HopwoodThe Newsletter Vol. LXXIII, 2 http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/hopwood/ July, 2012 HOPWOODHOPWOOD

Congratulations to Laura Kasischke, who is the winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for her book of poetry, Space, in Chains (Copper Canyon Press), her eighth poetry collection. She is also the author of nine novels, most recently The Raising. The award was presented on March 8 in New York City. The National Book Critics Circle “honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature. It was founded in 1974 to encourage and raise the quality of book criticism in all media and to create a way for critics to communicate with one another about their professional concerns. It consists of about 600 active book reviewers.” The book was selected by the New York Times as one of their “100 Notable Books of 2011.” The Underclassmen Awards Ceremony was held on January 24, with C. D. Wright giving a poetry reading following the awards. Professor A. Van Jordan presented the awards and introduced Ms. Wright. The judges were Kate Glahn and John Lofy in Nonfiction and Fiction and Hopwood winners Joseph Matuzak and Laura Roop in Poetry. Paul Barron, also a Hopwood winner, judged the Cowden Contest. And the winners were:

Hopwood Underclassmen Fiction: Suzanne MacLaren, $800; Andrew N. McIntyre, $800; Ryan Reid Hyun, $1,500; Emily Pittinos, $1,500 Laura Kasischke Continued, page 2 —winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award Inside: 3 Publications by Hopwood Winners 3 -books and chapbooks 5 -articles and essays 7 -reviews 7 -fi ction 8 -poetry 12 -drama performances and publications 13 -audio 13 -fi lm/video 13 News Notes 15 Awards and Honors 17 Deaths 18 Special Announcements Editortorr Andrea Beauchampa Design Anthony Cece Hopwood Underclassmen Nonfiction: Jenna Birch, $1,500; Carlina Duan, $1,500; Emily Pittinos, $1,500 Hopwood Underclassmen Poetry: Carlina Duan, $1,750; Emily Pittinos, $1,750

The Academy of American Poets Prize: (Graduate Division) Ali Shapiro, $100; (Undergraduate Division) Elizabeth Lalley, $100 The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize: Esteban Ismael, $300; Matthew Moser Miller, $300 The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry: Gahl Liberzon, $400; Airea D. Matthews, $600 The Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry: Jacob Brooks, $650; Emily Pittinos, $850 The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship: Jacqui Sahagian, $2,000; Emily Pittinos, $3,000 The Roy and Helen Meador Writing Award: Emily Pittinos, $850

The Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards were presented by Professor Nicholas Delbanco, Director of the Hopwood Program, on April 18. Francine Prose gave a lecture, “Complimentary Toilet Paper: Some Thoughts on Character and Language” following the announcement of the awards. It will be published in Michigan Quarterly Review. The local judges were Claire Barco, Charlotte Boulay, Charles Frazier, Kate Glahn, Michael Hinken, Raymond McDaniel, Oyamo, Lauren Proux, Karla Taylor, and Cody Walker and Hopwood winners Frank Beaver, Joseph Horton, Lauren Kingsley, Todd McKinney, Emily McLaughlin, Benjamin Paloff, Sara Schaff, Kodi Scheer, Fritz Swanson, D’Anne Witkowski, and Jessica Young.

The national judges were: Drama: John Walch and Barbara Wiechmann Novel: Valerie Laken and Jess Row (Hopwood winners) Screenplay: Amanda Adelson and Elwood Reid (Hopwood winners) Nonfiction: Bich Nguyen (Hopwood winner) and Michael Paterniti Short Fiction: Antonya Nelson and Daniel Orozco Poetry: Julie Agoos and Daniel Mark Epstein

And the winners were: Hopwood Drama: Joseph Dimuzio, $3,500; Tyler Dean, $4,000; Anna Sheaffer, $9,000 Hopwood Novel: Rebecca Scherm, $6,000; Dan Keane, $7,500; Monique Daviau, $8,000 Hopwood Screenplay: Brandon Verdi, $2,000; Nathaniel Hart, $3,500; Perry Janes, $5,000; James Mero, $5,000 Hopwood Undergraduate Nonfiction: Jennifer Xu, $6,000; Emily Pittinos, $10,000 Hopwood Graduate Nonfiction: Leah Falk, $2,500; Carlus M. Henderson, $2,500; Jennifer Riemenschneider, $3,000; James Francisco Kusher, $10,500 Hopwood Undergraduate Short Fiction: Avery DiUbaldo, $2,500; Jacqui Sahagian, $2,500; Jacqueline Boyce, $3,000; Matthew Pollock, $7,000 Hopwood Graduate Short Fiction: James Francisco Kusher, $3,000; Benjamin Landry, $6,500; James Pinto, $6,500 Hopwood Undergraduate Poetry: Perry Janes, $2,500; Patrick Whalen, $2,500; Thomas Hickey, $3,000; Sarah Kunjummen, $4,000 Hopwood Graduate Poetry: Benjamin Landry, $6,000; Audra Puchalski, $10,500 The Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize for the Long Poem or Poetic Sequence: Bruce A. Lack, Jr., $5,000

The Frank and Gail Beaver Script Writing Prize: Ashley K. Harrison, $1,000 The Andrea Beauchamp Prize (donated by Professor John Wagner): Benjamin Landry, $1,000 The Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing: Sheerah Tan Cole, $1,100; Kendra Langford Shaw, $1,100; Eric McDowell, $1,100

2 The Helen J. Daniels Prize: Emily Pittinos, $3,000 The Geoffrey James Gosling Prize: Monique Daviau, $800 The Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award: Sarah Kunjummen, $2,700 The Robert F. Haugh Prize: Matthew Pollock, $2,700 The Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing: Perry Janes, $5,500 The Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting: Tyler Dean, $3,500; Joseph Dimuzio, $3,500 The Meader Family Award: Mary Camille Beckman, $1,750; Trilbe Wynne, $1,750; Jeremiah Childers, $2,200 The Arthur Miller Award of the University of Michigan Club of New York Scholarship Fund: Emily Pittinos, $2,000 The Leonard and Eileen Newman Literary Prizes: Ariel Elyse Bond, $1,000 (Dramatic Writing); Nania Lee, $1,000 (Fiction) The Naomi Saferstein Literary Award: James Mero, $1,200 The Stanley S. Schwartz Prize: Jacqueline Boyce, $550 The Helen S. and John Wagner Prize: Audra Puchalski, $1,000 The John Wagner Prize: James Francisco Kusher, $1,000

At this time, we haven’t yet chosen the Hopwood Reader and Lecturer for next year, but the dates will be Tuesday, January 29 for the Underclassmen Awards ceremony and Wednesday, April 24 for the Graduate and Undergraduate one. Publications by Hopwood Winners*

Books and Chapbooks

Correction. There was a mistake in listing Lawrence Joseph’s book in the last newsletter. It’s The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose, published in the University of Michigan Press’s Poets on Poetry Series in 2011. It was garbled with a listing of a forum with Mr. Joseph and Laurence Goldstein.

