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<\/a>The program will begin in Detroit with a 10 a.m. panel discussion at Wayne State University\u2019s Schaver Music Recital Hall. The panel will include Ben Blackwell, co-founder of Third Man Records and official archivist for the White Stripes; John Gibbs Rockwood, Toledo author of the 2014 book \u201cCan I Get a Witness\u201d that features his photographs of iconic rock, pop, blues and folk musicians performing in the region during the early 1970s through the 2000s; Ramona Collins, Toledo-based popular jazz singer; and Oliver Ragsdale Jr., president of the Carr Center, a community hub for African-American artistic expression in Detroit.<\/p>\nThe discussion, which will be moderated by Dr. Kimberly Mack, assistant professor of African-American literature at The University of Toledo, and Dr. Joshua S. Duchan, associate professor of music at Wayne State University, will be followed by a musical performance and question-and-answer session.<\/p>\n
\u201cI Got a Lust for Life\u201d then will move to Toledo, where Tyehimba Jess will perform a poetry reading and hold a book signing at 2:30 p.m. in the McMaster Center of the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. Jess is a 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet from Detroit whose work has focused on music, biography and African-American history. He will read from \u201cOlio,\u201d his award-winning collection of poetry that weaves together sonnet, song and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded, African-American performers from the Civil War to World War I.<\/p>\n
The program will conclude with a 6 p.m. panel discussion in the Glass Pavilion of the Toledo Museum of Art with Jess; M.L. Liebler, a Detroit-based, award-winning poet and editor of the anthology \u201cHeaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond\u201d; Frances Brockington, associate professor of voice at Wayne State University; and Dr. Lee Ellen Martin, jazz vocalist and Jon Hendricks scholar.\u00a0Mack and Duchan will moderate the discussion, which also will be followed by a musical performance and question-and-answer session.<\/p>\n
\u201cI Got a Lust for Life: The Unique Words and Sounds of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan\u201d is sponsored by the Roger Ray Institute for the Humanities at The University of Toledo, which advocates for and supports the study of human culture \u2014\u00a0from a great variety of fields \u2014 at all levels of learning and scholarship. Additional support for the program is provided by UT, WSU, the Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Toledo.com<\/a> and the Toledo Museum of Art.<\/p>\n