The Hopwood Newsletter Vol. LXXVI, 2 http://hopwood.lsa.umich.edu/

July, 2015 HOPWOOD

This will be the last paper copy of the Hopwood Newsletter. Printing and mailing it twice a year costs thousands of dollars and we’d like to save as much money as possible for the awards. I’ll continue to write and edit the newsletters but from now on they only will be posted online at www.lsa.umich.edu/hopwood/newsevents. Do keep sending me news of your publications, awards, and activities at abeauch@ umich.edu.

The Hopwood Underclassmen Awards were presented by Peter Ho Davies, Director of the Hopwood Program, on January 27. A reading by Chang-rae Lee followed the announcement of the awards. The judges for the fiction and nonfiction divisions were William Abernethy and Megan Levad (Hopwood winner). The judges for the poetry division as well as the other fall term poetry contests were Hopwood winners Josie Kearns and Bruce A. Lack, Jr. The judge for the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship was Daniel Hack. And the winners were:

Hopwood Underclassmen Contest Fiction: Eileen Li, $600; Ben Simko, $600; Jeffrey Sun, $2,000 Nonfiction: Grace Rother, $800; Karen Duan, $1,000; Jeffrey Sun, $1,500 Clare Higgins, $600; Adie Dolan, $800; Olivia Raye-Leonard, $1,500 The Academy of American Poets Prize: Graduate Division, Hannah Webster, $100; Undergraduate Division, Ariel Kaplowitz, $100 The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize: Hannah Louise Poston, $600 The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry: Carlina Duan, $500; Katie Willingham, $500 The Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry: Alex Kime, $650; Karen Duan, $850 The Roy and Helen Meador Writing Award: Jenny Wang, $2,000; Emma Saraff, $4,000; Marissa Wais, $4,000; Alyssa Holt, $5,000 INSIDE: Continued, page 2 3 Publications by Hopwood Winners 3 -books and chapbooks 4 -articles and essays 7 -reviews 7 -fiction 8 -poetry 10 -dramatic performances and publications 10 -film/video/audio 11 News and Notes 13 Awards and Honors 14 Deaths 15 Special Annoucements Editor Andrea Beauchamp Design Jessica Willard

Editor Andrea Beauchamp HOPWOODDesign Jessica Willard ROOM University of Michigan The Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards were presented by Peter Ho Davies on April 22. A lecture by Eavan Boland followed the announcement of the awards. She was introduced by Kirstin Valdez Quade, Delbanco Visiting Professor of Creative Writing. Local judges for the contests were Julie Babcock, Gorman Beauchamp, Enoch Brater, Pamela Erbe, Michael Hinken, Aaron McCollough, Eddie Rubin, Kerry Russell, Leslie Stainton and Cody Walker and Hopwood winners Natalie Bakopoulos, Frank Beaver, Russell Brakefield, Jeremiah Chamberlain, John Ganiard, Nicholas Harp, Joseph Horton, Patricia Khleif, James Pinto, Sara Talpos, and Laura Thomas. National Judges: Drama: Rob Handel and Ruth Margraff Novel: Randa Jarrar (Hopwood winner) and J. Robert Lennon Screenplay: Rachel Abarbanell and Mitchell Akselrad (Hopwood winner) Nonfiction: Nicholas Baker and Patricia Hampl Short Fiction: Carolyn Ferrell and Lysley Tenorio Poetry: James Longenbach and Pimone Triplett Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize: Michael Collier Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing: Kasdan Pictures

