Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD

READING:
Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 7PM
Fall ’09 literary series curated by Tyrone Williams
Arnold J. Kemp and Kim Hunter

Artist and writer, Arnold J. Kemp has lived and worked in New York City, San Francisco and, most recently, in Portland, Or. where he is Chair of the Master's of Fine Arts in Visual Studies program. ...His work has been collected and exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's Time-Based Art Festival, where he has also acted as a curator of exhibitions. Kemp was the Associate Curator at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 1993 - 2003. His writing has appeared in Callaloo, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Agni Review, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), River Styx and Nocturnes.

Detroit born poet, Kim Hunter has been a factory worker, a security guard, a middle school teacher and a street-level, outreach worker. He has served as Poet-in-Residence in branches of the Detroit Public Library, Boysville (a facility for adjudicated youth) in Monroe, Michigan and Crosman Alternative High School in Detroit (under the auspices of the Inside/Out program). Hunter has read with such artists as Kathy Acker and Gil Scott Heron. His work has appeared in a variety of journals including Triage, Hipology, MetroTimes, Dispatch, Graffiti Rag and +R (Plus D'art). Past Tents Press published Hunter's first collection of poems, borne on slow knives, in 2001. Hunter makes his living by working for the man as a regional media team leader for the U.S. Census Bureau, and helps run the Woodward Line monthly poetry series.Read More