Calendar

Zilka Joseph will read from What Dread and Lands I Live In, which were nominated for a Pushcart and a PEN America award, respectively. She will illustrate how theme and sequence work in her chapbooks[...]

Bill Loomis is the author of Detroit’s Delectable Past (2012), Detroit Food (2014) and numerous articles on culinary and social history. His writing has been published in the Detroit News, Michigan History Magazine, New York Times, Hour[...]

Literati welcomes Clayton Eshleman in support of his latest collection, Clayton Eshleman: Essential Poetry 1960-2015. Clayton Eshleman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, June 1, 1935. He has a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A.T. in English[...]

John Smolens has published nine works of fiction, including Cold, Quarantine, and The Schoolmaster’s Daughter. He lives in Marquette, Michigan. Book: In 1944 Italian officer Captain Francesco Verdi is captured by Allied forces in North Africa[...]

Devin Johnston. Reading by this St. Louis-based lyric poet and essayist, who has been described as “one of the most ambitiously painstaking craftsmen in contemporary American poetry,” by the New York Times. His acclaimed 2015 collection, Far-Fetched,[...]

Christopher Apap launches of The Genius of Place: The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic. The Genius of Place examines how, after the War of 1812, concerns about the scale of the nation resulted in a fundamental[...]

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.

Nina McConigley is the author of the story collection Cowboys and East Indians, which won the 2014 PEN Open Book Award and a High Plains Book Award. She was born in Singapore and grew up[...]

This month Bookbound is hosting a full night of Open Mic poetry. Please share and hear some great poetry in a welcoming atmosphere. This is a monthly series held on the second Thursday of each month.

Literati will host some of the authors appearing at the Voices of the Middle West conference for a special kick-off reading event on March 11th, at 7pm, in our second floor event space. Admission is[...]

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. Tonight: fiction writer Belle Baxley and poet Kayla Krut. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in[...]

Created by Midwestern Gothic in partnership with the Residential College, Voices of the Middle West is a festival celebrating writers from all walks of life as well as independent presses and journals that consider the[...]

William Anderson is an award-winning historian and author whose interest in the “Little House” books began in elementary school. Much of his research for this book was conducted on-site at the locales of the Ingalls[...]

Join U-M History faculty as they discuss their recent publications, which will be available for purchase and signing. Featuring: Stephen Berrey, Howard Brick, Deirdre de Cruz, Gregory Dowd, Hussein Fancy, Nancy Rose Hunt, Martha S.[...]

Reading by InsideOut Literary Arts Project (Detroit) associate director and Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Detroit project coordinator Alise Alousi, whose work is featured inInclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry. The program begins with open[...]

Giddy-Up Buckaroos! Shandra Trent writes: Since I was a child, words flowed from my brain to the page. No…they gushed. I was a geyser of words. From creative writing to journalism, I had a lot to[...]

MacArthur Fellow and Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond reads from Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of[...]

Literati Bookstore and Michigan Radio Present Diane Rehm In Conversation with Cynthia Canty March, 17th, 2016, 7pm. Rackham Auditorium, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, 48109 Purchase tickets by clicking here.  Literati is thrilled to[...]

The University of Michigan Medical School will be hosting “Your Doctor Writes Poetry: What Purpose Does Art Serve in Medicine?” a Humanism and Ethics Night with Harvard physician-poet Dr. Rafael Campo. This event is sponsored[...]

This local poet, a 2-time Pushcart Prize nominee, reads from his new chapbook, The Continuing Adventures of Orthomax: Now with Bombastic Pentameter! His poetry is marked by a self-deprecating sense of humor that is by[...]

Craig Dionne will present from his title Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene. Approaching King Lear from an eco-materialist perspective, Posthuman Lear examines how the shift in Shakespeare’s tragedy from court to stormy heath[...]

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. Tonight: fiction writer Allie Tova Hirsach and Warner James Wood. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in[...]

Owen Laukkanen is the author of The Professionals, Criminal Enterprise, Kill Fee, and The Stolen Ones. The Professionals was nominated for the Anthony Award, Barry Award, Spinetingler Magazine Best Novel: New Voices Award, and the International Thriller[...]

Sweetland’s Word²: Writer to Writer series lets you hear directly from University of Michigan professors about their challenges, processes, and expectations as writers and also as readers of student writing. Word² pairs one esteemed University[...]

Former CIA daily intelligence briefer David Priess discusses his new book based largely on his experience working for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Reception and signing follow.

Diane Wakoski won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams prize with her selected poems, Emerald Ice. Most recent of her more than 20 poetry collections is Bay of Angels. Now retired, Wakoski was Poet[...]

This presentation explores methodological questions for the interdisciplinary scholar who interprets archival documents and material culture for the recovery of trans-hemispheric links between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late 18th and early[...]

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of Open Interval, a 2009 National Book Award finalist, and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, as well as Poems in Conversation and a Conversation,[...]

Tom Bissell will read from his latest, Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve, a journey into the heart of Christianity. The widely acclaimed author of”The Disaster Artist” explores the mysterious and often paradoxical lives[...]

From the editors: “We are The Oleander Review, an undergraduate-run literary magazine at the University of Michigan that publishes both local and national writers of all levels of expertise and backgrounds. We aim to provide[...]

Retired University of Toledo history professor Peter Linebaugh discusses his new book, a compendium of reflections on May Day from figures as far flung as Karl Marx and W.E.B. Du Bois. Refreshments & signing.

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

Literati is pleased to welcome Scott Ellsworth in support of The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph. The Secret Game is the true story of the game that never should have happened–and[...]

Pamela Reynolds, Professor Emerita at Johns Hopkins University, is RC Visiting Scholar. She reads from her recent book, War in Worcester: Youth in the Apartheid State. She has received the NOMA Literary Prize.

Literati celebrates its third birthday! As on our previous anniversary parties, In the spirit of donating and giving back, all book sales throughout the day will benefit SafeHouse Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending domestic violence[...]