Earlier in March (on March 1, 2, 8, and 9), 39 U-M undergraduate students, including 13 RC students (and U-M students taking RC writing courses), participated in a Café Shapiro Zoom-conference reading of their poems, short stories, and essays. Seven U-M librarians offered commentary, along with guest hosts from Funny Or Die as well as two U-M alums. These and other materials will soon be available in the 24th annual Café Shapiro Anthology, which will be viewable on the Café Shapiro webpage, with paper copies also available through the U-M Library and M Publishing.
The readings are viewable, and following is a list of presenters with their approximate time-stamps. RC students (and U-M students taking RC writing courses) are indicated in bold.
March 1: Meghan Chou 18:52, Aelita Klausmeier 34:31, Erika Woo 42:31, Alexander Aisner 49:20, Nicole Tooley 59:10, Eli Neumann 1:08:20, Dylan Ann Gilbert 1:16:26, Malin Andersson 1:30:15, Madeline Bacolor 1:42:16, Andrew Warrick 1:50:20
March 2: Hayley Yu 18:35, Nayiri Sagherian 29:20, Tess Klygis 40:47, Lily Price 49:47, Ellie Katz 56:22, Jee-in Kwon 1:06:19, Sabrina Nash 1:14:22, Harper Klotz 1:21:41, Kellie Madeline Beck 1:28:05, Carly J. Cooper 1:40:09
March 8: Jade Wurst 5:28, Charles-Alexandria Makenna Goodrum 12:14, Victoria Adams Murphy 27:40, Nicholas Casio Moore 35:00, Roshni Veeramachaneni 47:30, Rachna Iyer 1:03:13, Soumya Tejam 1:16:00, Hannah Martin 1:27:00, Aniyah Kishara Fisher 1:41:55
March 9: Hussein A. Alkadhim 8:53, Lia Baldori 21:24, Jack Doyle 42:39, Hiba Dagher 32:01, Milisa R. Carter 50:53, Fareah F. Fysudeen 1:01:45, Thomas Frederick Griffith 1:17:48, Kaleb A. Brown 1:29:04, Max Hernand 1:36:31, Ryan-Simone T. McCants 1:51:48
Café Shapiro launched over 20 years as a “student coffee break” during U-M’s Year of the Humanities and Arts. It has become an annual event. Many of the earlier years are archived on the Café Shapiro webpage, or via DeepBlue.
