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Hopwood Newsletter Vol. LXXVII, 2 lsa.umich.edu/hopwood July, 2016 HOPWOOD

The Hopwood Newsletter is published electronically twice a year, in January and July. It lists the publications and activities of winners of the Summer Hopwood Contest, Hopwood Underclassmen Contest, Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Contest, and the Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize. My computer crashed in March and I lost my email list; the University was unable to retrieve it. So in the future, there will be no direct mailing. Please check the website each July and January for the latest newsletter versions.

The Hopwood Underclassmen Awards Ceremony was held on January 26, 2016. The awards were presented by Professor Peter Ho Davies, Director of the Hopwood Awards Program, and four-time Hopwood winner Marge Piercy gave a reading. And the winners were:

Hopwood Underclassmen Fiction: Paige Mittenthal, $800; Maxim Vinogradov, $1,500; Kate Velguth, $2,000 Hopwood Underclassmen Nonfiction: Lily Buday, $1,000; Tierra Christian, $1,500; Courtney Cook, $1,750 Hopwood Underclassmen Poetry: Sam Johnson, $800; Bree Peilen, $800; Caroline Rothrock, $2,000 Academy of American Poets Prize: (Graduate Division) Kayla Kruth, $100; (Undergraduate Division) Paulina Adams, $100 Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize: Amanda Rybin Koob, $625 Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry: Warner James Wood, $500; Danez Smith, $750 Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry: Kate Velguth, $700; Paulina Adams, $900 Roy and Helen Meador Writing Award: Lily Buday, $900 Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship: Samuel Hamashima,$3,000; Bennet S. Johnson, $3,000; Hannah Klemkow, $3,000; Skyler Tarnas, $3,000

The Graduate and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony was held on April 19. Novelist Susan Chang presented the lecture. The local judges for the contests were Julie Babcock, Tom Clynes, Pamela Erbe, Eric McDowell, Matthew Moser Miller, Mindy Misener, Matt Oches, the Screen Arts and Cultures Honors and Awards Committee, and Hopwood Award winners Natalie Bakopoulos, Frank Beaver, Zoe deYoe, Derek Green, Katie Hartsock, Joseph Horton, Christopher Mc- Cormick, Todd McKinney, Emily McLaughlin, Benjamin Paloff, Sharon Pomerantz, Ali Shapiro, Erin Podolsky Walker, and Maya West. Hopwood Room Continued, page 2 Photo Credit: College of LSA INSIDE:

3 Books and Chapbooks 11 News and Notes 5 Articles and Essays 11 Awards and Honors 6 Reviews 13 Deaths 7 Fiction 13 Special Annoucements 8 Poetry 10 Dramatic Performances and Publications 10 Film/Video/Audio Editor Andrea Beauchamp Design Jessica Willard The national judges were:

Drama: Daniel Reitz and Kate Snodgrass Novel: Christopher Castellani and Elizabeth McCracken Screenplay: LaToya Morgan and Lee Stobby Nonfiction: Donovan Hohn (Hopwood Award winner) and Kathryn Rhett Short Fiction: Caitlin Horrocks and Christopher Tilghman Poetry: Garrett Hongo (Hopwood Award winner) and Martha Rhodes Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize: A. Van Jordan Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing: Kasdan Pictures

And the Hopwood Award winners were:

Hopwood Drama: Christin Lee, $6,500; Warner James Wood, $9,000 Hopwood Novel: Menachem Kaiser, $8,500; Clarisse Baleja Saidi, $8,500 Hopwood Screenplay: Alexander Bernard, $2,000; Clare Higgins, $2,000; Avery Hopwood Kristen Batko, $9,500 Photo Credit: Wikipedia Hopwood Undergraduate Nonfiction: Graham Techler, $3,000; Lauren Wood, $3,000; Giancarlo Buonomo, $4,000; Sam Gringlas, $7,000 Hopwood Graduate Nonfiction: Elizabeth Ward Dickey, $1,500; Hannah Louise Poston, $8,000; Clarisse Baleja Saidi, $8,500 Hopwood Undergraduate Short Fiction: Scott Hardin, $3,500; Karen Duan, $4,000; Jenny Wang, $6,500 Hopwood Graduate Short Fiction: Christin Lee, $3,000; Menachem Kaiser, $6,500; Joshua Garfinkel, $8,500 Hopwood Undergraduate Poetry: Marie Michels, $3,000; Gavin Gao, $3,500; Vivian Jiang, $6,500 Hopwood Graduate Poetry: Danez Smith, $1,500; Hanae Jonas, $2,500; Hannah Louise Poston, $4,500; Francis Santana, $8,500 Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize: Lizzie Hutton, $2,500; Danez Smith, $2,500

Winners of other prizes administered by the Hopwood Awards Program:

