Crazy Wisdom Poetry Series at Crazy Wisdom Tearoom , hosted by Joe Kelty and Ed Morin • Second and Fourth Wednesdays of each month, 7-9 p.m. • Free. Call Ed at 668-7523; eacmorso@sbcglobal.net or cwpoetrycircle.tumblr.com.
Fourth Wednesdays: Featured Reader for 50 minutes, Open Mic Reading for one hour • All writers welcome to share their own or other favorite poetry. Sign up begins at 6:45 p.m.
Crazy Wisdom Poetry Series at Crazy Wisdom Tearoom , hosted by Joe Kelty and Ed Morin • Second and Fourth Wednesdays of each month, 7-9 p.m. • Free. Call Ed at 668-7523; eacmorso@sbcglobal.net or cwpoetrycircle.tumblr.com.
Fourth Wednesdays: Featured Reader for 50 minutes, Open Mic Reading for one hour • All writers welcome to share their own or other favorite poetry. Sign up begins at 6:45 p.m.
August 26 • Details to be announced
Kelly Fordon will read from her latest story collection, Garden for the Blind.
Prior to writing fiction and poetry, Kelly Fordon worked at the NPR member station in Detroit and for National Geographic magazine. Her fiction, poetry, and book reviews have appeared in The Boston Review, The Florida Review, Flashquake, The Kenyon Review, and various other journals. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, On the Street Where We Live, which won the 2011 Standing Rock Chapbook Contest, and Tell Me When It Starts to Hurt, which was published by Kattywompus Press in 2013. She received her MFA in fiction writing from Queens University of Charlotte and works for InsideOut Literary Arts in Detroit as a writer-in-residence.
New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison was born and raised in the upper Midwest. Her bestselling Hollows novels include Dead Witch Walking; The Good, the Bad, and the Undead; Every Which Way But Dead; A Fistful of Charms; For a Few Demons More; The Outlaw Demon Wails; White Witch, Black Curse; Black Magic Sanction; Pale Demon, A Perfect Blood, Ever After, and The Undead Pool, plus the short story collection Into the Woods, The Hollows Insider and graphic novels Blood Work and Blood Crime. She also writes the Madison Avery series for young adults.
She will read from The Drafter, the first book in her new Peri Reed Chronicles series.
Literati welcomes poets Linda Gregerson and David Baker, and scholar Steven Mullaney, in celebration of their recent titles.
David Baker is author or editor of fourteen books of poetry and criticism. He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair at Denison University, teaches regularly in the Warren Wilson College MFA program, and is the poetry editor of the Kenyon Review.
Linda Gregerson teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at U-M. She is the author of Waterborne, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, and Fire in the Conservatory. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry as well as in the Atlantic, Poetry, Ploughshares, the Yale Review, TriQuarterly, and other publications. Among her many awards and honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Kingsley Tufts Award.
Steven Mullaney is professor of English at U-M. He is the author of The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England.
Literati welcomes Christopher Moore to Ann Arbor to read from his latest, Secondhand Souls. This event is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 11:30am. We expect a large crowd, and seated is limited. A book signing will follow.
Christopher Moore is the author of thirteen previous novels, including Lamb, The Stupidest Angel, Fool, Sacre Bleu, and A Dirty Job. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Literati welcomes Jerry Dennis and Glenn Wolff, founders of Michigan independent publisher Big Maple Press. They will be on hand to read and present from their collaborative work.
In autumn 2014 author Jerry Dennis and artist Glenn Wolff teamed with creative director Gail Dennis to form Big Maple Press, a small press dedicated to publishing special editions of the works of Dennis and Wolff and making them available only at independent bookstores and on the Big Maple Press website.
Jerry and Glenn have won numerous awards and have received acclaim from readers and reviewers around the world for their many books published by major publishers, as well as for their essays and illustrations in such publications as The New York Times, The Village Voice,Smithsonian, Audubon, Wildlife Conservation, Sports Afield, and Orion.
JERRY DENNIS has earned international acclaim for his many works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. His books, including The Bird in the Waterfall, The Windward Shore, and The Living Great Lakes, have won many awards, are frequently taught in colleges and high schools, and have been translated into six languages. His shorter works have appeared in The New York Times,Smithsonian, Audubon, Orion, Michigan Quarterly Review, and many other publications. Visit him at www.jerrydennis.net
GLENN WOLFF has illustrated more than 30 books, hundreds of articles and essays in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, Audubon, and Wildlife Conservation Magazine, and his mixed-media fine art has been shown throughout the U.S. and Canada and is included in many private and public collections. More on his work can be found at www.glennwolff.com
Poet Bob Clifford is an RC creative writing alum (’79) and is former associate director and coordinator of academic programs, where he designed and implemented an academic program for over 600 student-athletes and monitored compliance of Big Ten and NCAA regulations. He is currently the associate athletic director at Oregon State University. Clifford will be at Nicola’s Books for the release of his latest collection of poetry, Gasping for Air.
Rob Halpern’s latest collection, Common Place, was released this year from Ugly Duckling Press.
Common Place continues Halpern’s sustained inquiry into the relations of body and voice to relentless militarization and economic depredation.
Rob Halpern is the author of several books of poetry, including Music for Porn (Nightboat 2013), Disaster Suites (Palm Press 2009), and Rumored Place(Krupskaya 2006). Together with Taylor Brady, he also co-authored the book-length poem Snow Sensitive Skin, which has been reissued by Displaced Press. Recent essays and translations appear in Chicago Review, Journal of Narrative Theory, and The Claudius App. Rob currently splits his time between San Francisco and Ypsilanti.
Literati welcomes Matt Bell in support of his latest novel, Scrapper.
Matt Bell’s last novel, The House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, a Michigan Notable Book, and an Indies Choice Adult Debut Book of the Year recipient. He is also the author of two previous books of fiction, How They Were Found and Cataclysm Baby, and a nonfiction book about the classic video game Baldur’s Gate II, published in 2015 by Boss Fight Books. Born in Michigan, he now teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.
