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Literati is thrilled to bring Ambassador Omar Saif Ghobash to Ann Arbor in support of his book, Letters to a Young Muslim. This event will take place in the Rackham Amphitheater and is free and open[...]

Literati welcomes Bill Ayers to Ann Arbor as part of a national tour to celebrate the release of his latest book, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto. Demand the Impossible! is a manifesto for movement-makers. In an era[...]

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.  

Literati is thrilled to be the bookseller for this celebration of the University of Michigan’s 200th birthday, as the LSA bicentennial welcomes Colson Whitehead, the author, most recently, ofThe Underground Railroad. From #1 New York[...]

Literati is thrilled to be the bookseller for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, which brings world-renowned poets and fiction writers to Helmut Stern Auditorium in the University of[...]

August Smith is a poet. He grew up in the Upper Peninsula, resides in Boston, runs Cool Skull Press, and has published six chapbooks to date. His work has appeared in theNewerYork, Reality Beach, Dirty Chai, Banango Street,[...]

Readings by U-M creative writing grad students, including Michigan fiction writer Yasin Abdul-Muqit and Colorado poet Ambalila Hemsell. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you[...]

Edward Morin is from Chicago, where he earned degrees in English at University of Chicago and Loyola University. His poems have appeared in Hudson Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner.  Collections of his poems include Labor[...]

Every 1st & 3rd Sun. Readings by featured poets, preceded by a poetry open mike. Reading by Ting Gou, a U-M medical student and award-winning poet who recently published her debut chapbook, The Other House.[...]

The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR) presents award-winning poet and 2016 MacArthur Fellow Claudia Rankine. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Rankine will speak about her bestselling book Citizen: An[...]

Literati is thrilled to be the bookseller for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, which brings world-renowned poets and fiction writers to Helmut Stern Auditorium in the University of[...]

Nick Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington, won a Hopwood Award for short fiction while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan Residential College, and his story At the Laundromat[...]

Literati is pleased to welcome Jon Milan and Gail Offen for a presentation of their latest work, Iconic Restaurants of Ann Arbor. What is an iconic Ann Arbor restaurant? Ask anyone who has ever spent time[...]

Literati is thrilled to be the bookseller for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, which brings world-renowned poets and fiction writers to Helmut Stern Auditorium in the University of[...]

All invited to listen to guild members swap stories or bring their own to tell. 2-4 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library Freespace (3rd floor), 343 S. Fifth Ave. Free. 971-5763.

Literati is delighted to be the bookseller for the Ann Arbor District Library‘s event with National Book Award finalist Heather Ann Thompson. Award-winning U-M historian Heather Ann Thompson discusses her critically-acclaimed book Blood in the Water:[...]

Literati is delighted to be the bookseller for Margot Lee Shetterly’s visit to Ann Arbor in support of her book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped[...]

Reading by Detroit-bred poet Nandi Comer, a U-M grad who won the 2016 Detroit Write A House Fellowship. The program begins with open mike readings.

Peter Ho Davies, U-M English professor, reads from his new book, followed by a conversation with Douglas Trevor, U-M English professor, Q & A with the audience, and book signing. Inhabiting four lives, three inspired[...]

Literati is pleased to welcome acclaimed photographer Camilo José Vergara in celebration of his latest work, Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age. Over the past 25 years, award-winning ethnographer[...]

Readings by WSU English professor Caroline Maun, a widely published poet whose collections include The Sleeping and What Remains, and Cruel Garters journal editor Glen Armstrong, an Oakland University writing professor who has published several[...]

RC Creative Writing alumna Carrie Smith joins our book club to talk about and sign her new novel Forgotten City. Everyone is welcome.

Reading by this poet whose Pulitzer Prize-winning 2011 collection, Life on Mars, draws on sources as disparate as Arthur C. Clarke and David Bowie and is in part an elegiac tribute to her late father,[...]

Literati is beyond delighted to celebrate Ann Arbor legend Keith Taylor and his latest collection of poems, The Bird-while, illustrated by Tom Pohrt. “In a natural chronometer, a Bird-while may be admitted as one of the metres, since[...]

Heidi Andermack, born in Michigan, co-founded Chowgirls Killer Catering in 2004. She is a passionate member of her community in Minneapolis, helping establish the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District and serving on the board of the[...]