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7:00 pm Ann Arbor Poetry: Molly Raynor @ Espresso Royale
Ann Arbor Poetry: Molly Raynor @ Espresso Royale
Feb 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Performance by this award-winning local slam poet and community activist, who recently became the Neutral Zone literary arts director. Her poetry is known for its emotional honesty in exploring how past trauma affects present action.[...]
7:00 pm 21st Annual Cafe Shapiro @ Bert's Lounge, Shapiro Undergraduate Library
21st Annual Cafe Shapiro @ Bert's Lounge, Shapiro Undergraduate Library
Feb 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Students, nominated by their instructors, have been invited to read their own poems and short stories to a peer audience. For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their[...]
7:00 pm Emerging Writers: High-Concept Ideas @ AADL Westgate
Emerging Writers: High-Concept Ideas @ AADL Westgate
Feb 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Local short story writer Alex Kourvo and young adult novelist Bethany Neal discuss how to develop an idea that sustains a novel-length plot. For adult and teen (grade 6 & up) fiction and nonfiction writers.[...]
7:00 pm Emerging Writers: Open House @ AADL Westgate
Emerging Writers: Open House @ AADL Westgate
Feb 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Local short story writer Alex Kourvo and young adult novelist Bethany Neal discuss  host an open house for writers to connect with one another and/or work on their projects at 7 p.m. 7-8:45 p.m., AADL[...]
7:00 pm Gregory Boyle: Barking to the Choir @ Michigan Union Rogell Ballroom
Gregory Boyle: Barking to the Choir @ Michigan Union Rogell Ballroom
Feb 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is pleased to welcome Gregory Boyle to Ann Arbor! He will be speaking at the Rogel Ballrom in the Union on topics from his new book Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship.[...]
7:00 pm 21st Annual Cafe Shapiro @ Bert's Lounge, Shapiro Undergraduate Library
21st Annual Cafe Shapiro @ Bert's Lounge, Shapiro Undergraduate Library
Feb 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Students, nominated by their instructors, have been invited to read their own poems and short stories to a peer audience. For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their[...]
7:00 pm Harris Memorial Lecture: Yaa Gyasi @ Rackham Auditorium
Harris Memorial Lecture: Yaa Gyasi @ Rackham Auditorium
Feb 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is proud to partner with the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities to present Yaa Gyaasi, author of Homegoing, as the speaker for The 2018 Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture. About Homecoming Two half sisters,[...]
7:30 pm The Moth Storyslam: Transit @ Greyline
The Moth Storyslam: Transit @ Greyline
Feb 6 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Jan 2 & 16. 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[...]
5:30 pm Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series: Joseph Keckler: Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World @ Rackham Auditorium
Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series: Joseph Keckler: Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World @ Rackham Auditorium
Feb 7 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Literati is thrilled to partner with the Stamps School of Art and Design to welcome author and musician Joseph Keckler to the Rackham Auditorium as part of the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. Straddling the[...]
7:00 pm Jane Austen Book Club Discussion: Longbourn by Jo Baker @ Nicola's Books
Jane Austen Book Club Discussion: Longbourn by Jo Baker @ Nicola's Books
Feb 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Jane Austen Book Club Discussion at Nicola’s Books – Associated event of the University of Michigan Graduate Library ‘The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet’ Exhibit With the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, the Grad Library[...]
7:00 pm 21st Annual Cafe Shapiro @ Bert's Lounge, Shapiro Undergraduate Library
21st Annual Cafe Shapiro @ Bert's Lounge, Shapiro Undergraduate Library
Feb 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Students, nominated by their instructors, have been invited to read their own poems and short stories to a peer audience. For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their[...]
7:00 pm Open Mike and Share @ Bookbound
Open Mike and Share @ Bookbound
Feb 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
An open mike for poets, who are welcome to read their own work or a favorite poem by another writer. Followed by a reading by a featured poet TBA. 7 p.m., Bookbound, Courtyard Shops. Free.[...]
7:00 pm Scott Tong: A Village With My Name @ Literati
Scott Tong: A Village With My Name @ Literati
Feb 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is thrilled to host journalist Scott Tong who will be sharing his new historical memoir, A Village with My Name: A Family’s History of China’s Opening to the World. About A Village with My Name: In A[...]
7:30 pm Open-Mic Night @ Java Blu Cafe, East Quad
Open-Mic Night @ Java Blu Cafe, East Quad
Feb 8 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Open-Mic Night @ Java Blu Cafe, East Quad | Ann Arbor | Michigan | United States
The RC Resident Advisors are proud to present:  Open-Mic Night  February 8th, 7:30-9pm in the Java Blu Cafe right here in East Quad– ft. local band City of Lakes! City of Lakes comes from a[...]
7:00 pm ArtsX UMMA: UNDEFINED: Alex Kime and others @ UMMA Apse
ArtsX UMMA: UNDEFINED: Alex Kime and others @ UMMA Apse
Feb 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
This program is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. In today’s fractured environment where our identities are too often framed in ways that divide us, ArtsX UMMA: UNDEFINED is an evening[...]
7:00 pm Poetry at Literati: Grace Mahoney and A Field of Foundlings @ Literati
Poetry at Literati: Grace Mahoney and A Field of Foundlings @ Literati
Feb 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is excited to host translator Grace Mahoney for this special bi-lengual reading of Ukranian poet Iryna Starovoyt’s collection A Field of Foundlings. About A Field of Foundlings: Presented in a dual-language format, A Field of Foundlings is the[...]
3:45 pm John Wolff: The Driftwood Shrine: Discovering Zen in American Poetry @ Crazy Wisdom
John Wolff: The Driftwood Shrine: Discovering Zen in American Poetry @ Crazy Wisdom
Feb 10 @ 3:45 pm – 6:00 pm
Discovering Zen in American Poetry with John Wolff in the Crazy Wisdom Community Room – Nov. 18, 3:45 to 5 p.m. – Book Signing. The Driftwood Shrine author, John Gendo Wolff, will discuss poetry by[...]
7:00 pm FRUIT: A Library Reclamation for the Unseen @ Literati
FRUIT: A Library Reclamation for the Unseen @ Literati
Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
FRUIT is an independent, community-led reading and dialogue series for and by marginalized voices, hosted in Literati Bookstore. This month’s readers are Dylan Gilbert, Brittany Rogers, and Yalie Kamara FRUIT is a moment and a[...]
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