McKenny Hall Ballroom April 14th at 6pm Free and open to the public With the winter semester coming to an end, Capstone approaches for our creative writing undergraduates. We have spent the past couple months organizing and preparing our projects for the event and will be preforming our creative pieces on April 14th in…
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Miranda Mellis: An Introduction by Aaron Smith
BathHouse reading series welcomed Miranda Mellis this fall, and Aaron Smith (a current graduate student) wrote a wonderful introduction to her reading. I thought I’d share it here! “Today we welcome Miranda Mellis, a powerfully surreal mind & voice in a world that cannot slow down or re-trace its steps. Our cultures have carved a…
Upcoming: Temporal Arts Collective Reading 10/18
Friday, October 18 at 8:00pm. 128 W Michigan Ave, apt 5 Performances by TAC & friends. All are welcome! Come out and enjoy what this Ypsi community has to offer. TAC presents guest reader Cynthia Spencer: http://www.commonlinejournal.com/2009/10/poetry-by-cynthia-spencer-2009.html http://www.poetrycemetery.com/spencernew.htm
Upcoming: BATHHOUSE EVENTS 11/5 & 11/6
Join us on November 5th and 6th as BathHouse Events and the Creative Writing Department welcomes Douglas Kearney and Tisa Bryant! The details… Readings by Douglas Kearney and Tisa Bryant Tuesday, Nov. 5th, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. EMU Student Center Auditorium Ypsilanti And:“Textual Orality: African Diasporic Aesthetic Practices” A Discussion with Douglas Kearney and Tisa…
Friday, October 4 – Site/Nonsite Detroit: Poetry @ASAP
Site/Nonsite Detroit: Poetry @ASAP http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/pdfs/ASAP%20reading.pdf Brian Ang (Oakland, CA; editor of Armed Cell); Sara Larsen; (Oakland, CA; organizer of The Public School); David Lau (Santa Cruz, CA; editor of Lana Turner); Rob Halpern (Ypsilanti, MI; author of Music for Porn); Jonathan Stalling (Norman, OK; author of Yingelishi); UIjana Wolf (Berlin/Brooklyn; author of falsche freunde). Hosted…
Upcoming: Carla Harryman M–/W– launch (9/28)
Carla Harryman and George Tysh kick off the evidence series in Ferndale on September 28. evidence: new writing in the metro Saturday, September 28, 8 pm Carla Harryman: M–/W– launch George Tysh …
Upcoming: An Evening of Poetry and Conversation (9/27)
Please join us for an evening of poetry and conversation with: CATHERINE WAGNER, KAPLAN HARRIS, BRENNA YORK, & MATVEI YANKELEVICH Friday September 27 @ Rob Halpern and Lee Azus’s home: 319 Garland Street in Ypislanti Gathering begins 7:00. Readings begin at 7:30. Beer & Wine & Partners, all welcome! Bios and Links: Catherine Wagner’s collections…
CRTW Graduate Showcase
It excites the Creative Writing blog to announce the Creative Writing Graduate Showcase on Thursday, April 18th from six until eight in the evening. This blessed event will be hosted in the Carillon Room in the Halle Library on EMU‘s campus. The graduate performances promise to “blow down doors and hurl windows from the highest…
EMU’s CW students’ public collaboration makes national news
Hats off to undergrads Sam Schimmel, Eric Corliss, Karen Thompson, Taylor Cyr, and Garret Stralnic from Christine Hume’s “Collaboration and Community Projects” and Linette Lao’s “Mixed Media” classes! Their work has received national attention in the New York Daily News. The members were from the collaborative group known as Operation Mongoose 2012 whose public work urges a remembrance of books and bookstores…