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 …
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CRTW Faculty Releases: Ventifacts and Open Box
CRTW Faculty Carla Harryman and Christine Hume both released new book/CD combos earlier this year. Check them out if you haven’t already: Ventifacts by Christine Hume (Omnidawn) Ventifacts begins the year Christine Hume’s daughter develops a wind phobia, but quickly blows into lyric investigations of the wind in art, politics, and literature, highlighting the…
Carla Harryman and others featured at Faculty New Publications Lecture, Thurs. April 7, 4:00 p.m.
Creative Writing Professor Carla Harryman will be among the faculty featured on Thursday, April 7, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Halle 320 as part of the Faculty New Publications Lecture Series. This series spotlights recent faculty publications across periods, genres, and program areas, as well as provides graduate students with a sense of the different kinds of research faculty do and what…
Wayne Westcott reviews Julie Patton and Creative Writing Faculty BathHouse readings
Two more reviews to wrap up the semester…EMU student Wayne Westcott reviews a couple BathHouse readings from this past Fall: JULIE PATTON I first met Julie Patton while escorting her to the bathroom. I have a thing about bathrooms. I hate them. They make me feel awkward in my own skin, and if there’s ever…
Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian’s The Wide Road
Creative Writing professor Carla Harryman, together with Lyn Hejinian, recently celebrated the release of The Wide Road, a collaborative work by the pair, roughly 20 years in the making. Here’s the official blurb from Belladonna Books: What would have happened…had Thelma and Louise not driven off the cliff but stayed on the road? In Carla…
Aaron Diehl reviews and CRTW Faculty and Julie Patton BathHouse readings
EMU student Aaron Diehl offers up two reviews of BathHouse readings from this past semester: CREATIVE WRITING FACULTY On October 29th, I wandered down to Sponberg Theatre to catch the EMU faculty reading. The performers for the evening were Rob Halpern, Christine Hume, and Carla Harryman. Christine Hume opened the night with selections from her…
Jessica Buterbaugh reviews CRTW faculty BathHouse and Jeff Kass readings
EMU student Jessica Buterbaugh reviews a Jeff Kass reading and the faculty BathHouse reading from this past semester: CREATIVE WRITING FACULTY The first BathHouse Reading of the semester on the 29th of Sept. in Sponberg Theater was the faculty reading with Christine Hume, Carla Harryman, and Rob Halpern. Each faculty member had a distinct style…
Kylie Hoey reviews Creative Writing faculty BathHouse reading
EMU student Kylie Hoey reviews the EMU Creative Writing faculty’s BathHouse reading that took place earlier this semester: At the first Bathhouse Reading, faculty from the creative writing program at Eastern read some of their works for us. Christine Hume was the first of the three readers. She read primarily from her published work Shot. …
Brandon Gorley reviews Christian Bök and CRTW faculty BathHouse readings
EMU student Brandon Gorley offers a pair of reviews, the first on Christian Bök’s recent BathHouse reading: Every writer needs to experiment every once in a while, but I think Christian Bok must be an over-achiever – I don’t think he’s ever stopped experimenting. Having read Eunoia and a few of his other works before the…
Gerard Breitenbeck reviews CRTW Faculty BathHouse Reading
Another BathHouse review, this time from Creative Writing grad student Gerard Breitenbeck: Reading from “Shot,” “The Liberation of Soggy Muff” and “I Exhume myself Depending on my Last Name,” Christine Hume’s multimedia performance conjures the musicality of poetry as it examines what it means to be present in a poetry reading as well as what…