Brain Candy is a monthly, live program of prose, music, poetry, and visual art curated by the Emerging Writers Network.
This month's featured artists:
Poet Ken Meisel
Ken Meisel is a poet and psychotherapist from the Detroit area. He is a 2012 Kresge Arts Literary Fellow, Pushcart Prize nominee, Swan Duckling Chapbook contest winner, and author of six poetry collections: Scrap Metal Mantra Poems (Main Street Rag, 2013), Beautiful Rust (Bottom Dog Press, 2009), Just Listening (Pure Heart Press, 2007), Before Exiting (Pure Heart Press, 2006) and Sometimes The Wind (March Street Press, 2002). His work appears in Rattle, Cream City Review, Concho River Review, Pirene's Fountain, San Pedro River Review, Midwest Gothic, Boxcar Review, Lake Effect, Muddy River Poetry Review, and Ruminate.
Prose Jason Klamm
Jason Klamm is an author, voice actor, and filmmaker. He most recently wrote "We're Not Worthy," the history of '90s TV sketch comedy, from 1984 Publishing, and the self-published chapbook "The Adventures of Blueberry Dorsal." He runs the ComedyPodcast.cloud Network, and for a decade he was a star of LA's hit stage show "A Drinking Game." You can find too much information at jasonklamm.com.
Musician Kevin Meisel
Born the son of a big band musician, Kevin Meisel grew up with the sound and spirit of music around him. Raised in Detroit, and traveling around the states, he listened to the streets, hearing the stories of those around him with an ear for empathy, translation and narrative.
Artist Jeff Vande Zande
Jeff Vande Zande teaches fiction writing, screenwriting, and film production at Delta College in Michigan. His novels include Into the Desperate Country (March Street Press), Landscape with Fragmented Figures (Bottom Dog Press), American Poet (Bottom Dog Press) and Detroit Muscle (Whistling Shade Press). In 2012, American Poet won a Michigan Notable Book Award from the Library of Michigan. Montag Press released his dystopian novel, Rules of Order, in 2022 and his gothic horror novel, The Dance of Rotten Sticks, in 2024. When the mood strikes him, he also dabbles with painting and woodworking.
