VS Live in Detroit! Season 6 Finale

Join us for an in-person celebration of Season 6 of VS with our first live episode recording since 2020! Come celebrate Brittany and Ajanaé’s first season as cohosts in the city that birthed their friendship: Detroit!

Pick up some VS swag, enjoy some Detroit art, and be part of our beautiful audience as we record the live season finale with Detroit school poets Aricka Foreman and Tommye Blount.

VS is the podcast where poets confront the ideas that move them. Always hosted by poetry besties, VS is currently hosted by Brittany Rogers and Ajanaé Dawkins, and was previously hosted by Danez Smith and Franny Choi.

Doors open at 6:30PM, and the live episode recording begins at 8PM.

Hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.

This event is free and open to the public. Masking is optional but highly recommended.

Aricka Foreman is an American poet and interdisciplinary writer from Detroit, Michigan. Author of Dream with a Glass Chamber and Salt Body Shimmer, winner of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, she has earned writing fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Millay Arts Colony. Her poetry and essays have been featured in Catapult, Black Warrior Review, Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching On Black Life and Literature, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, and in the Academy of American Poets, amongst several other publications. She lives in Chicago, Illinois  and works as a publicist for Haymarket Books.

Tommye Blount is the author of the chapbook What Are We Not For. Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye’s debut full-length collection was finalist for the National Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and others. He has received fellowships and grants from: Kresge Arts in Detroit, Cave Canem, the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Aninstantia Foundation. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Tommye now lives nearby in Novi.