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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:****RESCHEDULED FOR JAN. 17th*****Craft Lecture by Divya Victor: Black and Bramble
DESCRIPTION:****RESCHEDULED FOR JAN. 17th*****\n\nLogin here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters24\n\nSeats are limited and are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public\, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room\, Angell Hall #3222). Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.\n\nDivya Victor (b. 1983) is a Tamil American poet\, essayist\, and educator. She is the author of *CURB* (Nightboat Books)\, which won the 2022 PEN America Open Book Award and the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. It was also a finalist for the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award (Poetry). Divya is also the author of *KITH *(Fence Books/ Bookhug)\; *Scheingleichheit: Drei Essays* (Merve Verlag\, trans. Lena Schmidt)\, *NATURAL SUBJECTS* (Trembling Pillow)\, *UNSUB* (Insert Blanc)\, and *THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR MOUTH* (Les Figues).\n\nHer work has been collected in numerous venues\, including *BOMB*\, the *New Museum’s The Animated Reader*\, *Crux: Journal of Conceptual Writing*\, *The Best American Experimental Writing*\, *POETRY*\, *The Yale Review*\, *American Poetry Review*\, *The Atlantic*\, *The New York Times Magazine*\, *W.W. Norton’s The Seagull Reader*\, and *boundary2*. She was a 2023 PEN Affiliated Fellow at Civitella Ranieri and a collaborator on an Andrew Mellon Just Futures grant. She has been a Mark Diamond Research Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum\, a Riverrun Fellow at the Archive for New Poetry at University of California San Diego\, and a Writer in Residence at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (L.A.C.E.). Her work has been performed or installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Los Angeles\, National Gallery Singapore\, the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (L.A.C.E.)\, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). She has been an editor at *Jacket2* (United States) and for Ethos Books (Singapore)\, Invisible Publishing (Canada)\, and Book*hug Press (Canada). Her work has been translated into French\, German\, Spanish\, Polish\, and Czech. She is currently an Associate Professor of English and Writing at Michigan State University\, where she is the Director of the Creative Writing Program.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum\, accessible via the stairs\, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3\, 4\, 5\, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks)\, and a lactation room (Room 13W\, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom\, or Room 108B\, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122393
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CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Arts of Islam,Author,Book,book discussion,book event,Book Talk,Books,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,English Language And Literature,Graduate,Literary Arts,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Poetry,Talk,UMMA,World Literature,Writing
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