Literati is delighted to welcome harlequin creature back for the launch of their new issue!
Come help harlequin creature celebrate its latest issue, “letter to form,” dedicated to visual poetry and typewriter art, with a lively panel discussion. We’ll be joined by issue 7 contributor, Richard Pierre, harlequin creature co-editor, Hannah McMurray, Wolverine Press printmaster, Fritz Swanson, and our moderator for the evening, Meg Berkobien. There’ll be talk of poetry, typewriter art, the art of the letterpress, and plenty, plenty more!
harlequin creature is… a journal sure to be unconventional in today’s overwhelmingly digital age, and, at the same time, very much in touch with a nostalgia for an earlier era. With a circle of friends that spans from Los Angeles to Ann Arbor to New York, every single journal is individually typed on high quality paper. Each copy is then hand bound, and a limited number include original artwork by a featured artist.
Join us for the RC Creative Writing Program Senior Reading celebrating December Graduates Elena Potek and Nadia Todoroff. Light refreshments, great writing!
All invited to read and discuss their poetry or short stories. Bring about 6 copies of your work to share. Hosted by local poets and former college English teachers Joe Kelty and Ed Morin.
Tung-Hui Hu is the author of three books of poetry including Greenhouses, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), as well as a study of digital culture, A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015).
His poems have received awards from the NEA and the San Francisco Foundation, and appeared in places such asBoston Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and Gastronomica; the SoundWalk festival of sound art in Long Beach, CA; and the anthology Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres.
Hu teaches poetry and digital studies at the University of Michigan, where he is an assistant professor of English.
The event begins with an Open Mic session when area poets can read their own work or share a favorite poem by another author. Signing to follow.
RC students present a varied program of choral music from Mozart and Mendelssohn to Shakespearean madrigals, folk songs, and gospel.
Professor Heather Thompson, of the RC Social Theory and Practice Program, delivers the second in the RC Faculty Talks series: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy: The Perils of Writing the Painful Past“
Best-selling local sportswriter John U. Bacon, author of Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football, discusses his new book.
Cookies & discounts as well as a visit with Jane Cleland (Ornaments of Death) and D.E. Ireland (Move Your Blooming Corpse).
Bonnie Jo Campbell teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University. The author of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories (published in October by W.W. Norton), Once Upon a River and American Salvage, she lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but flawed women of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters must negotiate a sexually charged atmosphere as they love, honor, and betray one another against the backdrop of all the men in their world. Such richly fraught mother-daughter relationships can be lifelines, anchors, or they can sink a woman like a stone.
In “My Dog Roscoe,” a new bride becomes obsessed with the notion that her dead ex-boyfriend has returned to her in the form of a mongrel. In “Blood Work, 1999,” a phlebotomist’s desire to give away everything to the needy awakens her own sensuality. In “Home to Die,” an abused woman takes revenge on her bedridden husband. In these fearless and darkly funny tales about women and those they love, Campbell’s spirited American voice is at its most powerful.
U-M drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs RC students in scenes from Uncle Vanya (7 p.m.), Chekhov’s richly varied ensemble piece about the search for happiness–from love, achievement, or nature–at various stages of life, and Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes ( (8 p.m.), Tony Kushner’s celebrated 2-play series exploring the apocalyptic fears at the heart of contemporary culture. Also, “Race in America” (9 p.m.), a collage of scenes and monologues by major contemporary playwrights about racial profiling, interracial and interreligious relationships, illegal immigration, and identity.
