#poetry

MUSIQUE BOUTIQUEElizabeth King, Marianne Faithfull, Merry Clayton and Evie Sands

Welcome to Audiofemme’s monthly record review column, Musique Boutique, written by music journo vet Gillian G. Gaar. Every fourth Monday, Musique Boutique offers a cross-section of noteworthy reissues and new releases guaranteed to perk up your ears. Elizabeth King’s life was always centered around...

Gillian G. Gaar

Mel Chanté Constructs Debut EP Flo from Poetic Self-Love Affirmations

It takes years of re-teaching yourself and connecting with and discovering the person that you truly are. On Flo, the debut EP from Mel Chanté, the Brooklyn-based...

Sara Barron

Lily Talmers Chooses Her Words Carefully on Remember Me As Holy EP

Coming of age: we all do it. But a very select few of us do it with as much grace, self-awareness and poetry as Lily Talmers. The Birmingham, Michigan native and recent University of Michigan grad combines her stunning mastery of the English language with her unorthodox classical music training to...

Sara Barron

WOMAN OF INTERESTPhotographer Melissa Kobe + Poet Sarah Suzor

Humanity's relationship to nature is a complicated one. Too often, people make the mistake of seeing themselves as masters, taming the earth inch by inch; in reality, the earth is quick to respond and fight back. Cracks in the sidewalk reveal grass gasping for breath, abandoned homes from the...

Ashley Prillaman

PLAYING DETROITMic Write "blak/joi"

Mic Write's reputation as a renaissance man pales in comparison to the weight of his message and unconstrained fervor.

Jerilyn Jordan