ML Liebler and Book Beat presents Detroit’s Roots, Rock, Radicals a reading with Robin Eichele, Alan Franklin, Peter Werbe, and Harvey Ovshinsky on Sunday, February 27th at 2pm. This event will be held on Liebler’s Facebook page or join the gang on Zoom.
ML Liebler’s “Live from The Living Room” series is a monthly (or more often) gathering of local and nationally known writers and poets. Programs are broadcasted and archived to ML Liebler’s FACEBOOK PAGE.
About the Authors
Robin Eichele is a founding member of the Artists’ Workshop Society since 1964, where he worked to build the Detroit Workshop Press. He’s been writing poetry for over fifty years. He will be reading from his new collection The Wicking of the Broken Heart: Selected Poems. Copies will be available in early March at Book Beat or preorders can be purchased online in the Backroom gallery at: Wicking of the Broken Heart
Alan Franklin has been best known as a songwriter/singer with that city’s anarcho ska-punk band, the Layabouts. During that same time, his prose writings have appeared in riverrun magazine, the Fifth Estate, the Daily Barbarian, Subversions (Montreal), Dispatch Detroit, ThreeFold and Autonomedia. His debut collection of fiction Lives of the Saints will be available in mid-March at Book Beat and is available now for preorders online at Lives of the Saints.
Peter Werbe is a member of the Fifth Estate magazine’s editorial collective. His professional career included hosting WRIF’S “Nightcall,” the longest-running talk show in radio history, as well as a DJ on Detroit rock stations, WCSX, WWWW, and WABX. His acclaimed novel Summer on Fire (2020) now in its third printing, is set during the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, and is a “peoples history” of Detroit folklore. Available at Book Beat or online at: Summer on Fire.
Harvey Ovshinsky is a veteran educator and a multimedia journalist whose lifelong passion for telling Detroit stories was once described by the Detroit Metro Times as being “a colorful and fantastic voyage, at times brave and visionary.” Ovshinsky’s memoir, Scratching the Surface: Adventures in Storytelling (2020) was published by Wayne State University Press, and is available at Book Beat or online from us at Scratching the Surface.
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