Calendar

Panel discussion on the issues raised by 2013 U-M Livingston Award for Young Journalists winner Luke Mogelson’s New York Times article about the plight of asylum seekers from the Middle East and Central Asia trying[...]

Radio Campfire is a new series of listening events devoted to memorable radio documentaries, soundscapes and experimental sonic shorts. Think relaxed, magical and intimate, like the campfire (minus the burnt marshmallows.) The inaugural event will[...]

In this 8-week course, Writing in The D, U-M students and Detroit Public High School students will work to improve writing skills through writing short fiction. Classes will include impromptu writing exercises, online character sketches, online[...]

U-M faculty and undergrad and grad students read their poetry exploring the notions of boarders of various sorts. Readers include American culture professor Amy Sara Carroll, U-M creative writing grad Marcelo Hernández Castillo, U-M creative[...]

Reading by InsideOut Literary Arts Project (Detroit) writers-in-schools program founder Terry Blackhawk, a widely published poet who writes brightly figured poems praised for their accessibility and sincerity. The program begins with open mike readings.

All invited to read and discuss their poetry or short stories. Bring about 6 copies of your work to share. Hosted by local poets and former college English teachers Joe Kelty and Ed Morin.

Jim Ottaviani discusses On Purpose: Lessons inLife and Health from the Frog, the Dung Beetle, and Julia with author Vic Strecher.

Lecture by graphic novelist Alison Bechdel, author of Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, and the comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For. Q&A at 2 pm at the Hopwood Room, 1176 Angell Hall.[...]

Each term, Semester in Detroit and the U-M Detroit Center partner to organize community classroom events that are free and open to the public.  Detroit community members join together with U-M students, faculty and staff[...]

Lucy Corin is the author of the short story collection The Entire Predicament (Tin House Books) and the novel Everyday Psychokillers:  A History for Girls (FC2).  The collection One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses was released in September 2013 from McSweeney’s[...]

Jason Vine‘s What Did Jesus Drive? Crisis PR in Cars, Computers and Christianity is mostly about crises in the car industry, but also about being on the front-line of one crisis after another, offering insight[...]

Kat Finch lives in Ann Arbor where she attends U-M’s Zell Writers Program. Her work is forthcoming in Sixth Finch & The New Megaphone, and can be found in Birdfeast, Ilk, & The Sugar House Review. Joshua Young is the author[...]

Poet Jerry Dennis discusses his new book, A Daybreak Handbook.

Zell Writers’ Program Alum Rebecca Scherm reads from her debut novel, Unbecoming. She received her MFA from U-M, where she was also a postgraduate Zell Fellow.  She lives in Michigan, where she is working on her second novel, Beta.

Jim Leija, Martin Walsh, and Leigh Woods discuss Staging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts with author Leslie Stainton.  The book is about one of America’s oldest and most ghosted theaters: the Fulton Theatre[...]

Reading by Madeline Strong Diehl, a local journalist (and Observer contributor) and editor who also writes essays, plays, fiction, and poetry, including the recent collection, Wrestling with Angels. Followed by a poetry and short fiction open mike.  

Emily Wilson is the author of The Keep, Micrographia, and The Great Medieval Yellows (forthcoming from Canarium Books in April 2015). She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts[...]