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Lecture by this ABC News and NPR correspondent, creator of the NPR talk show Tell Me More, which ran 2006-2014. Reception follows.  Michigan League Hussey Room. Free, but preregistration required at cew.umich.edu.  

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.  

This New York-based writer reads from Binary Star, her debut novel about a young woman struggling with anorexia and her long-distance, alcoholic boyfriend. Writer Justin Taylor calls it “merciless and cyclonic, a true and brutal[...]

Bowling Green State University Romance and Classical studies professor Carlo Celli discusses his new book, Economic Fascism: Primary Sources on Mussolini’s Crony Capitalism.  

Local young adult fiction writer Lara Zielin and short story writer Margaret Yang discuss how to shape a narrative. For adult and teen (grade 6 & up) fiction and nonfiction writers. Also, Zielin and Yang[...]

This U-M visiting creative writing professor, winner of a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” award, reads from Night at the Fiestas, her acclaimed debut collection of northern New Mexico stories about growing up in[...]

John Cage Trust Fund executive director Laura Kuhn, an Institute for the Humanities visiting fellow, and U-M dance professor Peter Sparling discuss Kuhn’s ongoing work transcribing and scanning the collection of 329 diaries the seminal[...]

Carla Harryman is the author of seventeen books of poetry, prose, and works for performance including W— /M— (2013), Adorno’s Noise (2008),Gardener of Stars (2001), and Animal Instincts: Prose, Plays, Essays (1989).  Her collaborative works include the multi-authored work The Grand Piano, an Experiment in[...]

 Amber Nelson is the co-founder and poetry editor of the online journal alice blue, and the founding editor of alice blue books and shotgun wedding and the author of In Anima: Urgency. A second book, The[...]

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.  

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[...]

Reading by Laurence Thomas, an Ypsilanti poet whose work ranges from lyrical nature poems to avant-garde experimental poems to poems about philosophy, love, religion, and protest. The program begins with an open mike for poets.[...]

Courtney Maum reads from her debut I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You. Maum graduated from Brown University with a degree in Comparative Literature. She then lived in France for five years where she[...]

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

Presented by University of Michigan students, The I Will Open Mic Night is a space for people to share and submit stories and poems.  The Open Mic Night is the final event of I Will[...]

You’ve been waiting all year, and it’s finally here: the RC Review Release Party! Join us on Friday, April 10th, to pick up your free copy of this year’s magazine and bask in its glory.[...]

U-M drama lecturers Kate Mendeloff and Martin Walsh direct RC students in Jaclyn Dudek’s new translation of Euripides’ classical tragedy. It tells of the catastrophe that results when King Pentheus bans the worship of a[...]

U-M drama lecturers Kate Mendeloff and Martin Walsh direct RC students in Jaclyn Dudek’s new translation of Euripides’ classical tragedy. It tells of the catastrophe that results when King Pentheus bans the worship of a[...]

Robert Howse, author of Leo Strauss: Man of Peace, reads, and participate in a panel discussion. Panelists include Dr. Mariah Zeisberg and Paul Sunstein. Howse is is the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at New York[...]

Bryon Quertermous will read from his first novel, Murder Boy.  His short stories have appeared in Plots With Guns, Thuglit, and Crime Factory among others, and in the anthologies Hardcore Hardboiled, The Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories,[...]

Chigozie Obioma reads from his debut novel The Fishermen.  Obioma was born in Nigeria. He has lived in Cyprus, Turkey and now the United States where he is a Helen Zell fellow at U-M. A recipient[...]

This Michigan writer discusses Under the Radar Michigan: The First 50, his new book that draws on his PBS show of the same name that highlights cool people, places, and things in Michigan. Signing.

All-star storytelling showdown featuring the last 10 winners of the Ann Arbor and the Detroit Storyslams, the monthly open mike storytelling competitions sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a[...]

Designer Oliver Uberti will discuss his book, The Information Capital: 100 Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You View The City.  Although the book’s not yet available in the U.S., Uberti will be signing copies[...]

Reading by this Arizona poet, winner of a Pushcart Prize and a NEA fellowship. “Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency,” says a Huffington Post review. He has[...]