Andrea Beauchamp Prize (donated by Professor John Wagner): Joshua Garfinkel, $1,100 Frank and Gail Beaver Script Writing Prize: Daniel Plagens, $1,300 Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing: Austin Gorsuch, $1,800; Samuel Jensen, $1,800 Helen J. Daniels Prize: Sam Gringlas, $3,000 Geoffrey James Gosling Prize: Menachem Kaiser, $850 Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award: Vivian Jiang, $3,000 Robert F. Haugh Prize: Jenny Wang, $2,800 Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing: Eric Grant-Frankel, $1,500; Warner James Wood, $7,500 Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting: Stuart Richardson, $3,800; Graham Techler, $3,800 Meader Family Award: Molly Dickinson, $2,100; Amanda Rybin Koob, $2,100; Courtney Faye Taylor, $2,100 Arthur Miller Award: Annie Turpin, $2,700 Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prizes: In Dramatic Writing: Graham Techler, $1,250; Daniel Plagens, $1,250; In Fiction: Sabrina Deutsch, $1,250; San Pham, $1,250 Naomi Saferstein Literary Award: Kristen Batko, $1,300 Stanley S. Schwartz Prize: Karen Duan, $600 Helen S. and John Wagner Prize: Francis Santana, $1,100 John Wagner Prize: Clarisse Baleja Saidi, $1,100

The 2017 Hopwood Underclassmen Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday, January 27, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Tracy K. Smith will give a reading following the announcement of the awards. She is the author of three collections of poetry, The Body’s Question, Duende, and Life on Mars (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2012), and a memoir, Ordinary Light (a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Nonfiction, 2015). She teaches creative writing at Princeton University. Tracy K. Smith Photo Credit: Tina Chang 2 We are delighted to announce that former Hopwood Awards Program Director and Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor Nicholas Delbanco will deliver the lecture at the Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 20, 2017. The ceremony will be held in the Rackham Amphitheatre and will begin at 3:30 p.m. He has published 29 books of fiction and nonfiction, beginning with The Martlet’s Tale, which came out in July 1966. His works include The Countess of Stanlein Restored, What Remains, and the Sherbrookes trilogy. His most recent books are The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin and the Nature of First Acts; The Years; and Dear Wizard: The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Nicholas Delbanco Writing Fellowships. Formerly the Director of the MFA Photo Credit: Emma Dodge Hanson Program in Creative Writing (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program), he directed the Hopwood Awards Program for almost 30 years.

Publications by Hopwood Winners*

Books and Chapbooks

Theodosia Alten A Peripatetic Life—Volume One, memoir, 2016.

Ian Bassingthwaighte Live from Cairo, a novel, forthcoming from Scribner’s in May, 2017.

Alex Cigale Russian Absurd: Daniil Kharms, Selected Writings, in Northwestern University Press World Classics Series, forthcoming February 2017.

Lyn Coffin 10 x 10, a face en face collection of 5 Russian and 5 English plays, by Lyn and Natalya Churlyaeva forthcoming from bedouin books, 2015; A Marriage Without Consummation, poetry by Lyn Coffin and Givi Alkhazashvili, translated by Lyn Coffin, forthcoming, Gio Tavartkiladze, Edisher Kipiani; The First Honeymoon, short stories. Iron Twine Press, 2015; A Taste of Cascadia, two plays. Whale Road Press, 2015; Joseph Brodsky was Joseph Brodsky, Levan Kavleli Publishers (2012), Tbilisi, Georgia; I am Both, poetry and fiction in Georgian, Mertskuli (2012), Tbilisi, Georgia; East and West: Poems by Lyn and Ts. Bavuudorj in English and Mongolian, Ulaan Baatar (2012), Mongolia. Translations: The Knight in the Panther Skin, by Shota Rustaveli, Poezia, Tbilisi, 2015; Still Life with Snow, by Dato Barbakadze, translated by Lyn and Nato Alhazishvili, bedouin books, April, 2014; Animalarky, by Zaza Abiadnidze., translated from the Georgian. Ice House Press, 2014. Georgian Poetry Rustaveli to Galaktion: A Bilingual Anthology, Ed. Lyn Coffin. Slavica Indiana University (2013), translation from Georgian; White Picture, by Jiri Orten, Night Publishing (2011), translation from the Czech, with Eva Eckert, Zdenka Brodska, Leda Pugh. “ And this year will be my children’s book, Henry and Punkin (IronTwine Press) and my translation of Archil Sulakauri’s Salamura - called The Adventures of a Boy Named Piccolo (Transcendent Zero Press) and my translation of Mohsen Emadi called Standing on Earth (PhonemeMedia Press).”

Barry Garelick Math Education in the US: Still Crazy After All These Years, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016, available on Amazon.

Paul Graham In Memory of Bread: A Memoir will be published in June in hardback, audiobook, and e-book by Crown/ Clarkson Potter (a Penguin-Random House division).

Tracy K. Smith Photo Credit: Tina Chang 3 Steve Hamilton The Second Life of Nick Mason, a novel, Putnam, 2016. A movie adaptation is already in the works from Lionsgate with Nina Jacobson and Shane Salerno producing.

francine j. harris play dead, poetry, Alice James Books, 2016.

