Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Graduate English New Student Orientation (August 24, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107197 107197-21815613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 24, 2023 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Graduate English New Student Orientation for MFA and PhD Newly Admitted Students

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Presentation Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:47:02 -0400 2023-08-24T09:00:00-04:00 2023-08-24T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Presentation
Welcome Back English majors and minors! (September 6, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111284 111284-21826622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Welcome Back English majors and minors

Event: Design you own Bookmark!

Hang out with other English students, grab some snacks, and get creative!

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:56:13 -0400 2023-09-06T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-06T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Social / Informal Gathering Welcome Back 2023
MFA Faculty Flash Reading (September 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108985 108985-21820682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Come hear poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from distinguished MFA and English Department faculty members!

This year's readers will include: Karyna McGlynn, Kelly Hoffer, Linda Gregerson, Tung-Hui Hu, Kiley Reid, Aaron Coleman, Gabe Habash, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, and more!

This event is free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

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Performance Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:19:42 -0400 2023-09-07T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-07T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance MFA Faculty Flash Reading
Mark Webster Reading Series (September 8, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109047 109047-21821002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:56:41 -0400 2023-09-08T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-08T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
Presentation and Q&A: "What Does an Agent Do and When Are You Ready For One?" (September 15, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109488 109488-21822095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

This event is virtual-only (via Zoom) and is open to Helen Zell Writers' Program MFA students and Zell Fellows, as well as U-M graduate and undergraduate students. It is not open to the general public. Please email Julie Cadman-Kim (kimjulie@umich.edu) for login instructions.

"What Does an Agent Do and When Are You Ready For One" will cover the basics: What does it look like to work with an agent, how do you find one, and how do you know it’s time to start looking for one?

Born and raised in New York City, Julie Barer began her career as a bookseller at Shakespeare & Company, where she discovered the joy of putting books into people’s hands. After working for several years at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates and a decade of running her own agency, Barer Literary, she founded The Book Group with her colleagues Faye Bender, Brettne Bloom and Elisabeth Weed in 2015. Julie represents a variety of writers across a literary spectrum, with a special emphasis on fiction.

Julie’s clients have been finalists and winners of numerous grants and prizes, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics' Circle Award, the Man Booker Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the *Los Angeles Times* First Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award, among others. Works by several of her clients have graced the cover of *The New York Times* Book Review and have appeared on national and international bestseller lists. Recent titles include HELLO BEAUTIFUL by Ann Napolitano, THE GREAT RECLAMATION by Rachel Heng, OUR MISSING HEARTS by Celeste Ng, NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PANIC by Kevin Wilson, INTERIOR CHINATOWN by Charles Yu and LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND by Rumaan Alam.

Julie is particularly interested in representing a diversity of voices from around the world and from a wide range of backgrounds. Julie feels strongly about bringing under-represented stories to light, across race, class and sexuality, and relishes the opportunity to be challenged and educated by fiction, to learn more about herself and the world around her: one of the greatest things literature can offer us.

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Presentation Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:39:19 -0400 2023-09-15T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Presentation Julie Barer
Presentation and Q&A: "Dreaming Big & Building Bigger: Navigating Literary & Editorial Ambitions" (September 22, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109055 109055-21821010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

This event is virtual-only (via Zoom) and is open to Helen Zell Writers' Program MFA students and Zell Fellows, as well as U-M graduate and undergraduate students. It is not open to the general public. Please email Julie Cadman-Kim (kimjulie@umich.edu) for login instructions.

