The Bathhouse Reading Series brings in a number of writers and artists —both innovative established writers and exciting up-and-comers—who perform readings of their work. See video of past readings and performances in the Photos/Video section. For more information on these readings, contact the EMU English Department at 734.487.4220. All events are free and open to the…
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BathHouse 8.2 now live
Issue 8.2 of the Creative Writing Program’s own BathHouse Hybrid Arts Journal is now online. Head over to bhjournal.com and check it out. Content this time around includes sound poems by Oana Avasilichioaei and Rachel Zucker, art by Sebastian Mendes, video from Meghan Lamb and Lubomir Panak, words & images from Matthew Cooperman, Marius Lehene,…
Gerard Breitenbeck reviews Brenda Iijima
Another review from Creative Writing grad student Gerard Breitenbeck; this time Gerard reviews Brenda Iijima’s recent BathHouse reading: Professor Carla Harryman introduced Brenda Iijima to the Dreamland Theater in downtown Ypsilanti, speaking of her strengths as a poet who writes both inventively and politically. Following Professor Harryman, a small group of her undergraduate students presented their…
Gerard Breitenbeck reviews Cathy Park Hong
Creative Writing grad student Gerard Breitenbeck reviews Cathy Park Hong’s BathHouse reading from earlier this semester: In Sean Kilpatrick’s introduction of Cathy Park Hong, he notes that “Each line performs like a thousand tongues dueling,” and that we will be privy to “See cultures splayed and reviled by a renegade architect.” Indeed, reading from the…
Ned Randolph reviews Cathy Park Hong
Creative Writing grad student Ned Randolph reviews Cathy Park Hong’s BathHouse reading from earlier this semester: Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution (W. W. Norton, New York, 2007) imagines a heightened collision between the language of commercialism in a futuristic, globalized world. She read from the work on Thursday at the most recent BathHouse Reading…
BathHouse Reading: Brenda Iijima – Tuesday, March 22, 6:30 pm
Don’t miss the final BathHouse reading of the Winter 2011 semester featuring Brenda Iijima, taking place Tuesday, March 22, at 6:30 p.m. at the Dreamland Theater. Brenda Iijima was born in the hardscrabble town of North Adams, Mass. She is the author of Around Sea (O Books, 2004), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press, 2007), Subsistence…
Aylen Rounds reviews Cathy Park Hong
Aylen Rounds reviews Cathy Park Hong’s recent BathHouse reading: Cathy Park Hong, BathHouse Reading, 2/17 Poet Cathy Park Hong was the featured writer for February’s BathHouse Reading Series, held on the 17th. She read from her latest book, Dance Dance Revolution, as well as excerpts from a forthcoming collection (tenatively) titled Engine West. Hong was…
BathHouse Issue 8.1 now live
The new issue of BathHouse (a hypermedia journal, not to be confused with the reading series of the same name) is online. Head on over to bhjournal.com and check it out. It includes art and an interview with Derek White, three videos by Stephen Wren, excerpts from a new series of “For Geniuses” guides, Grendel re-imagined…
BathHouse Reading: Cathy Park Hong – Thurs, Feb 17, 5:30 pm
Don’t miss the next BathHouse reading featuring Cathy Park Hong, taking place Thursday, Feb 17, at 5:30 p.m. in the Student Center Audtitorium. Cathy Park Hong is the author of Translating Mo’um (Hanging Press, 2002) and Dance Dance Revolution (WW Norton, 2007), which was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Hong is the recipient…
Gerard Breitenbeck reviews Eric Lorberer and Barrett Watten
EMU grad student Gerard Breitenbeck reviews the recent BathHouse reading that featured Eric Lorberer and Barrett Watten: Ned Randolph introduced first Eric Lorberer who went on to speak about public art, art in a shared space and related questions of ownership and permanence vs. ephemerally. He focused on the Ashbury Bridge in Minneapolis. A person…