Natalie Bakopoulos The Green Shore, a novel, Simon & Schuster, 2012.

Anne-Marie Brumm Honor Killing: A Novel of Israel, Widener and Lewis, 2012.

Art Corriveau 13 Hangmen, a novel for children, Abrams/Amulet, 2012.

Larry O. Dean About the Author, poetry chapbook, Mindmade Books, March 2011; E-chapbooks: Basic Cable Couplets, Silkworms Ink, May 2012 and Abbrev, Beard of Bees, June 2011.

Ariel Djanikian The Office of Mercy, a novel, Viking, 2012.

Nick Dybek When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man, a novel, Riverhead, 2012.

Ken Fifer With Larry Mitnick, Architectural Conditions: A Collaboration (InterArts Press) 2012. (Poems by Ken Fifer and Collages by Larry Mitnick.)

James Finn Garner Honk Honk, My Darling: A Rex Koko, Private Clown Mystery, a self-published novel, recently selected as “2011 Book of the Year—Nontraditional Fiction” by the Chicago Writers Association. Mr. Garner notes: “It has also established a new genre—clown

* Assume date unknown if no date is indicated. 3 noir—that I predict will sweep the nation soon.” Mr. Garner is the author of the international bestseller Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. He has sold more than 4.5 million books worldwide, and been translated into more than 20 languages.

Emery George edited and translated Friedrich Hölderlin: Selected Poems, a bilingual edition of 255 poems, with a Preface and Introduction, Kylix Press, Princeton, 2012.

Rae Gouirand Open Winter, poetry, Bellday Books, 2011.

Alyson Hagy Boleto, a novel, Graywolf Press, 2012.

francine j. harris allegiance, poetry, Wayne State University Press, Made in Michigan Series, 2012.

Christopher Hebert The Boiling Season, a novel, Harper, 2012.

Joshua Henkin The World Without You, a novel, Pantheon, 2012.

Tiana Kahakauwila This Is Paradise, a novel, forthcoming from Hogarth Press in 2013.

Scott Lasser Say Nice Things About Detroit, a novel, W. W. Norton, forthcoming July, 2012.

Andrea (Kurtz) Lochen The Repeat Year, a novel, forthcoming from Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin/ Putnam.

Elizabeth A. Meese Dreaming the Dreaming: Family Fictions, a theoretical memoir, privately published by Beach-A-Rama Press, 2011. Three chapters appeared in literary magazines.

Susan B. Miller When Parents Have Problems: A Book for Teens and Older Children Who Have a Disturbed or Difficult Parent, 2nd edition, Charles C. Thomas Publisher Ltd., Springfield, IL, 2012.

Julia Older Tales of the François Vase, Volume III of the Hobblebush Granite State Poetry Series, www.hobblebush.com, 2011. “A lively 25-voice verse drama based on the famous ancient Greek krater called The François Vase,” produced and directed by Kevin Gardner and syndicated on public radio.

Marge Piercy Two novels republished with Introductions: Dance the Eagle to Sleep, Middlemarsh, 2012 and Vida, Middlemarsh 2012.

Bart Plantenga In online and print magazines: “Beer Mystic’s Global Pub Crawl: Beer Mystic novel presented in a global pub crawl, where each excerpt is hosted by a diff erent site (zine, blog,website) spanning the globe so that people can read it chapter by chapter, site by site, city by city. Includes: Williamsburg Observer (Brooklyn, NY), Social Fiction (Utrecht, NL), Ol’ Chanty (Edinburgh), Big Bridge (Guerneville, California), BYRON (Sarasota,FL), Grasp (Prague), South Jersey Underground (Tuckerton, NJ), Istanbul Literary Review (Istanbul), Jack (Vancouver), Sensitive Skin (San Francisco), Paraphilia (Los Angeles) Shenandoah Breakdown (Front Royal, VA), Nictoglobe (Amsterdam), Parisiana (Lausanne, CH), Jiggered (Grahamstown, South Africa), Karen the Small Press Librarian (Pittsburgh), Bookbeat (Oak Park, MI), WOODS (Amsterdam), Sandlin (NYC), Public Illumination Magazine (Spoleto, Italy), Unbearables (NYC), Brews and Books (Portand, ME), Demon Comics (Minneapolis), Urban Grafi tti (Edmonton, Canada), Onomatopee (Eindhoven, NL), WFMU (Jersey City, NJ), De Player (Rotterdam, NL), Bowery Poetry Club (Bowery, NY), Obsolete (Victor, Iowa), White Fungus (Taichung City, Taiwan), Lit Net (Stellenbosch, South Africa), Black Sifi chi (Montreuil, FR), WORM (Rotterdam, NL). Includes dual print publication.” “Beer Mystic Chapter #8 in Smoke Signals online, 2011. Yodel in HiFi, 2 volumes, University of Wisconsin Press in 2012 (follow-up to Yodel-Ay-Ee-OOOO: The

4 Secret History of Yodeling Around the World); “Confessions of a Beer Mystic #9,” http:// smokesignalsmag.com/7/?p=2725.

Paisley Rekdal Animal Eye, poetry, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

Leo Rockas Lady Susan, story by Jane Austen, adapted by Mr. Rockas, fiction, PublishAmerica LLP, 2011; Bunbury!: A Sequel to The Importance of Being Earnest, fiction, PublishAmerica, 2011.

Jess Row Nobody Ever Gets Lost, short stories, Five Chapters Books, 2011.

Peter Serchuk All That Remains, poetry, WordTech Editions, 2012.

Cat (Catherine) Seto with Meg Mateo Ilasco, Mom, Inc.: The Essential Guide to Running a Successful Business From Home, Chronicle Books, 2012.

Sherman J. Silber “Ovary cryopreservation and transplantation for fertility preservation,” Molecular Human Reproduction, XVIII, 2, 2012. Two articles describing Dr. Silber’s recent fertility innovations: “Survivors Reach New Fertile Ground” by Brian Alexander, Livestrong Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2011 and “Mini ivf gives couples an alternative” by Christian Gooden, stltoday.com, December 27, 2011.

Ann Redisch Stampler Where It Began, a young adult novel, Simon Pulse, 2012.

Matthew Thornburn Every Possible Blue, poetry, CW Books, 2012.

Katie Umans Flock Book, her first collection of poems, forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in August 2012. Flock Book was the winner of the 2010 St. Lawrence Book Award.

