Calendar

All poets invited to compete in a weekly poetry slam judged by a randomly chosen panel from the audience. The program begins with a brief poetry open mike and (usually) a short set by a[...]

Sergio Troncoso is author of From This Wicked Patch of Dust, which Kirkus Reviews named as one of the Best Books of 2012 in a starred review. The novel won the Southwest Book Award. Troncoso[...]

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[...]

Readings by U-M creative writing grad students

All poets invited to compete in a weekly poetry slam judged by a randomly chosen panel from the audience. The program begins with a brief poetry open mike and (usually) a short set by a[...]

Reading, with accompaniment by a Detroit musician TBA, by this influential Puerto Rican poet, a retired Rutgers University English professor who cofounded the Nuyorican Poets Café. He is also the first English translator of Neruda’s[...]

Vikram Chandra authored the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize for Fiction for the book Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995). He has written many other novels and collections, and one of[...]

Bloomfield Hills resident Ron Gries discusses his memoir, a mix of free verse poetry and prose, written over the last 3 years of his wife’s illness and death and for 14 months after as he[...]

With U-M’s Daniel Herwitz and Linda Gregerson.

Veteran novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki reads from her critically acclaimed 2014 novel, the 2014 Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads selection. The story is an inventive, beguiling blend of 2 narratives, one of a[...]

Jean Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her eleventh book of poetry is Break the Glass (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). Her new book, Shirt in Heaven,[...]

This local poet, an award-winning U-M creative writing grad, reads from Wait ‘Til You Have Real Problems, his recently published debut collection which deploys familiar characters from Rapunzel to Perseus and whimsically surreal tall tales[...]

Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild members host a storytelling program. Audience members are encouraged to bring a 5-minute story to tell.

Marion discusses her memoir for young people about her family’s struggle to survive the horrors of the Nazis. (DT 4th floor, meeting room).

Katie Hartsock is the author of a poetry chapbook, Hotels, Motels, and Extended Stays, published by Toadlily Press in their 2014 Quartet Series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Crab Orchard[...]

This Manchester writer and illustrator discusses her 2 Christian children’s books, Guided by Grace and God’s Greatest Gift.

All poets invited to compete in a weekly poetry slam judged by a randomly chosen panel from the audience. The program begins with a brief poetry open mike and (usually) a short set by a[...]

Royal Oak based Josh Malerman published Bird Box in May 2014. Kirkus Starred Review calls it “an unsettling thriller,” and compares it to Hitchcock’s The Birds, “as well as the finer efforts of Stephen King and cult sci-fi fantasist Jonathan[...]

Reading by Detroit poet Jamaal May. The program begins with open mike readings.

Local professional cartoonists are on hand to help adults and teens in grade 9 & up work on their own comics. All completed strips may be submitted for inclusion in the new AADL webcomics page.  AADL[...]

Professional cartoonist Zack Giallongo, best known as the creator of the 2012 fantasy Broxo, is on hand via Skype to help adults and teens in grade 9 & up work on their own comics. All completed[...]

Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign[...]

Area writer Teresa Irish, author of A Thousand Letters Home: One WWII Soldier’s Story of War, Love and Life, gives a presentation based on her father’s WWII letters, which were discovered in 2006.  

This NYC-based French novelist and journalist talks about some aspect of her work. She is best known in the U.S. through Sam Richard’s translation of Voice Over, her acclaimed novel about a lonely young Parisian[...]

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[...]

Local young adult fiction writer Lara Zielin and short story writer Margaret Yang host an open house for writers to connect with one another and/or work on their projects. For adult and teen (grade 6 &[...]

From one of the great masters of the contemporary short story, There’s Something I Want You To Do is an astonishing collection of inter-related stories that showcases Charles Baxter’s unique ability to unveil the remarkable in[...]

Investigative journalist Christian Parenti discusses his book that explores how climate change contributes to wars, humanitarian crises, and state failures.

This U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies visiting scholar discusses Still Jewish, her 2009 book about interfaith relationships and how they’re portrayed in the mass media, advice manuals, and religious literature. Dinner. Followed by services.

Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and,most recently,  Get in Trouble. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short[...]

Feb. 21 & 22 (different programs). Performances for adults (Feb. 21) & families (Feb. 22) by top-notch storytellers from around the country and the state. Headliners areAlton Takiyama-Chung, a veteran Hawaiian storyteller whose repertoire includes[...]

Feb. 21 & 22 (different programs). Performances for adults (Feb. 21) & families (Feb. 22) by top-notch storytellers from around the country and the state. Headliners are Alton Takiyama-Chung, a veteran Hawaiian storyteller whose repertoire includes[...]

All poets invited to compete in a weekly poetry slam judged by a randomly chosen panel from the audience. The program begins with a brief poetry open mike and (usually) a short set by a[...]

Sheila McCauley a new memoir she co-wrote about her aunt, Rosa Parks, the iconic Civil Rights activist. AADL multipurpose room (lower level)  

Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother[...]

Poetry slam teams from across the state battle for a spot at the Michigan Youth Poetry Slam State Championships.