Peter LaBerge founded *The Adroit Journal* as a high school sophomore in November 2010 and he hasn’t slowed down since. The winner of a Pushcart Prize for Poetry, Peter graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude with his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from New York University as a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks — *Makeshift Cathedral* (YesYes Books, 2017) and *Hook* (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015) — and his poems have appeared in *AGNI, American Poetry Review, Best New* *Poets, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Pleiades, and ZYZZYVA*. Currently, Peter is at work on his debut poetry collection, *Century Flower.*

Through *The Adroit Journal,* Peter has provided early editorial recognition to such luminaries as K-Ming Chang, Chen Chen, Richie Hofmann, Talin Tahajian, Ocean Vuong, Phillip B. Williams, and Shelley Wong, among many others. Peter also founded the online *Adroit Journal* Summer Mentorship Program, which connects high school writers from around the world with established poets, fiction writers, and memoirists, as well as three annual prize opportunities for emerging writers: the Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose, the Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program in Poetry, and the Anthony Veasna So Scholars Program in Fiction. Peter has also previously taught creative writing to undergraduates at New York University and to middle school students at a public school in Queens, New York.

In addition to his continued leadership of *The Adroit Journal*, Peter is ever expanding his work with promising, tenacious students as founder of Ellipsis Writing, an online creative writing tutoring and college advising company. Through Ellipsis, Peter has independently mentored emerging student writers who have subsequently been recognized as *Best American Poetry* contributors, U.S. Presidential Scholars, and National Student Poets, as well as students recognized by BBC News, *The Boston Globe*, *Disney Channel*, the Kennedy Center, the United Nations, *The Wall Street Journal,* the White House, and beyond. He lives in Philadelphia.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:59:13 -0400 2023-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Peter LaBerge
Silent Pasts and Speaking Presents: History and Language in Contemporary South Asia (September 22, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109146 109146-21821170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Please join Professor G.N. Devy for a presentation on two recent, major intellectual initiatives that pose significant challenges to the ongoing politicization of language, community, and history in contemporary India.
 
The first project is the massive, People’s Linguistic Survey of India (published by Orient Blackswan, 2013-23), a 50+-volume survey of more than 780 languages currently spoken in India today, many of which now struggle for recognition and preservation, as perceived by the people who speak them.
 
The second, The Indians: Histories of a Civilization (published by Aleph, 2023), is a seven-part history of India spanning more than 12,000 years, with contributions from more than 100 of South Asia’s most prominent historians and ethnographers, including two U-M faculty members (professors emeriti Thomas Trautmann and Madhav Deshpande).
 
G.N. Devy organized and edited both of these ambitious and historically important projects. Both projects creatively draw a bright line under the intimate relation between democracy and diversity, and work against contemporary political efforts to homogenize India’s cultures and sanitize India’s pasts. Professor Devy’s presentation will describe the genesis and approach of each project, and reflect more broadly on the place of diversity in India as a nation, as people, and as a spectrum of cultures.

Ganesh N. Devy is a scholar, educator, activist, and the Obaid Sidiqqi Chair Professor at the National Center for Biological Research, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore. He is a prolific writer, having authored or edited 109 books in the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, education, and philosophy. From 1980 to 1996, Devy was a professor in the Department of English at Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda.

In 1996, Devy gave up his academic career to initiate a deeper engagement with Adivasi and Denotified and Nomadic Tribal (DNT) communities. Devy went on to found the Bhasha Research and Publication Center in Baroda, the Adivasis Academy at Tejgadh village, and the DNT Rights Action Group, among several other initiatives. Professor Devy has also been the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including the Padma Shri (India’s fourth highest civilian award, given by the Indian government) in 2013. In 2003, Devy received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his pathbreaking book of literary criticism, After Amnesia (Orient Blackswan, 1993). In 2015, Devy returned this award in protest over the “growing intolerance towards the differences of opinion” then manifesting in the murder and imprisonment of several prominent intellectuals in India.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:00:02 -0400 2023-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Image: Artwork from The Rain Within Exhibition by Mayank Shyam, 2022
2023 Heberle Lecture (September 27, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101839 101839-21802541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the English Department for the 2023 Annual Lora Hutchins Heberle Lecture with distinguished lecturer Prof. Caleb Smith, Department of English, Yale University.

