Lecture by this graphic designer, author, filmmaker, and farmer who left a successful design career in New York to return to his native Zimbabwe and open the country’s first school of graphic design and new media.
Acclaimed authors and poets Matt Bell, Laura Kasischke, Caitlin Horrocks, C.J. Hribal, Alissa Nutting, Anne Valente, and Marcus Wicker—all of whom will be featured on panels at the Voices of the Middle West fest on Saturday, March 21, on the campus of the University of Michigan—will read from their work, all leading up to special guest reader Stuart Dybek, keynote speaker for this year’s Voices fest. The aim of Voices of the Middle West is to showcase the literary traditions of the Midwest literary landscape, and these authors are all exceptional talents with strong Midwest traditions.
Readings by U-M creative writing grad students, including fiction writer Denise Dooley and poet Kat Finch.
Details to be announced.
Author and illustrator Peter Brown has written and illustrated many books for children. His books have earned numerous honors, including a Caldecott Honor, a Horn Book Award, two E.B. White Awards, two E.B. White Honors, a Children’s Choice Award for Illustrator of the Year, two Irma Black Honors, a Golden Kite Award, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award and five New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Bro0klyn, New York.
Literati caps off its two-year-anniversdary day-long party, with poets Raymond McDaniel and Tarfia Faizullah, who will read at 7pm.
50% of all the day’s sales will be donated to 826michigan.
Raymond McDaniel is the author of Special Powers and Abilities, Saltwater Empire and Murder (a violet), a National Poetry Series selection. His writing appears in many magazines and in the anthology American Poets in the 21st Century. Born in Florida, McDaniel now lives in Ann Arbor, teaches at the University of Michigan, and writes for The Constant Critic.
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Seam (SIU 2014), winner of the 2015 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award and Register of Eliminated Villages, forthcoming from Graywolf in 2017. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, scholarships and fellowships from Kundiman, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Vermont Studio Center, and other honors. Recent poems appear in Poetry Magazine, New England Review, Oxford American, jubilat, and elsewhere. Tarfia is the Nicholas Delbanco Visiting Professor of Poetry in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and co-directs the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Press and Video Series with Jamaal May.
James Hannaham reads from his latest novel, Delicious Foods.
Held captive by her employers-and by her own demons-on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and survival.
Hannaham is the author of the novel God Says No, which was honored by the American Library Association. He holds an MFA from the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and lives in Brooklyn, where he teaches creative writing at the Pratt Institute.
Brent Armendinger is the author of The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying (Noemi Press, 2015), as well as two chapbooks, Undetectable (New Michigan Press, 2009) andArchipelago (Noemi Press, 2009). His work has also appeared in many journals, including Aufgabe, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Fourteen Hills, LIT, Puerto del Sol, Volt, and Web Conjunctions. Brent grew up in Warsaw, NY, and studied at Bard College and the University of Michigan, where he received an Avery Hopwood Award in Poetry. In 2013, he was awarded a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Brent is an Associate Professor of English and World Literature at Pitzer College, and he lives in Los Angeles.
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and crossed the border through Tijuana at the age of five with his family. He is a Canto Mundo fellow, a Zell post-graduate fellow and the first undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan’s MFA program. He is a Pushcart nominee and has received fellowships to attend the Squaw Valley Writer’s Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center. He teaches summers as the resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. He was a finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award and his manuscript was a finalist for the Alice James Book Prize. His poems and essays can be found in Huizache, Indiana Review, New England Review, The Paris American, and Buzzfeed, among others.
L.A.-based writer, lecturer, and media ecologist Gerry Fialka hosts an evening of readings and discussion with local poets exploring the various intersections of poetry and politics.
RC poetry instructor Ken Mikolowski reads from his new collection, That That, from Wayne State University Press. Signing.
