You’ve been waiting all year, and it’s finally here: the RC Review Release Party! Join us on Friday, April 10th, to pick up your free copy of this year’s magazine and bask in its glory. We’ll have an open mike for RC students to read, both published authors and anyone else who wants to! Trust me, you don’t want to miss it.
U-M drama lecturers Kate Mendeloff and Martin Walsh direct RC students in Jaclyn Dudek’s new translation of Euripides’ classical tragedy. It tells of the catastrophe that results when King Pentheus bans the worship of a new god, Bacchus, in his city. The young god leads all the women of Thebes to the mountains to frolic and dance with wild animals, and is avenged when his followers (including Pentheus’s own mother) tear the king to pieces. Also April 12.
U-M drama lecturers Kate Mendeloff and Martin Walsh direct RC students in Jaclyn Dudek’s new translation of Euripides’ classical tragedy. It tells of the catastrophe that results when King Pentheus bans the worship of a new god, Bacchus, in his city. The young god leads all the women of Thebes to the mountains to frolic and dance with wild animals, and is avenged when his followers (including Pentheus’s own mother) tear the king to pieces.
RC theater students present a program of short plays TBA.
Carl Cohen is professor of philosophy at U-M. His newest book is A Conflict of Principles: The Battle Over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan. He is also the author of Affirmative Action and Racial Preference.
RC Lecturer Alumnus Ken Mikolowski is the author of four previous books, Thank You Call Again, little mysteries, Big Enigmas, and Remember Me. His poems have been published in Brooklyn Rail, Hanging Loose, Exquisite Corpse, and Abandon Automobile, A Detroit Anthology, and have been recorded by the Frank Carlberg Group. Along with his wife Ann, Ken was publisher, editor, and printer of The Alternative Press. He lives in Ann Arbor.
Michael Lauchlan’s poems have appeared in many publications and have been anthologized in Abandon Automobile (Wayne State University Press, 2001) and A Mind Apart. His earlier collections are And the Business Goes to Pieces and Sudden Parade.
Created by Midwestern Gothic in partnership with the Residential College, Voices of the Middle West is a festival celebrating writers from all walks of life as well as independent presses and journals that consider the Midwestern United States their home. The Festival will take place on March 12th, starting at 10am, at East Quad. The festival includes panels and a book fair, and is free to the public. Ross Gay is the keynote speaker.
The goal of the festival is to bring together students and faculty of the university, as well as writers and presses from all over the Midwest, in order to provide a perspective of this region and to showcase the magnificent work being produced here, the stories that need to be told…the voices that need to be heard. Truly, this is a celebration of the Midwest voice, and it is the festival’s aim to create an ideal environment for any and all to come and take an active part, to discover and discuss how rich our literary tradition is.
More information at http://midwestgothic.com/voices/