*“I’m not saying, I’m just saying”: Notes on Disavowal*

What kind of gesture is a disavowal? In ancient religious and legal rituals, it is a public way for speakers to renounce bad allegiances. In psychoanalytic theory, it is the secret ruse by which we hide unwelcome knowledge from ourselves. And now, in the critical humanities, the political and private types of disavowal interfuse; when we critics accuse someone of disavowal, we identify both a transgression against others and a failure of self-reckoning. This talk explores the ideas about power, knowledge, and the subject that are entailed in such critical indictments, where disavowal means something like the opposite of confession.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:43:28 -0400 2023-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Banned Books Week 2023 (October 4, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112780 112780-21829540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join us in English for a round of flash talks and discussion about Banned Books today!

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Other Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:07:32 -0400 2023-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Other English Dept Banned Books
Reading and Q&A with Sidik Fofana (October 5, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108953 108953-21820646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Sidik Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and a public school teacher in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the *Sewanee Review* and *Granta*. He was also named a fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2018. His debut short story collection was published by Scribner in August 2022.

Set in a Harlem high rise, *Stories from the Tenants Downstairs* is a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it.

Like Gloria Naylor’s *The Women of Brewster Place* and Lin Manuel Miranda’s *In the Heights*, Sidik Fofana’s electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful storytelling experience.

Each short story follows a tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone’s mind. There is Swan in apartment 6B, whose excitement about his friend’s release from prison jeopardizes the life he’s been trying to lead. Mimi, in apartment 14D, who hustles to raise the child she had with Swan, waitressing at Roscoe’s and doing hair on the side. And Quanneisha B. Miles, a former gymnast with a good education who wishes she could leave Banneker for good, but can’t seem to escape the building’s gravitational pull. We root for these characters and more as they weave in and out of each other’s lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and blaze new paths forward for themselves and the people they love.

For 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:08:38 -0400 2023-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-05T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Sidik Fofana
Promise That You Will Sing About Me: Craft Lessons That I’ve Learned From Hip-Hop Songs (October 6, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108980 108980-21820678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell 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)). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Sidik Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and a public school teacher in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the *Sewanee Review* and *Granta.* He was also named a fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2018. His debut short story collection was published by Scribner in August 2022.

Set in a Harlem high rise, *Stories from the Tenants Downstair*s is a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it.

Like Gloria Naylor’s *The Women of Brewster Place* and Lin Manuel Miranda’s *In the Heights,* Sidik Fofana’s electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful storytelling experience.

Each short story follows a tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone’s mind. There is Swan in apartment 6B, whose excitement about his friend’s release from prison jeopardizes the life he’s been trying to lead. Mimi, in apartment 14D, who hustles to raise the child she had with Swan, waitressing at Roscoe’s and doing hair on the side. And Quanneisha B. Miles, a former gymnast with a good education who wishes she could leave Banneker for good, but can’t seem to escape the building’s gravitational pull. We root for these characters and more as they weave in and out of each other’s lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and blaze new paths forward for themselves and the people they love.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:27:33 -0400 2023-10-06T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Sidik Fofana
Mark Webster Reading Series (October 6, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109048 109048-21821003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:59:16 -0400 2023-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
Craft Talk, Reading and Q&A with Liz Moore (October 12, 2023 5:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108948 108948-21830023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 5:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

*Rescheduled for October 12th at 5:00 pm*
Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public. This event will be held virtually (via Zoom).

The evening's schedule is as follows:

Introduction of the author by MFA student Marne Litfin
Liz will deliver a craft lecture titled, "Setting as Character: Building an Immersive World in Fiction."
Intermission
Reading
A conversation with MFA student Kemi Falodun and an audience Q&A

Liz Moore is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction) in Temple University’s MFA program and the author of four novels. Her most recent novel, the *New York Times*-and internationally bestselling *Long Bright River* (Riverhead), was also a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, the inaugural pick for the *New York Times’s* monthly “Group Text” column; and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2020.

Her other novels include *The Words of Every Song* (Random House, 2007); Heft (W.W. Norton, 2012); and *The Unseen World *(W.W. Norton, 2016). Moore's short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in venues such as *Tin House, The New York Times*, and *The Philadelphia Inquirer*. After winning a 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she spent 2014-15 at the American Academy in Rome. Moore’s books have appeared on the “Best of the Year” lists of venues such as *The New Yorker*, NPR, Goodreads, and *The Washington Post*. Her novels have been published in more than twenty-five foreign territories to date.

