Jan 2 & 16. Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 teams of judges are recruited from the audience. Monthly winners compete in a semiannual Grand Slam. Space limited, so it’s smart to arrive early.
7:30-9 p.m. (doors open and sign-up begins at 6 p.m.), Greyline, 100 N. Ashley. $8. 764-5118.
Jane Austen Book Club Discussion at Nicola’s Books – Associated event of the University of Michigan Graduate Library ‘The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet’ Exhibit
With the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, the Grad Library is showcasing not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived. This lead to a discussion about books about or written by Austen that reflected these times; out of that the Jane Austen Book Club Discussion was created. There will be three discussion events, February 7th, 28th and March 7th.
Sigrid Anderson Cordell is the Librarian for English Language and Literature and a lecturer in American Culture at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in English language and literature from the University of Virginia, and her research focuses on gender and race in nineteenth-century print culture. She is the author of Fictions of Dissent: Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women’s Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century (2010).
Juli McLoone is an Outreach Librarian & Curator in the Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan. She holds an MA in Library and Information Science, with a Graduate Certificate in Book Studies / Book Arts and Technologies from the University of Iowa, as well as an MA in Anthropology, also from the University of Iowa. Her curatorial portfolio includes a number of areas, including the Special Collections Library’s post-1700 General and Rare Collection, the Children’s Literature Collection, and the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive.
Books will be available through Nicola’s Books – contact the store directly 734-662-0600 or come in to the store (2513 Jackson Avenue – Westgate Shopping Center.) Nicola’s Books will offer a 15% discount for the purchase of this title when you tell them that the book is for the Jane Austen Book Club. You may also check with the AADL for availability of the title.
Reading and discussion of several poems around the theme of dogs (Feb. 21). Followed by collaborative writing games and exercises. Attendees invited to read their poems. Snacks & socializing.
8-10 p.m., Argus Farm Stop greenhouse, 325 W. Liberty. $5 suggested donation. onepausepoetry.org, 707-1284
Robin Coste Lewis, the winner of the National Book Award for Voyage of the Sable Venus, is the poet laureate of Los Angeles. She is writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California, as well as a Cave Canem fellow and a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. She received her BA from Hampshire College, her MFA in poetry from New York University, an MTS in Sanskrit and comparative religious literature from the Divinity School at Harvard University, and a PhD in poetry and visual studies from the University of Southern California. Lewis was born in Compton, California; her family is from New Orleans.
Literati is thrilled to welcome poety Chris Glomski who will be reading from his new collection Lit Up.
About Lit Up:
There are fissures in quotidian details, light in the cracks of our daily lives, and nowhere are these gaps, reliefs, ands releases better displayed and bridged than in this book, Chris Glomski’s third collection of poetry. With characteristic intelligence and skill, the poet illuminates the *right* details and brings his artistry to recalling and connoting the scenes memory brings to bear, as narrative, event, and non sequitur.
Chris Glomski was born in Pueblo, Colorado, and has mostly lived in or around Chicago. He is the author of TRANSPARENCIES LIFTED FROM NOON (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005), THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND OTHER POEMS (The Cultural Society, 2011), and LIT UP (The Cultural Society, 2017). He lived in Pisa, Italy, from 1991 to 1992, and translates Italian poetry as an intermittent pursuit.
Literati is thrilled to welcome poet Lauren Clark who will be reading from her new collection Music for a Wedding.
About Music for a Wedding:
Lauren Clark’s poems move lucidly, depicting beautiful struggles of distrust, dream, grief, and intimacy. They show such conflicts through entrancing narrative drive and song-like abandon. In their unpredictable, unforgettable language, they make pain a tonic for pleasure, sorrow ground for revelation. This is a book that is celebratory, gentle, and queer.
Lauren Clark’s poems have appeared in FIELD, Ninth Letter, the Offing, and many other journals. They earned an MFA from the University of Michigan, where they won four of five categories of the university’s prestigious Hopwood Awards. They have been the recipient of scholarships from the New York State Summer Writers Institute and the Sewanee Writers Conference. They work as program and development coordinator at Poets House in New York City and collaborate with Etc. Gallery in Chicago.
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Feb. 24 & 25 (different programs). Performances for adults (Sat.) & families (Sun.) by 3 top storytellers from around the state. Headliner is Jeff Doyle, a nationally known Brighton storyteller who produces the annual Howell Opera House Scary Story Festival in October. Also, Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild members Barbara Schutzgruber, Patti Smith, Jane Fink, and Steve Daut, who also serves as emcee.
7:30 p.m. (Sat.) & 1 p.m. (Sun.), The Ark, 316 S. Main. Tickets $20 (Sat.) & $10 (Sun. family concert) in advance at the Michigan Union Ticket Office (mutotix.com) & theark.org, and at the door. To charge by phone, call 763-TKTS.
Feb. 24 & 25 (different programs). Performances for adults (Sat.) & families (Sun.) by 3 top storytellers from around the state. Headliner is Jeff Doyle, a nationally known Brighton storyteller who produces the annual Howell Opera House Scary Story Festival in October. Also, Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild members Barbara Schutzgruber, Patti Smith, Jane Fink, and Steve Daut, who also serves as emcee.
7:30 p.m. (Sat.) & 1 p.m. (Sun.), The Ark, 316 S. Main. Tickets $20 (Sat.) & $10 (Sun. family concert) in advance at the Michigan Union Ticket Office (mutotix.com) & theark.org, and at the door. To charge by phone, call 763-TKTS.
2-4 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library Freespace (3rd floor). Free. 971-5763.
Reading by Marlin Jenkins, a Detroit poet (and U-M creative writing grad) whose poems often come off as fragments of a visionary spiritual autobiography. The program begins with open mike readings.
7-8:30 p.m., Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea, 123 W. Washington. Free. 994-6663
