MOTOR SIGNAL featuring TARIQ LUTHUN AND CHAD ROCHKIND [6.18.2015]

Join us for our June Motor Signal event! Motor Signal is a monthly reading series that jolts the poetry and prose reading out of its conventional form.

This month’s event will explore what it means to “belong” to a place and our inherent need as humans to feel a sense of belonging in our communities. Who do we consider outsiders and when do we become one ourselves? 

Featured readers include Tariq Luthun and Chad Rochkind. 

Open to the public with a $5 suggested donation.

More info at: http://literarydetroit.com/2015/01/02/motor-signal-reading-series/

Artist Bios:

Tariq Luthun is a Palestinian-American poet, analyst, & strategist from Detroit, MI. He is Literary and Events Coordinator for Write A House, and Director of the Ann Arbor Poetry Slam. His work has been featured on Button Poetry, and in the literary magazine The Offing. He can best be described as the end-result of Drake falsetto-rapping Edward Said's Orientalism.

Chad Rochkind is the founder of Human Scale Studio, a consultancy that helps the shapers of the urban world build a more human-centered future. Prior to Human Scale Studio, Chad was Executive Director of Urban Social Assembly, a non-profit that served as a think/do-tank for new models of urban development. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chad is passionate about Detroit’s role in leading the world toward a more sustainable and equitable urban future.