Her next novel is forthcoming from Riverhead in 2024, and a limited series adaptation of *Long Bright River,* co-written by Moore, is currently greenlit for production by Peacock. Moore lives with her family in Philadelphia.

For 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.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Oct 2023 11:15:39 -0400 2023-10-12T05:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Liz Moore
Reading and Q&A with Atsuro Riley (October 19, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108955 108955-21820648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Atsuro Riley is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and winner of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He is the author of *Heard-Hoard* (University of Chicago Press, 2021), winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a finalist for PEN America’s Voelcker Poetry Award, a *Boston Globe* Best Book of the Year, and a *Bookworm *Top 10 Book of the Year.

His 2010 book *Romey’s Order* received the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, *The Believer *Poetry Award, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress.

Riley’s other honors include Lannan Foundation and NEA Fellowships, the Pushcart Prize, and the Wood Prize given by *POETRY *magazine.

His poems have been anthologized in *The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall, The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of POETRY Magazine, The Oxford Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Poems of the American South, The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, Poems from Far and Wide, Vinegar and Char, Gracious,* and *Home: 100 Poems.*

Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry, Atsuro Riley lives in San Francisco.

He is the editor of *Revel*, a literary journal.

For 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:00:40 -0400 2023-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-19T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion photo credit: Sven Wiederholt
The Punctum & the Phosphorus, the Torque & the Haunt: In Search of The Poem (or Story) We Can't Shake Off - EVENT CANCELED (October 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108981 108981-21820679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED

Zell 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). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

We will examine a selection of poems and other literary artworks (from the dead and the living), on the lookout for the ‘punctum’ and the ‘phosphorus’, the 'torque' and the 'haunt'—considering together the words, phrases, musical moves and formal choices that make the work viscerally felt and indelible, impossible to forget or shrug off.
The lenses and touchstones of our discussion will be the punctum vs. studium concept, formulated by Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida, and the William Carlos Williams quote from In the American Grain:
It has been my wish to draw from every source one thing,
the strange phosphorus of the life. . .

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:35:46 -0400 2023-10-20T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion photo credit: Sven Wiederholt
Reading and Q&A with Rebecca Makkai (November 2, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108957 108957-21820651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Rebecca Makkai’s latest novel, *I Have Some Questions for You*, is a *New York Times* Best Seller. Her novel, *The Great Believers*, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the *LA Times* Book Prize; and it was one of the *New York Times*' Ten Best Books of 2018.

Her other books are the novels *The Borrower* and *The Hundred-Year House*, and the collection *Music for Wartime*—four stories from which appeared in* The Best American Short Stories*. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe and Northwestern University, and is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

For 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:42:23 -0400 2023-11-02T17:30:00-04:00 2023-11-02T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Rebecca Makkai
Backpacking Party (November 6, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114743 114743-21833408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Come join English Advisors and students for the first day of Backpacking!

- Learn about NEW Winter ‘24 English courses
- Hang out with other undergrad English students
- Grab some snacks and swag

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:00:32 -0400 2023-11-06T10:00:00-05:00 2023-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Social / Informal Gathering backpacking 2024
A Conversation on the Future of the Engaged Humanities (November 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114862 114862-21833708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Please join us at the University of Michigan Museum of Art for a reception and engaging conversations, celebrating the work of Julie Ellison.

