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Julie Pincus, artist and co-author of Canvas Detroit, which captures hundreds of pieces of artwork in many forms—including large-scale and small-scale murals, sculptures, portraits, light projections, wearable art, and installations (made with wood, glass, living plants, fiber,[...]

 Mary Ruefle graduated from Bennington College in 1974 with a degree in Literature. She has published many books of poetry, including Selected Poems; A Little White Shadow, an art book of “erasures”; Tristimania; Among the Musk Ox People; Apparition Hill; Cold[...]

How do you tell others about your book? Is there a way to sum up an entire book without getting bogged down in detail or leaving out the main point? In “What To Talk About[...]

Maureen N. McLane grew up in upstate New York and was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of World Enough: poems (FSG, 2010) and Same Life: poems (FSG, 2008), and a poetry[...]

“The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate: Race, Caste, and Colonialism” In this lecture. Arundhati Roy looks at how caste has continued through modern Indian history, and why the words of Ambedkar are necessary[...]

Ruin: Essays in Exilic Living. Adrianne Kalfopoulou is the author of Ruin: Essays in Exilic Living, a collection of essays linking meditations on teaching, friendship, motherhood, love, the financial meltdown in Greece, the shared language of politics[...]

Brett Bevell, author of Energy Healing for Everyone: A Path to Wholeness and Awakening, will demonstrate simple user-friendly Essene-inspired energy healing techniques from his new book. These simple techniques promote calm inner peace, and can[...]

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.  (Next teas: November 5, December 9)

Elmaz Abinader will be reading from her new poetry collection, This House, My Bones. She is an award-winning poet, memoirist, playwright and novelist, and currently a creative writing professor at Mills College (California). She has been a Fulbright[...]

Andrea Barrett was born in Boston in 1954, grew up on Cape Cod, and later attended Union College, where she graduated with a degree in biology. She began writing fiction seriously in her thirties and[...]

Ann Arbor native Philip Stead releases Sebastian and the Balloon, his newest children’s picture book. Phil wrote and illustrated the book. Phil is the author of the Caldecott winner, A Sick Day for Amos McGee.[...]

The Detroiters Speak series will open this Thursday with an exciting discussion of the state of the Detroit Public School system. Hosted by the RC’s Lolita Hernandez, panelists will include former principals and a parent, all of whom have[...]

Simon Mermelstein will read from his book Zero One: Poems for Humans. He is an Ann Arbor Poetry Slam finalist whose work has been published in The MacGuffin and The Huron River Review. The event begins with an Open Mic[...]

Lucy Ives was born in New York City and earned her BA from Harvard College and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her first collection, the book-length poem Anamnesis (2009), won the Slope Editions Book Prize.[...]

Andrea Hannah lives in the Midwest, where there are plenty of dark nights and creepy cornfields to use as fodder for her next thriller. She graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in special[...]

Greg Jolley earned a Master of Art in writing from the University of San Francisco. He is the author of nine novels about the Danser family, including the recent Danser. He is also a musician/songwriter; he released the[...]

Author Blaine Pardoe will discuss his new book, The Murder of Maggie Hume: Cold Case in Battle Creek, about brutal murder of the daughter of a beloved Battle Creek football coach in 1983. Compiled from[...]

Mimi Lipson is a writer based out of Kingston, NY. Her first book The Cloud of Unknowing (Yeti Publishing), was released in May. Her stories have appeared in BOMB, Joyland Magazine, and Brooklyn Rail. Garnett Kilberg Cohen[...]

Poet John Buckley was Born in Flint, raised in Sylvan Lake, and earned a BA in English from U-M.  He has lived in California, earned an MA in Literature from San Francisco State University. In Fall[...]

 Alan Cheuse is the author of five novels, including the award-winning To Catch the Lightning and Song of Slaves in the Desert, plus several collections of short fiction and novellas. He has also published several works of nonfiction[...]

The Detroiters Speak series continues with a discussion of the Coleman Young Sr. Legacy.  Hosted by Stephen Ward, with guests Bob Berg (former Young Press Secretary), WSU professor Melba Boyd , Rev. Larry Simmons, Pastor of Baber AME[...]

