The Center for Poetry will host its Spring Poetry Festival throughout the month of April.
On April 1, Dennis Hinrichsen will host a conversation in Snyder Hall at 3 p.m. and will read his poetry in the RCAH Theater at 7 p.m. Hinrichsen’s most recent works are “Skin Music,” co-winner of the 2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press and “Electrocution: A Partial History,” winner of the Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Prize from Map Literary: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Art.
Terry Blackhawk will host a conversation at 3 p.m. and a reading at 7 p.m. on April 15 in Snyder Hall. Blackhawk is the founder and director of Detroit’s acclaimed InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a poets-in-schools program serving more than 5,000 youth per year. For 20 years, the project has been bringing poetry into the city’s classrooms and celebrating the voices of young people through publications and performances.
Detroit native and MSU alumna Carolyn Forché will read some of her work at 7 p.m. on April 22 in the RCAH Theater and will host a conversation at 3 p.m. on April 23 at the Main Library. Forché is an internationally renowned poet and author of four books of poetry. She is currently working on a memoir of her years in El Salvador, Lebanon, South Africa and France.