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COMMUNITY
EVENTS: 2002
This section of our site will certainly develop as our network grows.
We hope to convert this listing into a more user-friendly and interactive
calendar over the next few weeks, so stay posted. Please, if you
know of any events occurring within Michigan--author readings, reading
groups, contests, writing guilds, or other interesting activities--
do not hesitate to let us know!
Write
to Joy and Annie at mwn@mail.matrix.msu.edu,
and they will post the event as soon as possible.
Lansing
Area
Ann Arbor
Grand
Rapids
Western Michigan
Metro Detroit
Lansing
Area
Tuesday, January 29, 7:30pm
Wrapped
Words: Handmade Books from Cuba's Ediciones Vigía: Exhibition
and Special Events at the MSU Kresge Art Museum featuring more than
50 handmade books and banners from Ediciones Vigía (a book
cooperative founded in 1985 in Matanzas, Cuba), as well as visits
from guest lecturers and artists. Guided tours will be made available
during museum hours (please register by calling 517-353-9834 at
least two weeks in advance), with drop-in tours made available the
first and third Thursday of each month between 5:30pm and 7pm. All
events are free except where indicated. For more information, please
go to http://www.msu.edu/~kamuseum/events/index.html
Join
visiting New York artist, Anne Gilman, whose book produced by Ediciones
Vigía is in the show. She will speak about working at Ediciones
Vigía and about book arts and their influence in her own
work at Kresge Art Museum. She will speak bout her work there and
book arts as an art form and how they influence her work. For more
information, please go to
Wednesday,
January 30, 3-4:30pm
Special
Events of the Wrapped Words Exhibit at Kresge Art Museum: Anne
Gilman will give a CHARLA presentation on the campus of Michigan
State University in 201 International Center. Please call the Center
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at 517-353-1690.
Friday,
February 15, 4-5pm
Special
Events of the Wrapped Words Exhibit at Kresge Art Museum: Visiting
writer Ruth Behar will give a gallery talk at Kresge Art Museum.
Friday,
February 15, 7:30pm
Michigan
Writers' Series, Spring Semester 2002: The Series presents Ruth
Behar, who grew up in Cuba, moved to the United States and is professor
of anthropology at University of Michigan. During the past twenty
years, Ruth Behar has shared her experiences of crossing cultural
borders through her work as a writer, editor, ethnographer, and
documentary filmmaker. She has been the recipient of a MacArthur
Foundation “genius” award, as well as a John Simon Guggenheim
award. Her books include Translated Woman: Crossing the Border
with Esperanza’s Story (Beacon Press, 1993), an account
of her friendship with a Mexican street peddler, and The Vulnerable
Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart (Beacon Press,
1996), a controversial collection of essays that places the emotions
of loss, mourning, and the search for home at the center of anthropology
and all acts of witnessing. Her book of poems published by Ediciones
Vigía will be on view in the Kresge exhibition. For more
information about Dr. Behar, please go to http://www.umich.edu/~rbehar/
Wednesday,
February 27, 3-4:30pm
Special
Events of the Wrapped Words Exhibit at Kresge Art Museum: Visiting
artist Maya Islas will give a CHARLA presentation on the campus
of Michigan State University in 201 International Center. Please
call the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at 517-353-1690.
Wednesday,
February 27, 5-6:20pm
Special
Events of the Wrapped Words Exhibit at Kresge Art Museum: Visiting
artist Maya Islas will speak about her work and show examples at
the Kresge Art Museum. Maya Islas was born in Cuba and has resided
in New York since 1965. A book artist and poet, her books reflect
the connection between the written work and the visual page.
Monday,
March 15
Special
Events of the Wrapped Words Exhibit at the Creole Gallery: March
Art Madness at the Creole Gallery in Lansing Old Town, featuring
poetry readings, music, and food catered by Café Cubano.
Fee and additional information to be announced. Please call the
Kresge Art Museum for more information at 517-353-9834.
Ann
Arbor
Tuesday,
January 29, 4PM
Shaman Drum Public Readings: William Paulson, from the
University of Michigan Department of Romance Languages and Literature,
will be reading from his work of writing, Literary Culture in
a World Transformed. Academic reception to follow.
Tuesday,
January 29, 3:30pm
Visiting Writers Series: Hopwood Underclassmen Awards Ceremony
in Hale Auditorium. Poetry Reading by Heather McHugh.
Wednesday,
January 30, 8PM
Shaman Drum Public Readings: David Edmonds will be reading
from his work, Wittgenstein's Poker.
Thursday,
January 31, 4PM
Shaman Drum Public Readings: Ben Novick will read from his
work, Conceiving Revolution: Irish Nationalist Propaganda During
the First World War. Academic reception to follow.
Thursday,
February 7, 5m
Visiting Writers Series: Edward Hirsch will give a poetry reading,
place TBA.
Thursday,
February 7, 8m
Shaman Drum Public Readings: Laura Kasischke will read from
Life Before Her Eyes.
Friday,
February 8, 8pm
Mark Webster Series: Poetry by Darcie Dennigan, Fiction by Stephanie
Ford in the Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union.
Friday,
February 8, 8PM
Shaman Drum Public Readings: Randall
Kennedy will give a reading from Nigger: The Strange Career of
a Troublesome Word.
Monday,
February 11, 5pm
Visiting Writers Series: Robert Hass will give a poetry reading,
with a Public Reception to follow.
Friday,
February 15, 8pm
Mark Webster Series: Poetry by Rae Gouirand, Fiction by Brie
Tiderington in the Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union.
Friday,
February 15, 8PM
Shaman Drum Public Readings: Richard Ford will give a reading
of his writing.