Jan Wahl The Art Collector, illustrated by Rosaline Bonnet, Charlesbridge, 2011; The Screeching Door: Three Spooky Tales, BearManor Fiction, 2011; Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet: My Summer with the Danish Filmmaker, The University Press of Kentucky, 2012. Mr. Wahl writes: “Finally I’ll have my book on the summer I spent with the great Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. The film he was working on, Ordet (The Word), won grand prize, the Golden Lion, best film of the year [1955], at the Venice Film Festival. It’s now considered a classic happily. Truly it was the summer of my life. I’ll introduce the film [on April 9] at the University of Indiana which was the first university to accept movies as an art form, 1914—that’s a year before The Birth of a Nation!”

Edmund White Jack Holmes and His Friend, a novel, Bloomsbury, 2012.

Nancy Willard The Left-Handed Story: Writing and the Writer’s Life, University of Michigan Press,Writers on Writing Series, 2008.

Jessica Young Alice’s Sister, poetry, forthcoming from Turning Point in 2013.

Articles and Essays

Sven Birkerts “Vertigo,” AGNI #75, 2012.

Jeremiah Chamberlin “Inspired Revision: Writing as an Act of Discovery,” Poets & Writers, January/February 2012.

5 Helen Ratner Dietz “’Testament’ or ‘Covenant’: St. Jerome’s Translation of Hebrews 7:22,” Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal, XVI, 1, 2012.

Ken Fifer a review of Barbara Crooker’s More, in Blueline, Volume XXXII, Summer 2011).

Barry Garelick “Math Education: Being Outwitted by Stupidity,” http://www.educationnews.org/ education-policy-and-politics/barry-garelick-math-education-being-outwitted-by- stupidity/

Cynthia Haven “Milosz around the world,” Times Literary Supplement, November 25, 2011.

Randa Jarrar “Eighteen and Pregnant,” the Sunday New York Times Magazine, April 15, 2012.

Jascha Kessler “Why keep the Humanities Going in the U?” Humanist Discussion Group, XXV, 195, November 19, 2011. Letters: “Dismayed over cause and effect,” Financial Times, September 9, 2011; “Mme. de Gaulle stamped on smut,” Financial Times, November 19, 2011; “Jascha Kessler on Wall Street, Palin, & Mark Twain,” Wall Street Journal, November 22, 2011.

Scott Lasser “When the Lights Go Down in the City,” an Op Ed piece about Detroit, New York Times.com, January 19, 2012. Scott says the title is from a Journey song. “You Journey fans know that the band does have that line about ‘south Detroit’ in ‘Don’t Stop Believing,’ but as any Detroiter knows, ‘south Detroit’ is really, well, Canada.”

Laurence Lieberman “W. S. Merwin: Apotheosis of the Lepers,” The American Poetry Review, March/April 2012.

David Masello “A Maestro Sets the Tone,” New York Times, Jan. 18, 2012; “Leigh Keno’s Keen Eye,” Fine Art Connoisseur, March/April 2012; “I Love My Bed,” House Beautiful, March 2012; “Style Compass: David Easton,” 1stDibs.com, September 2011; “Style Compass: Stephen Shadley,” 1stDibs.com, October 2011; “Model Children: Robert Henri’s Irish Portraits,” Santa Fe New Mexican (Pasatiempo), Sept. 23, 2011; “Road that Leads to Ruin,” Santa Fe New Mexican, Nov. 18, 2011; “The Sage of Turtle Bay: Kurt Vonnegut,” Santa Fe New Mexican, Dec. 16, 2011; “Character Singer: Brian Stokes Mitchell,” Santa Fe New Mexican, Dec. 23, 2011; “Au Pastorale: The Organic Dance of Moses Pendelton,” Santa Fe New Mexican, Jan. 20, 2012.

Derek Mong “English as a Second Language,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2012.

Marge Piercy Interview conducted by Ira Wood on WOMR, Provincetown with Marge Piercy, Martin Espada, Franz Wright: why people are afraid of poetry and how poetry communicates with people; Interview published in Moment Magazine, Jewish Politics, Culture, Religion, “Is There Life After Death,” (Marge Piercy’s contribution is titled: “All Cats Go to Heaven”), July, August, 2011; The Point, WCAI 90.1, The Cape and Islands NPR Station, April 2012; The Pinch Magazine, Spring 2012 issue.

Bart Plantenga An interview by Sharon Mesmer, “Beer Is Two Subway Stops Away from Mysticism,” The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics, and Culture, October 2011; an interview with “Karen, the Small Press Librarian,” 2011; He wrote a “Beer Mystic Burp” blog (essays that involve beer in everyday life) in Sensitive Skin, 2011. Other writing: “The Strange Territory of the Body,” Melted Men, Rotterdam: De Player, 2010; “Lydia Tomkiw: Glowing bright as Nirvana,” In Other Words: Merida, 2011; Sharon Mesmer & bart plantenga remember poetess Lydia Tomkiw; “Little Caesar’s Motel Room,” In Other Words: Merida, Merida, Mexico, 2012, http://www. inotherwordsmerida.com/2012/01/13/fiction-by-bart-plantenga.

6 Hanna Pylväinen “A Stranger Among Them,” the Sunday New York Times Magazine, April 21, 2012.

Marc J. Sheehan “Darkness on the Edge of Words: A Conversation with Thomas Lynch,” The Writer’s Chronicle, February 2012.

Bert Stratton “Hit the Road, Jack . . . A dad’s advice” [“The advice: Son, you graduated U-M, now leave A2. You can always come back.”], Ann Arbor Observer, February 2012; “From Soltzberg to Stratton…Changing names and what it gets you,” Jerusalem Post, Jan. 17, 2012; “The Landlord’s Tale . . . Keeping up the neighborhood,” City Journal, Winter 2012; “Life as a Landlord,” New York Times Opinion Pages, February 28, 2012; “The Landlord’s Tale,” City Journal, XXII, 1, Winter 2012.

Matthew Thorburn “on Raab’s Writers and Their Notebooks,” Pleiades, Winter 2011-12.

Howard Wolf “An Awkward Age (1950s): Atom and Eve,” Evening Street Review, Autumn 2011; “Birds of a Feather,” “My View,” Buffalo News, May 27, 2011; “Threats to Existence: Hiroshima, The Holocaust, and The Writer’s Role,” Literary Miscellany, I, 1, January- June 2012; “Paris and Europe after WW II: A Young Writer’s Journey,” Dialog #18, Spring 2011 and The Mochila Review Missouri Western State University, edited by William Church, XIII, 2011; “Imitating Hemingway: ‘After Such Knowledge,’” Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition, May 2011.

