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India: The Light Within
Tuesday, October 27, 2009-Monday, November 09, 2009

The bodily experience--textures, sights, sounds, and smells--of life in Calcutta in 2007 are evoked through the photography of award-winning Carnegie-Mellon faculty member Charlee Brodsky, and the prose and poetry of writers Zilka Joseph (MFA '09) and Neema Bilpin Avashi. These contemporary photos and meditations are juxtaposed with a series of photos, "The Dance of Hands," which captures the expressive range of hand "mudras" in the ancient art of Odissi dance. Renowned dance master Sreyashi Dey performs Odissi dance live in this space on Friday, October 30.
Time: TBD
Location: Duderstadt Center, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard
Website: http://www.artsonearth.org/events/calendaroct09.php
Contact: artsonearth@umich.edu

Allan Gurganus Fiction Reading
Monday, November 09, 2009

Allan Gurganus, a North Carolina native, is the author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy) White People (Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Pen-Faulkner Finalist), Plays Well with Others and The Practical Heart: Four Novellas (Lambda Literary Award). His stories have won the National Magazine Prize and the O’Henry Award. They are seen in “Best American Stories” and “The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction.” His political editorials frequently appear in “The New York Times.” His leftward politics have made him a commentator on the “Lehrer News Hour” and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Gurganus recently appeared in the PBS “American Masters” series as a scholar-reader for “Walt Whitman, An American.” Gurganus has taught literature and fiction writing at Duke, The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Stanford and Sarah Lawrence. John Cheever wrote, “I consider Allan Gurganus the most technically gifted and morally responsive writer of his generation.”
Time: 5:00PM
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

Say You're One of Them discussion on CNN.com
Monday, November 09, 2009

CNN and Oprah's Book Club are teaming up to bring you a discussion of "Say You're One of Them," a book of short stories about African children who face the unimaginable.

Watch November 9 at 9 p.m. ET on CNN.com Live or Oprah.com and join the discussion through Facebook for the worldwide Web event.

Time: 9:00PM
Location: CNN.com and Oprah.com
Website: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/oprah.book.club/
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Allan Gurganus Lecture: "The Fiction of History: And Vice-Versa"
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Time: 5:00PM
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

Kevin Brockmeier Fiction Reading
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Brief History of the Dead and The Truth About Celia, the children's novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery, and the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. He has published stories in The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, McSweeney's, Zoetrope, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and New Stories from the South. He has received the Borders Original Voices Award, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship, three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. Recently he was named one of Granta magazine's Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.
Time: 5:00PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Website: http://lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu

Webster Reading: Timothy Hedges (prose), Darrel Holnes (poetry)
Friday, November 20, 2009

This event is free and open to the public.
Time: 7:00PM
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

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.

Time: 5:15PM
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.

Time: 5:15PM
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

Sponsored by the University Library, the MFA Program in Creative Writing, the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, Humanities Institute, Great Lakes Literary Arts Center, and Ann Arbor Book Festival
Time: 4:00PM
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

This event is free and open to the public.
Time: 7:00PM
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

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