Christopher Hebert Angels of Detroit, a novel, Bloomsbury, 2016.

Martha (Clark) Kalin Afterlife and Mango, a chapbook, Green Fuse Poetic Arts, 2013.

Ronald Kenyon Statues of Liberty: Real Stories from France; Le Petit Kenyon: Dining in the Environs of Paris for Walkers; On the Trail in France, 2015. He has now published a total of eleven books, including four albums of color photographs.

Susan Landers Franklinstein, a hybrid genre collection of poetry and prose, Small Press Distribution.

Benjamin Landry Burn Lyrics, poetry, Spuyten Duyvil Press, August 2016.

Dan Lyons Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble, Hachette Books, 2016.

Nicholas Petrie The Drifter, a novel, Putnam, 2016.

Paula Rabinowitz Co-edited with Ruth Barraclough and Heather Bowen-Struyk, Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and, Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Kodi Scheer Midair, a novel, forthcoming from Little A in August 2016.

A. Brad Schwartz Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, Hill and Wang, 2015.

Richard Keller Simon Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition, University of California Press, 1999; The Labyrinth of the Comic: Theory and Practice from Fielding to Freud, Florida State University Press, 1985. We just learned that Mr. Simon died on April 4, 2005. He was the recipient of Hopwood Major Drama and Essays Awards in 1967 and was a Professor of English at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Opispo.

Danez Smith [insert] boy, poetry, YesYes Books, 2014, winner of the Lambda Literary Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; hands on ya knees, a chapbook, Penmanship Books, 2013.

Larissa Szporluk Startle Pattern, poetry, Willow Springs Books, 2016; Traffic with Macbeth, poetry, Tupelo Press, 2011.

Melanie Rae Thon The Good Samaritan Speaks, fine art edition,Prompt Press: available online and in print. (“The print edition of Prompt Press will be part of permanent special collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), University of Iowa, University of Buffalo, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Etherton Gallery in Tucson. The fine art limited print edition (50) is available for purchase directly from Prompt Press and at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City. My poem serves as the ‘prompt’ to inspire creative work by eight visual artists.”)

Al Ureles Dodging the Death Rays, published in August, 2015. “I am 94 years old and working on my next book, a biography of Dr. Benjamin Rush called Jeremiah Tarnished.”

Keith Waldrop Selected Poems, Omnidawn Publishing, 2016. Michigan League Fountain Photo Credit: viualizeus Rosmarie Waldrop Gap Gardening, a volume of her selected poems, New Directions, 2016

4 Patricia Ward Skinner Luce, a novel, Talos, 2016.

Edmund White Our Young Man, a novel, Bloomsbury, 2016.

Articles and Essays

Sven Birkerts “Birkerts and I,” AGNI #83, 2016.

Carmen Bugan An Interview on BBC World Service, “How I turned secret police files into poetry”, May 31, 2016. “In 1989, the five members of the Bugan family were allowed to leave Ceausecu’s Romania with one suitcase each and death threats in their wake. In 2010, the poet Carmen Bugan took possession of 1,500 pages of Securitate files on her father and in 2013 a further 3,000 page of secret files on her mother, sister, and herself. The result is her new book of poetry, Releasing the Porcelain Birds. She told Dan Damon her story.”

Alex Cigale Translation of Maximilian Voloshin’s “The Cherubina Affair (or Max and Lev have a Duel),” includes translations of 5 poems by Elisaveta Dmitrieva in the New England Review, Fall 2015; Translations of 3 prose pieces by Daniil Kharms with a critical introduction, in New American Writing 34.

Leslie Doyle “Water Moves to Where There’s Less, of The Fourth River, Then Back to Where There’s Less” , “Queering Nature” issue, Fall 2015

Hannah Ensor “Mudita World Peace” (essay) in Prairie Schooner Winter 2015; “Antagonistic Collaborations, Tender Questions: On Anne Carson’s Answer Scars / Roni Horn’s Wonderwater” (chapter) in Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre, ed. Joshua Marie Wilkinson (University of Michigan Press, Under Discussion series).

Barry Garelick New article at Education News, Feb 8, 2016: “Poster Children of Math Education”

Richard Goodman He wrote the introduction to The Electric Pencil: Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3. It was published by Princeton Architectural Press in March, 2016.

Jascha Kessler “Lenin Redux”, January/February 2016; Speak Without Interruption: April 21, May 4, 2016.

Judith Kirscht “I invite you to look at my interview with old friend and fellow writer, Toni Fuhrman, celebrating the publication of her novel, One Who Loves. Toni and I, along with Libby Davenport and children’s author, Nancy Shaw, created a critique group in Ann Arbor in the 70s and have been urging each other on ever since.”

Laurence Lieberman “Beyond the Muse of Self—The Poetry of Stanley Moss,” The American Poetry Review, January/February 2016.

Derek Mong “Nude Dude Poets,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2016; “Headlines and Line Breaks,” The Gettysburg Review, Summer 2016.

Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren “Building an Architecture for the Wanderer”: A Conversation with Nathalie Handal, World Literature Today, Volume 90, Numbers 3-4, May-August 2016.

Randon Billings Noble “Marriage: A Story We Tell Ourselves and Others,” Creative Nonfiction, Spring 2016.

Chigozie Obioma “The Translator’s Dilemma,” Poets & Writers Magazine, January/February 2016.

Michigan League Fountain Karen Outen “On Typing and Salvation,” in From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines edited by Joyce Photo Credit: viualizeus Dyer, Jennifer Cognard-Black, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, Michigan State University Press, 2016.

5 Bart Plantenga Memoir: “The Long March,” Urban Grafitti, 8.15; “The Mechanics & Mystery of Top 40 Lists,” Urban Grafitti, 2.16; Beer Mystic Chapter 33: “Furman’s Mom Visits His East Village Apartment” in Urban Grafitti, May 2015. Journal nonfiction: “Small Objects That Changed My Life: Shouting At The Ground by: Zoviet*France,” Urban Grafitti; “The Insane Dutch Tradition of Writing Poems For Sinter Klaas,” Urban Grafitti, 12.15; “Refugee Center Part 1: The Good, The Bad, & The Funny,” Vox Populi, 1.16; “In Amsterdam, Refugees Find Shelter From the Storm,” Truthdig, 3.16; “Tyrants In Our Iron Skies” by bart plantenga with artist Gary Panter, NoZone7, reprint; “Never Ending Tales of Psycho-Biological Criminology,” by bart plantenga with artist Jonathon Rose, NoZone6, reprint; “Serge Gainsbourg: The Obscurity of Fame,” Cups, reprint; “Radio & Aural Destabilization #6”, Sonic Geography, reprint.

Paula Rabinowitz “Portrait of the Modern Woman Artist as Fashion Icon,” reprinted in Extravagances: Habits of Being 4, edited Christina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, University of Minnesota Press, 2015; “Ventriloquizing Class: Women’s Letters, Lectures, Lyrics,” Japanese trans. Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya Journal of American Literature/Culture 2 (2013), in English as “Ventriloquizing Class: Women’s Letters, Lectures, Lyrics, and Love,” edited by Ruth Barraclough, Heather Bowen-Struyk and Paula Rabinowitz, Red Love Across the Pacific, Palgrave, 2015; “Reader, I Murdered Him: ‘Chick Noir’ in the Age of Surveillance,” Chronicle Review, December 29, 2015; Excerpt from American Pulp, Dublin Review of Books 61, November 2014; “This 75th Anniversary’s Been Overlooked. It Shouldn’t Be,” History News Network, November 23, 2014; “Five Best: On Postwar Pulp Paperbacks,” Wall Street Journal, November 8-9, 2014; “American Pulp,” The Page 99 Test, November 1, 2014; “On Industrialization and the fashion industry,” University of Minnesota Press, June 1, 2014.

Ian Singleton “Of Translation and Politics in Russian Literature,” Fiction Writers Review, February 22, 2016.

Ann Tashi Slater “Tibetan Momo Dumplings and Yak Wrestling”, “ Five Years On: Salvaging Memory and Moving Forward After Japan’s 3/11 Disaster”, (“It’s about the ‘Lost & Found’ project to salvage people’s photographs and memory, a Boston Museum of Fine Arts exhibit--In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11--that’s just opened at the Japan Society of New York, and books related to 3/11.”) “Telling It True: A Talk with Poet Elizabeth Alexander.” “I discuss the new Best Small Fictions series (2015 as guest edited by Robert Olen Butler) and interview contributor Hiromi Kawakami about flash fiction in Japan, her obsessions, and her writing process.”

Laura C. Thomas “Chasing Readers, Roads, and Rock and Roll,” Dunes Review, Vol. 19, Issue II, Fall 2015.

Howard R. Wolf “Goethe to Gunter Grass and Beyond: Responsibilities of Writers in the Post-World War II Period,” The Buffalo Jewish Review, January 29, 2016. “I have a ‘My View’ column on the editorial page in the March 3 issue of The Buffalo News: ‘Intimations of Spring (Sort Of).’ This is my 15th appearance in the past decade.” “At The Edge Of The West,” North Atlantic Review Annual; “Exiles In Time and Space Waiting and Writing: Notes of a Writer,” Buffalo Jewish Review, June 3, 2016; “Wit and Its Relation to Freedom and Convention: Individualism (Psychology) and Socialism (Ararchism),” The Oscholars, May 2016, online; a forthcoming column in the Buffalo News, “Of This Street, Of This Country,” June 2016.

Reviews

Sven Birkerts A review of William H. Gass’s Life Sentences Literary Judgments and Accounts and Eyes: Novellas and Short Stories, New York Review of Books, April 7, 2016.

Chigozie Obioma A review of And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile, New York Times Book Review, April 3, 2016.

Paula Rabinowitz A review of Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies: Female Desire in 1940s US Culture by Stephen Dillon, forthcoming in Journal of American History.

