Raisin' a Racket

Lansing's Take Back the Night Speak Out is covered by The State News! Read all about it:

Poetry raises awareness

Hot Off the Press!

Check out the story by Lansing's City Pulse about our 3/31 event HerStories of Pleasure and Pain :

Local poets celebrate women survivors

Survivin' & Thrivin' on April 7

This month we are missing Marycela as she visits family in Texas and Mexico. Stay tuned for details about her speaking at a shelter in Victoria, Texas!

Deena Tyler, Lisa Sayles, and Melissa Dey Hasbrook host the 3rd month of the Survivin' & Thrivin' poetry open mic series!

Saturday, April 7, @ the Gone Wired Cafe
7pm sign up - 7:30pm reading

For flyers, visit our web site http://womenwriters.us.to/. Come and fill up that spring appetite to tide over your poetry cravings until our next open mic in June!

And good news!

• The 2nd edition of Echoes of Women by Deena, Marycela, and Melissa is now available!


• Also available are poems from our March 31 event HerStories of Pleasure and Pain.

Interested in these publications? Please contact us - usATwomenwriters.us.to - or attend one of our happenings!

Woman, O Rise! - 4/4

Woman, O Rise, and Take Back the Night!

Join Deena Tyler, Chey Granroth, and Melissa Dey Hasbrook at our feature performance with the Lansing area organized

Take Back the Night Open Mic
Speak Out Against Sexual Violence

7:00-9:00PM on Wednesday, April 4
@ the Green River Cafe, 211 M.A.C. Ave.
East Lansing

For more details, visit the calendar prepared by local organizers:

http://www.theear.org/TBTN/Calendar.htm

HerStories of Pleasure and Pain

Deena, Marycela, and Melissa are ready to rock socks off at our feature peformance celebrating Women's History Month this Saturday, March 31, at 7:00pm at Magdaleana's Tea House:

HerStories of Pleasure and Pain
raw, explicit, scorching, & tender words
about experiences of women

The cover is $5. Our performance is followed by open mic for all artists engendering respect for the lives and words of women.

Here's a preview of the evening's poetry bundles:

Feelin' Sentimental

Unpackin' Luggage

Sexual Healin'

Recoverin' Is

Lovin' Family

Brushin' Death

Overcomin'Pain

Inspirin'

In our celebration of women, we also are peforming words by

• Evelyne Accad - The Excised
• Kate Rushin - "The Black Back-Ups"
• Lisa Chavez - "Seal Woman Accepts the Sacrifice"

We hope to see you there!

A Circle with New Faces

The circle started small but grew as we read at the Gone Wired Cafe. Thanks to everyone who joined Deena, Marycela, and Melissa, by braving the busy parking lots filled with bar hoppers. We hope to see you at the next S&T open mic on April 7!

Recognitions for the evening...

Welcome to newcomers Anaya, Diane, Karl, Tracey, and Ulli!

Thanks to Aaron for coming back to the circle.

Praise for Ulli, who graced us with her very first open mic reading!

Props to Karl for breaking his silence of many years.

And here are some kernels from the reading...

nothing seems certain but that blue metal box --Ulli

the correct combination of suits was essential --Aaron

I am over the middle class American wife life --Deena

perhaps behind the door there is no other side --Marycela reading Octovio Paz

their smiles stay incarcerated --Anaya

I say you're nobody until you love yourself --Diane

put your shit on the paper --Melissa reading Gloria Anzaldua

And soon to come -- pictures from the evening!

More Survivin' & Thrivin' on 3/17

Get ready, get set, and get green (or not!) this Saturday for the next Survivin' & Thrivin' poetry open mic!

Deena is recuperated from early February, and she'll join Marycela and Melissa to host the second month of the newest poetry series in town!

We'll be at the Gone Wired Cafe by 7pm for sign-up and start the reading at 7:30pm. FYI - The Cafe now offers a full kitchen to satisfy customers' hunger!

Click here for Gone Wired's web site.
Click here for pictures from past Survivin' & Thrivin' events.