Reviews

X. J. Kennedy A review of Selected Poems by Anthony Hecht, The Hopkins Review, New Series, V. 1, Winter 2012.

Evan McGarvey “At the World’s Frigid Edges, a review of Approaching Ice by Elizabeth Bradfield, New Letters: A Magazine of Writing & Art, Vol. 78, no. 1, 2011-12.

Edmund White A review of Balzac’s Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac by Anka Muhlstein, translated by Adriana Hunter, The New York Review of Books, January 12, 2012.

Fiction

Anne-Marie Brumm “Love on the Baltic,” Paterson Literary Review, 2012.

Victoria Chang “Edward Hopper’s Office in a Small City,” New England Review, XXXIII, 1, 2012.

Alex Cigale Translation of the Russian Imaginist Anatoly Mariengoff’s novella, Cynics (Ch. 1-14,) in Gobshite Quarterly 12.

Larry O. Dean “Supernatural Tyranny of Artistic Subterfuge” [collaborative fiction], Used Furniture Review, April 2012; “How My Family Tree Became an Exotic Forest” [collaborative fiction], Used Furniture Review, March 2012.

Gail Gilliland “Plus Ça Change” forthcoming in Colère XII, 2012. “This story is a companion piece to one they published in Vol. 9, 2009, so that’s fun. The main character is one who has occurred in a number of my stories, several of which were in the first collection, The Demon of Longing.”

7 Diane Haithman “Dark Lady of Hollywood,” a novel excerpt, in Voice from the Planet, the second anthology from Harvard Square Editions, edited by Charles Degelman, 2010. “The anthology, which includes work from writers from around the world, was just voted Book of the Month by The Truth About Books, a major British Literary Review. Proceeds from the book go to Doctors Without Borders.” The book is available on Amazon.

Randa Jarrar “Forsaken,” Salon, August 30, 2011.

Jascha Kessler “The Seventh Veil,” FoggedClarity; November 2011, http://foggedclarity.com/.

Bart Plantenga “Beauty Is As Beauty Does,” The Unbearables Big Book of Sex, NY: Autonomedia, 2011; “The Green Card is Salmon,” Airline Reading, 2011; “Paris Sex Tête” [novel excerpt], Workzine, 2011.

Kodi Scheer “Modern Medicine,” Chicago Tribune Printers Row Journal, March 18, 2012: http:// eeditionpr.chicagotribune.com/Olive/ODE/PrintersRow/.

Ian Singleton “Her Pictures of the South,” Fiddleback #3, fiddleback.org/journal/issue-3.

Laura Thomas “State of Motion,” WomenArts Quarterly, II, 2, Spring 2012; “Sex On Celexa,” Epiphany: A Literary Journal, Fall/Winter, 2011-2012.

Howard Wolf “Ludwig Fried’s Nocturnal Mission,” Prosopisia, IV, 1, 2011.

Poetry

Al Averbach “To My Brother Who Died Young” (part of a three-poem memento) in The Gathering (vol. 11), the 2011-2012 poetry anthology of The Ina Coolbrith Circle (edited by David Alpaugh et al.)

Russell Brakefi eld “[from] The Anatomy,” Poet Lore, Fall/Winter 2011.

Anne Marie Brumm “To a Young Man Dying of Aids,” Poetica, Spring, 2012.

Victoria Chang “Mr. Potatohead,” “The Moon,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2012; “The boss wears a white vest…” Ploughshares, Spring 2012.

Alex Cigale “My Mother the Witch, My Father the Broom,” “From The Cabinet of Jan Svankmeyer,” Gargoyle 58; “Keats in America; an Ode to Wilderness,” Qarrtsiluni (http://qarrtsiluni. com/tag/alex-cigale); Translations from Russian: Vladimir Mayakovsky, “To His Beloved Self...” in Asymptote (April 2012) (http://asymptotejournal.com/search. php?q=cigale); A tribute to Andrey Voznesenksy (12 poems) in Big Bridge 16 (http:// www.bigbridge.org/BB16/poetry/poetavoznesensky.htm); Osip Mandelstam, “Dear mistress of narrow shoulders....” in Cimarron Review 180; Vladimir Mayakovsky, 2 early poems, and Velimir Khlebnikov, 5 short poems in Eleven Eleven 12 (http:// www.elevenelevenjournal.com/west); “Three Russian Poets of Exile: Vladislav Khodasevich, Georgy Adamovich, and Georgy Ivanov” in Four Centuries 2 (http:// www.perelmuterverlag.de); Konstantin Kravtsov, 2 short poems, Vita Korneeva, “Untitled,” in Ice Floe 3 (U. of Alaska Press); Alexander Ulanov, untitled prose poem in Plume Poetry; Shamshad Abdullaev, “A Long Time Ago, Recently,” Dmitri Avaliani, 5 palindromic poems, Aleksei Khvostenko, long prose poem “The Idiotic Tree,” Konstantin Kravtsov, “Madman’s Walk” and “Stones,” June 29/July 12 in The St. Petersburg Review 4/5; Velimir Khlebnikov, “Hunger” in Two Lines (California Center

8 for Translation); Alexander Ulanov, untitled prose poem in Washington Square Review (Winter/Spring 2012).

Tina Datsko de Sánchez “Magdalene’s Song,” Press-Telegram, Long Beach, CA, April 8, 2012. Tina “is the first poet in residence at the progressive First Congregational Church of Long Island, where she has been a member and writing poetry since 1999.” In addition to the residency, she received the 2012 Aaron and Maycie Herrington Pathfinder Award from the church.

