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2:00 pm Storytellers Guild @ AADL 3rd floor
Storytellers Guild @ AADL 3rd floor
Apr 22 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
All invited to listen to guild members swap stories or bring their own to tell. 2-4 p.m., AADL Downtown 3rd floor freespace rm. Free. annarborstorytelling.org, 997-5388.
7:00 pm Maura Elizabeth Cunningham: China in the 21st Century @ Literati
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham: China in the 21st Century @ Literati
Apr 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is pleased to host historian and writer Maura Elizabeth Cunningham who will be discussing her new book China in the 21st Century. About China in the 21st Century: In this fully revised and updated third edition[...]
8:00 pm Sweet Stories: Open Mike @ Sweetwaters
Sweet Stories: Open Mike @ Sweetwaters
Apr 23 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Apr. 9 & 23. Open mike for storytellers, who each get 5 minutes to perform. 8-9:30 p.m., Sweetwaters, 123 W. Washington. Free. 769-2331.
7:00 pm Laura Jean Baker: The Motherhood Affidavits @ Literati
Laura Jean Baker: The Motherhood Affidavits @ Literati
Apr 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is excited to host author Laura Jean Baker who will be sharing and discussing her latest, The Motherhood Affidavits: A Memoir. About The Motherhood Affidavits: With the birth of her first child, Laura Jean Baker found[...]
7:00 pm Skazat! Poetry Series: Franny Choi @ Sweetwaters
Skazat! Poetry Series: Franny Choi @ Sweetwaters
Apr 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Reading by Franny Choi, a U-M creative writing grad student whose new chapbook, Death by Sex Machine, imagines the inner monologues of different femme cyborgs featured in movies and manga. The program begins with open mike readings. 7-8:30 p.m.,[...]
7:00 pm Thomas Foster: How to Read Poetry Like a Professor @ Nicola's Books
Thomas Foster: How to Read Poetry Like a Professor @ Nicola's Books
Apr 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
U-M Flint English professor emeritus Thomas Foster discusses his new primer that elucidates poetry by everyone from Lord Byron to the Beatles. Signing. 7 p.m., Nicola’s, Westgate shopping center. Free. 662-0600.
7:00 pm An Evening of Poetry and the Written Word: Jan Worth-Nelson @ Crazy Wisdom
An Evening of Poetry and the Written Word: Jan Worth-Nelson @ Crazy Wisdom
Apr 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Reading by East Village Magazine (Flint) editor Jan Worth-Nelson. Her short stories and poems have been featured in numerous publications, and her 2016 poem “The Hilarious Funeral in LA” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Followed by[...]
7:00 pm Jill Abraham Hummer: First Ladies and American Women: In Politics and at Home, Ford Presidential Library @ Ford Presidential Library
Jill Abraham Hummer: First Ladies and American Women: In Politics and at Home, Ford Presidential Library @ Ford Presidential Library
Apr 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Wilson College (PA) political science professor Jill Abraham Hummer discusses her new book exploring how presidential wives have reflected the changing place of women in American society over the last century. Book sale, signing, and reception follow.[...]
7:00 pm Toastmasters at Sweetwaters @ Sweetwaters
Toastmasters at Sweetwaters @ Sweetwaters
Apr 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Toastmasters is an international group devoted to helping each other grow in our abilities to give speeches. The Sweetwaters Toastmasters Club meets twice monthly. We are a fun and friendly group! Toastmasters also helps you[...]
7:00 pm Jill Abraham Hummer: First Ladies and American Women: In Politics and at Home @ Ford Presidential Library
Jill Abraham Hummer: First Ladies and American Women: In Politics and at Home @ Ford Presidential Library
Apr 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Wilson College (PA) political science professor Jill Abraham Hummer discusses her new book exploring how presidential wives have reflected the changing place of women in American society over the last century. Book sale, signing, and reception follow.[...]
7:00 pm Leslie Jamison: The Recovering, with Lillian Li @ Literati
Leslie Jamison: The Recovering, with Lillian Li @ Literati
Apr 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is thrilled to welcome back author and essayist Leslie Jamison who will share and discuss her latest book The Recovering. Leslie will be joined for a post-reading discussion with author Lillian Li. About The Recovering: One of[...]
7:00 pm Zilka Joseph and Robert Fanning @ Bookbound
Zilka Joseph and Robert Fanning @ Bookbound
Apr 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Readings by these 2 Michigan poets. Joseph’s 2016 collection, Sharp Blue Search of Flame, includes dark and brooding poems that reflect her Jewish Indian roots and her personal experiences living in Eastern and Western cultures. Fanning’s Our Sudden[...]
7:00 pm Fiction at Literati: Christina Lynch @ Literati
Fiction at Literati: Christina Lynch @ Literati
Apr 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is excited to welcome novelist Christina Lynch who will be sharing with us her new book The Italian Party.  About The Italian Party: Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany’s famous beauty. But the[...]
1:00 pm 10th Annual Midwest Literary Walk @ Chelsea District Library
10th Annual Midwest Literary Walk @ Chelsea District Library
Apr 28 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
A walk to various Chelsea locations to hear readings by different writers. Detroit-born Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson, an ordained Baptist minister, reads from Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, which made several “best[...]
4:00 pm Richard Retyl: The Book of Ann Arbor @ Nicola's Books
Richard Retyl: The Book of Ann Arbor @ Nicola's Books
Apr 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Ann Arbor District Library communications & marketing manager Richard Retyi discusses and reads from his book, a collection of 41 stories highlighting colorful moments in local history that’s one of the inaugural releases of the[...]
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