Calendar

Feb
10
Tue
Discussion: Ron Gries @ Ann Arbor District Library - Mallets Creek
Feb 10 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Bloomfield Hills resident Ron Gries discusses his memoir, a mix of free verse poetry and prose, written over the last 3 years of his wife’s illness and death and for 14 months after as he grieves and heals.

Feb
11
Wed
Conversation: Daniel Herwitz and Linda Gregerson @ Hatcher Library
Feb 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
With U-M’s Daniel Herwitz and Linda Gregerson.
Reading: Ruth Ozeki @ Rackham Auditorium
Feb 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Veteran novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki reads from her critically acclaimed 2014 novel, the 2014 Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads selection. The story is an inventive, beguiling blend of 2 narratives, one of a desperately lonely 16-year-old Tokyo girl contemplating a suicide and the other of a writer living in British Colombia who finds the Tokyo girl’s diary washed up on shore some time after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan. Full of Ozeki’s signature humor, the narrative deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth. Signing. Doors open at 6 pm.

 

Feb
12
Thu
Zell Visiting Writer Series: Jean Valentine @ Stern Auditorium
Feb 12 @ 5:10 pm – 6:30 pm

Jean Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her eleventh book of poetry is Break the Glass (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). Her new book, Shirt in Heaven, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2015. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003 was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, Valentine has taught at Sarah Lawrence, New York University, and Columbia. She lives in New York City. Literati will be facilitating book sales.

 

Reading: Scott Beal @ Bookbound
Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

This local poet, an award-winning U-M creative writing grad, reads from Wait ‘Til You Have Real Problems, his recently published debut collection which deploys familiar characters from Rapunzel to Perseus and whimsically surreal tall tales to explore the varied and violent forces that shape human identities. The program begins with open mike readings.

Story Night @ Aunt Agatha's
Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild members host a storytelling program. Audience members are encouraged to bring a 5-minute story to tell.

Talk: Marion Blumenthal Lazan @ AADL
Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Marion discusses her memoir for young people about her family’s struggle to survive the horrors of the Nazis. (DT 4th floor, meeting room).

Feb
13
Fri
Poetry at Literati: Katie Hartsock and Laura Kasischke @ Literati Bookstore
Feb 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Katie Hartsock is the author of a poetry chapbook, Hotels, Motels, and Extended Stays, published by Toadlily Press in their 2014 Quartet Series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Massachusetts Review, Measure, Michigan Quarterly Review, RHINO, and Southwest Review; and in the anthology Down to the Dark River: Poems about the Mississippi River (Louisiana Literature Press, 2015). She holds a MFA from the University of Michigan and will receive a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University in summer 2015. Her full-length manuscript has been a finalist for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the New Criterion Poetry Prize.

RC Writing alumna and U-M professor Laura Kasischke has published eight collections of poetry and eight novels. Her novels include Suspicious River (1996), White Bird in a Blizzard (1999), and The Life Before Her Eyes(2002). They have been translated widely, and adapted for film.  She has been the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the DiCastagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, several Pushcart Prizes, the Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Beatrice Hawley Award. Her other collections of poetry include Space, in Chains, Lilies, Without, Gardening in the Dark, Wild Brides, Housekeeping in a DreamFire and Flower and What It Wasn’t. Her poems and stories have been published in Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic , The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Iowa Review and elsewhere.

Note: rescheduled from February 11

Feb
15
Sun
Reading: Deborah Burch @ Barnes & Noble
Feb 15 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

This Manchester writer and illustrator discusses her 2 Christian children’s books, Guided by Grace and God’s Greatest Gift.

Poetry Slam @ Silvio's
Feb 15 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

All poets invited to compete in a weekly poetry slam judged by a randomly chosen panel from the audience. The program begins with a brief poetry open mike and (usually) a short set by a featured poet. (sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m.). $5 suggested donation.

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