Larry O. Dean “The Second Commando,” An Oulipolooza, 2012; “Loma Prieta #3,” North Chicago Review #1, 2012; “KISS,” “PowerBar Pro Meets Ferret Expert,” Used Furniture Review, 2012; “My Biology of Louis Pasture,” “Unicorn.” Artichoke Haircut, September 2012; “Avalanche Is Better Than None,” “Dollar Store Nontraditional Sestina,” “Frequently Asked Frequently Asked Questions,” “My absent!!!!” “Our Father.” quarter after #2, June 2012; “Brad Is A Hockey Star With A Supersize Ego,” “Megan Unexpectedly Finds Herself,” “Three Generations Of Dallas Lawmen,” Milk Sugar #12, April 2012; “Mia Is On Cloud Nine,” “There’s A Sicko On The Loose,” “What Do You Do,” Heavy Feather Review I, 1, March 2012; “Three Female Roommates,” The Stone Hobo #5, February 2012; “A Romance Novelist Falls In Love With A Jewel Thief,” “Ingrid Can’t Stand It,” SPUDgUN #1, February 2012; “You Are Untrustworthy,” The Brooklyner, February 2012; “Tired Of Being Neglected,” “While Most Adolescents Her Age,” Stanley the Whale #5, February 2012; “A Group Of Nuns Finds Catherine Nearly Drowned,” “During A Routine Medical Checkup, Alison Is Chloroformed,” “Frederica Has Just Inherited A Winery,” “Gayle’s Teenage Daughter Diana Goes Dancing,” “Stressed-Out Working Wife And Mom Emma,” “Theresa Is Faced With A Triple Whammy Of Hurt,” “This Is The True Story,” “Tracy’s Biological Clock Is Ticking,” “Vulnerable Laurie,” The Yellow Ham #1, January 2012; “It’s Been Three Years Since The Rock Climbing Accident,” “Marie May Look Like Just Another Down-Home Mom From Alabama,” “When Several Disgruntled Elves,” The Delinquent #16, December 2011; “Amanda Seyfried,” “Inside the Lives of Royal Bachelors,” “Scott Benjamin,” Clapboard House #XI, December 2011; “Sunny And Mick,” Pom-Pom-Pomeranian, December 2011; “Barbara, Supposedly A Sweet Kindergarten School Teacher,” “Nathan Wants Nothing,” “Rebecca Mistakenly Thinks Steven Is Gay,” “When Jamie Receives The Wrong Photos,” Blue & Yellow Dog #7, December 2011; “When Big-City Newspaper Columnist Sarah,” The Stone Hobo #4, November 2011; “Beth Feels Blessed To Be Alive Following A Near-Death Experience,” “Daniel Is A Reluctant Killer,” “Hank Is Midwestern, Christian And Corn-Fed,” “Left Orphaned By An Accident,” “No One Notices At First That Marissa Is Unraveling Mentally,” “Rita Suffers From A Serious Psychological Diagnosis,” “Two Desperate Truck Drivers,” “What Happens When A Teacher For The Blind,” The Battered Suitcase, IV, 2, October 2011; “Breakfast at Bliss,” Hamilton Stone Review #25, Fall 2011; “Although It’s Not The Most Realistic Goal,” “Emily Has A Disfigured Face And Just Got Sent To Jail,” The Stone Hobo #3, Summer 2011,“$1.99.” Magnolia’s Press (MP), August 2011.

Ken Fifer Ahmet Ada, “The Deer,” “Land,” “The Sea Once Again,” “Past the Shore,” and “After the Rain,” translated from the Turkish by Ken Fifer and Nesrin Eruysal, The Literary Review, forthcoming Summer 2012; “At the Terminal,” Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems, edited by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Accents Press, December, 2011.

Ryan Flaherty “Craquelure,” Conjunctions 58, Riveted: The Obsession Issue, 2012.

Stephanie Ford “from The Places,” Tin House Summer 2011; “Address” and “Almanac,” La Petite Zine 27; “Veranda” and “The Other Airman,” Lo-Ball Issue 3; “The Episteme of Iowa,” Harvard Review 41, Spring 2012; “Our Victim,” Colorado Review, Spring 2012; “Curfew,” Denver Quarterly, v46, no3, 2012; “Experience Is a Thief’s Best Friend,” Boston Review, May/ June 2012.

9 Emery George Miklós Radnóti, “Picture Postcards,” No. 1, display quotation, without translator’s byline, in: Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge: A Novel (New York; Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) [ix]; also in paperback issue: Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge (New York: Penguin/Viking, 2010 [vii]; Miklós Radnóti, “Peace, Horror,” published within the poetry section of the website of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, London, UK (an online publication); “Preference,” Southern Humanities Review XLV, 4 (Fall 2011); An adaptation of Horace, Odes 1, 22, preserving the First Sapphic Meter and printed with Horace’s original en face.

Gail Gilliland “In Tuscany,” Tipton Poetry Journal, Winter 2012.

Matthew Hittinger “For the Honor of Grayskull,” Divining Divas, edited by Michael Montlack, Lethe Press, 2012; “Aunt Eloe Schools the Scarecrow,” rpt. in A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poems, edited by Oliver de la Paz and Stacey Lynn Brown, University of Akron Press, 2012; “The Astronomer on Misnomers,” rpt. in Villanelles, Everyman’s Library, Pocket Poets series, edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali, 2012; the poem was previously published in OCHO and set to music by composer John Glover. It will also be in Skin Shift. “My calligramme of Marilyn Monroe’s face called “Icon” is on the cover of the January 2012 Collaboration Issue of Poets & Artists #31.”

Patricia Hooper “The View from There,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 2011.

Laura Kasischke “At the end of the text, a small bestial form,” “Perspective,” “The Accident,” New England Review, XXXII, 4, 2011-12.

X. J. Kennedy “Lament for Cops,” “The Preference Declared,” Blue Unicorn, February 2012.

Benjamin Landry “Dream of Zenyatta Dancing,” “Oregon Trail,” Crazyhorse #81, 2012; “Br,” Sonora Review #61, 2012; two poems are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly.

David Masello “Father In Neutral,” Italian Americana, Summer 2011; “Off Marina del Rey,” The Gay & Lesbian Review, Nov./Dec. 2011; “Sunday Drive Home,” Granta, Dec. 14, 2011

Karyna McGlynn “I tried to write the truth, but it made me miserable,” “Ouvrir,” Subtropics, Winter/ Spring 2012.

Sarah Messer “Poem Beginning with a Line by Ikkyu,” Ploughshares, Spring 2012.

David D. Nolta “Fifty,” The Innisfree Poetry Journal #13, 2012, www.authorme.com/innisfree.htm; “A Single Element,” “My First New Poem,” forthcoming in Lucid Rhythms, Winter 1, 2012: www.lucidrhythms.com/index.htm; “Eve to God,” Imago Dei, 2012, “an anthology of the best poems published in the journal Christianity and Literature over the past sixty years.”

