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3:00 pm Jennifer Burd: Day’s Late Blue, with Laszlo Slomovits @ Nicola's Books
Jennifer Burd: Day’s Late Blue, with Laszlo Slomovits @ Nicola's Books
Oct 1 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Laz joins poet Jennifer Burd in support of the release of her new book, “Day’s Late Blue.” Jennifer is an award-winning poet whose haiku and lyric poems have been widely published in print and on-line[...]
7:00 pm Ann Arbor Poetry: Robert Lashley @ Espresso Royale
Ann Arbor Poetry: Robert Lashley @ Espresso Royale
Oct 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Reading by this Tacoma poet who draws on his family’s experiences as African Americans from the rural south living in a white northern city to create poetry that combines the intimately personal and intensely political.[...]
7:00 pm Emerging Writers: Writing and Publishing Children’s Nonfiction @ AADL Westgate
Emerging Writers: Writing and Publishing Children’s Nonfiction @ AADL Westgate
Oct 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Local short story writer Alex Kourvo and young adult novelist Bethany Neal are joined by children’s nonfiction author Virginia Loh-Hagan, who has published children’s books on everything from extreme mountain biking to starting a dog-walking[...]
4:30 pm Zingerman’s Bakehouse Book Debut: Frank Carollo and Amy Emberling @ Greyline
Zingerman’s Bakehouse Book Debut: Frank Carollo and Amy Emberling @ Greyline
Oct 3 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Local journalist Micheline Maynard interviews Bakehouse managing partners Frank Carollo and Amy Emberling about their new cookbook, which features 65 of their most popular recipes. Bakehouse treats and drinks. 4:30-6:30 p.m., Zingerman’s Greyline, 100 N.[...]
6:00 pm Faculty Lecture Series: Anita Gonzalez: International Theatre for Social Change: Community Liaisons @ Benzinger Library
Faculty Lecture Series: Anita Gonzalez: International Theatre for Social Change: Community Liaisons @ Benzinger Library
Oct 3 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The presentation discusses three projects for social change based in Liverpool UK, Johannesburg South Africa, and with Chippewa communities of the Upper Peninsula and Canada. Two of the projects focus on activism against gender-based violence[...]
7:30 pm Moth Storyslam: Creepy @ Greyline
Moth Storyslam: Creepy @ Greyline
Oct 3 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each night 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up[...]
7:00 pm Nancy Pearl, NPR’s Librarian: George and Lizzie @ Nicola's Books
Nancy Pearl, NPR’s Librarian: George and Lizzie @ Nicola's Books
Oct 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Nancy Pearl speaks about the pleasures of reading at library conferences, to literacy organizations and community groups throughout the world and comments on books regularly on KUOW FM in Seattle, as well as KWGS in Tulsa, Oklahoma[...]
7:00 pm Philip and Erin Stead: The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine @ Literati
Philip and Erin Stead: The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine @ Literati
Oct 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is thrilled to welcome back Phil & Erin Stead for the launch of their new book The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine! About The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine: A never-before-published, previously unfinished Mark Twain children’s story is[...]
7:00 pm Toastmaster’s at Sweetwaters @ Sweetwaters
Toastmaster’s at Sweetwaters @ Sweetwaters
Oct 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Sweetwaters and Toastmaster community members are creating a new Toastmasters Club at Sweetwaters! We will have 1 or 2 prepared speeches, showcase some of our (kind, encouraging and gentle) evaluations of the speeches, and some[...]
5:30 pm Zell Visiting Writers Series: Ocean Vuong and David Gates @ U-M Museum of Art
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Ocean Vuong and David Gates @ U-M Museum of Art
Oct 5 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Readings by these 2 writers. Born in Saigon and raised in Connecticut, Vuong writes poems that explore transformation, desire, and violent loss. His debut 2016 collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, has been praised by the New York[...]
7:00 pm Angelique Chengelis: Michigan Man @ Nicola's Books
Angelique Chengelis: Michigan Man @ Nicola's Books
Oct 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Angelique Chengelis is a sportswriter for the Detroit News. Michigan football has been her primary beat since 1992, but she has covered countless sporting events including Super Bowls, U.S. Opens, PGA Championships, Ryder Cups, Stanley[...]
7:00 pm Poetry at Literati: Lena Khalef Tuffaha, Heather Derr-Smioth, Molly Spencer @ Literati
Poetry at Literati: Lena Khalef Tuffaha, Heather Derr-Smioth, Molly Spencer @ Literati
Oct 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is excited to host a reading from three wonderful poets; Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Heather Derr-Smith and Molly Spencer. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is an American poet of Palestinian, Jordanian and Syrian heritage. Her poems have been published[...]
7:00 pm Fiction at Literati: Lucy Ives @ Literati
Fiction at Literati: Lucy Ives @ Literati
Oct 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is excited to welcome Lucy Ives for a reading from her new novel Impossible Views of the World. About Impossible Views of the World Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan’s renowned Central Museum of Art, is[...]
7:00 pm NoViolet Bulawayo and Sarah Ladipa Manyika @ Nicola's Books
NoViolet Bulawayo and Sarah Ladipa Manyika @ Nicola's Books
Oct 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
NoViolet Bulawayo’s story “Hitting Budapest,” the opening chapter of the novel, won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. NoViolet’s other work has been shortlisted for the 2009 SA PEN Studzinsi Award, and has appeared[...]
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