Guest speakers:

David Scobey, Director of Bringing Theory to Practice
“Scholarship and the Engaged Scholar”

Dr. Timothy Eatman, Dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community, Rutgers University
“Imagining America and the Work of Carving Out Space in the Academy”

Dr. Sylvia Gale, Executive Director, Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, University of Richmond
“Learning from PAGE: 20 Years of Engaged Graduate Education,”

Dr. Michelle May-Curry, Faculty in Georgetown University’s Program in Engaged and Public Humanities and Research Affiliate at the National Humanities Alliance
“Looking Forward”

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:00:06 -0400 2023-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 2023-11-07T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
VICTORIAN POETRY AROUND THE GLOBE (November 8, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114464 114464-21832914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Nineteenth Century Forum members and other interested faculty and graduate students are invited to meet visiting scholars from the Nineteenth Century Historical Poetics Group (https://www.historicalpoetics.com/) for a panel discussion:

PANELISTS:
Mary Ellis Gibson (Colby College, author of Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India);
Charles LaPorte (U Washington, author of Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible);
Tricia Lootens (U Georgia, author of The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres);
Jason Rudy (U Maryland, author of Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies).
MODERATOR: Yopie Prins (U Michigan)

This event is sponsored by the Departments of English and Comparative Literature, as well as the Nineteenth Century Forum RIW, in conjunction with the Fall 2023 graduate seminar on "Victorian Poetry Around the Globe" (English 635/CompLit 730). For more information contact yprins@umich.edu.

Location: 3154 Angell Hall

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:17:58 -0400 2023-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Mark Webster Reading Series (November 10, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109049 109049-21821004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.

Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/Websters23

This series is free and open to the public. For questions or accommodation needs, or to receive the login password, please contact co-hosts, Claudia Creed (cncreed@umich.edu) and Courtney DuChene (courtnd@umich.edu)

8th September 2023
*Sarah Anderson (Fiction) - Introduced by Sara Tewelde*
*Jordan Hamel (Poetry) - Introduced by Martha Paz-Soldan*
*Sheena Raza Faisal (Fiction) - Introduced by Doug LeCours*

6th October 2023
*Jeffrey Chin (Fiction) - Introduced by Sarah Anderson*
*Sahara Sidi (Poetry) - Introduced by Courtney DuChene*

10th November 2023
*Olivia Cheng (Fiction) - Introduced by Mark Bryk*
*Danilo Marin (Poetry) - Introduced by Diepreye*

17th November 2023
*Mark Bryk (Fiction) - Introduced by Ana Kornblum-Laudi*
*Martha Paz-Soldan (Poetry) - Introduced by Michael O’Ryan*

19th January 2024
*Doug LeCours (Fiction) - Introduced by Jeffrey Chin*
*Kemi Falodun (Fiction) - Introduced by Sheena Raza Faisal*

26th January 2024
*Ana Kornblum-Laudi (Fiction) - Introduced by Olivia Cheng*
*Michael O’Ryan (Poetry) - Introduced by Claudia Creed*

8th March 2024
*Sara Tewelde (Fiction) - Introduced by Kemi Falodun*
*Diepreye (Poetry) - Introduced by Sahara Sidi*

22nd March 2024
*Claudia Creed (Poetry) - Introduced by Jordan Hamel*
*Courtney DuChene (Poetry) - Introduced by Danilo Marin*

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Performance Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:58:43 -0400 2023-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance Mark Webster Reading Series
Reading and Q&A with Paul Tran (November 16, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108958 108958-21820652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, *All the Flowers Kneeling*, published by Penguin. Their work appears in *The New York Times, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry*, and elsewhere.

They earned their BA in History from Brown University and MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. Winner of the Discovery/*Boston Review* Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Stanford University, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Paul is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:46:36 -0400 2023-11-16T17:30:00-05:00 2023-11-16T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Paul Tran
The Beloved Poem: "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden (November 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108983 108983-21820681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell 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). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

*What did I know, what did I know*
*of love’s austere and lonely offices?*

This craft talk will examine how Robert Hayden constructed this unforgettable poem, “Those Winter Sundays,” and how the poem patterns language not simply to express but to enact its content. This craft talk will also examine how patterned language—when exacted very carefully and cleverly—can imagine for survivors of private and public trauma new ways to speak truth to power through form, ambiguity, and lyric indirection.

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, *All the Flowers Kneeling*, published by Penguin. Their work appears in *The New York Times, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry,* and elsewhere.