10 Marge Piercy “The night has a long hairy pelt,” “The romantic getaway,” “Baggage,” Ploughshares, Winter 2011-12; “Death of a honey locust,” “She held forth,” “ The frontroom,” “The guidebook was out of date,” “Young cat’s dream song,” Paterson Literary Review, XXXIX, 2011-2012; “We call it the Hunter Moon,” “Hurry, it’s coming,” On the Issues, Spring, 2011; “A hundred years since the Triangle Fire,” Monthly Review, Vol. 62, Issue 11, 2011; “Down at the bottom of things,” “Very Late July,” Stone, Paper, Knife; “How grey, how wet, how cold,” “Taking a hot bath,” “Sleeping with cats” (from six underrated pleasures), “House built of breath,” “And whose creature am I?” “Does the light fail us, or do we fail the light?” Mother’s Body; “How she learned,” Prism, Journal for Holocaust Educators, Vol. 3, Spring, 2011; “How I learned about courage,” “It all begins again,” “A republic of cats,” “Afterward what remains,” Contemporary World Literature, Volume 4, Spring, 2011; “How big a space is needed,” “Feeling better?” “Charmed against my will,” The San Diego Poetry Annual, 2010-2011; “Fox in the morning,” “Interspecies,” “First time,” “Some things return in spring,” Superstition Review, Issue # 7, Spring, 2011; “Envy is a worm,” “Very romantic poem,” “June and the land is still ours,” The Poetry Porch, June 2011; “My year begins,” The Lunar Press, 2011; “In the Peloponnesus one April afternoon,” Green Mountain Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, 2011; “Thirteen,” “Detroit Fauna Including Me,” “By the River of Detroit,” “The Duet,” “The what happened to me blues,” “Bodomy: The Lust for Trees,” “Instant Attraction,” “The Uses of Anger,” “Opening At Last,” Third Wednesday, Vol 3, Issue 2, 2011 (Marge Piercy was the featured poet); “All that remains,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Volume 8, 2011;“Getting lighter,” “Outside running around like an idiot,” “February first,” “Last light, pale goodnight,” Newport Review, July 2011; “A wind suddenly chills you,” A Gathering of the Tribes, Issue # 13, 2011; “Leftovers cried over,” Naugatuck River Review, Issue 6, Summer 2011; “The uses of anger,” Moment, September/October 2011; “Below zero,”, Hunger Mountain, Number 16, A Hunger Mountain Menagerie 2011; “How they blossom now,” “Perennia,” Forte #80, Earth’s Daughter’s Anniversary Issue 2011; “Day like an actuarial table,” Mobius, 29th Anniversary Edition 2011; “Ethics for Republicans,” On the Issues Magazine, Winter 2012; “I know so little,” “Different voices, one sentence,” “Action isn’t everything,” “Discovery motion,” Softblow Poetry Journal, January 18, 2012; “Burning leaves,” “Beauty never wearing out,” “Our neverending entanglement,” “In case of fire,” The Pinch, Spring 2012; “On second thought,” “Burying hope in the garden,” San Pedro River Review, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2012; “A kind of emptiness,” “Loving the strange,” Third Wednesday, Winter 2012; “Another Obituary,”MS Magazine online, April 2012; “In time or out of it,” “What my mother gave me,” “Ashes in their places,” “The body in the hot tub,” “Agitated cat sees trouble coming,” Featured poet in San Diego Poetry Annual 2011–12.

Margaret Reges “Hill,” “Dogs,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2012. Margaret currently lives in California, where she teaches creative writing at an arts-based day program for adults with developmental disabilities.

Paisley Rekdal “W. C. Fields Takes a Walk,” “Rosenthal Glove Mold, 1920,” Willow Springs #69, Spring 2012; “from Go West,” Ninth Letter, IX, 1, Spriing/Summer 2012.

Laurence W. Thomas “Terzanelle for a Bad Day,” “Morning,” forthcoming in Voices Israel, 2012; “Lily’s History” and “Highways,” the Spring Issue of Peninsula Poets.

Matthew Thorburn “‘A Field of Dry Grass,’” Ploughshares, Winter 2011-12.

Ann Marie Thornburg “Sisters,” “Wolf #40,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2012.

Ron Wallace “Striptease,” Tar River Poetry, LI, 2, Spring 2012.

Nancy Willard “The Path Not Taken,” Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Spring 2012.

11 Suzanne Wise “The Conversation Continued,” Ploughshares, Spring 2012.

Martha Zweig “Soiree Vivante,” “Aberration,” “Spite Face,” “Pledge,” Cerise Press, a Journal of Literature, Arts and Culture, II, 4, online, Summer 2010; “Dogtooth,” “Intervention,” “Pendulum,” The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review #36, Winter 2010; “By Way of Illustration,” Southern Poetry Review, XLIX, 1; “Rat Song With Undertones,” “The Bats,” “Astral & Mundane,” New Orleans Review, XXXVII, 2, 2011; “Feathered Friends” (from her collection Monkey Lightning, Tupelo Press, 2010) featured on Poetry Daily online, February 7, 2012; “White Phosphorus” (previously in North American Review) online in 99 Poems for the 99%, February 14, 2012.

Drama Performances and Publications

Nigel Gearing Hampstead Downstairs/The Peter Wolff Trust presented A Season of New Writing, with the world premiere of Nigel’s play, Blue Heart Afternoon, April 5-May 12 at the Hampstead Theatre (London). It was directed by Tamara Harvey and starred Ruby Bentall, Peter Marinker, Stephan Noonan, and Sian Thomas. The advertisement notes: “1951. Hollywood, California. Songwriter Ernie Case has an Oscar on the shelf, an aspiring actress in his bed, and a screenplay getting the green-light from Studio. Life, it seems, is looking up. Only two hurdles lie ahead: he needs the mysterious Diva as his leading lady for his next film and he needs to keep well clear of Senator McCarthy’s anti-communist witch-hunt. But as his relationship with Diva deepens, he realises that some things are more important than hit songs sung by Sinatra....” Nigel writes that he is still teaching and translating and that last year his French translation of Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi went on a tour of France, including Paris.

Joseph Horton premiered his new play, The Toll, at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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Larry O. Dean Post Office, WNUR Demos (ZB027) (05/22/12); Christine Wall, Kittenbush [remaster] (ZB026) (05/08/12); The Fussbudgets, Hog Wash! [remaster] (ZB023) (04/03/12); The Fussbudgets, The Naked & the Daft [remaster w/ bonus material] (ZB024) (04/03/12); The Fussbudgets, Fresh Brood [remaster w/ bonus material], Headache of the Gods [remaster] EP, and sad fearful playful excited [remaster] EP (ZB025) (04/03/12); Malcontent, Embarrassment of Riches [remaster w/ bonus material] (ZB022) (03/20/12); Larry O. Dean, Throw the Lions to the Christians [remaster w/ bonus material] (ZB021) (03/06/12) and Live at Gallery West Espresso [spoken word] (ZB020) (11/29/11). All are available on Amazon, Bandcamp, and/or iTunes.

Matthew Hittinger “A special 2-disc CD recording of the Five Boroughs Songbook was recently released, courtesy of GPR Records. It includes a recording of my art song collaboration with composer John Glover, ‘8:46 AM Five Years Later’ performed by Jesse Blumberg, baritone, and Jocelyn Dueck, piano.”