And the winners were: Drama: Riley Cecil Taggart, $2,000; Eric Grant-Frankel, $3,000; Stuart Richardson, $10,000 Novel: Nora Byrnes, $4,000; Allie Tova Hirsch, $ 4,500; Ian Bassingthwaighte, $9,000 Screenplay: Nadeem Persico-Shammas, $2,000; Julia Mogerman, $3,500; Jacob Ginn, $8,500 Graduate Nonfiction: Jenny Boychuk, $2,000; Phoebe Rusch, $3,000; Warner James Wood, $3,500; Rayne Elizabeth Cockburn, $6,000 Undergraduate Nonfiction: Paige Pfleger, $2,500; Scott Dorsett, $3,500; Carlina Duan, $8,500 Graduate Short Fiction: Lillian Li, $2,500; Elizabeth Ward Dickey, $3,000; William Klein, $3,000; Ian Bassingthwaighte, $3,500 Undergraduate Short Fiction: Justin Younan, $6,000; Avery DiUbaldo, $9,500 Graduate Poetry: Stephen Rodriquez, $2,000; Malcolm Tariq, $2,000; Warner James Woods, $2,500; Lorrainne Coulter, $10,000 Undergraduate Poetry: Jacob Brooks, $3,500; Ana Maria Guay, $3,500; Erika Nestor, $3,500; Carlina Duan, $6,500 Andrea Beauchamp Prize (donated by Prof. John Wagner): Ian Bassingthwaighte, $1,100 Frank and Gail Beaver Script Writing Prize: Al Smith, $1,500 Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing: Kat Finch, $1,650; Josh Garfinkel, $1,650 Helen J. Daniels Prize: Carlina Duan, $3,000 Geoffrey James Gosling Prize: Ian Bassingthwaighte, $850 Paul and Sonia Handelman Poetry Award: Carlina Duan, $3,000 Robert F. Haugh Prize: Avery DiUbaldo, $2,800 Kasdan Scholarship for Creative Writing: Katie Hiipakka, $2,500; Jacob Ginn, $7,500 Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting: Eric Grant-Frankel, $3,700; Stuart Richardson, $3,700 Meader Family Award: Jenny Boychuk, $2,000; J. D. Duval, $2,000; Rachel Harkai, $2,000 Arthur Miller Award of the University of Michigan Club of New York Scholarship Fund: Karen Duan, $2,600 Naomi Saferstein Literary Award: Jacob Ginn, $1,250 Stanley S. Schwartz Prize: Justin Younan, $575 Helen S. and John Wagner Prize: Lorraine Coulter, $1,100 John Wagner Prize: Rayne Elizabeth Cockburn, $1,100

Jeremiah Chamberlin, Assistant Director of the English Department Writing Program, dedicated the content of the first week in December offictionwritersreview.com to a celebration of Nicholas Delbanco’s influential career as both a writer and teacher. He writes: “Fiction Writers Review was founded in 2008 by former Michigan MFA students, and I’ve had the pleasure of serving as Editor-in-Chief for the last several years. So it feels fitting and good to do our small part to honor Nick’s legacy.” There were tributes by Hopwood winners Dean Bakopoulos (“About That Table”), Travis Holland (“Seeing the Good”), Elizabeth Kostova (“An Appreciation of Nicholas Delbanco”), and Valerie Laken (“What It Takes”). Fritz Swanson of Wolverine Press created a beautiful letterpress edition of “Composition,” the first story that Nicholas Delbanco published and the printing process was featured in a video tribute honoring Nick.

2 Publications by Hopwood Winners*

Books and Chapbooks

Robert J. Aamoth The Hall of Brains and The Boy Who Went to Earth, young adult science fiction, available from Amazon and (writing under the pen Kindle. “I am calling this The Hall of Brains series. Stay tuned for book three by year-end.” name of Dillion)

Dean Bakopoulos Summerlong, a novel, Ecco, 2015.

Brittany Bennett The Mothers, a novel, forthcoming from Riverhead in 2016 or 2017.

Carmen Bugan “Below please find links to three new book publications of my work. They are all translations of my books. The Italian link takes you to the publication announcement of a bilingual edition of all of my poems and selected prose on writing. The Swedish link (biggest and most prestigious publishing house in Sweden) is to the translation of my memoir. The Polish link takes you to the translation of my memoir in Polish, again, with their most prestigious publishing house. edizionikolibris.net/2015/01/18/sulla-soglia-della-dimenticanza-nel-sito-di-rainews/ www.wwd.se/bocker/utlandsk-skonlitteratur/d/den-begravda-skrivmaskinen/ czarne.com.pl/katalog/ksiazki/zakopac-maszyne-do-pisania www.amazon.com/Carmen-Bugan/e/B0034PBSMM.”

Monique Daviau Every Anxious Wave, a novel, forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press in January 2016.

Margaret Lazarus Dean Leaving Orbit: Notes From the Last Days of American Spaceflight, Graywolf Press, 2015.

Barry Garelick Teaching Math in the 21st Century, Modern Education Press, 2015.

