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First Drop | Second Stop | Be-Bop | Over the Top | Final Pop
12:30pm | First Drop | Chelsea District Library
Steve Rogers
Steve Rogers is a long-time resident of the Chelsea Retirement Community. As an Adjuctant General, he served his country in the Third Infantry Division during World War II. The Division had the greatest number of battle casualties of any U.S. Division in World War II. It had 31 Congressional Medal of Honor winners. His short story, Interlude at St. Die, was first published in the Chelsea Standard. It is not the story of a man who fought in combat, but of one who witnessed it. It was the first story that he had published. He was 92 at the time.
Nancy Seligmann
 Nancy Seligmann is the author of two creative non-fiction books: Homesteading in the City and My Dear Helen. She is a Professor of English and chair of the English department at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. She resides in Chelsea with her husband, Dale Schumann.
1:30pm | Second Stop | The River Gallery
Jim Daniels
 Jim Daniels won the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize for his book, Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies . Two other books were published in 2007, his third collection of short fiction, Mr. Pleasant, and his eleventh book of poems, In Line for the Exterminator . In 2005, Daniels wrote and produced the independent film Dumpster , and Street , a book of his poems accompanying the photographs of Charlee Brodsky.
Diane Shipley DeCillis
Diane Shipley DeCillis is published in Nimrod International Journal, Connecticut Review, CALYX Gastronomica, Gargoyle, Phoebe, Poet Lore, Puerto del Sol, Rattle, Spillway, North Atlantic Review, among others. She won the Crucible Poetry, the MacGuffin National Poet Hunt, and an Ocean Prize. She co-edited Mona Poetica, an anthology of poetry on the Mona Lisa (Mayapple Press). She owns an gallery in Southfield (MI), lives in West Bloomfield, (MI) and was recently nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.
2:30pm | Be-Bop | Mike's Deli
ML Liebler
 M. L. Liebler is a internationally known & widely published Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist and arts organizer, and he is the author of 13 books including the Award winning Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream. Liebler has taught English, American Studies, Labor Studies, Canadian Studies and World Literature at Wayne State University in Detroit since 1980.
Peter Lewis
 Peter Lewis got his start as a member of a surf band by the name of The Cornells and he went on to become a founding member of Moby Grape, one of the greatest American bands of all time. Moby Grape released their debut album in 1967 and it's still one of the most revered rock albums ever.
3:30pm | Over the Top | Zou Zou's Cafe
Community Open Mic
You've wrestled with workshops, stimulated your style, managed your metaphors. You've written tons of tomes. Now it's time to go public! Come and read your poetry or prose to a wildly enthusiastic audience.
5:00pm | Final Pop | The River Gallery Closing Celebration
Thomas Lynch
 Thomas Lynch is the author of three collections of poems and three books of essays. A book of stories, Apparition & Late Fictions , and a new collection of poems, Walking Papers , will be published in 2010. Lynch's essays, poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic and Granta, The New York Times and Times of London, The New Yorker and Paris Review and elsewhere.
Saleem Peeradina
 Saleem Peeradina is the author of First Offence, Group Portrait and Meditations on Desire , The Ocean in My Yard, a prose memoir of growing up in Bombay, was published by Penguin Books in 2005. Saleem in an Associate Professor of English at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan.
The River Gallery | Mike's Deli | Zou Zou's Cafe | Chelsea Center for the Arts
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