Zell Visiting Writers Series 2013-2014
Readings
2013-2014
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ZELL VISITING WRITERS SERIES
These events are primarily sponsored by the Department of English and the Office of the Provost of the University of Michigan.
All events are free and open to the public. The Helmut Stern Auditorium is located on the ground floor of the University of Michigan's Museum of Art (UMMA) 525 South State Street on the U-M's Central Campus. Addresses for other venues will be listed below those particular events.
Fall, 2013 (see Winter)
Tom Bissell
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Time: 5:10PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu
State of the Book
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Michigan is home to a diverse community of writers whose work inspires, enlightens, and engages. On Saturday, September 28, the University of Michigan’s English Department Writing Program and its Helen Zell Writers’ Program will celebrate Michigan’s great writers and the state’s enduring literary traditions at the 2nd annual State of the Book Symposium & Bookfair, co-hosting a day-long series of public events in Rackham Auditorium that showcase the state’s leading literary stars, as well as the next generation of Michigan writers:• a reading and presentation by elementary school writers affiliated with 826michigan, in conjunction with the release of their annual OMNIBUS anthology;• a performance poetry event starring teen participants from the Neutral Zone and InsideOut Literary Arts Project;• panels on women writing memoir, writers from the Upper Peninsula, and writers who use the supernatural to elucidate Michigan’s past and to imagine its future;• a bookfair in Rackham Lobby, featuring more than a dozen presses and literary journals from across the state of Michigan.The day’s events will conclude with a keynote conversation featuring an award-winning fiction writer or poet—last year’s conversation was between Charles Baxter, an award-winning fiction writer and novelist, and Philip Levine, a former Poet Laureate of the United States and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Time: 10:00AM
Location: Rackham Lobby and Auditorium
Website: http://stateofthebook.com/
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu
Chris Castellani
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Time: 5:10PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu
Edward Hirsch Poetry Reading
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Reception and booksigning from 5-6p in the UMMA Forum
Time: 6:00PM
Location: UMMA Apse
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu
A Conversation with Edward Hirsch
Thursday, November 07, 2013
Time: 5:10PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
Contact: mslevad@umich.edu
Winter, 2014 (see Fall)
