Elli DeLing will be reading from her debut poetry collection Jitamo’s Poems, published by the Neutral Zone’s Red Beard Press. Elli is 80 years young and won her first poetry contest at age 17. She has been an editor, educator, mother, anthropologist and has worked with Great Lakes Indian tribes and social justice causes for many years.
The event begins with an Open Mic session when area poets can read their own work or share a favorite poem by another author. This is a monthly poetry series held on the second Thursday of each month.
Signing to follow.
Comic actress Annabelle Gurwitch discusses her new memoir about turning 50, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50.
Robin Silbergleid is an associate professor of English at Michigan State University, where she directs the creative writing program. She is the author of the chapbook Pas de Deux: Prose and Other Poems (Basilisk Press 2006), the memoir Texas Girl (Demeter Press 2014), and the poetry collection Frida Kahlo, My Sister (Finishing Line Press 2014). Her poems, essays, and scholarship can be found in a number of journals and anthologies online and in print. She lives in East Lansing, Michigan, with her two children.
John F. Buckley reads from Yankee Broadcast Network, his latest collaboration with Martin Ott.
Buckley is a recent graduate of the Helen Sell Writers’ Program at U-M. He has been writing poetry since an attempt at writing a self-help book went somewhat awry. After a twenty-year stint on and near the West Coast, he now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife. His website is johnfrancisbuckley.wordpress.com.
Martin Ott lives in Los Angeles, where he writes often about his misunderstood city. He is the author of three books of poetry and a novel, The Interrogator’s Notebook (Story Merchant Books). He blogs at writeliving.wordpress.com.
Since 1993, when Françoise Mouly joined The New Yorker as art editor, she has been responsible for over 1,000 of the magazine’s signature covers, many of which were chosen by The American Society of Magazine Editors as ‘best cover of the year’. She is also the Publisher and Editorial Director of TOON Books, an imprint of comics and visual narratives for young readers. And she founded and coedited (with collaborator and husband Art Spiegelman) the groundbreaking comics anthology RAW; The New York Times-bestselling Little Lit series; and the TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics. Born in Paris, Françoise Mouly studied architecture at the Beaux Arts before she moved to New York in 1974. Ms. Mouly was awarded France’s highest honor, the Legion of Honneur.
RC Writing Alum and U-M Professor of English Laura Kasischke will participate in a live broadcast of Word Squared with T Hetzel.
Sweetland Center for Writing’s Word Squared lets you hear directly from U-M professors about their challenges, processes, and expectation as writers and also as readers of student writing. Word Squared pairs on esteemed University professor with Sweetland faculty member and WCBN Living Writers T Hetzel for a conversation about writing. These conversations offer a rare glimps into the writing that professors do outside the classroom and how they handle the same challenges student writers face.
Laura Kasischke is the Allan Seager Collegiate Professor of English at U-M, where she has won a number of awards for her teaching, including the Henry Russel Award, 1923 Memorial Teaching Award, and a Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award.
She has published nine collections of poetry and nine novels. Her fiction has been translated into many languages, and her last four novles habe been international best-sellers. For her eighth book of poetry she received the National Book Critics Circle Award. The collection was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
UK-bred mystery writer Andrew Grant discusses his new thriller, Run, and Michigan writer Elizabeth Heiter discusses her new thriller, Hunted.
Local poet Scott Beal, an award-winning U-M creative writing grad, reads from his recently published debut collection, which deploys familiar characters from Rapunzel to Perseus and whimsically surreal tall tales to explore the varied and violent forces that shape human identities. MacArthur-winning poet and former U-M English professor Alice Fulton praises Beal’s “revelatory” tales for their “surprising linguistic and narrative moves [that] elicit the unbidden traumas and dazzling weirdness of lived experience. Refreshments. Signing.
8-9 p.m., Neutral Zone, 310 E. Washington.
Aaron Poochigian‘s recent translation of Jason and the Argonauts will be published by Penguin Classics (October 2014). Born in 1973, he attended Moorhead State University (1991-96), then University of Minnesota (Classics). . After traveling and research in Greece on fellowship from 2003—4, he earned his Phd in Classics in 2006. He was a visiting professor of Classics at the University of Utah in 2007-8 and D.L. Jordon Fellow at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia from 2008-09. He now lives and writes in New York City. His original poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Arion, The Dark Horse, Poetry Magazine and Smartish Pace.
Breaking News: A Tragedy-Comedy about the Comedy of Tragedy
Written and directed by University of Michigan Junior Skyler Tarnas, Keene Theater, East Quad (basement). Free.
Shows also on Saturday, November 22nd- 8 PM and Sunday, November 23rd- 2 PM
