The Woodward Line presents Kit Robinson
Wednesday April 1 @ 7 pm
The Scarab Club
217 E. Farnsworth @ John R., Detroit
Born in Evanston, Illinois, Robinson is a graduate of Yale College. In 1974, he published the one‐shot poetry magazine Streets and Roads, where for the first time work by such poets as Barrett Watten, Ron Silliman, Rae Armantrout, and Bob Perelman appeared alongside that of Alan Bernheimer, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman and Merrill Gilfillan. In the 1970s and 1980s, he performed with San Francisco Poets Theater, produced “In the American Tree: New Writing by Poets,” a weekly radio program of live readings and interviews on KPFA radio in Berkeley with Lyn Hejinian, and curated the Tassajara Bakery poetry reading series Tom Mandel.
He has published seventeen books of poetry, including, The Crave (2002 Atelos) and most recently an anthology of his work entitled The Messianic Trees: Selected 1976-2003 Poems (2008 Adventures in Poetry). His work has also appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines.
The event is co-sponsored by Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers. Admission is free.
For more information please call (313) 831-1250.