They earned their BA in History from Brown University and MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. Winner of the Discovery/*Boston Review* Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Stanford University, and the National Endowment for the Arts, Paul is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:29:45 -0400 2023-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Paul Tran
Reading and Q&A with Ross Gay (December 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108961 108961-21820653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Ross Gay is interested in joy.

Ross Gay wants to understand joy.

Ross Gay is curious about joy.

Ross Gay studies joy.

Something like that.
~

Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: *Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding*, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and *Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude*, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays, *The Book of Delights*, was released in 2019 and was a *New York Times *bestseller. His new collection of essays, *Inciting Joy*, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022.

For 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:31:05 -0400 2023-12-07T17:30:00-05:00 2023-12-07T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Ross Gay
Getting Lost (December 8, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109539 109539-21822276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2023 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell 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). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

"In this talk, called 'Getting Lost', we will talk about, and maybe actually enter into, the virtues and quandaries of not knowing what the hell we're doing. We will talk some, but we will probably also do some mapping and drawing and building and definitely some dreaming."

Ross Gay is interested in joy.

Ross Gay wants to understand joy.

Ross Gay is curious about joy.

Ross Gay studies joy.

Something like that.
~

Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: *Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding*, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and *Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude*, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays, *The Book of Delights*, was released in 2019 and was a *New York Times *bestseller. His new collection of essays, *Inciting Joy*, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022.

For 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.

U-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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Presentation Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:53:23 -0400 2023-12-08T10:00:00-05:00 2023-12-08T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Ross Gay
Reading and Q&A with Christina Sharpe (January 11, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108963 108963-21820655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class (RGC), at the University of Johannesburg.

Sharpe is the author of *Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects* (Duke 2010) and *In the Wake: On Blackness and Being* (Duke 2016).* In the Wake* was named by the *Guardian* and *The Walrus* as one of the best books of 2016 and was a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Her third book *Ordinary Notes* was published in April 2023 by Knopf (Canada), FSG (USA), and Daunt (UK).

“The abacus of her eyelids,” her critical introduction to *Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems of Dionne Brand* was published in August 2022. She is currently working on three books: *Black. Still. Life.* (Duke 2025), *What Could a Vessel Be?* (FSG/Knopf 2025), and *To Have Been to the End of the World: 25 Essays on Art.*

For 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:00:19 -0500 2024-01-11T17:30:00-05:00 2024-01-11T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Christina Sharpe
Thinking Juxtapositionally (January 12, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109068 109068-21821026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2024 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell 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). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs

Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class (RGC), at the University of Johannesburg.

Sharpe is the author of *Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects* (Duke 2010) and *In the Wake: On Blackness and Being* (Duke 2016).* In the Wake* was named by the *Guardian* and *The Walrus* as one of the best books of 2016 and was a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Her third book *Ordinary Notes* was published in April 2023 by Knopf (Canada), FSG (USA), and Daunt (UK).

“The abacus of her eyelids,” her critical introduction to *Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems of Dionne Brand* was published in August 2022. She is currently working on three books: *Black. Still. Life.* (Duke 2025), *What Could a Vessel Be?* (FSG/Knopf 2025), and *To Have Been to the End of the World: 25 Essays on Art.*

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:01:33 -0500 2024-01-12T10:00:00-05:00 2024-01-12T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Christina Sharpe
Presentation and Q&A with Julia Kardon (January 19, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116872 116872-21838126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

This event is virtual-only (via Zoom) and is open to Helen Zell Writers' Program MFA students and Zell Fellows, as well as U-M graduate and undergraduate students. It is not open to the general public. Please email Julie Cadman-Kim (kimjulie@umich.edu) for login instructions.

Julia Kardon was born and raised in New York City. Her first job in publishing, while in high school, was shelving fiction at the fabled Strand Bookstore. She received degrees in Comparative Literature, as well as in Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago.

Julia joined HG Literary in 2018 after building a list at Mary Evans Inc and handling foreign rights. Prior to that she assisted at Sterling Lord Literistic, a job she attained after an unpaid internship both there and at the Wylie Agency.

