U-M English Events

Thanksgiving recess

Date: 11/25/2009
Start Time: 5:00 PM
Location: University of Michigan
Desc: Thanksgiving recess (Fall Term)

Classes resume

Date: 11/30/2009
Start Time: 8:00 AM
Location: University of Michigan
Desc: Classes resume (Fall Term)

Donald Hall, Day With(out) Art Lecture

Date: 12/1/2009
Start Time: 5:15 PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Desc:

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.

More Info: http://www.umma.umich.edu/programs-and-tours/zell.html

Tracy Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor Reading

Date: 12/3/2009
Start Time: 5:15 PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Desc:

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.

More Info: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp

Webster Reading: Brad Wetherell (prose), Amy Berkowitz (poetry)

Date: 12/4/2009
Start Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Desc: This event is free and open to the public.
More Info: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/webster.asp

Uwem Akpan fiction reading

Date: 12/4/2009
Start Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Library Gallery, Room 100, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
Desc: 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
More Info: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/eventsCalendar.asp

Piotr Sommer Poetry Reading

Date: 12/7/2009
Start Time: 5:15 PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Desc: Piotr Sommer is a poet, translator, anthology editor and essayist. Born in 1948, he grew up in Otwock, a small town outside of Warsaw, studied English at the University of Warsaw, and now edits Literatura na Swiecie (literature in the world), a Polish magazine of international writing. He taught poetry at several American universities, including Amherst College, Wesleyan University, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and University of Richmond, Virginia, has been awarded several prizes and fellowships, and has published twelve books of poetry in Polish (including Pamiatki po nas, Kolejny swiat, Czynnik liryczny, Nowe stosunki wyraz�w, Piosenka pasterska, Rano na ziemi. Wiersze z lat 1968 � 1998, Dni i noce and Wiersze ze sl�w) as well as two books of essays on poetry and translation (Smak detalu i inne og�lniki and Po stykach). He is also the author of numerous translations from American, English and Irish poetry, and has had two collections published in translation: Things to Translate and Other Poems, and Ein freier Tag in April, which have appeared in German, Slovak, Slovenian, and English.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Copernicus Endowment.

More Info: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/

Andrei Codrescu: Politics of Writing Lecture

Date: 12/9/2009
Start Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Rackham Auditorium
Desc:

�How to Make a Revolution: A Guide to Romania�s Fin-de-Si�cle Media Spectacle as Performed by a Dying Regime, a Willing Populace, and the International Press Corps.�

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).

Sponsored by CREES, Avant Garde Interest Group, CES-EUC, the Department of English, and the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

More Info: http://www.ii.umich.edu/ces-euc/events

Poetry & Poetics Workshop

Date: 12/9/2009
Start Time: 4:30 PM
Location: To Be Determined
Desc: Professor Amy Carroll (English and American Studies) will discuss her forthcoming book of poetry.

Classes end

Date: 12/14/2009
Start Time: N/A
Location: University of Michigan
Desc: Classes end(Fall Term)

Study Days

Date: 12/15/2009
Start Time: N/A
Location: University of Michigan
Desc: Study Days(Fall Term)

Examinations

Date: 12/16/2009 - 12/18/2009
Start Time: N/A
Location: University of Michigan
Desc: Examinations(Fall Term)

Study Days

Date: 12/19/2009 - 12/20/2009
Start Time: N/A
Location: University of Michigan
Desc: Study Days(Fall Term)

Commencement

Date: 12/20/2009
Start Time: 2:00 PM
Location: University of Michigan, Crisler Arena
Desc: Winter Commencement
More Info: http://commencement.umich.edu/

Examinations

Date: 12/21/2009 - 12/23/2009
Start Time: N/A
Location: University of Michigan
Desc: Examinations(Fall Term)

Carol Ann Duffy In Residence (poetry reading)

Date: 1/11/2010
Start Time: 5:15 PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Desc: Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, England, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Rapture. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Great Britain in 2009.

A public reception in the UMMA Commons will immediately follow the reading.

More Info: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp

Carol Ann Duffy In Residence (lecture)

Date: 1/14/2010
Start Time: 5:15 PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Desc: Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, England, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Rapture. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Great Britain in 2009.
More Info: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp

Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

Date: 1/21/2010 - 1/21/2010
Start Time: 7 PM
Location: University of Michigan Museum of Art Auditorium
Desc:

Christopher Payne, a photographer from New York City, specializes in the documentation of America�s vanishing architecture and industrial landscape. A trained architect who has documented structural forms for the National Park Service and produced drawings for scholarly excavations of Greco-Roman sites, Payne will be presenting work from his much-anticipated new book of images, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals (MIT Press, 2009), the result of a six-year exploration of America�s vast and largely abandoned state mental institutions. Join us for a guided photographic tour of these spaces, and a discussion of the social, medical, architectural, aesthetic and historiographic issues raised by such work. This event, co-sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature, the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the Center for the History of Medicine, the Victor Vaughan Society, the Institute for the Humanities, and the Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops, is free and open to the public.

Amina Gautier fiction reading

Date: 1/21/2010
Start Time: 5:15 PM
Location: 3222 Angell Hall
Desc: Amina Gautier has published over fifty short stories, which have appeared or are forthcoming in Antioch Review, Callaloo, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Pleiades, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, Southern Review, and Storyquarterly, among other literary journals. Her work has been anthologized in The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Contemporary Women Writers on Forerunners in Fiction, Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years, Best African American Fiction: 2009, Voices, and New Stories from the South: The Year�s Best, 2008 and is forthcoming in Best African American Fiction: 2010. She has also served as a fiction editor for Storyquarterly. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Joseph�s University, and is currently writing a monograph on Charles W. Chesnutt and the politics of gender.
More Info: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/eventsCalendar.asp

Poetry & Poetics Workshop

Date: 1/21/2010
Start Time: 4:00 PM
Location: To Be Determined
Desc: Join us for a discussion with Professor Larry Goldstein on his forthcoming essay on Denise Levertov's 9/11 poetry.

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