James Guthrie Emily Dickinson’s Vision: Illness and Identity in Her Poetry, University Press of Florida, 1998; Above Time: Emerson’s and Thoreau’s Temporal Revolutions, University of Missouri Press, 2001; A Kiss From Thermopylae: Emily Dickinson and Law, University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.

Katie Hartsock Hotels, Motels, and Extended Stays, a chapbook, Toadlily Press, part of their Quartet Series, which features the work of four poets. The entire collection, A Good Wall, contains a foreword by Laura Kasischke.

X.J. Kennedy Fits of Concision: collected poems of six or fewer lines, Grolier Established Poets Series, 2014; A Hoarse Half-Human Cheer: an entertainment, a novel, Curtis Brown Unlimited, 2015.

Arthur F. Finney Renasissance Reflections: Selected Essays, 1976-2012,(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014); with Jane A. Lawson, Titled Elizabethans: A Directory of Elizabethan Court, State, and Church Officers, 1558-1603 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Judith Kirscht Hawkins Lane, a novel, 2015 available at Barnes and Noble and on Amazon: www.amazon.com/ gp/product/B00VK98VW4?ref_=sr_1_1&qid=1427989555&sr=8-1&keywords=hawkins%20 lane&pldnSite=1

Nelson P. Lande Classical Logic and Its Rabbit-Holes: A First Course, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 2013.

Megan Levad Why We Live in the Dark Ages, poetry, Tavern 2015.

Andrea Lochen Imaginary Things, a novel, Astor + Blue Editions, April 2015. * Assume date unknown if no date is indicated. 3 Nate Marshall Coeditor with Kevin Coval and Quraysh Ali Lansana of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015).

Chigozie Obioma The Fishermen, a novel, Little, Brown and Co., 2015.

Marcia Ochoa Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela, Duke University Press, 2014. She recently received the Michael Lynch Service Award from the GL/Q Section of the Modern Languages Association in recognition of her work with LGBTQ communities as both an academic and an advocate.

Marge Piercy Made in Detroit: Poems, Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Matthew Rohrer Surrounded by Friends, poetry, Wave Books, 2015.

Nancy Shaw Sheep Go to Sleep, illustrated by Margot Apple, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. This is book #8 in her Sheep series.

Jack R. Stanley The Reluctant President, a novel: http://www.amazon.com/The-Reluctant-President-Jack-Stanley- ebook/dp/B00V5H1W2W.

Melanie Rae Thon Silence & Song, University of Alabama Press, FC2, 2015. The book is described as “Thon’s most experimental work; a diptych, two long lyric fictions hinged by a short prose poem. Inspired and informed by biology, physics, music, history, intimate violence, and miraculous resilience, all three pieces move from mourning to song.” In addition, Open Road Meda is releasing her entire backlist (Sweet Hearts; First, Body; Iona Moon; Girls in the Grass; Meteors in August) as ebooks on 30 December at: www.openroadmedia.com/melanie-rae-thon (These books were published before the ebook wave.) The two most recent books (In This Light and The Voice of the River) are still in print & also available as ebooks.

Matthew Thorburn A Green River in Spring, poetry, winner of the 2014 Coal Hill Review Chapbook Prize, Coal Hill Review, Pittsburgh, 2015.

Rosmarie Waldrop Third Person Singular, poetry with art by Keith Waldrop, Anomalous Press, 2015.

Rebecca Adams Wright The Thing About Great Sharks, short stories, Little A, 2015: www.amazon.com/Thing-About-Great-White- Sharks/dp/1477821074/ref tmm_pap_title_0.

Articles and Essays

Beth Aviv “Lost in Translation,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2013; “Gaudi of the East Village,” Raw Vision, Spring 2014; “Just Call Me Lucky: Cay Antoinette Bahnmiller: An Aesthetic Scavenger in Detroit,” New Letters, 80(3&4).

Donald Beagle “Information Literacy and the Information Commons: A Coevolutionary Model,” Cahiers de la documentation / Bladen voor documentatie (Association Belge de Documentation / Belgische Vereniging voor Documentatie) Vol. XL, No. 4. December 2014. Online at: < http://www.abd-bvd.be/ index.php?page=cah/rc-2014-4&lang=nl >

Sven Birkerts “Those Shoes,” The AGNI Newsletter, March 2015; “A Sidelong Glance by the Ticket Machine,” AGNI Newsletter, April 2015; “The Problem of Other Minds,” AGNI #81, 2015.

