Looping Detroit, Nick Tobier’s People Mover

Looping, Detroit is a collection assembled by Nick Tobier of visual artists, MC’s, poets , radio producers and novelists with the People Mover as its organizing spine. Each contributor selected a station of the People Mover to explore it. The radius was up to them from the platform to the next stop. Looping Detroit is the collected creative responses to Detroit’s elevated monorail – a brief ride in time to be sure, but these stops and their surroundings are filled with lives past and present, provocation and candor. Think of it as a journal for eccentric explorations, a Situationist rant, a poetic ramble. Just not anything that would be, say in an inflight magazine of what to do and see in Detroit. Contributors include: Chace MCWrite Morris Airea Dee Matthews David Gluckman Francine Harris Lolita Hernandez Cornelius Harris Walter Lacy Justin Langlois Mary Lum Patrick Morris Zak Rosen Stacey Malasky Nick Tobier Cee Ann Yates Michael Zadoorian Every third Sunday of the month UDM sponsors Broadside Press Poets´ Theatre on the U of Detroit/​Mercy Livernois campus. The event lasts from 3 – 6pm and has a featured reader or group of readers followed by a discussion and an open mic session. Broadside Press was started in the 1960s in Detroit by Dudley Randall (best known for his poem, ​“The Ballad of Birmingham”). For the last 45 years Broadside has been publishing outstanding work by African American authors such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lourde, Haki Madhabuti, and many others. The Press also has a very strong commitment to Detroit and community activism, viewing publishing as a way to build and empower community. (image: Broadway PM, by Stacey Malasky)