MFA Events Calendar
Donald Hall, Day With(out) Art Lecture
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
In a review of Hall's recent Selected Poems, Billy Collins wrote in the Washington Post: "Hall has long been placed in the Frostian tradition of the plainspoken rural poet... It is a kind of simplicity that succeeds in engaging the reader in the first few lines." Donald Hall has published numerous books of poetry, most recently White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (2006); The Painted Bed (2002) and Without: Poems (1998), which was published on the third anniversary of his wife and fellow poet Jane Kenyon's death from leukemia. Other notable collections include The One Day (1988), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination; The Happy Man (1986), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and Exiles and Marriages (1955), which was the Academy's Lamont Poetry Selection for 1956. He has also received numerous awards including two Guggenheims.
Since the first Day With(out) Art on December 1, 1989, it has grown into an international collaboration in which thousands of organizations acknowledge the devastating toll that HIV and AIDS have taken on the world wide creative and performing arts communities. As a museum devoted to fostering and presenting creative expression and to preserving cultural memory, UMMA has long been committed to participation in this worldwide event.
This program is cosponsored by UMMA and the MFA in Creative Writing Program of the UM Department of English.
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.umma.umich.edu/programs-and-tours/zell.html
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu
Tracy Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor Reading
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Marjorie Sandor is the author of two story collections—Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime and A Night of Music—and a memoir, The Night Gardener: A Search For Home. She has published work in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review and The New York Times Magazine, and her writing has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for Fiction, the Oregon Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award.
Tracy Daugherty is the author of Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme, the short story collections It Takes a Worried Man and The Woman in the Oil Field, and the novels The Boy Orator, What Falls Away and Desire Provoked. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Georgia Review, and he has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. Once a student of Donald Barthelme's, he is now Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University.
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu
Uwem Akpan fiction reading
Friday, December 04, 2009
Location: Library Gallery, Room 100, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/eventsCalendar.asp
Contact: evansy@umich.edu
Webster Reading: Brad Wetherell (prose), Amy Berkowitz (poetry)
Friday, December 04, 2009
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/webster.asp
Contact: emilymcl@umich.edu
Piotr Sommer Poetry Reading
Monday, December 07, 2009
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu
Andrei Codrescu: Politics of Writing Lecture
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
About his lecture, Andrei Codrescu writes, “I covered the events in Romania in 1989-1990 for NPR and ABC News, and I documented the return to my native country in The Hole in the Flag: an Exile's Story of Return & Revolution (Morrow 1991, Avon 1992). I have returned numerous times since and I started writing in Romanian again, picking up the thread severed at age 19 in 1965. Now, twenty years after the coup, or “revolution” that ended in the execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, Romania is a different country, a member of the European Union, and an ardent convert to capitalism. My talk will focus on reality and appearances in Romania, and the role of the media, of which I am a part, in shaping the images of the “revolution” and those of the new Romania.”
Andrei Codrescu’s career spans four decades as novelist, poet, journalist, filmmaker, commentator, and educator. His work has been distinguished with numerous awards, including the Peabody Award and the Pushcart Prize. He was MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until 2009, and continues to edit Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Life and Letters, an online journal he founded at LSU in 1983. His most recent book is The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess (Princeton 2009).
Location: Rackham Auditorium
Website: http://www.ii.umich.edu/ces-euc/events
Contact: crees@umich.edu
Carol Ann Duffy In Residence (poetry reading)
Monday, January 11, 2010
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu
Carol Ann Duffy In Residence (lecture)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu
Amina Gautier fiction reading
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Location: 3222 Angell Hall
Website: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/eventsCalendar.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu
Cole Swensen poetry reading
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu
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