Anna Clark “Inmate Improv,” New York Times, December 31, 2014.

Monique Daviau “The Cardigan,” The Butter, January 12, 2015: the-toast.net/2015/01/12/cardigan/.

4 Lesley Doyle “Water Moves to Where There’s Less, Then Back to Where There’s Less,” forthcoming in the Fall 2015 “Queering Nature” Issue of The Fourth River.

Barry Garelick “Math Problems: Knowing, Doing, and Explaining Your Answer,” Education News: www.educationnews.org/k-12-schools/math-problems-knowing-doing-and-explaining-your-answer/ (May 5, 2015).

Garrett Hongo Interviewed by Michael Collier, The Asian American Literary Review, Spring 2014.

Joseph Keckler “Jaimie Warren: Self-Portrait as Pennywise the Clown,” July 14, 2014, VICE (online).

Jascha Kessler Letters in www.speakwithoutinterruption.com/site/2014/12/letters-to-the-world-series-by-jascha- kessler-406/, December 16, 2014, December 23, 2014, February 25, March 6, 9, 12, 26, 29, April 27 and 30, May 7; “A Translator’s Complaint,” Eclectica, January/February 2015; “Leave not a rack behind,” Eclectica.org; Los Angeles Times, February 3 and 22, April 11, 2015; Wall Street Journal: April 15.

Arthur F. Kinney “Shakespeare and Cognitive Vision,” in Early Modern Drama in Performance: Essays in Honor of Lois Potter (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2015); “Re-cognizing Shakespearean Tragedy,” in Shakespeare Survey 67 (2014).

Bruce Lack Service: Poems, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Contest from Texas Tech University Press, March 2015.

Nelson P. Lande “Moral Knowledge, Character, and a Dilemma: The Easy Way In, The Hard Way Out,” Philosophy in Context, XVI, 1986; “Posthumous Rehabilitation and the Dust-Bin of History,” Public Affairs Quarterly, IV, 3, July 1990; “Does Pluralism Lead to Nihilism? Or: Isn’t it Time to Sacrifice an Ox?” in Defending Diversity, eds. Lawrence Foster and Patricia Herzog, University of Massachusetts Press, 1994; “Maimonides on Property: Its Distribution and Accumulation,” Joseph A. Schumpeter, ed. Lawrence Moss, Routledge, 1996; “Trotsky’s Brilliant Flame and Broken Reed,” Social Philosophy Today, XX, Summer 2004.

Laurence Lieberman “On ‘Bari Old and Young,’ by James Wright,” American Poetry Review, May/June 2015.

Nate Marshall “Blueprint for BreakBeat Writing,” Poetry, 2015.

David Masello “The Boys Who Sailed Away, Notable Essay, The Best American Essays 2014; “The Hardiness Zones,” Outer Voice Inner Lives: A Collection of LGBTQ Writers Over 50; in various issues of Fine Art Connoisseur: “A Soprano Hit Man Hits It Big,” ”A New, Old Modernist Master,” “My Favorite: Leonard Riggio on Spiral Jetty;” in various issues of American Arts Quarterly: “Into the Woods: Santiago Cal’s Sculptures,” “Art Matters: The Clark Art Institute Acquires a New Identity,” “A Good Night: A Tribute to Poet Sara Teasdale,” Painted Lives: Making Room for the Figures Who Live With Us,” “God-Like: Mythological Paintings of John Woodward Kelley.”

Christine Montross “The Modern Asylum,” oped, New York Times, February 18, 2015.

Randon Billings Noble “The Heart as a Torn Muscle,” Brevity, Issue 48, January 2015; “Elegy for Dracula,” Shenandoah, Volume 64, Number 1, Noir, October 2014; “Widow Fantasies,” The Delmarva Review, Volume 7, October 2014, nominated for a Pushcart Prize;“Stripped Down and Redressed,” in the anthology Spent: Exposing Our Complicated Relationship with Shopping, Seal Press, September 2014; reprinted in Brain, Child, 29 September 2014; “Behind the Caves,” The Rumpus, 16 September 2014.

Marge Piercy Interviews: for Utopian Studies, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014; for Detroit Free Press, March 2015; for People Who Make Books Happen Interview Series, 2015; for Knot Magazine, March 2015.

