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 Association. He 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.
Author’s Forum Presents: Making Callaloo in Detroit: A Conversation with the RC’s Lolita Hernandez and Laura Thomas
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.
107.1-FM morning host Martin Bandyke hosts a panel discussion on this nationally recognized exhibit featuring more than 500 works by over 250 artists that opens at the Duderstadt Gallery on March 25. With Prisoner Creative Arts Project coordinator Sari Adelson and the PCAP founders, U-M art professor Janie Paul and U-M English professor Buzz Alexander.
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.
RC poetry instructor Ken Mikolowski reads from his new collection, That That, from Wayne State University Press. Signing.
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.
Bowling Green State University Romance and Classical studies professor Carlo Celli discusses his new book, Economic Fascism: Primary Sources on Mussolini’s Crony Capitalism.
Local young adult fiction writer Lara Zielin and short story writer Margaret Yang discuss how to shape a narrative. For adult and teen (grade 6 & up) fiction and nonfiction writers. Also, Zielin and Yang host an open house for writers to connect with one another and/or work on their projects.
