“What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.” –Stanley Kunitz, Former
U.S. Poet Laureate
Lansing, Mich. (January 20, 2010) – Burning Desires: An Afternoon of Love
Poetry (Erotic and Otherwise) takes the stage for the 18th year on Saturday,
February 13 at Studio 1210 in Lansing’s Old Town. Doors at Studio 1210 (1210
Turner St.) open at noon; words begin at 1:00 pm.
$5 donation at the door.
The purpose: to turn up the St. Valentine’s Day heat in Lansing.
Bringing together some of the best poets and performance artists in
mid-Michigan since 1992, Burning Desires is once again gearing up to deliver
hot words, music and performance to the stage.
Performers this year include:
Ruelaine Stokes, host of the longest-running open poetry mic in the Lansing
area, currently at the Creole Gallery Joseph Harris, aka LogicthePoet, MC of
the monthly Spitfire Poetry series at East Lansing’s (SCENE)Metrospace Tiya
Kunaiyi, alumna of MSU’s Black Poets Society and long-time member of the
NuPoet Collective Robert Rentschler, East Lansing’s unacknowledged poet
laureate for the past 50 years Dixon, the renowned experimental and
improvisational electric violinist (http://www.dixonsviolin.com) Tommye Blount,
Detroit native, Cave Canem fellow and recently published in the Cave Canem
XI Anthology Zachary Jean Chartkoff, part of the “4 Against the Wall”
syndicate and huckster of sonnets A new puppet show performance written and
produced by Fred Englegau, long-time Lansing artist
Plus: surprise guests!
MC d’Amor Sal Paradise will once again kick off the afternoon’s festivities
by reading the Burning Desires Safety Guidelines and distributing Love Rags
to the audience.
Burning Desires: it’s sometimes wet, often wild, always hot. Doors at Studio
1210 open at noon; words begin at 1:00 pm. $5 donation at the door.
Refreshments provided. Sponsored by the Old Town Business and Art
Development Association (OTBADA)/Michigan Institute of Contemporary Art
(MICA). For more information, contact Sam Mills at
(517) 290-3929.
Old Town Business and Art Development Association/Michigan Institute of
Contemporary Art is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to quality
arts programming, the preservation of historic buildings and economic
development. See http://www.oldtownarts.org or call 517-371-4600 for more
information.