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Past contributor to: AARP; ShrinkTank.com; The Collagist; Skillman Foundation Knowledge Center (Guest Blogger); Second Wave Media/Metromode Detroit (Guest Blogger); Teachers and Writers Magazine; C-Magazine (College for Creative Studies); Metro Times (Detroit); New Times (Kansas City); Orlando Weekly; Alternative Press; Orbit (Detroit); Rockrgrl Magazine; Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Schirmer Books); Your Flesh Magazine; Times Herald/Gannett Newspapers (Port Huron); Jacket Magazine; The Rocket (Seattle); MusicHound Rock; The Essential Album Guide (Visible Ink Press); and the essay anthology, To Light a Fire (Wayne State University Press).
I'm not proud of it, but the truth is that my relationship with permanent hair color outlasted many other relationships in my life. And I was very loyal to it. I started experimenting with my naturally medium brown locks in high school. I'd go from black to auburn to brown, and back again.
You may have seen him in recent television spots for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, touting the Mitten State as a good place to start a business.
An essay reflecting on a decade of poetry lessons in Detroit schools
Feature article on Mick Collins of the Dirtbombs.
click to flip through (3) artwhiteajpg Part Gorie-fied garage shamanism and part beglittered T-Rex/Zeppelin splatter, White Stripes is – in a word – primitive.
A Metro Times Cover Story on Jessica Care Moore
It Works for Wizards: Embracing the Wisdom and Power of My White Hair
Norene Cashen's Metro Times book review selected by Utne Reader's "Best of the Web"
An interview with author, Megan Abbott
Pablo Picasso said, "It takes a long time to become young." And Elaine Stritch proves him right.
Our mottos are "trust yourself" and "keep on writing." We stand up and raise our hands to the sky to reach for an idea. We make crazy word lists. We make wild metaphors. We turn into superheroes. We say, "My heart is a river, my heart is a moon, my heart is an airplane."
A book review by Norene Cashen for The Collagist
I never planned to teach creative writing in Detroit Public Schools, and I couldn't have predicted how it would change my life. Because children are so dynamic and artless, they write poems with remarkable honesty and purity.
Norene Cashen's essay appears in the anthology, To Light a Fire (Wayne State University Press).
Profile of artist-educator Peter Markus by Norene Cashen