she facilitates, hosts, & coordinates community readings, events, & clubs. Cat is also a program/artist collaborator with the Poetics Lab & Netteworks Artistry Entertainment–catch them at an event by scanning a QR called A Detroit Literary Calendar & plan a Detroit literary night out! Cat’s poems are the intimacies of the cities that built them, things you consider trash but they don't, & empathy as told through strange non-verbal gestures. Also bones. Bones are cool.

Christine Kanownik is a poet, curator, and environmental writer. She is the author of the books Blood Bath (Cul-de-sac of Blood, 2024), HEAD (Trembling Pillow Press, 2018) King of Pain (Monk Books, 2016). In Hamtramck, she hosts the monthly reading series FIELD TRIP.

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