Edmund White “Bohemian Rhapsodist,” a review of Paris Vagabond by Jean-Paul Clébert, New York Times Book Review, May 8, 2016.

6 Fiction

Alex Cigale Translations of short stories by Pavel Lembersky in Fiction International 48, Gargoyle 64, Gobshite Quarterly.

Sharon Dilworth “Son of the Burning Man,” Mississippi Review, Vol 43, No. 3, 2016.

Gloria Dyc “Romancing the Left,” Colere, Coe College, 2015; “The Ceremony,” War, Literature, and the Arts, V. 26, 2014; “Whatever Is to Happen, Let it Happen,” Paragraphiti, (on-line), 2014. “Liliane Santos do Favela Rochina,” www.hnu.edu

Gail Gilliland “What Happened Next,” forthcoming in Vermont Literary Review, August 2016.

Nathan Go “The Scent of Frangipani,” The Massachusetts Review, LVII, 1, 2016.

Joseph Horton “Shoot the Tiger,” Colorado Review, Spring 2016; “Mitosis,” Midwestern Gothic, Summer 2015.

Jascha Kessler “Mazes,” a novella, eclectica.org, April/May 2016.

Danielle Lazarin “Landscape No. 27,” Indiana Review, XXXVII, 2.

Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren Translated “Music” and “Autopsy” from Adriana Lisboa’s flash fiction collection, Caligrafias (Calligraphies), Joyland Magazine, May 23, 2016.

Marge Piercy “Trajectories,” in the fiction anthology, Jewish Noir.

Bart Plantenga “Deconstructing the Kabouter Myth: A Comparative Essay Utilizing Gendered Critiques & Freudian Phallocratic Notions as Analytical Tools,” Journal of Irreproducible Results, reprint; “Hack in the Poontang Jungle,” Noirotica, reprint; “Joined at the Hips,” Sensitive Skin, 3.16; “Beer Mystic: The Flesh Excerpt,” Public Illumination Magazine, 12.15.

Laura C. Thomas “An Uneven Recovery,” serialized novella, Novella-T, November 2-December 7, 2015; “The Warding Charm,” Art Saves Lives International e-Magazine, Vol. 1, March 2015.

Jenny Wang “I know my mother’s achilles’ heel,” Xylem Literary Magazine, 2015-2016.

Kaitlin Williams “All’s Quiet,” The Southampton Review, Spring 2016.

Howard R. Wolf “Library of the Lost,” Bryant Literary Review, Vol. 17, 2016. “It’s part 12 of a story cycle about one character, ‘Ludwig Fried,’ who lives in the shadow of the Holocaust.”

Aerial View of the Diag Photo Credit: Michigan Photography 7 Poetry

Victoria Chang “There Are Lungs,” “Barbie Chang Waits,” “Barbie Chang Is Done,” Mississippi Review, Vol 43, No. 3, 2016.

Alex Cigale “Florida and the Poem of the Mind” and “Three Variations for Nicanor Parra” in The Common Online; Translations of “Bathing the Elephant” by Amarsana Ulzytuev in Asymptote (October 2015); 2 poems by Fyodor Svarovsky in Connotation Press (May 2016); “There Once Lived a Man” (long prose poem) by Alexander Ulanov in Eleven Eleven 20; “Requiem” (long powm) by Anna Akhmatova, in The Hopkins Review 9.3 (Summer 2016); “The Ape” by Vladislav Khodasevich in Kenyon Review On-Line (Winter 2016); 3 ekphrastic poems by Gennady Katsov in Life and Legend 3; 3 sci-fi poems by Fedor Svarovsky in Modern Poetry in Translation (Fall 2015); 2 poems by Amarsana Ulzytuev in Quiddity 8, “I am a Separatist” by Igor Lapinsky in Ukraine feature of Springhouse 2 and St. Petersburg Review 7; poems by Alexandr Kabanov and Boris Khersonsky in Springhouse (May 10, 2016); “Century” and “Slate Ode” by Osip Mandelstam, 2 other poems, and 2 poems by Shamshad Abdullaev, in Stonecutter 5; 5 poems by Neo- Futurist Sveta Litvak in Telephone 4. “More About the Same,” “In the Midst,” and “Edge of Town, a Dream” by Shamshad Abdullaev in TriQuartely 147.

Larry O. Dean “Cowboys & Indiana,” “The Dream,” Jet Fuel Review, April 2016; “All Day Protection,” “I Was in the Shower When the Rapture Happened,” “Relative,” Scintilla, #9, March 2016; “Actor Portrayal,” Sediments Literary Arts Journal, #6, February 2016; “$8 Towels,” “Hey, Hercules!” “My Penis,” “New Age Baby Names,” “Pulp Villanelle” (excerpts), Blue Fifth Review #3, September 2015; “Check-out,” “Notice,” “Ode to Buffy,” Seeds, IX, May 2015; “Bridge May Be Icy,” Defenestration, April 2015; “Chopped: Gertrude Stein Edition,” “The Second Commando.” Seeds, VIII, March 2015; “I Had a Good Time With You at the Jewel Last Night,” Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry, Knockeven: Salmon Poetry, March 2016.