 Note: Admission is free for this event but seating is limited. Please arrive early.As part of the Institute for the Humanities’ new Living Room Series of performances in intimate spaces, Eric Bogosian, one of America’s[...]

Performed by the Two Worlds Ensemble: Andrew Jennings and Christina McGann, violins Charlton Lee, viola Katri Ervamaa, cello (RC lecturer!) Lenin Vizuete and Danilo Vizuete, zampoña and toyos panpipes Franklin Paéz, flautas de pan Música Mestiza[...]

D.E. Ireland is a team of award-winning authors, Meg Mims and Sharon Pisacreta. Long time friends, they decided to collaborate on an unique series based on George Bernard Shaw’s wonderfully witty play, Pygmalion, and flesh out their own version[...]

George Dila will  read from his new short story collection Working Stiff. He is a native Detroiter now living in Ludington, and is founder/director of Ludington Visiting Writers. John Mauk is a Michigander at heart who currently[...]

Triumphant Warrior is the story of how Wayne Moore found strength through struggle after finding himself in prison for protesting the institutionalized racial discrimination and hostilities surrounding court-ordered desegregation in Wilmington N.C. . Wayne was[...]

30 million copies of Dr. Kathy Reich’s mysteries are in print in 30 languages around the world. One of the longest TV series in the history of the FOX network – Bones – is based[...]

Hampton Sides  is the author of Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, and other bestselling works of narrative history.  His most recent book (August 2014) is In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of[...]

October’s theme is Horror/ The Weird. Readers include Zell Fellows Dan Hornsby and Rose Miller with guests, Literati booksellers and Zell Writers’ program alum, Russ Brakefield and John Ganiard.

To Forget Venice is the title of Peg Boyers’s newest collection of poems. The site of several unforgettable years of her adolescence, the place she has returned to more frequently than any other, the city[...]

Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of three books of poetry: Satin Cash, Blue Venus, and Glass Town, for which she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award in 2000. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2008, Image, The Kenyon[...]

The Detroiters Speak series continues with a discussion about General Gordon Baker Jr.  Hosted by Lolita Hernandez, with guests UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles, Bob King, WSU professor David Goldberg, and others. The UM Center is at the[...]

Barbara J. VanderMolen grew up in Dearborn Heights (Wayne Couhty) graduated from Western Michigan University and lived in Kalamazoo County for a decade, and now lives in Charlotte (Eaton County.) Barb was a tour guide in[...]

Stephen Schottenfeld will read from his debut novel, Bluff City Pawn. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his stories have appeared in the Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, StoryQuarterly, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Iowa Review, New England Review, and[...]

This event is intended for Grades 2 – 5 Jonathan Rand, local author of the popular youth series Michigan Chillers and American Chillers, discusses how he became a writer and how reading and writing are necessary in life.[...]

Local indie press Short Flight/Long Drive‘s Marry, F*ck, Kill, (Cuddle) Tour features five writers: Chloe Caldwell is the author of the forthcoming novella, Women, (SF/LD Books, October 2014) and the essay collection Legs Get led Astray[...]

Book signing and talk with Samantha Harris, author of Fighting Malevolent Spirits: A Demonologist’s Darkest Encounters. Harris will share evidence and stories from her most disturbing cases, including a case she worked on with renowned Lorrain Warren (as featured in the[...]

Chicago-based Chinese-American poet Li-Young Lee reads. Born in Djakarta, Indonesia in 1957 to Chinese political exiles, Lee’s great grandfather was the first president of the Republic of China, and Lee’s father had been the personal physician[...]

In this reading Scottish poet Robert Crawford presents some of his reworkings of Greek and Latin texts in the wider context of his work. Part of the reading will feature his versions of ancient verse[...]

In Honor of Lorna Goodison’s Retirement Edward Baugh is a Professor Emeritus of English, University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He holds degrees from the University College of the West Indies (BA Hons., 1957), Queen’s[...]

Event is free but ticketed. Limited to 300. Contact Nicola’s Books at 734-662-0600. New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison was born and raised in Michigan and has recently returned there to escape the South Carolina[...]

The Detroiters Speak series continues with Beyond The Motown Sound.  Hosted by Lolita Hernandez, with musicians Bill Meyer and Robert Jones. The UM Center is at the corner of Woodward and MLK. Free parking available in the[...]