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Profile: Megan Levad
Title: Assistant Director, Helen Zell Writers’ Program
Degree:
MFA, University of Michigan, 2008
MFA, University of Michigan, 2008
Contact Info
Office:
3187 AH
Hours:
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Phone:
734.615.3710
Uniqname:
mslevad
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Facebook ID:
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Twitter ID:
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Research Interests
Primary Interests
Poetry & Poetics
Publications
"Kid Country, USA," "Mobility Blues," and "Greenbelt Sports." LIT, forthcoming.
"Boomtown Singles" and "Movers & Shakers." Denver Quarterly, forthcoming.
"Multi-Culti Mosaic," "Young Digerati," and "Beltway Boomers." Clinic III, February 2013.
"Close in Couples," "Home Sweet Home," "Park Bench Seniors," "American Classics," "Hometown Retired," and "Golden Ponds." Mantis, December, 2012.
Love. (Composed by Tucker Fuller). The AllWays Lounge & Theater, New Orleans, August 4, 2012.
"Blue Highways" and "Sunset City Blues." American Letters & Commentary, Summer 2012.
"Given a Body." (Composed by Kristin Kuster.) 152nd Annual Spring Hill Concert, Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, March 31, 2012.
"Nanobots" and "Why We Live In the Dark Ages." Tin House, March 2012.
"Mendeleev," "Parabolas," and "Gravity." The Society for Curious Thought, February 2012.
"Upper Crust," "Shotguns & Pickups," "Traditional Times," "Young & Rustic," and "Winner's Circle." Fence, Fall/Winter 2011.
"American Murderer." Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem, Everyman's Library Series, Knopf, September 2011.
"I'm More the Drunken Slut Kind of Feminist, or A Treatise on Political Philosophy at the Apex of American Empire." Granta Online, Summer 2011.
"Synecdoche." (Review of Kathleen Graber's The Eternal City.) Boston Review, March/April 2011.
"Salted Earth" (composed by Tucker Fuller, performed by Kelley Kimball and Justin Snyder), "Babies," and "Bigblackplainwhitelittlered." textsound, September 2010.
Murder. (Composed by Tucker Fuller). The Tank, New York City, September 21, 2010.
"Guilt, On the centrifugal force of." Spinning Jenny, 2010.
"Living alone," and five other poems. Plastique Press, 15th Juried Reading, The Poetry Center of Chicago, 2009.
"Boomtown Singles" and "Movers & Shakers." Denver Quarterly, forthcoming.
"Multi-Culti Mosaic," "Young Digerati," and "Beltway Boomers." Clinic III, February 2013.
"Close in Couples," "Home Sweet Home," "Park Bench Seniors," "American Classics," "Hometown Retired," and "Golden Ponds." Mantis, December, 2012.
Love. (Composed by Tucker Fuller). The AllWays Lounge & Theater, New Orleans, August 4, 2012.
"Blue Highways" and "Sunset City Blues." American Letters & Commentary, Summer 2012.
"Given a Body." (Composed by Kristin Kuster.) 152nd Annual Spring Hill Concert, Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, March 31, 2012.
"Nanobots" and "Why We Live In the Dark Ages." Tin House, March 2012.
"Mendeleev," "Parabolas," and "Gravity." The Society for Curious Thought, February 2012.
"Upper Crust," "Shotguns & Pickups," "Traditional Times," "Young & Rustic," and "Winner's Circle." Fence, Fall/Winter 2011.
"American Murderer." Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem, Everyman's Library Series, Knopf, September 2011.
"I'm More the Drunken Slut Kind of Feminist, or A Treatise on Political Philosophy at the Apex of American Empire." Granta Online, Summer 2011.
"Synecdoche." (Review of Kathleen Graber's The Eternal City.) Boston Review, March/April 2011.
"Salted Earth" (composed by Tucker Fuller, performed by Kelley Kimball and Justin Snyder), "Babies," and "Bigblackplainwhitelittlered." textsound, September 2010.
Murder. (Composed by Tucker Fuller). The Tank, New York City, September 21, 2010.
"Guilt, On the centrifugal force of." Spinning Jenny, 2010.
"Living alone," and five other poems. Plastique Press, 15th Juried Reading, The Poetry Center of Chicago, 2009.
Areas of Responsibility
I run the Zell Visiting Writers Series, facilitate graduate student and program development, design co-curricular programming, communicate with alumni, donors, and other program supporters, handle public relations, project our budget, engage with the Director, Chair, Department Manager, and faculty and student constituencies in strategic planning, and manage partnerships with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Weiser Center, the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program, 826michigan, Copper Colored Mountain Arts, the Author's Forum, and other co-sponsors.
Additional Info
Bio:
Megan Levad’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Granta Online, LIT, Mantis, and Tin House, and in the Everyman's Library anthology Killer Verse, among other publications and anthologies. She also writes book reviews for Boston Review, and lyrics for composers Tucker Fuller and Kristin Kuster.
Megan Levad’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Granta Online, LIT, Mantis, and Tin House, and in the Everyman's Library anthology Killer Verse, among other publications and anthologies. She also writes book reviews for Boston Review, and lyrics for composers Tucker Fuller and Kristin Kuster.
Tucker and Megan are currently finishing Labor, the third ballad cycle in a trilogy based on the major themes of American popular song. Murder was performed at The Tank in New York City in 2010, among other venues; Love has been performed at Allways Lounge & Theater in New Orleans. Kristin and Megan will premiere three new pieces in Spring 2013: King, sung by postgraduate vocal specialist Benjamin Sieverding at Britton Recital Hall at the University of Michigan, given a body (two new movements), with the U-M Men’s Glee Club at Lincoln Center in New York City, and “Moonrise,” with the Lisbon Summer Fest Choir in Lisbon, Portugal.
A native of rural Iowa, Megan has lived in New York, Chicago, and now Ann Arbor, where she is the Assistant Director of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and where she runs the Zell Visiting Writers Series.
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