Bart Plantenga “The Yodel Climbs Out Through The Roof,” Department of Public Sound #4, De Player, Rotterdam; “The Mad Mad World of British Yodelling,” Hear My Voice Festival, Swiss Church of London, March, 2015; “The Suppression of Mirth: No Laughing Matter,” and “WARNING: High Levels of Scurrilous Laughter,”

5 Urban Grafitti, February 2015; Interviews: “bart plantenga in conversation with John Wisniewski and Mark McCawley,” Urban Grafitti, March 7, 2014; “F*ck Art (Let’s Dance): A conversation with Sally Eckhoff,” Urban Grafitti, August 22, 2014; “Purists Get Their Dirndls in a Knot Over the Right Way to Yodel,” Wall Street Journal, September 29, 2014; “The Yodel: Not Just Some Kitsch Alpine Lederhosen Lonely Goatherd Thing,” Vierzeiler, Steirisches Volksliedwerk, March 2015; “The Suppression of Mirth: No Laughing Matter,” and “Warning: High Levels of Scurrilous Laughter, Ol’ Chanty [Scotland] March 2015.

Jess Row “American Cynicism and Its Cure,” Boston Review, May 18, 2015.

Rebecca Scherm “This Is Your Grandmother Calling,” New York Times, January 25, 2015.

Kodi Scheer “Where We Write: Iowa,” Poets & Writers Magazine, March/April 2015.

Ian Singleton Interviewed Charles Baxter: http://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/irony-is-the-new-chastity-an- interview-with-charles-baxter/.

Ann Tashi Slater “On Pilgrimage in India,” www.huffingtonpost.com/ann-tashi-slater/on-pilgrimage-in-india_b_6265672. html, December 13, 2014; “Writing and Solitude,” March 13, 2015 www.huffingtonpost.com/ann-tashi- slater/writing-and solitude_b_6814238.html?utm_hp_ref=books&ir=Books.

Bert Stratton “Live, From the Nursing Home,” op-ed, New York Times, February 2, 2015; Four pieces in Belt Magazine -- Dispatches from the Rust Belt: “On Lee Road,” May 21, 2014; “Deli Men,” July 29, 2013; “Mississippi Albert,” (“in part about me blowing blues harp on the Diag”), November 6, 2014; and “Harvard and Cleveland,” February 19, 2015.

Fritz Swanson “The Hart’s Long Life,” Creative Nonfiction, Issue 54, Winter 2015.

Melanie Rae Thon “The Ethics of Perception,” in The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility & the Avant-Garde, edited by Lily Hoang and Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Nightboat Books.

Howard R. Wolf “A Daunting Task: Writing about Yom Hashoah,” The Buffalo Jewish Review, January 23, 2015; “Personal Fiction: The Comic Shadow of Tragedy,” The Buffalo Jewish Review, February 27, 2015; “Today I Am A Fountain Pen: Selfhood and Writing” (an excerpt from a talk he gave at Wolfson College, Cambridge University last May) and “Some Roles of the Literary Journalist and Creative Nonfiction Writer in Post- 1960’s America,” Colere, the journal of Coe College, Iowa, 2015; “Dreaming for Peace in the Middle East,” The Buffalo News, March 5, 2015; “Always together…,” Buffalo Jewish Review, April 24, 2015.

6 Reviews

Emery George A review of Dante und die Templergnosis [Dante and the Gnosis of the Knights Templar] by Joseph P. Strelka, Italica 91, no. 1, Spring 2014.

Alyson Hagy “Where the Bodies Are Buried,” a review of The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan, New York Times Book Review, January 4, 2015.

Benjamin Landry Boston Review, Vol. 40, no. 2, review of Kimiko Hahn’s Brain Fever; The Collagist, review of Beth Bachmann’s Do Not Rise, January 15, 2015; Boston Review, review of Anne Carson’s The Albertine Workout, October 21, 2014; The Rumpus, review of George Albon’s Fire Break, July 12, 2014.

David Masello “A Scot on the Rocks,” a review of Alan Cumming’s memoir, Gay & Lesbian Review, March/April 2015.

Randon Billings Noble “A World of Objects,” New Orleans Review, 5 September 2014; a review of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, The Georgia Review, Spring 2014; a review of Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity and Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939, Brain, Child Magazine, Spring 2014.

