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Dear friends, As one of the many MILLIONS of American women who have had an abortion, I am of course appalled by the latest from SCOTUS: the anti-witch “precedent” cited Continue Reading →
EDUCATOR | POET | TEACHER
Dear friends, As one of the many MILLIONS of American women who have had an abortion, I am of course appalled by the latest from SCOTUS: the anti-witch “precedent” cited Continue Reading →
In One Less River, Terry Blackhawk follows Hafiz’s injunction to ‘Greet yourself/In your thousand other forms/As you mount the hidden tide and travel/Home.’ Hafiz, through this epigraph, serves her well. The Continue Reading →
When Aretha Franklin died this summer and we who loved her were awash in all things Aretha, I found myself remembering an afternoon at the Detroit Festival of the Arts Continue Reading →
On August 24th, InsideOut Literary Arts Project will honor founder Terry Blackhawk for her visionary work in Detroit Public Schools. This fundraising event, Share the Light, will support education programs Continue Reading →
I will be the keynote speaker at A Rally of Writers on April 14, 2018. “Rally is the warmest, longest-running conference in Michigan. Great speakers, Continue Reading →
The CD recording of the Poet as Muse concert is now available online from Arkiv Music. This is an album of works of the 20th Century for Flute, Clarinet, and Continue Reading →
I will be joining a talented group of performers in a concert called “Poet As Muse” with poets Jeffrey Bean and Robert Fanning and musicians Tracy Watson, Joanna Cowan, Kennen Continue Reading →
The Whisk & Whir of Wings An avid birder as well as an accomplished poet, Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Fellow Terry Blackhawk has selected favorite “bird poems” from her Continue Reading →
for the Honorable Denise Page Hood, with gratitude for her service to the children of Detroit on the InsideOut Literary Arts Project Board of Directors If the trees inspire your Continue Reading →
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, September 8, 2015 DETROIT PORTRAIT SERIES: POETS AND PUBLISHERS MURAL INSTALLATION AT EASTERN MARKET WITH READINGS FROM LEGENDARY DETROIT AREA WRITERS & POETS: Naomi Long Madgett, Continue Reading →