Hannah Ensor Five poems, selected by T. C. Tolbert, Pen America, March 9, 2016: “Harbaugh in April,” “Vulvas in the Academy,” “Basquiat,” “Bob or Man or Boat,” “Ms. Dryer and the Good Man.”

David Gewanter “Wellfleet, Off Season,” Ploughshares, Spring 2016.

Nicholas Harp “All Data,” Cream City Review, Spring/Summer 2016.

francine j. harris “In the outfield, daydreaming,” Prairie Schooner, Winter 2015.

Katie Hartsock “Midnight Mass,” The Massachusetts Review, LVI, 4, 2015.

Clare Higgins “the hunt,” “epiphany,” “reconciliation,” “undone,” Xylem Literary Magazine, 2015-2016.

Patricia Hooper “Three Weeks of Peonies,” Poet Lore, Spring/Summer 2016, “February Thaw,” Southwest Review, Spring 2016; “In Tennessee,” “My Junco,” “Sandhill Cranes,” “Autumn,” and “Lakewood Path,” The Missouri Review, Spring 2016.

Vivian Jiang “PLEAS,” Xylem Literary Magazine, 2015-2016.

Lawrence Joseph “A Fable,” The New Yorker, January 25, 2016.

Martha (Clark) Kalin “Glowing Doors,” in Obsession: Sestinas in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Carolyn Beard Whitlow and Marilyn Krysl, Dartmouth College Press.

Laura Kasischke “A Recipe for This Scrawled in Pencil on an Envelope,” “The Names of Trees,” The Southern Review, Spring 2016.

Benjamin Landry “Still Life,” Colorado Review, Spring 2016.

8 Laurence Lieberman “Barnyard Deportees and Refugees,” Colorado Review, Spring 2016.

Dave Lucas “Annunciations,” The Threepenny Review #144, Winter 2016; “Two Poems,” Jubilat #28, 2016.

Marie Michels “gesture,” “hoax.” “lake swell,” Xylem Literary Magazine, 2015-2016.

Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren “Estuarial,” Painted Bride Quarterly, Issue 92, November 2015; “Painted Boats Heavy with Mirrors,” “Campo Grande,” Denver Quarterly Review, Issue 50, Volume 2, January 2016.

Marge Piercy Recent publications: “Leftovers,” Poet Lore, Spring/Summer 2016; “You ask why sometimes I say stop,” “Implications of one plus one,” “A work of artifice,” “The friend,” in the anthology American Poets at the Turn of the Second Millennium, with English and Hungarian versions, Budapest, Hungary; “A tail of squirrels and men,” “A reckoning in flesh,” “That red silk dress,” Knot Magazine; “In our blindness, she sees it all,” Lunar Calendar; “Prince Puck,” “How do we lose so many?” “We pray to the weather,” Mas Tequila Review; “Charleston Massacre,” Monthly Review; “Never a lady except to cats,” “We all live and die here,” San Diego Poetry Review; “They soldier on,” “It is always time to weed,” Negative Capability Press; “Endless rage,” Fifth Escape; “I long to go into the woods,” “Busy, dizzy,” “A hollow no one can fill,” “Visitors at dawn,” “Almost the worst,” “The bike made me a seagull,” “She is letting go now,” “Night’s siren call,” Paterson Literary Review; “A front moves in,” “So dry it frightens me,” “So many dear ones,” “Becoming one, he said,” “Decades have passed,” Tova Arava; “Retreat into the coldest cave,” Ibbetson Street; “This is no longer my room,” Comstock Review; “Melisma,” “The new year of the trees,” “How are you feeling,” The Jewish Journal; “How sweet it is,” “Decades have passed,” “A pretty name for a small plant,” The Poetry Porch; “Open your nose wide,” “The first tarot card,” Caveat Lector.

Paisley Rekdal “The Wolves,” Poetry, February 2016.

Marc Sheehan “Michigan Basement,” “Praise, of Sorts for the Abolition of the Draft,” Peninsula Poets, Spring 2016.

Mairead Small Staid “Studies for a Spaghetti Western,” Ninth Letter, XII, 2, Fall-Winter 2015-16.

Laurence W. Thomas “Anatomy of Love,” “Thank You Note,” Peninsula Poets, Spring 2016.

Rosmarie Waldrop “Cut with Kitchen Knife,” Harper’s Magazine, June 2016.

Richard Widerkehr “Some of my poems accepted or published since last fall: Noisy Water reprinted ‘My Mother’s Speech Therapist Asks, Does She Speak A Foreign Language? Measure accepted ‘Ariel Released,’ a blank verse poem from my 1967 Hopwood manuscript. Gravel posted ‘Pear Trees On Irving Street” on-line in April. The title poem of my book mss., ‘Blue Maraca’ has been accepted by Cirque. ‘Plucking Flowers’ was on-line the week of April 25 at Poetry Super Highway. Sweet Tree posted ‘Day With No Words.’ Clover, A Literary Rag (Winter, 2015) published ‘Annual Report.’ Crack The Spine, Issue 149: ‘House Lights.’ Sediments posted ‘Bitten.’”

