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SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Welcome to Michigan: Sustainability Board Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Join the Planet Blue Ambassador program for a sustainability themed board game night! Snacks and sustainability-themed games are provided\, or bring your own games to play.\n\nThe event is free and open to any U-M community member\, but registration is required so we can provide enough games and snacks. Please email pba-information@umich.edu with questions.
UID:136331-21878509@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136331
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Welcome2025,Anchor2025,Environment,Free,Games,Sustainability,planet blue
LOCATION:Pierpont Commons - South East Room
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SUMMARY:Performance:MFA Visiting Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:Help us welcome our 2025-2026 visiting professors\, poet Samiya Bashir and fiction writer Kristen Roupenian who will both read from recent works.\n\nAbout Samiya:\nDescribed by Booklist’s Diego Báez as “a dynamic\, shape-shifting machine of perpetual motion\,” Samiya Bashir is a poet\, librettist\, performer\, and multimedia artist whose work has been widely published\, exhibited\, and staged across the United States and internationally\, from Berlin to Düsseldorf\, Amsterdam to Accra\, Florence to Rome.\n\nSometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Bashir is the author of four poetry collections\, including Field Theories\, winner of the 2018 Oregon Book Award’s Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Her fourth collection\, I Hope This Helps\, which Jericho Brown called “Bashir’s magnum opus\,” was released in Spring 2025 by Nightboat Books.\n\nBashir’s honors include the Rome Prize in Literature\, the Pushcart Prize\, the Oregon Arts & Culture Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature\, and fellowships or residencies from MacDowell\, the Atlantic Center for the Arts\, and the New York Council on the Arts\, among many others. Her editorial work includes national magazines and anthologies of literature and visual art. In 2002\, she co-founded Fire & Ink\, an advocacy organization and festival supporting LGBTQ+ writers of African descent and led its work through 2015. Bashir is currently reigniting Fire & Inkwell\, a movement dedicated to supporting the lives and work of LGBTQ+ artists and writers of African descent and heritage.\n\nMost recently\, she served as the June Jordan Visiting Scholar at Columbia University\, prior to which she taught at the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, ran the poetry program as Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College\, and led Lambda Literary through a year of renewed growth and national in-person programming. She lives—when not on the road—in Harlem.\n\nAbout Kristen:\nKristen Roupenian holds a PhD in English from Harvard\, an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan\, and a BA from Barnard College. She is the author of the short story\, “Cat Person\,” which was published in The New Yorker and selected by Sheila Heti for The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018. She is at work on a novel. Follow her on Instagram @KRoupenian.
UID:108985-21849227@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/108985
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Rackham,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,Writing,Author,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,Department Of English Language And Literature,English Language And Literature,Free,Graduate,Literature,Mfa Program In Creative Writing
LOCATION:Angell Hall
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