Wellspring Literary Series: A Reading by Alise Alousi

Each Wellspring Literary Series features poetry readings, musical performances and complimentary food.

Our featured poet is Alise Alousi. The evening will also feature a CMU student poet and a high school poet.

Alise Alousi’s poetry collection, What to Count, was published in August 2023 by Wayne State University Press. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Three Fold Press, Mom Egg Review, The Detroit Free Press, Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry and We Call to the Eye and the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Descent. She is a 2019 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow and has received awards and fellowships from the Knight Foundation, Mesa Refuge, Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and others. She has worked at InsideOut Literary Arts in Detroit for two decades and currently teaches poetry through the Arab American National Museum's Teen Writing Fellows program.