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7:00 pm Meet: Rachel Hartman @ Nicola's
Meet: Rachel Hartman @ Nicola's
Mar 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Rachel Hartman‘s new book, Shadow Scale, is forthcoming from Random House. As a child, Hartman played cello, lip-synched Mozart operas with her sisters, and fostered the deep love of music that inspired much of her[...]
7:00 pm Skazat! Poetry Series @ Sweetwaters
Skazat! Poetry Series @ Sweetwaters
Mar 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Reading by local poet Joseph Chapman, whose poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Collagist, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. The program begins with open mike readings.
7:30 pm Moth Storyslam @ Circus
Moth Storyslam @ Circus
Mar 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
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[...]
12:00 pm Rosamund Bartlett @ School of Social Work Building
Rosamund Bartlett @ School of Social Work Building
Mar 18 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Talk by the Oxford based scholar-translator Rosamund Bartlett, author of an acclaimed new translation of Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina. Bring a bag lunch, if you like.  Room 1636.  
5:30 pm Conversation: Jeff Kass and Scott Beal @ Hatcher Library
Conversation: Jeff Kass and Scott Beal @ Hatcher Library
Mar 18 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
“My Beautiful Hook-Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave and Wait ‘Til You Have Real Problems”
9:00 am RC Writer in Residence: Stuart Dybek @ Residential College
RC Writer in Residence: Stuart Dybek @ Residential College
Mar 19 @ 9:00 am – Mar 20 @ 12:00 am
Poet and fiction writer Stuart Dybek will be the RC’s 2015 Artist in Residence, March 19-21, 2015. He will also be keynote speaker at the second annual Voices of the Middle West conference, at the RC[...]
5:10 pm Saki Mafundikwa: Looking Back to a Bright Future @ Michigan Theater
Saki Mafundikwa: Looking Back to a Bright Future @ Michigan Theater
Mar 19 @ 5:10 pm – 7:00 pm
Lecture by this graphic designer, author, filmmaker, and farmer who left a successful design career in New York to return to his native Zimbabwe and open the country’s first school of graphic design and new[...]
5:30 pm Conversation: Martin Espada and Khaled Mattawa @ Stern Auditorium
Conversation: Martin Espada and Khaled Mattawa @ Stern Auditorium
Mar 19 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
U-M English professor and renowned poet Mattawa and highly acclaimed Latino poet Espada discuss Espada’s work. In conjunction with Espada’s reading on Mar. 17.
7:00 pm Neutral Zone’s Youth Poetry Slam Semi-finals @ Huron High School Little Theater
Neutral Zone’s Youth Poetry Slam Semi-finals @ Huron High School Little Theater
Mar 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Readings by young poets battling for a spot at the Ann Arbor Youth Poetry Slam finals on Apr. 2. Other semifinals are held at Pioneer High School (7 p.m., Mar. 20) and Community High School[...]
8:00 pm RC Players: Once Upon A . . . Oh Crap! @ Keene Theater
RC Players: Once Upon A . . . Oh Crap! @ Keene Theater
Mar 19 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
RC students present fellow RC student Rebecca Godwin’s drama about a young woman who lives in a magical land of storytelling cursed with an inability ever to finish a story and subsequently banished to the[...]
12:00 am RC Writer in Residence: Stuart Dybek @ Residential College
RC Writer in Residence: Stuart Dybek @ Residential College
Mar 20 @ 12:00 am – Mar 21 @ 12:00 am
Poet and fiction writer Stuart Dybek will be the RC’s 2015 Artist in Residence, March 19-21, 2015. He will also be keynote speaker at the second annual Voices of the Middle West conference, at the RC[...]
6:00 pm Voices of the Middle West Kick-off @ Literati Bookstore
Voices of the Middle West Kick-off @ Literati Bookstore
Mar 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Acclaimed authors and poets Matt Bell, Laura Kasischke, Caitlin Horrocks, C.J. Hribal, Alissa Nutting, Anne Valente, and Marcus Wicker—all of whom will be featured on panels at the Voices of the Middle West fest on Saturday, March 21, on[...]
7:00 pm Neutral Zone’s Youth Poetry Slam Semi-finals @ Pioneer High School Little Theater
Neutral Zone’s Youth Poetry Slam Semi-finals @ Pioneer High School Little Theater
Mar 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Readings by young poets battling for a spot at the Ann Arbor Youth Poetry Slam finals on Apr. 2. Another semi-final held at Community High School (7 p.m., Mar. 27).  
7:00 pm Webster Reading Series @ Stern Auditorium
Webster Reading Series @ Stern Auditorium
Mar 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Readings by U-M creative writing grad students, including fiction writer Denise Dooley and poet Kat Finch.
8:00 pm RC Players: Once Upon A . . . Oh Crap! @ Keene Theater
RC Players: Once Upon A . . . Oh Crap! @ Keene Theater
Mar 20 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
RC students present fellow RC student Rebecca Godwin’s drama about a young woman who lives in a magical land of storytelling cursed with an inability ever to finish a story and subsequently banished to the[...]
12:00 am RC Writer in Residence: Stuart Dybek @ Residential College
RC Writer in Residence: Stuart Dybek @ Residential College
Mar 21 @ 12:00 am – 9:00 pm
Poet and fiction writer Stuart Dybek will be the RC’s 2015 Artist in Residence, March 19-21, 2015. He will also be keynote speaker at the second annual Voices of the Middle West conference, at the RC[...]
10:00 am Voices of the Middle West Festival
Voices of the Middle West Festival
Mar 21 @ 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Midwestern author Stuart Dybek will be keynote speaker at the second annual Voices of the Middle West festival on Saturday, March 21, 2015, at the University of Michigan Residential College, 721 E. University Ave. in[...]
2:00 pm The State of the Mystery @ Aunt Agatha's
The State of the Mystery @ Aunt Agatha's
Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Aunt Agatha’s co-owner Robin Agnew hosts a panel discussion with 3 mystery writers on their own careers and latest works and on the nature of mystery writing. Cleveland history teacher Sam Thomas writes historical mysteries[...]
3:00 pm Reading: Owen Laukkanen @ Nicola's Books
Reading: Owen Laukkanen @ Nicola's Books
Mar 21 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
This Toronto writer reads from The Stolen Ones, his new novel in his Stevens and Windermere series about the death of a sheriff’s deputy and the mysterious woman found sitting by the body holding the[...]
8:00 pm RC Players: Once Upon A . . . Oh Crap! @ Keene Theater
RC Players: Once Upon A . . . Oh Crap! @ Keene Theater
Mar 21 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
RC students present fellow RC student Rebecca Godwin’s drama about a young woman who lives in a magical land of storytelling cursed with an inability ever to finish a story and subsequently banished to the[...]
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