Barbara Winton discusses her biography of her father, If It’s Not Impossible: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton.
Catherine Barnett is the author of two collections of poetry: Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced and The Game of Boxes, which was the recipient of the 2012 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Writers’ Award. She also works as an independent editor and as Writer-in-Residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan where she teaches writing to mothers in the shelter system. Barnett has been the Visiting Poet at Barnard College and teaches at the New School and New York University.
Jeffrey Shotts is Executive Editor at Graywolf Press, an independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He acquires and edits Graywolf’s poetry list as well as works of nonfiction, essay, literary criticism, and translation. Authors whose titles Shotts has acquired have received the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature, and books he has acquired and edited have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, among other distinctions. He lives in Minneapolis.
Literati will be on-site with select titles for sale.
Room location in Angell Hall is TBD.
Music historian James Grymes discusses Violins of Hope, his book about Amnon Weinstein, the Israeli violin maker who has devoted the past 20 years to restoring violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust.
Literati is pleased to help launch issue 5.5 of literary journal Harlequin Creature with a very special listening party. That’s because issue 5.5 of the journal is, in fact, a viynl record.
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Students are invited to “tap the keys” of a typewriter during this all-day event. Sponsored by UEA and Fiction Writers Review.
Minneapolis writer Dori Weinstein, who teaches Hebrew to preschoolers, discusses her two children’s books about Jewish holidays, Sliding into the New Year and Shaking in the Shack.
U-M Judaic professor Zvi Gitelman, author of the recent Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity, discusses Jewish dilemmas in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Elli DeLing will be reading from her debut poetry collection Jitamo’s Poems, published by the Neutral Zone’s Red Beard Press. Elli is 80 years young and won her first poetry contest at age 17. She has been an editor, educator, mother, anthropologist and has worked with Great Lakes Indian tribes and social justice causes for many years.
The event begins with an Open Mic session when area poets can read their own work or share a favorite poem by another author. This is a monthly poetry series held on the second Thursday of each month.
Signing to follow.