Bart Plantenga “Wreck This Mess” radio cloudcasts, 2011; About.com interview with wreck this mess / bart plantenga about the state of free radio, September 23, 2011; Radio essay, “Poly-Aural Space — Radio, Reverie, & Ether,” Department of Public Sound #1, Rotterdam: De Player, 2011; Patell & Waterman’s History of New York: Guest Playlist – bart plantenga, June 17, 2011; “Audio DJ Teknical Difficulties,” Contact Compilation 9; “Wreck This Mess, Trente Ans de Radio Libertaire,” Paris: RL, 2011.

Film/Video

Lawrence Kasdan directed and co-wrote (with Meg Kasdan) Darling Companion, which stars Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, and Diane Wiest. The movie was released in April 2012.

Sherman Silber sent us two new DVDs: Dr. Silber in Syria and Darwin’s Galapagos: Exploring with the Silbers, 2012.

News & Notes

Samiya Bashir will be the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Reed College starting in the fall.

Alex Cigale “I’ve spent the past year as Assistant Professor at the University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and was part of a tribute celebrating the 70th birthday of the novelist, scenarist, and poet Kubtabek Djusubaliev, presenting my English translations at the Kyrgyz State Library and Kyrgyz State Opera. On April 26, Poem-in-your-pocket day, under the auspices of the US Embassy’s Cultural Affairs program, I organized the first US Poetry Month event in Kyrgyzstan, a tri-lingual reading at Bishkek’s American Cultural Center.”

13 Francesca Delbanco and her husband Nicholas Stoller were profiled in “Talk of the Town” in The New Yorker in the April 30 Issue. The story of their meeting was the basis for Nicholas’s new movie, The Five-Year Engagement, in which Francesca, her daughter Penelope, and her father, Nicholas Delbanco, have cameo parts.

Emery George On April 2, 2011, Emery George read a paper entitled “Hölderlinian Shadow and Light on Poems by Ernst Schönwiese.” at the International Ernst Schönwiese Symposium held at Auburn University, Alabama, between March 30 and April 2, 2011. The proceedings will be published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, Tübingen, Germany. Emery writes: “Ernst Schönwiese (1905-1991) is an Austrian poet and prose writer of distinction, author of poems that combine classical form and oriental mysticism. He was President of Austrian PEN and before his death was more than once mentioned for the Nobel Prize.”

Derek Green will teach a beginning fiction course at the Aspen Summer Words Festival, June 17- and Scott Lasser 22, 2012.

Joshua Henkin will be on the faculty of the Wesleyan Writers Conference, June 14-17.

Garrett Hongo will teach in the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference August 15-25, 2012 at Middlebury College.

Joseph Keckler “In the fall I performed a new show for six nights in Amsterdam’s Bellevue Theatre before bringing the piece back to New York for La MaMa’s 50th Anniversary Season. In March I was happy to return to the MacDowell Colony as the featured performer for their annual on-site benefit, and I’ve been awarded another residency at Yaddo this summer.”

Kendra Langford Shaw and her husband announce the arrival of Freya Louise Shaw, born January 17th, 2012.

David Masello lectured at New York’s 92nd Street Y (Tribeca) on “Public Art in New York,” Dec. 9, 2011.

Bich Nguyen announce the birth of their second son, Julian, on September 12, 2011. He weighed and Porter Shreve 9 pounds, 2 ounces.

Allen Pearlman “I recently represented New York Times Best Selling author of medical thrillers, Robin Cook (e.g., Coma, Fever, Cure, Intervention) in an internet domain name dispute case. In it we won control of the domain name which is his name plus “dot com,” i.e. RobinCook.com, taking it away from an interloping cybersquatter who registered the name first. You can see the decision plus a discussion of some of the issues in this type of case at http://WinYourInternetDomainNameDisputeCase.com.”

Dr. Sherman Silber performed the first ovary transplant in China on February 8, 2012 and has been made a full professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. His assistant noted, “his work there was written up in all the Chinese newspapers regarding his exporting our technology for preserving fertility in China.”

Ann Tashi Slater “I’m going to be teaching a five-day fiction workshop in August at a new arts center called La Porte Peinte in Burgundy, about two hours from Paris. If you know of anyone who might be interested, could you pass on the links to them? I’d really appreciate it! Here’s some information on the tutors: (scroll down for my bio): http://www.laportepeinte.com/?page_id=164. And information about the workshop: http://www.laportepeinte.com/?page_id=653. Things are going well over here in Tokyo. I just finished the proposal for my travel memoir and a new story came out in March in a YA anthology to benefit teens in Tohoku.”

14 “Lately I’ve been doing a lot of work at Theatre 40, which is located on the campus Don Solosan of the Beverly Hills High School, and is one of the oldest professional theatre groups in LA. It seems that our 2012-2013 season is going to open with The Bat, written by some guy named Avery Hopwood. ” He writes that he’s still busy with photography and videography.

Brian Spitulnik Recession Art Shows presented Nick Blaemire(Godspell), Celia Keenan- Bolger (Peter and the Starcatcher), Santino Fontana (Sons of the Prophet) and Tony Sheldon (Priscilla Queen of the Desert) in a special one-night-only [March 7] benefit performance event, “The Chorus Boy Chronicles,” at RAC | Recession Art at CULTUREfix in New York City. “Housed in RAC’s intimate art gallery space, ‘The Chorus Boy Chronicles’ is an evening of cabaret standards, boozy beverages and salacious backstage tales, with selected readings of author and Broadway dancer Brian Spitulnik (Chicago), whose literary column ‘The Chorus Boy Chronicles’ is published bi-monthly on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (www.mcsweeneys.net). All proceeds from the event benefitted the Point Foundation.

Laurence W. Thomas An article on Larry and the journal he edits, Third Wednesday, appeared in the Ann Arbor Chronicle on April 16: http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/04/16/ column-book-fare-17/. Fellow Hopwood winners Alex Cigale and Josie Kearns are Associate Editors of the journal and Judith Jacobs is the Art Editor.

Howard Wolf gave talks at the following conferences: “Chaos Theory and Humanism: A Tribute to Cithara on Its 50th Anniversary,” St. Bonaventure University, April 5, 2011; “The Novels of William Inge: Against Au Courant: Sex and Identity in American Culture,” 30th William Inge Festival, Independence Community College, Independence, Kansas, April 13-16, 2011; “Growing Up in America: The Scene of One’s Own Time: A Premise for a Conversation, Achim Program (Brotherhood of Temple Beth Zion), Weinberg Campus, Getzville, NY, June 5, 2011; “Eulogy for Martin L. Pops: UB Professor of English (1965-2007),” Buffalo, NY, October 2, 2011.

