RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors, and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge. (Next teas: November 5, December 9)
To Forget Venice is the title of Peg Boyers’s newest collection of poems. The site of several unforgettable years of her adolescence, the place she has returned to more frequently than any other, the city of Venice is both adored and reviled by the speakers in this varied and unconventionally polyphonic work. Boyers was born in San Tomé, Venezuela, but spent her childhood in such countries as Libya, Italy, Indonesia, and Cuba. She earned her BA from Skidmore College. Her collections of poetry are Hard Bread (2002) and Honey with Tobacco (2007). A lecturer in the English Department at Skidmore College, Boyers is the executive editor of Salmagundi.
Nicholas Delbanco is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at U-M and Chair of the Hopwood Committee. He has published 27 books of fiction and non-fiction. His most recent novels are The Count of Concord and Spring and Fall; his most recent works of non-fiction are The Countess of Stanlein Restored and The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life.
Calling all writers! Get into the groove of writing in a quiet space with lots of outlets to plug in a laptop! Whether you’re working on a novel as part of National Novel Writing Month or something else, all are welcome.
Join Michigan poets Anne-Marie Oomen, Teresa Scollon, and Ellen Stone for reading and conversation.
Anne-Marie Oomen is author of two memoirs, Pulling Down the Barn and House of Fields, both Michigan Notable Books, An American Map: Essays (Wayne State University Press); and a full-length collection of poetry, Uncoded Woman (Milkweed Editions). She is also represented in New Poems of the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry, and edited Looking Over My Shoulder: Reflections on the Twentieth Century, an anthology of seniors’ essays funded by the Michigan Humanities Council. She has written seven plays, including the award-winning Northern Belles (inspired by oral histories of women farmers), and most recently, Secrets of Luuce Talk Tavern, 2012 winner of the CTAM contest. She adapted the meditations of Gwen Frostic for Chaotic Harmony, a choreopoem. She is founding editor of Dunes Review, former president of Michigan Writers, Inc., serves as instructor of creative writing at Interlochen Arts Academy, ICCA Writer’s Retreat, and Solstice MFA at Pine Manor College, MA. She and her husband, David Early, have built their own home near Empire.
Teresa Scollon is a poet, essayist, editor, and reviewer. Author of To Embroider the Ground with Prayer(Wayne State University Press, 2012) and the chapbook Friday Nights the Whole Town Goes to the Basketball Game (Michigan Writers Cooperative Press, 2009), she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Western Michigan University’s Prague Summer Program. She is alumna and past Writer-in-Residence at Interlochen Arts Academy. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including Third Coast, Dunes Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Damselfly Press, andNimrod. Her poem “River, Page” won the Split This Rock 2009 poetry contest. A native of Michigan’s Thumb, she is interested in themes of community and story. She serves on the board of directors of Michigan Writers, Inc., a literary nonprofit organization devoted to supporting the development of writers in northern Michigan. Former book review editor for ForeWord Reviews, Teresa continues freelance editing and reviewing. She teaches composition and creative writing at Northwestern Michigan College.
Ellen Stone teaches at Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her poetry collection, The Solid Living World, won the 2013 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press chapbook contest. Ellen’s poems have appeared in Cottonwood Review, Dunes Review, Melancholy Hyperbole, and in the anthologies, In the Garden published by Outrider Press, as well as Uncommon Core published by Red Beard Press.
U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies fellows discuss their recent books and areas of research.
