And since then, Michigan has been very good to me. She isn't sure exactly what the mayor expects of her. All he's said is that he wants her to write a poem for the city's tricentennial. But she's a woman with strong opinions and has a few thoughts of what she would like the job to entail. In times of need people write poetry and they read poetry.
Poets can be very important to a community.
So I would like to do something to reach out to local poets and support them and try to be a guide to them in some way. Madgett is Detroit's second poet laureate. The first was Dudley Randall, who died in August 2000. He was appointed by Coleman Young in 1981. Single tickets will be available in August.