Join us for another amazing evening of Poetry and Prose! Hosted by the Host of all Badass Hosts, Tara Hardy! We are beyond excited to have Jeff Kass as our Featured Poet this month. This night is a guaranteed slam dunk!
* Come early for the FREE Writer's Workshop with Tara Hardy and Bradley Kraft, 5:30-6:30pm

Jeff Kass, recently retired after teaching Tenth Grade English and Creative Writing at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor MI for 32 years, is the Poetry Editor and Community Literary Arts Coordinator at Dzanc Books. He’s the award-winning author of Knuckleheads, Independent Publishers Best Short Fiction Collection of 2011, as well as three full-length poetry collections, including My Beautiful Hook-nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave and Teacher/Pizza Guy, a 2020 Michigan Notable Book and Finalist for the Midwest Book Award. He is currently a featured poetry instructor with the Michigan Learning Channel, has taught poetry classes and workshops to thousands of students, and is a recipient of a prestigious 2023 Jack Hazard Fellowship for writers who teach in public schools. His newest poetry collection, True Believer, consists of poems that spin around and through Marvel Comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Note: Friends of Roethke members who travel for this will be reimbursed mileage and dinner per diem, courtesy of the Spoken Word Workshop Grant.

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