She is interested primarily in literary and upmarket fiction and memoir, and especially stories grappling with racial, religious, sexual or national identity, narrative nonfiction, journalism, and history. She does not represent thrillers, any children’s literature or books about spirituality or Christianity. Her clients include New York Times Best Sellers Brit Bennett and Etaf Rum, Barnes & Noble Discover picks John Freeman Gill, K-Ming Chang and Leah Franqui, Center For Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow Melissa Rivero, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, and others.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:21:00 -0500 2024-01-19T14:00:00-05:00 2024-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Livestream / Virtual Julia Kardon
The Path of the Hare (January 26, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109761 109761-21822787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2024 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell 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). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up in rural southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. After working as a reporter for three years for *The Lethbridge Herald*, she earned an MA in English at the University of Victoria. She is the author of five collections of poetry. *Short Haul Engine* (Brick Books, 2001) won the Dorothy Livesay Award, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. *Modern and Normal *(Brick Books, 2005) was shortlisted for the Trillium Poetry Prize. *Pigeon* (Anansi, 2009) won the Trillium Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize. *The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out* (Anansi, FSG, 2014) was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. *The Caiplie Caves* (Anansi, Picador, 2019; FSG, 2020) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize. *The Living Option*, a volume of selected poems published in the UK by Bloodaxe Books in 2013, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Karen's poems have been published in journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Europe, and Australia and translated into eight languages. She is the recipient of the Latner Poetry Prize, the Canada Council Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for an artist in mid-career, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught for writing programs and universities across Canada and in the UK, was the 2021 Jack McClelland Writer in Residence for Massey College at the University of Toronto, and the 2022 Holloway Visiting Poet for the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently a lecturer in creative writing with the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. 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.

U-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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Presentation Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:11:55 -0400 2024-01-26T10:00:00-05:00 2024-01-26T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Presentation Karen Solie
Reading and Q&A with Halle Butler (February 1, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108965 108965-21820657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Halle Butler is a writer living in Chicago. She has co-written screenplays, including *Neighborhood Food Drive *(2017). Her first novel, *Jillian*, was called the “feel-bad book of the year” by the *Chicago Tribune*. She was recently included in *Granta's* 2017 list of Best of Young American Novelists. Her second novel,* The New Me*, is forthcoming from Penguin Books.

For 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:22:06 -0400 2024-02-01T17:30:00-05:00 2024-02-01T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Halle Butler
Craft Lecture with Fiction Author Halle Butler (February 2, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109762 109762-21822791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2024 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell 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). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Halle Butler is a writer living in Chicago. She has co-written screenplays, including *Neighborhood Food Drive *(2017). Her first novel, *Jillian*, was called the “feel-bad book of the year” by the *Chicago Tribune*. She was recently included in *Granta's* 2017 list of Best of Young American Novelists. Her second novel,* The New Me*, is forthcoming from Penguin Books.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. 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.

U-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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Presentation Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:24:04 -0400 2024-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-02T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Halle Butler
Craft Lecture with Poet Aria Aber (March 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109765 109765-21822792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

***Due to technical difficulties, the livestream this morning has been cancelled. The in-person event is still scheduled. See below for details.***


Zell 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). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Aria Aber was born and raised in Germany and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. Her debut book *Hard Damage *(University of Nebraska Press, 2019) won the *Prairie Schooner* Book Prize in Poetry and a 2020 Whiting Award.

Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in *The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, Poem-A-Day, Narrative, POETRY*, and elsewhere. A graduate of the NYU MFA in Creative Writing, she holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman, the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. 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.