Sharon K. Wieland “A Poem About Kudzu,” The Ann, October 2015.

Katie Willingham “Notes on Relief,” , January/ February 2016. Fleetwood Diner

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Drama Performances and Publications

Arthur Miller won his first of two Hopwood Minor Drama Awards in 1936 for the play No Villain. The play was performed twice at the Lydia Mendelsohn Theatre in 1936, then never again in his lifetime. He reworked the play several times, eventually transforming it into Death of a Salesman. In December 2015, the original play premiered in an Islington pub, the Old Red Lion Theatre and transferred to Trafalgar Square Studios in London in June. The production was directed by Sean Turner, who found this “lost” play at the U of M Graduate Library. Then it had a staged reading at the Public Theater in New York, where U of M Professor Enoch Brater played the part of the Grandfather.

Leo Rockas A staged reading of Becoming Regent: A History Play will be performed at the Main Stage in New York City on July 29.

Howard R. Wolf plans to have one of his one-act plays read at either the Newman Center of Jewish Community Center or the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo. “Probably – ‘Lonely At The Top’ -- a conversation between a Native American and Holocaust journalist on the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building.”

Film/Video/Audio

Tina Datsko de Sánchez “In May we [Tina and her husband, Jose Sanchéz-H) were able to present Tina’s bilingual poetry Book, The Delirium of Simón Bolívar, at the Latin American Studies Association Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We also completed our spoken-word documentary, Searching for Simón Bolívar: One Poet’s Journey, that is a companion to the book. In October the film premiered at the 30th Festival of Latin American Cinema in Trieste, Italy.” Last year Tina collaborated on a Christmas Cantata. José’s video of the performance can be found on YouTube.

Larry O. Dean Solo Album: Good Grief (2015).

Bart Plantenga Radio @ Wreck This Mess: “Wreck Cover Versions 1189,” 9.15; “Wreck Zoviet France Shout 1190,” 10.15; “Wreck If Bwana WTM #1098/1191,” 11.15; “Wreck DrinkDrankDrunk 4 1192,” 1.16; “Wreck Fave75-1 1193,” “Wreck Fave75-2 1194.” Other Radio: “Beer Mystic Mantra,” Audiometric, Paris, 1.16; “The Beer Mystic’s Inadvertent Drift into a Dead-to-the-World State,” Urban Grafitti Mix #19, 3.16. Film: Long March 8.15; The Sub-Limbo Stump-Toed Shrike & Other Dream Birds, 9.15. Visuals: “Korean Postage Stamp,” Korean Government, International Yodel Day; Anrooijbuurt Gardens, Website, 01.16.

Dr. Sherman Silber “The Non-Synthetic Live: Alaska 2015,” “Soul Skiing: A Meditation on Interfacing with Mountains and the Universe,” “Vicious Beautiful Africa,” DVDs, productions of the Infertility Center of St. Louis.

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Alex Cigale “I wrote on contemporary Russian poetry, poetry translation, and the American small press for Best American Poetry blog (July 13-17, 2015) and interviewed editors, Daniel Lawless of Plume Poetry and Plume Anthology and Irina Mashinski of Cardinal Points, for Asymptote blog. Was part of my first panel at ALTA and another two panels at the AWP Conference 2016 in LA, ‘Mandelstam in America’ and ‘Beautifully Broken: A Multilingual Reading of Trauma-Informed Poetry.’ I am now a lecturer in Russian Literature at CUNY-Queens College, where I taught the Dostoevsky and History of Russian Drama courses this semester (Spring 2016).”

Gloria Dyc “I delivered a paper entitled ‘The Darkness Between the Four Sacred Mountains’ at the 6th International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, held at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NY on June 11, 2015. The paper will be published in the Conference Proceedings by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2016.”

Davi Napoleon “I’ve been writing regularly for Live Design, a magazine about scenic, lighting, sound, projection and costume design for theater, concerts, dance and live TV. I also do occasional stories for American Theatre and several non-arts publications, including several UM magazines.”

Paula Rabinowtiz Symposia, Colloquia, Programming, Curating: “The State of Things,” University of Minnesota, October 23-24, 2015. Comments on David Marriot’s “The Matter of Black Lives”; “Daniel Blaufuks’ Als Ob/ As If,” Weisman Art Museum, October 13, 2015, Commentator. Conference Papers: “Love the Bomb: Picturing Nuclear Explosion,” “Orainaldiaren Historioak/Istorioak/Historias del Presente: Dokumentutik dokumentalera/Del Documento al document,” Asociación Espanỡla de Semiotica, Bilbao, November 2015; “The Fathers’ Secrets: Cold War Dads,” Canadian Association of American Studies, Banff Centre, September 2014; Japanese Association for American Studies, “Wars of the Twentieth Century and Beyond,” International Christian University, Tokyo, June 2015.

