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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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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.[...]

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.

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[...]

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.  

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[...]

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

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.  

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[...]

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.[...]