Calendar

Mar
25
Wed
WCBN Living Writers Series @ Literati Bookstore
Mar 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Details to be announced.

 

Mar
28
Sat
Children’s Story Time with Peter Brown @ Literati Bookstore
Mar 28 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Author and illustrator Peter Brown has written and illustrated many books for children. His books have earned numerous honors, including a Caldecott Honor, a Horn Book Award, two E.B. White Awards, two E.B. White Honors, a Children’s Choice Award for Illustrator of the Year, two Irma Black Honors, a Golden Kite Award, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award and five New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Bro0klyn, New York.

 

Anniversary Reading: Raymond McDaniel and Tarfia Faizullah @ Literati Bookstore
Mar 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Literati caps off its two-year-anniversdary day-long party, with poets Raymond McDaniel and Tarfia Faizullah, who will read at 7pm.

50% of all the day’s sales will be donated to 826michigan.

Raymond McDaniel is the author of Special Powers and Abilities, Saltwater Empire and Murder (a violet), a National Poetry Series selection. His writing appears in many magazines and in the anthology American Poets in the 21st Century. Born in Florida, McDaniel now lives in Ann Arbor, teaches at the University of Michigan, and writes for The Constant Critic.

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Seam (SIU 2014), winner of the 2015 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award and Register of Eliminated Villages, forthcoming from Graywolf in 2017. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, scholarships and fellowships from Kundiman, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Vermont Studio Center, and other honors. Recent poems appear in Poetry Magazine, New England Review, Oxford American, jubilat, and elsewhere. Tarfia is the Nicholas Delbanco Visiting Professor of Poetry in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and co-directs the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Press and Video Series with Jamaal May.

 

Mar
30
Mon
Fiction at Literati: James Hannaham @ Literati Bookstore
Mar 30 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

James Hannaham reads from his latest novel, Delicious Foods.

Held captive by her employers-and by her own demons-on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and survival.

Hannaham is the author of the novel God Says No, which was honored by the American Library AssociationHe holds an MFA from the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and lives in Brooklyn, where he teaches creative writing at the Pratt Institute.

 

Mar
31
Tue
Poetry at Literati: Brent Armendinger and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo @ Literati Bookstore
Mar 31 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Brent Armendinger is the author of The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying (Noemi Press, 2015), as well as two chapbooks, Undetectable (New Michigan Press, 2009) andArchipelago (Noemi Press, 2009). His work has also appeared in many journals, including Aufgabe, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Fourteen Hills, LIT, Puerto del Sol, Volt, and Web Conjunctions. Brent grew up in Warsaw, NY, and studied at Bard College and the University of Michigan, where he received an Avery Hopwood Award in Poetry. In 2013, he was awarded a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Brent is an Associate Professor of English and World Literature at Pitzer College, and he lives in Los Angeles.

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and crossed the border through Tijuana at the age of five with his family. He is a Canto Mundo fellow, a Zell post-graduate fellow and the first undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan’s MFA program. He is a Pushcart nominee and has received fellowships to attend the Squaw Valley Writer’s Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center. He teaches summers as the resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. He was a finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award and his manuscript was a finalist for the Alice James Book Prize. His poems and essays can be found in Huizache, Indiana Review, New England Review, The Paris American, and Buzzfeed, among others.

 

Apr
1
Wed
Political Poetry: Gerry Fialka @ Crazy Wisdom
Apr 1 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

L.A.-based writer, lecturer, and media ecologist Gerry Fialka hosts an evening of readings and discussion with local poets exploring the various intersections of poetry and politics.

 

Book Reading and Launch: Ken Mikolowski @ RC Benzinger Library
Apr 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

RC poetry instructor Ken Mikolowski reads from his new collection, That That, from Wayne State University Press Signing.

 

Reading: Sarah Gerard @ Literati
Apr 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

This New York-based writer reads from Binary Star, her debut novel about a young woman struggling with anorexia and her long-distance, alcoholic boyfriend. Writer Justin Taylor calls it “merciless and cyclonic, a true and brutal poem of obliteration, an all-American death chant.” Signing.

 

Apr
3
Fri
Reading: Kirstin Valdez Quade @ Literati
Apr 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

This U-M visiting creative writing professor, winner of a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” award, reads from Night at the Fiestas, her acclaimed debut collection of northern New Mexico stories about growing up in a land shaped by love, loss, and violence. “If Quade ever yearned to escape her archaic Catholic heritage and redefine herself, let’s be glad she didn’t,” says an Atlantic review. “Her vision has thrived on its fierce, flesh-conscious desire for transcendence.” Signing.

 

Apr
4
Sat
Poetry at Literati: Carla Harryman and Maged Zaher @ Literati
Apr 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Carla Harryman is the author of seventeen books of poetry, prose, and works for performance including W— /M— (2013), Adorno’s Noise (2008),Gardener of Stars (2001), and Animal Instincts: Prose, Plays, Essays (1989).  Her collaborative works include the multi-authored work The Grand Piano, an Experiment in Autobiography: San Francisco, 1975-1980 and The Wide Road (with Lyn Hejinian). Open Box (with Jon Raskin), a CD of music and text performances was released on the Tzadik label in 2012. Her Poets Theater, interdisciplinary, and bi-lingual performances have been presented nationally and internationally.
 She is the editor of two critical volumes: Non/Narrative, a special issue of the Journal of Narrative Theory, and Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker (with Avital Ronell and Amy Shoulder). She serves on the faculty of the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University and on the summer faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.

Maged Zaher is the author of If Reality Doesn’t Work Out (SplitLevel Texts, 2014), Thank You for the Window Office (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012), The Revolution Happened and You Didn’t Call Me (Tinfish Press, 2012), and Portrait of the Poet as an Engineer (Pressed Wafer, 2009). His collaborative work with the Australian poet Pam Brown, Farout Library Software, was published by Tinfish Press in 2007. His translations of contemporary Egyptian poetry have appeared in Jacket Magazine, Denver Quarterly and Banipal. He has performed his work at Subtext, Bumbershoot, the Kootenay School of Writing, St. Marks Project, Evergreen State College, and American University in Cairo, among other places. Maged is the recipient of the 2013 Genius Award in Literature from the Seattle weekly The Stranger.

 

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