Ian Singleton A review of Apollo in the Grass by Alexander Kushner: fictionwritersreview.com/review/apollo-in-the-grass-selected-poems-by-aleksandr-kushner/.

Mairead Small Straid A review of Crush by Richard Siken, forthcoming in The Believer.

Edmund White A review of Tennessee Williams by John Lahr, Times Literary Supplement, December 12, 2014.

Fiction

Dean Bakopoulos “Too Few to Mention,” Tin House, 16(2), 2014.

Yonni Brenner “The Eight Serious Relationships of Hercules”, The New Yorker, January 12, 2015.

Alex Cigale Translations of “Bakhchysarai Rose” by Igor Sakhnovsky in BODY literature’s Saturday European Fiction feature; Margarita Meklina’s “Claudio” in Eleven Eleven 17, and “Wife,” “A Triple Test,” and “A Gathering” in Brooklyn Rail InTranslation, November 2014; 3 flash fictions by Daniil Kharms, inLittle Star weekly (June 20, 2014); 3 Film Treatments by Vladimir Mayakovsky, with introductory essay, in Mayday 9.

Leslie Doyle “Red, Right, Return” was selected for The Cobalt Review’s yearly print anthology which was published in January 2015; “A Deer On the Lawn” was selected by MARY for its MARY Editors’ Prize and will appear in their Spring 2015 Issue; “The Cousins,” forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins 6.2, July 2015.

Gail Gilliland “The Balloon King of Albuquerque,” forthcoming from Red Mesa Review.

Alyson Hagy “Switchback,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2015.

Joseph Horton “The Tribe,” Day One, January 2015.

Bart Plantenga “La Galerie,” Public Illumination Magazine #58; Beer Mystic Chapters 20-29, Smoke Signals; “Happy Birth/ Mother’s Day – Beer Mystic #33: “Furman’s Mom Visits His East Village Apartment,” Urban Grafitti.

Sara Schaff “Say Something Nice About Me,” Southern Indiana Review, Fall 2014.

7 Ann Tashi Slater “Flowers Would Fall from the Sky Like Rain,” in the relaunched Asia Literary Review: www.asialiteraryreview.com/flowers-would-fall-sky-rain, 2014.

Ian Singleton A review of The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis: http://fictionwritersreview.com/review/the-betrayers-by-david-bezmozgis/; an interview with Charles Baxter: http://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/irony-is-the-new-chastity-an-interview-with-charles- baxter/

Melanie Rae Thon “As Breath, from Fog,” lyric fiction,Ocean State Review, 4(1); “In the Garden,” American Short Fiction, Spring 2015.

Howard R. Wolf “Of Her Silent Pressure,” The Buffalo Jewish Review, December 26, 2014.

Poetry

Anne-Marie Brumm “Apartment for Rent,” California Quarterly, Fall 2014.

Victoria Chang “Mr. Darcy”, Poetry, June 2015.

