Calendar

Oct
21
Sat
RC 50th: Robertson Memorial Lecture: Alisa Solomon: Press, Politics, Performance @ Keene Theater, RC
Oct 21 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Alisa Solomon, RC ’78, Drama and Philosophy, Professor and Director, Arts and Culture Concentration in the M.A. Program, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University

Nov
29
Wed
Current Magazine: Poetry and Fiction Party @ Literati
Nov 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Literati is thrilled to partner with Current Magazine for an evening of Poetry and Fiction!

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Come celebrate the submissions and winners of Current Magazine’s Poetry and Fiction contest.

Meet Current’s editor and contributors, and hear readings from the winners. Special guests Molly Raynor and Anthony Zick will be reading their work as well. If time permits there will be an open mic at the end.

Dec
5
Tue
Seager Inaugural Lecture: Laura Kasischke: Where Now, New and Selected Poems @ Rackham Amphitheater
Dec 5 @ 4:00 am – 5:30 am

Laura Kasischke’s most recent book, from which she will read, brings new poems together with work from her previous nine collections of poetry, published over the last twenty-five years. The citation for the National Book Critics Circle Award, which she received in 2011, reads: “No poet alive has worked harder to depict the contemporary American life course: she has shown herself, in sharply vivid poems, as a girl, as a wayward teen, as a young adult, as a passionate and worried mother with a baby, a child, and now a teenaged son…And no poet now at work does better than Kasischke in finding ways to depict not just how we feel about life stages and the people in them but also how we change as those stages go by…Kasischke stands for many among us.” Her collection of new and selected poems gathers together the breadth of this vision, and Kasischke will offer readings from both her earliest and most recent work.

For questions, contact Julie Sparkman at jmallard@umich.edu

Jan
12
Fri
In Conversation: Jessica Shattuck and Laura Thomas @ Nicola's Books
Jan 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Jessica Shattuck is the award-winning author of The Hazards of Good Breeding, which was a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the PEN/Winship Award, and Perfect Life. Her writing has appeared in the New York TimesNew YorkerGlamourMother JonesWired, and The Believer, among other publications. A graduate of Harvard University, she received her MFA from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and three children in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Laura Hulthen Thomas’s short fiction and essays have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including The Cimarron Review, Nimrod International Journal, Epiphany, and Witness. She received her MFA in fiction writing from Warren Wilson College. She currently heads the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan’s Residential College, where she teaches fiction and creative nonfiction.

Jan
13
Sat
Carrie Smith: Unholy City, Jeff Kass: Takedown, and C.M. Gleason: Murder in the Lincoln White House @ Aunt Agatha's
Jan 13 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Join our triple header on Sunday, January 13 at 2, when we welcome book club favorite and RC creative writing alumna  Carrie Smith, who has a new Claire Codella novel out, Unholy City; C.M. Gleason, who is joining the mystery community with her first mystery Murder in the Lincoln White House; and popular teacher and poetry slammer, Jeff Kass, whose first mystery Takedown was just published by the new press at the Ann Arbor District Library.

Jan
26
Fri
Keith Taylor Retirement Event @ 3222 Angell Hall
Jan 26 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Keith Taylor is Coordinator of English’s Undergraduate Creative Writing Program, and Director of the Bear River Writers Conference. He has written or edited some thirteen books or chapbooks, including Marginalia for a Natural History, Ghost Writers (co-edited with Laura Kasischke), If the World Becomes So Bright and Guilty at the Rapture.  His work has appeared widely in journals, magazines, anthologies and newspapers in the United States and in Europe. He has received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and support from the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs.

Feb
9
Fri
ArtsX UMMA: UNDEFINED: Alex Kime and others @ UMMA Apse
Feb 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
This program is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
In today’s fractured environment where our identities are too often framed in ways that divide us, ArtsX UMMA: UNDEFINED is an evening of student performance that aims to reject divisive categorization, emphasize the fluidity of the human experience, and view our differences and similarities as cause for celebration.

Performances include dance, music, spoken word, and a variety of mixed media and digital arts. Artists include Anthony Coffee, Spencer Haney, Olivia Johnson, Alex Kime (RC 2017), Hannah Marcus, Maddy Joss & Johnny Matthews,  Augie Lessins & Daniel Kumapayi, Red Shoe Company, Nichole Reehorst, and more!

Join us for this special evening hosted by the UMMA Student Engagement Council,  in partnership with Arts at Michigan, the Michigan Community Scholars Program, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs.

Mar
28
Wed
Jim Harrison Tribute Dinner @ Grange Kitchen and Bar
Mar 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Throughout his writing career, Jim Harrison expressed a recurring fondness for food, drink, and the state of Michigan. His colossal appetite produced a gourmand whose eccentric way of life offered unique flavors to both his writing and the food he consumed.

Please join Grange Kitchen & Bar, the Ann Arbor Distilling Co., and Literati Bookstore for a dinner celebrating Jim Harrison! Complete with a total of seven courses, the dinner will feature some of Harrison’s most acclaimed and beloved dining experiences. This authentic combination of spirits, food, and wine will also be paired with a conversation led by local poet and Bear River Writers’ Conference Coordinator, Monica Rico. In addition to Monica Rico, Charlie Brice, another local poet and former acquaintance of Harrison, will be reflecting on some of the correspondences and meals he shared with Jim. The pair will also speak about Harrison’s total body of work, and the significant role food and drink played in his writing.

The dinner will be held on Wednesday, March 28th starting at 6:00pm. This just so happens to be the same day as the paperback release of Harrison’s final book, “A Really Big Lunch.” Tickets must be purchased in advance and a limited quantity is available. Please note that Jim Harrison was most effusive about animal proteins in his diet and, as such, a vegetarian option will not be available for this particular dinner.

Tickets are $80.00 ($95.00 includes tax and tip.)

Click here to order: http://goo.gl/ySH9YD

Paperbacks of “A Really Big Lunch” as well as copies of Jim Harrison’s other works will be available for sale during the dinner.

Event date:
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 – 6:00pm
Event address:
118 W. Liberty
Ann ArborMI 48104
Apr
7
Sat
“Write On!” Short Story Contest Awards Celebration, with Jack Cheng @ AADL Westgate
Apr 7 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Detroit children’s book writer Jack Cheng, author of See You in the Cosmos, discusses the art of writing and presents awards to the winners of the AADL short story contest for 3rd-5th graders.
1-2 p.m., AADL Westgate. Free. 327-4200.

 

May
15
Tue
Owen Laukkanen: Gale Force, and Nick Petrie: Light It Up @ AADL Multipurpose Room
May 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

These popular mystery writers discuss their new books. Gale Force is Laukkanen’s new suspense novel about an Alaskan salvage crew who rescue a foundering freighter whose passengers include a man on the lam from the Yakuza. U-M Residential College grad Petrie reads from Light It Up, the latest in his series about Iraq and Afghanistan vet Peter Ash, who this time investigates a series of well-planned hijackings of a Denver security company that protects cash-rich marijuana entrepreneurs. Signings.
7-8:30 p.m., AADL Downtown 4th-floor meeting rm. Free. 327-4200

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