U-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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Presentation Fri, 15 Mar 2024 08:30:51 -0400 2024-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2024-03-15T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Aria Aber
2024 Summer Journalism Internship Showcase (March 20, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119642 119642-21843197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 5:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

English Undergrads, learn where an internship can take you and what these organizations have to offer this summer! Open to English majors and minors.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:58:40 -0500 2024-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 2024-03-20T18:30:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of English Language and Literature Careers / Jobs summer internships
2024 Department of English Language and Literature MFA and PhD Prospective Students Welcome Week (March 21, 2024 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/118170 118170-21840588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 8:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

2024 Graduate English Welcome Week for Prospective MFA and PhD Students

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Reception / Open House Wed, 31 Jan 2024 09:46:11 -0500 2024-03-21T08:30:00-04:00 2024-03-21T21:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Reception / Open House
Reading and Q&A with Mary Gaitskill (March 21, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108968 108968-21820659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Seats are limited and are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium).


Mary Gaitskill is the author of novels, short stories, and essays. Her most recent book is the hybrid work *The Devil’s Treasure* (ZE Books, 2021), which creates a collage out of her previous works, connected by the thread of a new short story.

In 2019, she published the widely acclaimed *This is Pleasure* (Pantheon), which *The Guardian* praised as “formidable.” Other works include the essay collection* Somebody with a Little Hammer* (Pantheon, 2017), the novels *The Mare *(Vintage, 2015), longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, *Veronica *(Vintage 2013), a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the *Los Angeles Times* Book Award, and *Two Girls, Fat and Thin* (Simon & Schuster, 1991). She is also the author of the story collections *Bad Behavior* (Simon & Schuster, 2012),* Don’t Cry* (Pantheon, 2009), and *Because They Wanted To* (Simon & Schuster, 1997), which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner in 1998. Her story “Secretary” was the basis for the feature film of the same name starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader.

Gaitskill’s stories and essays have appeared in *The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Best American Short Stories*, and *The O. Henry Prize Stories*. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction and a Cullman Research Fellowship at the New York Public Library, an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Hopwood Award.

Gaitskill has taught at the University of California Berkeley, the University of Houston, New York University, Brown, and Syracuse University. Born in Lexington, KY, she currently lives in New York State’s Hudson Valley.

For 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2024 08:41:24 -0500 2024-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 2024-03-21T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Mary Gaitskill
2024 Department of English Language and Literature MFA and PhD Prospective Students Welcome Week (March 22, 2024 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/118170 118170-21840589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2024 8:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

2024 Graduate English Welcome Week for Prospective MFA and PhD Students

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Reception / Open House Wed, 31 Jan 2024 09:46:11 -0500 2024-03-22T08:30:00-04:00 2024-03-22T21:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Reception / Open House
Lending Attention and the Understory (April 5, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108970 108970-21820663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2024 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

Zell 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). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

"In Spanish, you do not 'pay attention,' you 'lend attention.' I use this idea as a subtle technique in character development that often draws details from the people and places I know best. These details are what I call “the understory” of memory. The way authors do this is not accidental, it is a form of intuitive writing. There is always more than meets the eye."

Luis Alberto Urrea, a Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the author of 18 books, winning numerous awards for his poetry, fiction and essays. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, Urrea is most recognized as a border writer, though he says, “I am more interested in bridges, not borders.” His most recent novel, *Good Night Irene*, was published in May 2023 and is inspired by his mother’s service in Europe during WWII as a Red Cross Clubmobile “Donut Dolly.”

*The Devil’s Highway,* Urrea’s 2004 non-fiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, won the Lannan Literary Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize. *The House of Broken Angels,* was a 2018 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a *New York Times* Notable Book of the Year. He won an American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction award for his collection of short stories, *The Water Museum,* which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Urrea’s novel *Into the Beautiful North* is a Big Read selection of the National Endowment of the Arts. He is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. 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.

U-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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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:32:00 -0400 2024-04-05T10:00:00-04:00 2024-04-05T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Luis Alberto Urrea
2024 Undergraduate English Commencement Ceremony (May 3, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115822 115822-21835696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 3, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Further details are available on our website: https://lsa.umich.edu/english/undergraduate/Commencement-info.html

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:12:05 -0500 2024-05-03T17:30:00-04:00 2024-05-03T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Ceremony / Service English Commencements