The Ann Arbor District Library, Fifth Avenue Studios, and 1473 are proud to present The Coolidge-Wagner Anthology of Recorded Poetry. This series was created to celebrate and document the art of poetry in recorded form. Featuring poets from Ann Arbor, metro Detroit, and beyond, we hope this series showcases and archives the incredible poetry scene here in Ann Arbor, metro Detroit, and beyond.
Created by Chien-An Yuan—photographer, designer, musician, and the definition of a multi-disciplinary artist—as a way to capture the magic of spoken word poetry recordings and showcase some of the amazing talent in the Ann Arbor area. Chien-An is also the founder of the experimental 1473 record label, which specializes in improvisation, electronics, and collaboration.
The Coolidge-Wagner Anthology of Recorded Poetry is named after and dedicated to two of Chien-An's high school teachers, Judi Coolidge and Tom Wagner of Bay High School in Ohio, who encouraged in him, as well as thousands of their other students, a lifelong appreciation and open-minded love of the arts.
Interested in submitting your poetry to the anthology? Please e-mail Chien-An Yuan at chienanyuan@gmail.com.
Listen to The Coolidge-Wagner Anthology of Recorded Poetry in AADL's Catalog
Volume 1: Kyunghee Kim
"Poetry is prayer and perhaps that is how I stumbled on the art of reading and writing them. These words I hope are meditations on what becomes of grief over time, space, and memory. It encourages us to seek where does love begin and grief end? This is a small collection that is part of a larger collection in the works." - Kyunghee Kim
Volume 2 coming in October