Carrie Smith was in residence at the U of M’s Residential College February 17 and 18.

Rosmarie Waldrop announces the latest publications from Burning Deck: Quit by Lissa McLaughlin, poetry, December 15, 2015; Of Things by Michael Donhauser, poetry, translated from the German by Andrew Joron and Nick Hoff, 2016.

Howard R. Wolf “I’ll be giving a lecture in Chabad House, Cascais, Portugal on July 6: ‘Jewish American Writing and Identity: A Personal and Shared Odyssey.’” He gave a lecture “From Goethe to Grass and Beyond: Responsibilities of the Writer in the Postwar Period” on October 22, 2015 at the Florida Atlantic University Student Center, Boca Raton Campus. He delivered another lecture on December 3 at the universidade de aveiro. It was titled “Fitzgerald and Hemingway: The Legacy of American Modernism.” On February 10, he was a participant in the “The Fifth Annual Life Raft Debate,” sponsored by the University of Buffalo’s Honor’s College. Faculty from UB argue whose field is more crucial to society. Howard represented the Humanities.

Awards& Honors

Dean Bakopoulos is the recipient of a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship.

Scott Beal won the Gertrude Press 2015 Poetry Chapbook Contest with The Octopus.

Lyn Coffin Her poetry collection, A Marriage Without Consummation, won a $1,600 translation award from the Georgian National Book Centre in 2016.

11 Katie Hartsock won the 2015 Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets from Michigan Quarterly Review, for her poem, “The Sister Karamazov,” which was in the spring issue.

Nicholas Harp received a James Merrill fellowship for a spring 2016 residency at the Vermont Studio Center and was selected as one of three Collegiate Lecturers for the Ann Arbor campus for the 2016-2017 academic year.

Sara Houghteling received a 2014 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tung-Hui Hu won the English Department’s Bredvold Prize for scholarly or creative publication.

Samuel Jenson won the English Department’s Busch Prize for 2016.

Judith Kirscht “Just sharing a bit of hope. Hawkins Lane is a finalist for the Chanticleer Reviews 2015 Somerset Award for Literary and Contemporary Literature. It first has to win “First in Category” (Home Fires got this far last year) before going on to the Somerset Grand Prize or the Chanticleer overall Grand Prize, but here’s hoping.”

Christin Lee is the winner of the U of M’s 2016 Henfield Prize in Fiction.

Dave Lucas is the winner of a 2016 Cleveland Arts Prize Emerging Artist in Literature.

Airea D. Matthews whom many of you know as the Assistant Director of our MFA Program, is the winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets, one of the oldest and most prestigious first-book publishing awards in the English-speaking world. simulacra will be published in 2017 by Yale University Press.

Karyna McGlynn is the winner of a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin. She received a prize of $3,000 and a stipend of $27,000 plus benefits. She will teach one creative writing workshop at the University of Wisconsin each term and give one public reading. The fellowships are for poets and fiction writers working on a first or second book. Michigan Union Photo Credit: Unique Venues Celeste Ng Her novel Everything I Never Told You won the 2015 Massachusetts Book Award (in the adult fiction category) as well as the Medici Book Club Prize. It’s been a bestseller in China and Taiwan, and will be published in more than 20 languages over the next year or so. She is also one of the NEA Creative Writing Fellows in Prose for 2016 (our own Peter Ho Davies, Director of the Hopwood Program this past year is another).

Benjamin Paloff PEN America announced that he had a book on the Longlist for the PEN Translation Prize, a $3,000 award for a book-length translation of prose into English published in 2015. He translated The Game for Real by Richard Weiner (Two Lines Press) from the Czech.

Ali Shapiro is a 2016 winner of the Ben Prize for outstanding teaching of writing in the U of M’s English Department. The Ben Prize, funded by an endowment in honor of alum and English Advisory Board member Larry Kirshbaum, is awarded each year to two Lecturers who have achieved a high level of excellence in the teaching of writing.

Melanie Rae Thon is the recipient of a 2016 Fellowship in Creative Arts in fiction from the John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

12 Deaths

Theodosia (Teddy) Alten, winner of a Summer Hopwood Essay Award in 1955, died of congestive heart failure on October 28, 2015, at the age of 90. The petoskeynews.com obituary reads: “In the 1950s, Teddy taught English in Bolivia, Thailand (Fulbright Scholar), and Iran where she met and married Ivan Alten. She completed her M.A. and started her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Michigan. Teddy taught ESL and languages in local schools. In 1984, Teddy resumed working overseas taking Ivan to China and Indonesia. While in Indonesia, Teddy saw her first total solar eclipse, triggering a new passion, eclipse chasing! In 1991, Teddy and Ivan retired permanently to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico to write. She was active with the local library. After Ivan’s death, Teddy remained in Mexico until joining her daughter in Bellingham [Washington] in 2008.”

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