Rosmarie Waldrop announces a new book from Burning Deck Press: Sébastien Smirou’s My Lorenzo, poetry, translated from the French by Andrew Zawacki.

Kim Yaged wrote to announce the opening of Berlinale 2012, at Tacheles, Oranienburger Str. 54-56a, 10117 Berlin. “My photo Lviv Man will be part of the exhibition which includes lots of great artists from all over the world as well as dance, music, theatre, and other performances.”

Awards& Honors

Al Averbach “Death (Soliloquy),” Honorable Mention, Love, The Ina Coolbrith Circle 92nd Annual Poetry Contest.

Natalie Bakopoulos are this year’s winners of the BEN Prize for outstanding teaching of writing at the and Nick Harp University of Michigan. The prize is funded by an endowment in honor of alum and English Advisory Board member Larry Kirshbaum and is awarded each year to two Lecturers who have achieved a high level of excellence in the teaching of writing.

15 Monique Daviau is the winner of the 2012 Busch Prize. Established to commemorate the work and teaching of Frederick Busch, who passed away while serving as the Zell Distinguished Visiting Professor in 2006, this $1000 prize is intended to support the work of a promising fiction writer in the midst of graduate study in the University of Michigan MFA Program.

Lydia Fitzpatrick is the recipient of a 2012 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and a 2012-2014 Stegner Fellowship.

Stephanie Ford was a finalist for the 2011 Iowa Review Poetry Award, and her manuscript, Collider, was a finalist for the 2012 New Issues Poetry Prize.

Alyson Hagy “Lost Boys” was listed as one of the “Other Distinguished Stories of 2009” in of the Best American Short Stories 2010. “Oil & Gas” was listed as one of the “Other Notable Western Stories of the Year” in Best of the West 2009.

Donovan Hohn Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,000 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them (Viking), was selected by the New York Times as one of their “100 Notable Books of 2011.”

Joe Horton are the winners of this year’s David and Linda Moscow Prize for Excellence in and Jessica Young Teaching Composition at the University of Michigan. Joe is also the winner of this year’s Rackham Outstanding GSI Award. The winners of this highly competitive teaching award are selected from across the university to honor distinction in teaching and mentoring.

Laura Kasischke The book Laura co-edited with Keith Taylor and to which she contributed, Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them, is a Michigan Notable Book for 2012, a Silver Medalist for Great Lakes Best Fiction, an Independent Book Publishers Award, and a finalist for ForeWord Review’s Book of the Year Award 2011, Anthology Category.

Dana Kletter was selected by the fiction faculty of Stanford University for the Jones Lectureship in Fiction. “It’s a two year appointment (I think) and so we’ll be staying out here, which my husband is ecstatic about; he is truly enjoying our San Francisco adventure.”

Emily McLaughlin was named a Fellow in Fiction at the 2012 Wesleyan Writers Conference. The program notes that she “is a novelist and playwright. She has also worked in Los Angeles as a screenwriter for Warner Brothers’ TV show Supernatural and as a script consultant for ABC Daytime Television in New York City. She has recently completed a new novel.”

Kate Middleton was named the first Sydney City Poet in Sydney, Australia.

Marge Piercy Hunger Moon has been named a “Must-Read” in Poetry on the MassBook Awards “Must-Read” list.

Emily Pittinos was named a “Student of the Year” by the Michigan Daily on March 21, 2012.

Ben Stroud won the 2012 Bakeless Fiction Prize for his story collection, Byzantium.

Ann Marie Thornburg is the recipient of a Zell Postgraduate Fellowship at the University of Michigan for 2011-12.

Kim Yaged “I’m writing to share the news that work has begun on the website for my new project—Let’s Be One Hand. In case you don’t know, Let’s Be One Hand is an

16 interactive installation that seeks to increase understanding between Muslims and people with Muslim backgrounds with people of other faiths and backgrounds. There’s a short video about the project here: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=McpO4At6ct0. I’ve started to spread the word about Let’s Be One Hand and early response has been very encouraging. In September and October, I was able to use my photo exhibition World Watching at Tacheles in Berlin to promote Let’s Be One Hand, and I just returned from London where one of the photos from World Watching is being shown as part of a group exhibition at Red Gallery. The trip proved to be another great opportunity to meet and connect with people. In December, I will travel to Tunisia to present World Watching and introduce Let’s Be One Hand at University of Tunisia-El Manar in order to continue growing an international community of supporters. Please visit http://www.betterplace.org/en/ organisations/letsbeonehand and let me know what you think about the project.”

Deaths

Burley “Bud” Hendricks, who won Summer Hopwood Fiction Awards in 1957 and 1958 and a Major Fiction-Novel Award in 1960, died on November 23, 2011 in Bradenton, Florida at the age of 87. He taught at high schools in Michigan at South Lyon, Chelsea, and Ann Arbor. Before going into teaching, he was the editor of Education Digest and Lakeland Boating magazines at Prakken Publications in Ann Arbor. He coached the wrestling team at Chelsea High in the 1970’s and coached two state champions.

Elizabeth A. Meese, recipient of a 1965 Hopwood Minor Essay Award, died on October 11, 2010. She was a distinguished feminist literary critic and teacher who retired from the University of Alabama in 2005. Her works include Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism, University of North Carolina Press, 1986; Ex(Tensions—Re-Figuring Feminist Criticism, University of Illinois Press, 1990; (Sem)Erotics: Theorizing Lesbian: Writing, New York University Press, 1992, and Dreaming the Dreaming: Family Fictions, Beach–A-Rama Press, 2011. She co-edited several volumes of theoretical essays as well as the last two (posthumous) volumes of George Starbuck’s poetry.

David M. Michalak, winner of Minor Poetry Awards in 1982 and 1983, died at the age of 52 on March 6, 2012. He was a resident of White Lake Township in Michigan.

Henry Van Dyke, Jr., winner of a Hopwood Major Fiction Award, died on December 22, 2011 in New York City. He was 83. He is the author of Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes, Blood of Strawberries, Dead Piano, and Lunacy and Caprice and published short works in The Antioch Review. In 1974, he received the Richard Rodgers Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was writer-in-residence one semester a year at Kent State University between 1970 and 1990. He was also an accomplished pianist.

Dallas Wiebe, winner of a 1956 Hopwood Major Poetry Award, died May 1, 2008 in Cincinnati. He was 78. He is the author of Skyblue the Badass and Our Asian Journey as well as four books of short stories. His latest collection of poems, Monument: On Aging and Dying, was printed just before his death. He also published poems, essays, scholarly articles and translations of German poetry. He taught in the English Department of the University of Cincinnati for 31 years, retiring in 1995. He was a founder and editor of Cincinnati Poetry Review and also a founder of the Cincinnati Writers’ Project.

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