Student Amy Oleynik reviews Dodie Bellamy’s BathHouse Reading from earlier this month: Dodie Bellamy: Her reading of “Whistle While You Dixie” on February 7, 2012 I came to realize in a short amount of words that Dodie sounds like the friend you think you have, the one who says everything too honestly and with too…
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Emily Riopelle reviews Dodie Bellamy
Emily Riopelle reviews Dodie Bellamy’s recent BathHouse Reading: Whistle While You Dodie by Emily Riopelle Dodie Bellamy’s voice matched the dry monotone one I’d imagined for her in my head. Hearing her work live gives it a whole new dimension. The crass and ironic words she uses, the blunt honesty with which she writes, is…
Anthony Zick reviews Fall BathHouse Readings
EMU student Anthony Zick reviews both BathHouse readings from Fall semester (Laura Wetherington, Jill Darling, and Sara Williams from Sept. 28; Taylor Brady from Nov. 10): BathHouse this Semester was in many ways, enjoyable, cohesive, and productive. First I would like to praise the specifics of its organization, I will say that the requirement of all Creative…
Alessa Pointer reviews Laura Wetherington, Jill Darling, and Sara Williams
EMU student Alessa Pointer reviews the faculty BathHouse Reading from earlier this semester: On September 8, 2011, I attended my first BathHouse Reading with Laura Wetherington, Jill Darling and Sara Williams and I must say that I enjoyed it. All three women were wonderful, but Laura Wetherington absolutely magnificent. Her style is so quirky and funny,…
Jessica Chrisekos reviews Taylor Brady
Following yesterday’s review of the first BathHouse Reading of this semester, EMU Creative Writing student Jessica Chrisekos shares her impressions from the second Fall BathHouse Reading, which featured Taylor Brady: After just reading Snow Sensitive Skin, featuring work from both Taylor Brady and Rob Halpern, I was very excited to attend this BathHouse event. Taylor…
Jessica Chrisekos reviews Laura Wetherington, Jill Darling, and Sara Williams
EMU Creative Writing student Jessica Chrisekos reviews the EMU Faculty BathHouse Reading from earlier this semester that featured Laura Wetherington, Jill Darling, and Sara Williams: On Wednesday, September 28th, Eastern welcomed Laura Wetherington, Jill Darling, and Sara Williams to the Creative Writing BathHouse Reading Series. Their performance was particularly enjoyable for me. They covered a range…
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…
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…