Calendar

Literati helps launch John U. Bacon‘s latest book, Endzone, with a reading by the author, Q&A, and signing at Rackham Auditorium. Start time listed is tentative. Endzone tells the story of how college football’s most successful, richest and[...]

New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison was born and raised in the upper Midwest. Her bestselling Hollows novels include Dead Witch Walking; The Good, the Bad, and the Undead; Every Which Way But Dead;[...]

Ferndale playwright Annie Martin’s Exposure. $10 ($40 for all readings, also on Sept 5 and 6) in advance at pntheatre.org and at the door.  663-0681.

NYC playwright Kat Ramsburg’s Anatomy of a Hug (1 p.m.) and Wyoming playwright William Missouri Downs’ How to Steal a Picasso (4 p.m.). Also, at 8 p.m., a free reading of the Performance Network’s upcoming[...]

Sept. 1: Ferndale playwright Annie Martin’s Exposure. Sept. 5: NYC playwright Kat Ramsburg’s Anatomy of a Hug (1 p.m.) and Wyoming playwright William Missouri Downs’ How to Steal a Picasso (4 p.m.). Also, at 8[...]

Detroit playwright Emily Goodson’s The Third Glass (10:30 a.m.) and Howell playwright David MacGregor’s The Anti Christ Cometh (2 p.m.). Also, a closing reception at 4 p.m. $10 at the door. 663-0681.

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.[...]

On Sept. 10, local young adult fiction writer Lara Zielin and short story writer Alex Kourvo are joined by U-M Press marketing director Renee Tambeau and Michigan & Great lakes acquiring editor Scott Ham to[...]

Literati welcomes poets Linda Gregerson and David Baker, and scholar Steven Mullaney, in celebration of their recent titles. David Baker is author or editor of fourteen books of poetry and criticism. He holds the Thomas B.[...]

Literati welcomes Christopher Moore to Ann Arbor to read from his latest, Secondhand Souls. This event is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 11:30am. We expect a large crowd, and seated is limited.[...]

Literati welcomes Jerry Dennis and Glenn Wolff, founders of Michigan independent publisher Big Maple Press. They will be on hand to read and present from their collaborative work. In autumn 2014 author Jerry Dennis and[...]

Poet Bob Clifford is an RC creative writing alum (’79) and is former associate director and coordinator of academic programs, where he designed and implemented an academic program for over 600 student-athletes and monitored compliance of[...]

Aunt Agatha’s co-owner (and BookFest president) Robin Agnew discusses the 13th annual BookFest (September 13) and introduces The Art of the Book, a new AADL exhibit organized in conjunction with the BookFest that showcases entries in its[...]

Rob Halpern’s latest collection, Common Place, was released this year from Ugly Duckling Press. Common Place continues Halpern’s sustained inquiry into the relations of body and voice to relentless militarization and economic depredation. Rob Halpern is[...]

Started in 2003, the Kerrytown BookFest is an event celebrating those who create books and those who read them. The primary goal is to highlight the area’s rich heritage in the book and printing arts[...]

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.[...]

Literati welcomes Matt Bell  in support of his latest novel, Scrapper. Matt Bell’s last novel, The House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award,[...]

    One Pause Poetry and White Lotus Farms are pleased to welcome Gary Snyder, who has been called “the poet laureate of Deep Ecology” and “the Thoreau of the Beat Generation,” for a reading[...]

Literati welcomes Professor Caryl Flinn (BFI Film Classics: The Sound of Music), Professor Markus Nornes (Staging Memories: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness), Professor Yeidy Rivero (Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television 1950-106), Associate Professor Matthew[...]

Next Chapter launches its Poetry Reading and Open Mic series with readings from eight Michigan Poetry Society poets.  

Literati welcomes Patrick Wensink in support of his latest novel, Fake Fruit Factory (September 2015, Curbside Splendor). Reading with Patrick will be friend of the store Aaron Burch, the editor of Hobart: Another Literary Journal and author[...]

Nicola’s Books will join other bookstores across the country to celebrate ‘Curiosity Day,’ an annual event that promotes the joy of reading and learning with everyone’s favorite monkey, Curious George. For two hours it will[...]

Kate Mendeloff and the RC Visiting Artists program welcome Alice Eve Cohen, playwright, author and actor,  for a production of “Thin Walls”  — a play about a microcosm of the urban landscape at a turbulent[...]

WITH READINGS FROM LEGENDARY DETROIT­ AREA WRITERS & POETS:Naomi Long Madgett, Bill Harris, Lolita Hernandez, Terry Blackhawk & Melba Joyce Boyd Public unveiling of ten large­ scale portraits, meet and greet with muralist Nicole Macdonald,[...]

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.[...]

Includes a talk on the therapeutic power of memoir writing and a book signing of the author’s memoir, What You Feel Is Real.    

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[...]

Brian Freeman joins our book club on Wednesday, September 23 at 7 PM, to talk about his Jonathan Stride novel The Cold Nowhere as well as his new thriller, Season of Fear. He’ll also be[...]

Reading by Ken Meisel, an award-winning Detroit-area poet whose recent The Drunken Sweetheart at My Door is a collection of surrealistic metaphysical poems about love. Followed by a poetry and short fiction open mike.  

Local young adult fiction writer Lara Zielin and short story writer Alex Kourvo  host an open house for writers to connect with each other and/or work on their projects.

Jon M. Stevens was born in Powell, Ohio, and grew up in the shadow of Ohio Stadium. He earned a master’s degree from U-M in 2004 and is currently a designer for an architecture firm in[...]

Jon M. Stevens was born in Powell, Ohio, and grew up in the shadow of Ohio Stadium. He earned a master’s degree from U-M in 2004 and is currently a designer for an architecture firm in[...]

Literati welcomes Robert James Russell for the launch of his western novel, Mesilla. Reading with Robert will be Chicago-based author Ben Tanzer. A born and bred Michigander, Robert James Russell is the co-founding editor of the literary journal Midwestern[...]

The UM School of Music Jazz Department is sponsoring this appearance by NYC percussionist/drummer William Hooker who will perform to Oscar Micheaux‘s silent film Within Our Gates (1920). Micheaux is considered the first major African[...]

Roxane Gay’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West[...]

Literati welcomes Jon Fine, author of Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock’s Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear). Jon Fine is the executive editor of Inc. magazine. As a guitarist—in Bitch Magnet, Coptic[...]

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.[...]

Deborah L. Wolter is an elementary teacher consultant in Ann Arbor public schools. She has worked for over 18 years with public school teachers and their students from all walks of life and who were[...]

This Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist discusses her series of mystery novels featuring the crusading small-town West Virginia prosecutor Bell Elkins. Keller also talks about mining in Appalachia, including a disastrous 1972 flood — the subject of[...]

Literati welcomes Claire Vaye Watkins in support of her first novel, Gold Fame Citrus. Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of Battleborn, winner of the Story Prize, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and[...]

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[...]