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Brian Gilmore‘s latest collection We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters has been nominated for NAACP Image Award. Gilmore is a poet, writer, public interest attorney, and columnist with the Progressive Media Project. He is a Cave Canem[...]

Reif Larsen reads from his latest novel, I Am Radar, which draws on the furthest reaches of quantum physics, forgotten history, and performance art. Larsen’s first novel, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, was a New York Times bestseller, was short-listed for[...]

Author Richard Adler is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, the author of several articles on baseball, and an Associate Professor of Microbiology at U-M, and author of a 2014 biography of U-M’s Victor Vaughan.[...]

Cat Warren, author of What The Dog Knows is a university professor and former journalist with an admittedly odd hobby: She and her German shepherd have spent the last seven years searching for the dead. Solo[...]

The second year of the Zell Fellows Reading Series continues , featuring fresh writing from the third year fellows in the U-M Helen Zell Writers’ Program, program alumni, and special guests.  March’s theme is “Sports.”[...]

Rachel Hartman‘s new book, Shadow Scale, is forthcoming from Random House. As a child, Hartman played cello, lip-synched Mozart operas with her sisters, and fostered the deep love of music that inspired much of her[...]

Talk by the Oxford based scholar-translator Rosamund Bartlett, author of an acclaimed new translation of Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina. Bring a bag lunch, if you like.  Room 1636.  

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[...]

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.

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[...]

Readings by U-M creative writing grad students, including fiction writer Denise Dooley and poet Kat Finch.

Midwestern author Stuart Dybek will be keynote speaker at the second annual Voices of the Middle West festival on Saturday, March 21, 2015, at the University of Michigan Residential College, 721 E. University Ave. in[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Author’s Forum Presents: Making Callaloo in Detroit: A Conversation with the RC’s Lolita Hernandez and Laura Thomas

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[...]