Thank you to all of those in attendance at our 2nd Fall 2017 BathHouse event featuring Joanna Ruocco and a special thank you to all of those who participated in the discussion following her reading. Pictures from the event are posted below. Keep in mind that we are still accepting submissions for reviews.
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POETRY AT LITERATI: DONALD DUNBAR, CHRISTINE HUME, BECKY WIN
Our very own creative writing professor Christine Hume will be reading at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI on Friday, November 3rd, 2017 at 7:00pm, alongside two poets, Donald Dunbar and Becky Win. Literati Bookstore is located at 124 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Christine Hume is the author of The Saturation Project (Solid Objects, 2019), a lyric memoir in the form of three interlinked essays, as well as three books of poetry. Her chapbooks include Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008), Ventifacts (Omnidawn, 2012), Atalanta: an Anatomy (Essay Press, 2016), and a collaboration with Jeff Clark, Question Like a Face (Image Text Ithaca, 2017). She teaches in the interdisciplinary creative writing program at Eastern Michigan University.
Question Like A Face, by Christine Hume and Jeff Clark, is the second in an ITI Press series of pocket-sized, hard-bound, image-text collaborations between a writer and a visual artist. In powerful prose, Christine Hume looks at gender violence and complicity within the intimate and immediate interiors of a small city in Michigan. Like any tale of power, this one begins with the careless dismissal of a whole life.
Compelled by the constantly defaced and reappearing face of a young black woman shot by a white cop, whose image is affixed to walls around her community, Hume summons her visage as a call to outrage against her own complacency and against the silence surrounding our culture’s unending violence against women, especially women of color. She writes, I am living in a city that proliferates a question like a face. Her face appears and disappears on civic surfaces, her face replaces a blank space; her face replaces the city, piece by piece, claiming it, because her face is half hidden, in the half-light of waiting, half blowing in the wind, half stuck to the present, near a house where my family lives, where a young girl can look at it and think “not me.” A sequence of domestic photographs from police evidence files–hauntingly selected and cropped by Clark, punctuate Hume’s accounts with their simple, familiar violence.
About Shot: In alternating currents of prose and verse, SHOT reaches beyond the tradition of the nocturne to illuminate contradictory impulses and intensities of night. SHOT inhabits the sinister, visionary, intimate, haunted, erotic capacities to see and hear things at night, in the fertile void containing our own psychological and physical darkness. Via Levinas who locates self-knowledge and ethical contract in insomnia, this darkness is one “stuck full of eyes.” Here the insomniac falls into a Beckettian pattern of waiting, in an inextricable dialogue with a selfhood that cannot settle down. In a perpetual play between empirical and abstract knowledge, tantrum and meditation, SHOT creates torque that drives beyond material experience.
Please click this link for more details. http://www.literatibookstore.com/event/poetry-literati-donald-dunbar-christine-hume-becky-win
Winter 2017 BathHouse Reading Series – Nathaniel Mackey and Ted Pearson
Chicago Poets Theater Festival
Chicago Poets Theater Festival features Gardener of Stars, an Opera by Carla Harryman
Gardener of Stars, an Opera with set design by Chicago artist Julia Klein, offers performances by musician and composer Jon Raskin (Bay Area) on micro electronics, concertina, saxophone, and as speaking and singing voice; Tania Chen (London, San Francisco) on piano and as speaking/singing voice; cris cheek (Cincinnati and creative writing professor at Miami of Ohio) as speaking and singing voice; and Carla Harryman (Detroit and creative writing professor at EMU) as speaking voice.
Gardener of Stars shares the festival bill with works by composer Robert Ahsley, and poets theater icons Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, and John Tipton.
Night three: December 9 information:
http://linkshall.org/BoxOfficeEvents/PoetsTheaterFestival/PoetsTheaterNight3/tabid/339/Default.aspx
Night four: December 10 information:
http://linkshall.org/BoxOfficeEvents/PoetsTheaterFestival/PoetsTheaterNight4/tabid/340/Default.aspx
Gardener of Stars, an Opera is supported with the help of the Eastern Michigan University Faculty Research Fund; EMU Dept. of English Language and Literature; National Performance Network; Links Hall; Sector 2337; and Kenning Editions.
Critic Heidi Bean on Carla Harryman’s poets theater:
http://muse.jhu.edu/article/403820
Harriett Blog preview of Chicago Poets Theater Festival:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2016/10/links-hall-sector-2337-present-second-annual-festival-of-poets-theater/
Upcoming Rodrigo Toscano Events
Rodrigo Toscano’s newest book of poetry, Explosion Rocks Springfield, is due out from Fence Books in the spring. His previous books include Deck of Deeds, Collapsible Poetics Theater, To Leveling Swerve, Platform, Partisans, andThe Disparities. His poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Voices Without Borders, Diasporic Avant-Gardes, Imagined Theatres, In the Criminal’s Cabinet, Earth Bound, and Best American Poetry. Toscano has received a New York State Fellowship in Poetry and was a National Poetry Series selection. He works for the Labor Institute in conjunction with the United Steelworkers and the National Institute for Environmental Health Science. While in the Greenpoint township of Brooklyn (16 years), Toscano ran and wrote articles and interviews for the North Brooklyn Runners. He now lives in the Faubourg Marigny (seventh ward) of New Orleans.
The Cave Lecture by Clayton Eshleman
Work by Jan 20 & 21 BathHouse Readers
Kevin Killian:
Works @ Electronic Poetry Center
New Narrative writer and poet Kevin Killian showcases work
REVIVING JACK SPICER: AN INTERVIEW WITH KEVIN KILLIAN
Wayne Koestenbaum:
Wayne Koestenbaum: The TNB Self-Interview
The Visceral Visual Art of Writer Wayne Koestenbaum
Full BathHouse Winter 2016 Schedule
Be sure to mark your calendar for this semester’s BathHouse events!
Kevin Killian & Wayne Koestenbaum:
Jan 20, 3:30-5 pm – Poetry Reading
Jan 21, 6:30-8:30 pm – “Pink Trance” – Discussion
Teju Cole:
March 9, 7 pm – Reading
Claudia Rankine:
April 5, 5:30 pm – Reading
~ All events will take place in the Student Center Auditorium. ~
EMU BathHouse Events Presents: Kevin Killian & Wayne Koestenbaum
Kevin Killian and Wayne Koestenbaum we give talks and perform at EMU this coming January.
~ Events planned for Jan 20, 3:30-5 pm; Jan 21, 6:30-8:30. ~
More info to come!
Anne Carson Poetry Reading
The Zell Visiting Writers Series Presents:
Anne Carson
Poetry Reading
Thursday, January 21st, 5:30 pm
UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium
~ Free & open to the public. ~
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Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur “Genius” Award. She is the author of Nox; Glass, Irony and God; The Autobiography of Red; The Beauty of the Husband; Decreation; Economy of the Unlost; Eros the Bittersweet; Grief Lessons; If Not, Winter; Men in the Off Hours; and Plainwater.
For more info, please visit: https://events.umich.edu/event/26790