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 discuss how to shape a narrative. For adult and teen (grade 6 & up) fiction and nonfiction writers.

Ann Arbor journalist and poet Leslie McGraw reads from Emergencies of the Heart, her debut poetry collection, and Ypsilanti writer David Hasey reads from Selah!,his collection of Christian devotional writings.  

Reading by this Rome Prize-winning Maryland-based poet, a former U.N. translator. Her latest book, night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes, combines poetry, essay, and memoir. “Poetry and psychoanalysis share a way of thinking: searching,[...]

This Ann Arbor writer discusses Pirate Hunter, the 3rd in her series of novels about a resourceful female pirate.  

The top 12 qualifiers from the weekly slams over the past several months compete for a spot on the team that will represent Ann Arbor in the National Poetry Slam held in Oakland in August.[...]

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

You are all invited to come join us for the end of the year Art Show of the Digital Storytelling course at the RC Cafe! See the amazing digital work of our students, find out[...]

RC theater students present a program of short plays TBA.  

Megan Levad is a local poet, assistant director of the U-M Helen Zell Writing Program, and a U-M creative writing grad. She will read from her work; she has a new collection, Why We Live in[...]

This bestselling writer reads from The Dream Lover, her new historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of George Sand, the iconoclastic 19th-century writer who was infamous for her eccentricities and passions. Signing.  

Reading by veteran local poet and U-M undergrad creative writing coordinator Keith Taylor, author of several chapbooks, including the recent The Ancient Murrelet, a collection of poems about traveling, getting lost,  and coming home. The[...]

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[...]

Join RC creative writing seniors as they read from their work – one last chance to celebrate the Creative Writer Class of 2015! Light refreshments!  

Lecture by acclaimed Irish poet Eavon Boland. Her talk highlights the annual ceremony recognizing the winners of the prestigious U-M contest for graduate and undergraduate poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing.  

Reading by Friends of Poetry (Kalamazoo) president Elizabeth Kerlikowske,whose latest collection, Last Hula: Poems of a Father’s Final Aloha, won the Standing Rock Cultural Arts chapbook contest. Followed by a poetry and short fiction open[...]

Poetry readings by Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and performance poet Shira Erlichman, EMU creative writing teacher and Neutral Zone creative arts director Jeff Kass, and Brooklyn-based Ann Arbor native Angel Nafis, a nationally renowned slam poet who[...]

Poetry and fiction readings by U-M postgrad Zell fellows Ali Shapiro, James Pinto, Nick Harp, and Fritz Swanson. The April theme is action.  

Garth Stein is a filmmaker, producer, and bestselling writer, author of the popular novel The Art of Racing in the Rain. He discusses his work with Michigan Theater business development director Drew Waller. Q&A. Signing.  

Kalamazoo fiction writer Bonnie Jo Campbell reads from her stories. Her 2009 book,American Salvage, is a collection of Michigan stories that was a National Book Award finalist, and her short story “The Smallest Man in[...]

Julie Babcock is a Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of grants and fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission and the Vermont Studio Center. Her poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies including The Iowa[...]

This Pulitzer Prize-winning poet reads from Ordinary Light, her new memoir that explores questions about faith, black identity, and her strong bond with her devout Alabama-born mother. “Full of flashes of insight and passages that[...]

The Midwest Literary Walk is an annual literary event the last Saturday in April aimed at highlighting the power of literature and poetry in everyday life.  Reading events take place at a range of venues in[...]

This Detroit nonfiction writer discusses American Murder Houses: A Coast to Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide, his new book exploring the past and present of more than 25 notorious homicide scenes.[...]

Readings by the top five winners of the Ann Arbor Area High School Poetry Contest.  

All invited to listen to guild members swap stories or bring their own to tell.  

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

Readings by these Detroit-born poets. May is a 2-time World Poetry Slam finalist whose chapbooks feature syntactically limpid, vividly figured, playfully riddling poems on quotidian themes. Olzmann’s 2013 collection, Mezzanines, won a Kundiman Poetry Prize.[...]