Alex Cigale “The Teacher’s Curse” in Art & Understanding: Literature from the first Twenty Years (Black Lawrence Press, 2014); “Man who seeks to be nothing but himself” in PORCH anthology (Mad Hat Lit, 2015). Translations of “Tramp” and “The Skydweller’s Nail” by Amarsana Ulzytuev, with introduction, in Hayden’s Ferry Review 55; “Shenhen Buryat” and “Familial” in World Literature Today (September 2014); “An Invective” by Gennady Katsov in Blue Lyra Review anthology 2, Spring 2015; “Bowing – Into Distance” by Gennady Aygi and poem after Catullus 16 by Dmitry Kuzmin in Eleven Eleven 17; “A Cadet’s Escapades” by Alexander Shenin, first 5 sections (of 25) of an 1843 long pornographic poem, inFour Centuries 8; Long selection from Mikhail Nilin’s book-length Accidental Selection, in Gobshite 15-16; my own poem “On Parajanov’s Color of Pomegranates” in the Russian translation of Dana Golin, Gvideon 9; “Menagerie,” a long seminal prose poem by Velimir Khlebnikov in Inventory 5 (Princeton); “Angst” by Alexander Blok, and Vladimir Mayakovsky’s long poem dedicated to Lilya Brik, “Flute-vertebrae,” in Ping Pong 2014 (Journal of the Henry Miller Society); 5 miniatures by Marina Tsvetaeva in PORCH anthology; “Improvisation” (1915) by Boris Pasternak and Part 1 of “Verses to Blok” (1915) by Marina Tsvetaeva in Taos Journal 5; “More About the Same,” “In the Midst,” and “Edge of Town, a Dream” by Shamshad Abduallaev in TriQuarterly 147, “A Romance” and “Doubled Midday” in Plume 43; “You will milk the branches of the birch tree” by Alexander Ulanov in Bat City Review 11 (Spring 2015, U. Texas- Austin), 2 poems in SFSU’s 14 Hills issue 21.1, “Out of the first comet’s snow” in FSU’sSoutheast Review 33.1 , 8 untitled prose poems from the book Between We in Talisman 43; “The wind pales...” and “Among the houses…” in Tupelo Quarterly 4; 3 poems by Ekaterina Simonova (Ural “Nizhni Tagil school”) in International Poetry Review, Fall 2014, 1 poem in Unsplendid’s Women in Form issue; ”Fresh new data…” and “Behold, thou art fair…” by Dmitry Kuzmin in Zymbol 4; Translations of 3 “Riddles” poems by Polina Barskova, in B O D Y Literature (May 4, 2015), Translations of two poems by Osip Mandelstam (1921) with essay on translating the “Big Four” in NationalTranslationMonth.org. 12 contemporary poets in Russia Issue of Atlanta Review I edited (Vol. XXI, No. 2) are in my translation: Regina Derieva, Mikhail Eremin, Alexander Kabakov, Konstantin Kravstov, Dmitry Kuzmin, Vadim Mesyats, Alexey Purin, Alexander Skidan, Fedor Svarovsky, Andrey Tavrov, Alexander Ulanov, Amarsana Ulzytuev.

Lauren Clark “Two Weddings,” “Layla,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, “Chaos Issue,” Spring/Summer 2015.

Kathleen Halme “Note,” Ploughshares, Winter 2014-15.

Francine J. Harris “as now,” Indiana Review, 36(2), Winter 2014; “This Is a Test,” Poetry, April 2015.

Katie Hartsock “Onion,” Iron Horse Literary Review, 16(4); “The Flooded Grave,” Measure, 8(2); “The Demolition Derby Hotel,” “The Philoctetes Extended Stay Hotel,” Southwest Review, 99(4), 2014.

8 Patricia Hooper “Winter Move,” “Next Summer’s Garden,” AGNI #81, 2015.

Laura Kasischke “Two Men & a Truck,” “The Wall,” Poetry, March 2015; “Nothing’s Perfect. Only,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2015.

Benjamin Landry “Insofar,” Prairie Schooner, Spring 2015; Conduit, Issue 26 (Spring 2015), “Meep Meep”; Colorado Review, Volume 42, No. 1 (Spring 2015), “Private Booth”; Michigan Quarterly Review, Volume 53, No. 4 (Fall 2014), “Venus Crossing”; OmniVerse, 10/01/14, “Police Report”; CutBank, Issue 81 (Summer 2014), “Satellite”; “Mercies in the American Desert,” Mid-American Review, XXXV, 2, 2015.

Gregory Loselle “Memorial Days,” Peninsula Poets Member Edition, Poetry Society of Michigan, Spring 2015.

Dave Lucas “Gawain at the Green Chapel,” Field, Spring 2015; “Prose-Poem: Down in the Flood,” The Threepenny Review #140, Winter 2015.

Nate Marshall “on caskets,” Poetry, April 2015.

Airea D. Matthews was the featured poet in American Poets, Spring-Summer 2015, with an introduction by D. A Powell. The published poems were “Confessions From Here,” “Sexton Texts from a Bird Conservatory,” “Whipporwill.”

Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren “At the Right Hour of Winter,” Passages North Issue #36.

Rachel Nelson “Erasers,” Atlas Review #5, 2015.

Kevin Phan “Bellybutton—Rinpoch & I,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fall/Winter 2014; “4 Epistles to Mother Earth (pt. 4)—Hummingbirds,” North American Review, Spring 2015.

