According to New York Times’ Book reviewer, Ken Kalfus, ” Saturation Project is sometimes elusive, but there’s no meaning in it that gets lost for long. When Hume’s thematic connections and redemptive insights arrive, it’s with the force of a hurricane.” (New York Times, 2/14/2021.) By Christina-Marie Sears Christine Hume is an acclaimed poet, essayist…
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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…
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…
Christine Hume and Catherine Wagner: The Woodward Line, April 18
Catch EMU Creative Writing Professor Christine Hume with Catherine Wagner when they read at The Woodward Line – a free poetry series at The Scarab Club in Detroit – on Wednesday, April 18, at 7:00 p.m. The Scarab Club is located at 217 Farnsworth in Detroit. Christine Hume is the author of three books and two…
Dzanc Books Dis|Quiet, July 1-13, 2012
Interested in exploring writing through workshops and lectures in Lisbon, Portugal next summer? Visit http://disquietinternational.org/ and find out more about Dis|Quiet, the Dzanc Books International Literary Program. (There is also information about how to apply for the International Literature Award.) Faculty and guests will include EMU Professor Christine Hume. Additional funding is available for EMU students. …
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…
Christine Hume on WCBN 88.3 FM today, 4:30 p.m.
EMU Professor Christine Hume will appear on “Living Writers” on WCBN FM Ann Arbor 88.3 (also available for streaming http://www.wcbn.org/) today, Wednesday, Dec 15, from 4:30-5:30 pm EST. Tune in and listen! Catch “Living Writers” on Wednesday every week and hear poets and writers read from their work and talk about their passions and preoccupations with…
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. …