About this Event
Join us for an Open Mic Night reading featuring Michigan poets and authors Stacy Gnall and Cal Freeman.
The Sidetrack Open Mic Night is an event in which anyone can share a true, personal, short story on the night's theme. Sign up for a chance to tell a story or sit back and enjoy the show!
About Stacy Gnall
Stacy Gnall is the author of the poetry collections Dogged (winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry from The University of Massachusetts Press and a finalist for the Georgia Prize) and Heart First into the Forest (Alice James Books). She holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California and is currently Poet-in-Residence at the University of Detroit Mercy.
About Cal Freeman
Cal Freeman (he/him) is the author of the books Fight Songs (Eyewear 2017) and Poolside at the Dearborn Inn (R&R Press 2022). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals, including Atticus Review, Image, The Poetry Review, Verse Daily, Under a Warm Green Linden, North American Review, Willow Springs, Oxford American, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Advanced Leisure. He is a recipient of the Devine Poetry Fellowship (judged by Terrance Hayes), winner of the Passages North Neutrino Prize, and a finalist for the River Styx International Poetry Prize. Born and raised in Detroit, he teaches at Oakland University and serves as Writer-In-Residence with InsideOut Literary Arts Detroit. His chapbook of poems, Yelping the Tegmine, came out in 2024, and his hybrid full-length collection, The Weather of Our Names, has just been released by Cornerstone Press.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sidetrack Bookshop, 325 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak, United States
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