This Sunday the Dudley Randall Center for Print Culture and Broadside Press Poets' Theater will host the winners of this year’s Dudley Randall Poetry Competition, Brandon Clark, Alex Jones, and Deonte Osayande. The reading will be followed by an open mic session. This event is free and open to the public.
Broadside Press Poets' Theater takes place on UDM's McNichols Campus the third Sunday of each month. For more information, contact Rosemary Weatherston, Director, Dudley Randall Center for Print Culture at weatherr@udmercy.edu. We hope you can join us.
About the Poets:
Brandon Clark has been a writer since he was in the 5th grade. He just took third place in the Dudley Randall Poetry Contest. He also is one of the founding members of Rhymes with Orange Poetry Collective (alongside Alex Jones and Deonte Osayande) who have read their poetry at the 2009 Symposium of the Society of the Study of Midwestern Literature at Michigan State University. Has been a poetry feature at open mics at the University of Detroit Mercy. Brandon is currently majoring in English with a minor in philosophy.
Alex Jones is this year's first place winner of the Dudley Randall Poetry competition. He has been published in the Metro Times as well as [sic], UDM's student literary journal. He also served on the editorial board for [sic]'s latest issue. Alex has been a featured reader at the Byte This poetry series at Cliff Bell's Jazz Lounge. He is also a founding member of Metro Detroit area poetry collective Rhymes With Orange, who read at the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature's annual symposium at Michigan State University in 2009. Alex has been scribbling creatively in some form or another since 6th grade, and possibly earlier. He is now a Senior English major at the University of Detroit Mercy and will be seeking a Master of Fine Arts after a year off following graduation.
Deonte Osayande comes from a family of educators and activists and has been writing for a bit over two years. He just finished in second in the Dudley Randall Poetry Contest and also finished in second in the University of Detroit Mercy’s Howling Wolf Chapbook Contest. He has read at the Converging Aesthetics display at the University of Toledo, been featured at many poetry venues around the city of Detroit, and had poems published at multiple online quarterlies. He is a graduate of the Broadside Press Institute of Cultural Studies and is an instructor at the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute’s Pathways to Freedom summer program. He is currently working with Broadside Press to complete his first chapbook of poems and is currently majoring in Elementary Education with a focus in Mathematics and English.
Dr. Rosemary Weatherston
Associate Professor of English
Co-Director, Women's & Gender Studies Program
University of Detroit Mercy
4001 W McNichols Road
Detroit, MI 48221-3038
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