Tuesday,
February 19, 8PM
Shaman Drum Public Readings: Sam Quinones will read from
his work, True Tales from Another Mexico.
Thursday,
February 21, 5pm
Visiting Writers Series: Frederick Busch will give a fiction
reading, place TBA.
Thursday,
February 21, 8PM
Shaman Drum Public Readings: Kathryn McCamant will read from
Cohousing.
Thursday,
February 28th, 8PM
Shaman Drum Public Readings: Bill Ayers will read from his
work, Fugitive Days.
Friday,
March 8, 8pm
Mark Webster Series: Poetry by Sara Zettervall, Fiction by Ava
Pawlak in the Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union.
Thursday,
March 21, 5pm
Visiting Writers Series: David Bradley will give a fiction reading,
Place TBA.
Thursday,
March 28, 5pm
Visiting Writers Series: Susan Straight will give a fiction
reading, Place TBA.
Friday,
March 29, 8pm
Mark Webster Series: Fiction by Anthony Reed, Poetry by Sarah
Wolfson in the Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union.
Monday/Tuesday,
April 8/9, Time TBA
Visiting Writers Series: Abraham Verghese will give a fiction
reading, Place TBA.
Tuesday,
April 16, 3:30pm
Visiting Writers Series: Hopwood Awards Ceremony in Hale Auditorium.
Lecture by Edmund White: "Genre Bending"
Grand
Rapids
Thursday, February 21:
Schuler Books & Music, Grand Rapids (1800 331 1727 (MI only)
or 616 942 2561)
Peninsula Writers Presents Non-fiction writer Susan Silverman and
poet Marc Sheehan will present together.
Western
Michigan
February 14:
William Olsen is the author of three collections of poetry, Vision
of a Storm Cloud, Trouble Lights, and The Hand of God and a Few
Bright Flowers, the last of which will be reissued as part of the
Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series in 2002. He is co-editor
of Planet on the Table: Poets on Reading, forthcoming in Fall 2002.
Olsen is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Nation/Discovery
Award, the Texas Institute of Arts Award, a Breadloaf fellowship,
and poetry awards from Poetry Northwest and Crazyhorse. His poems
and essays have appeared in The New Republic, Paris Review, New
American Poets of the Nineties, The New Bread Loaf Anthology of
Contemporary Poetry, Poets of the New Century, and many other magazines
and anthologies. He teaches at WMU and the MFA Program at Vermont
College.
March 12:
Franz Wright's collections of poetry include The Earth without You,
The One Whose Eyes Open When You Close Your Eyes, No Siege Is Absolute,
Entry in an Unknown Hand, The Night World and the Word Night, Tapping
the White Cane of Solitude, and Ill Lit: Selected and New Poems.
The poems from his latest collection latest collection, The Beforelife,
have been praised by New York Times for how they "brilliantly
duplicate the willfulness and self-spite of the drinker's impulse."
His poems have also appeared in The Paris Review and The New Yorker,
and he has published The Unknown Rilke: Selected Poems and No Siege
Is Absolute: Versions of René Char. His honors include two
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN/Voelcker
Award for Poetry, and a Whiting Fellowship. He lives in Waltham,
Massachusetts.
March
28:
Fenton Johnson is the author of two novels, Crossing the River and
Scissors, Paper, Rock, and Geography of the Heart: A Memoir, which
received the American Library Association Award and the Lambda Literary
Award for best gay/lesbian nonfiction of 1996. In this memoir, according
to New York Times, Johnson "marries his eye for detail with
the graceful writing to tell the story of a survivor who had the
gift of time to reflect on his own love story." His short fiction,
essays, and features have been widely published and anthologized.
Johnson has received National Endowment for the Arts Literature
Fellowships in both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a Wallace
Stegner Fellowship in Fiction from Stanford University and a James
Michener Fellowship in Fiction from the University of Iowa Writers
Workshop. He currently teaches University of Arizona and is working
on a third novel. In addition, Beyond Belief: A Skeptic's Education
in Faith, a weave of personal stories and interviews, will be published
in the fall of 2002.
April 2:
An alumna of the WMU Creative Writing Program, Bonnie Jo Campbell
is the author of Women and Other Animals: Stories, which won the
Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction. Publishers
Weekly claims, "The sixteen stories in this bold and eloquent
collection feature women from Michigan's Lower Peninsula who bite,
claw, flee from danger and follow their instincts, revealing their
untamed inner selves." Campbell has also received fiction awards
from Atlantic Monthly and Playboy, and her stories have appeared
in Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly, Story, and WMU's own Third
Coast. Her new novel, Q Road, is forthcoming from Scribner's. She
is a resident of Kalamazoo and is WMU's Winter 2002 Visiting Creative
Writing Instructor.
Metro
Detroit
Tuesday,
January 29, 9:30pm
A Taste of Poetic Expression: Featured poets and open
mic every Tuesday at 9:30pm at Tiffany's & Terry's in Detroit
(313-964-8900). $5 entrance fee.
Wednesday,
January 30, 7pm
Sisters of Color Poetry Series:
Open mike poetry series every Wednesday at 7pm, hosted by Helena
Yago. All art forms welcome. All ages, $5 cover. At the Johanson
Charles Gallery in Detroit (313-567-8638).
Friday,
February 1, 7:30pm
Borders Books in Birmingham (248-544-1203)
Award winning author Elmore Leonard to present his latest release,
Tishomingo Blues, at Borders Birmingham. Admission is free.
Sunday, February 3, 6pm
Bloomfield Township Public Library, Bloomfield, Hills (248-642-5800)
Every Sunday: Storylines America Radio Discussion Series
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