Jon Michael Darga, a 2014 RC Creative Writing (honors) graduate, answers your questions about how to pursue a creative career in publishing.
Jon wrote his senior thesis on women and the medieval modern in The Lord of the Rings . He was happily fixated on semicolons and Oxford commas as the editor of last year’s RC Review. Interning with Midwestern Gothic literary magazine and publishing press, Jon co-created theVoices of the Middle West annual festival, organized book tours, and came to realize his love of all things publishing. After attending the Columbia Publishing Course, Jon now works as an agent’s assistant at Park Literary in New York City.ago Reader’s Pure Fiction Issue and Midwestern Gothic, among other places. He is also an editor at the Great Lakes Review where he coordinates the online Narrative Map essay project.
Fireside Stories with The RC Review
Get cozy at “Fireside Stories with the RC Review!” We’ll have an open mic where any students can (and should!) bring their own poetry, prose, and other awesome creative work to share with us. Share your love of words, support your RC community, and hear the RC’s very own Creative Writing professors read from their own amazing work! This will also be the kick-off of the grand opening of the RC Review’s submission season!
RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors, and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge.
Reading by Tarfia Faizullah, Delbanco Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at U-M. Born in Brooklyn and raised in west Texas, she is the Pushcart Prize winning author of Seam (SIU, 2014), winner of the 2012 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Oxford American, jubilat, New England Review, The Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere, and are anthologized in Poems of Devotion, Excuse This Poem: 100 Poems for the Next Generation, The Book of Scented Things, and Best New Poets 2013. Honors include a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, a Ploughshares Cohen Award, scholarships and fellowships from Kundiman, the Fulbright Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and Vermont Studio Center. She has collaborated with rapper and emcee Brooklyn Shanti, composer Jacob Cooper, and photographer Elizabeth Herman. She co-directs the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Press & Video Series with Jamaal May.
U-M drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs RC students in scenes from Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Tony Kushner’s celebrated 2-play series exploring the apocalyptic fears at the heart of contemporary culture, and ‘Night Mother, Marsha Norman’s controversial 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a divorced woman, living with her mother, who chooses suicide in an effort to take control of her own life.
U-M drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs RC students in scenes from Chekhov’s tragedy about the plight of the artist, the irrevocable passage of time, and a hopelessly misguided love that evokes both humor and pathos.
RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors, and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge.
RC students present an original play that has been conceived, written, and rehearsed within the past 24 hours. Free.
Poet and fiction writer Stuart Dybek will be the RC’s 2015 Artist in Residence, March 19-21, 2015. He will also be keynote speaker at the second annual Voices of the Middle West conference, at the RC on March 21st.
U-M English professor and renowned poet Mattawa and highly acclaimed Latino poet Espada discuss Espada’s work. In conjunction with Espada’s reading on Mar. 17.
