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News / Events / Announcements
2007
- 2008 News Releases
The
Department of English will host National Slam
Poetry champion D. Blair on Tuesday, October
2. Blair will present a formal reading in Mahan
102 at 4:00 pm. This event is open to the public,
and we certainly encourage Adrian College staff
and students to attend.
 D.
Blair is a poet / singer-songwriter / performer
and spoken word artist whose work, in the
words of Metro Times "focuses on the
hope that rises from the ashes of despair."
Blair is a National Poetry Slam Champion (2002
Team Detroit) and Detroit Grand Slam Champion
(2003). He's been named Best Solo Artist by
Real Detroit Weekly Readers' Poll and has
been written about in periodicals around the
country and overseas including Performing
Songwriter Magazine, Hour Detroit Magazine
and The Bay Area Times. His new one man show
Burying the Evidence is new ground for Blair.
The new and rewritten material for the theater
piece is already receiving great reviews at
previews in Detroit and Chicago and being
written about in Detroit's Between the Lines
Newspaper and Northwest Airlines World Traveler
Magazine.
Blair's poetry has been
published in a myriad of journals and newspapers
around the country including Alabama State
University's Punch and in the forthcoming
Black Rennaissance Noire (NYU Press). In 2005
he was the featured artist on the HBO Def
Poetry Jam website. In 2004, Blair was an
artist in residence with Inside Out Literary
Arts Project, an organization that brings
poets, writers and artists into Detroit Public
Schools. As both a performer and a writer
Blair toured to KwaZulu Natal in South Africa
with the experimental theater piece, The Walking
Project. The Project put together by Walk
& Squawk Theater Co. was a multi-media
project centered around the politics, purpose
and occupation of the simple act of walking.
Blair and/or his band Urban
Folk Collective has shared bills with Stevie
Wonder, Academy Award winner Michael Moore,
Mike Doughty, Bitch and Animal (Righteous
Babe Records), The Butchies, Wilco, Evelyn
Harris (Sweet Honey in the Rock), Richie Havens,
Cat Power and more...
In
2006, besides performing Burying the Evidence
in various venues, Blair will also rejoin
Inside Out as a writer in residence and facilitate
classes on The History of Black America as
told through Music at Hannan House, a senior
center in Detroit.
2007 -
2008 News Releases
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SELECTED
FOR SEMINAR
posted 4/1/08
Robin Bott travels
to Washington, D.C. this summer. more
LOCAL
PROFESSOR WILL SPEAK AT LECTURE SERIES posted
10/24/07
Dr. Curton gives resume tips at Blissfield library
program. more
NATIONAL
SLAM POETRY CHAMPION D. BLAIR TO SPEAK
posted 9/25/07
Adrian College English
department will host D. Blair on Tuesday, Oct.
2. more
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