Marge Piercy “That was Cobb Farm,” “The karma of heredity,” “Chance is so particular,” december magazine, Volume 25.2, Fall/Winter 2014; “The radio attacks me with golden oldies,” “The threat stares back from the TV,” “The constant exchange,” Cape Cod Poetry Review, Volume II, Winter 2014; “They fear and they kill,” Monthly Review, Volume 66, No. 7, December 2014; “Dr. Bullshit finds his Muse,” “Those years of getting by,” “It’s what we’re used to,” Chiron Review, #Issue 98, Winter, 2014; “Apples and honey,” Ibbetson Street, No. 36, December 2014; “My time in better dresses,” “City bleeding,” Third Wednesday, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Winter 2015; “Equal,” Gobshite Quarterly, Issue 18, Spring 2015; “Trying to love Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant,” Monthly Review, Volume 66, Number 11, April 2015; “Far into the forest,” DMQ Review, Fall 2015; “How natural we aren’t,” “Unkempt at last,” Devouring the Green, Jaded Ibis Productions, 2015; “A step at a time,” Blended: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience, Seal Press, 2015; “May opens wide,” May 22, 2015.

Paisley Rekdal “At the Fishhouses,” Poetry, January 2015.

William Craig Rice “Intelligent Design,” The New Criterion, May 2015.

Rachel Richardson “Double Aquarius,” Crazyhorse #87, Spring 2015.

Mairead Small Staid “Better,” Ploughshares, Winter 2014-15; “Stable Vices,” “Study for a Spaghetti Western,” forthcoming in Ninth Letter; “Portrait of Mussolini,” “Snow,” “Your Very Flesh,” Unsaid, VII, 1, August 2014; “A Map of Maps,” The Believer, XII, 5, June 2014; “Longing and Other Dimensions,” AGNI #79, April 2014; “In the Twilight,” The Southern Review, XLVIII, 2, April 2010.

Anne Stevenson “In Passing,” Ploughshares, Spring 2015.

Laurence W. Thomas “I Made a Promise,” forthcoming in Literature Today; “Winter Approaches,” “IRIS OF TUMAIR,” Third Wednesday, VIII, 1, Fall 2014; “Subsistence,” Blue Unicorn, February 2015; “Miss Universe,” “Between Our Houses,” forthcoming in the Voices Israel 2015 Anthology; “The Seasons,” Peninsula Poets Member Edition, Poetry Society of Michigan, Spring 2015.

9 Franke Varca “Fourth Theory: Pleasure, and We Stared Awed,” Boston Review, January/February 2015.

Lizzie Wolf “Moonlight in Milford,” Pembroke Magazine, Number 47.

Drama Performances and Publications

Avery DiUbaldo “As a member of the BFA Acting class of 2015, I’ll be performing in a showcase of scenes and monologues in the Matrix Theater in Los Angeles. The audience will be made up mostly of agents and casting representatives--the idea is to “get ourselves out there” as actors, pretty much, and there’s a little reception after the show with snacks and refreshments to facilitate further hobknobbing. We’re performing in Chicago later that week, and then again in New York at the beginning of May! With any luck, some of us will find representation, but the opportunity to perform with our classmates one last time before graduation is incentive enough in itself.”

Emery George has published Iphigenie at Sea: A Play in Five Acts, Kylix Press, Princeton, 2014. He writes: “The play, which like its predecessors in my Iphigenia cycle of adaptations [Iphigenie in Manhattan; Iphigenie in Czestochowa; Orest; Iphigenie in Auschwitz], is in verse and in five acts, aims at filling a need and answers, I hope, an unanswered question persisting in the tradition of Iphigenia drama: Why is some indication of how Iphigenia feels during her rescue by Artemis, at Aulis and among the Tauri, so stubbornly lacking?” The present Iphigenia adaptation—the second cycle of five full-length verse plays—is Emery’s 30th book.

Joseph Keckler had a performance at the Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor on January 14. “Singer, writer, actor, and interdisciplinary artist Joseph Keckler presents highlights from his body of work, transposing experiences and observations of contemporary life into strange and often humorous stories, monologues, videos, torch songs, and operatic arias.” His performance piece Cat Lady was published in the anthology Animal Acts: Performing Species Today (University of Michigan Press, 2014), edited by Holly Hughes and Una Chaudhuri. He was recently the featured performer at the reopening of the Goethe Institute in NYC.

David Masello New York’s Primary Stages mounted a reading of Act I of Still Life, a play-in-progress about a 17th- century Dutch painter, in Dec. 2014.

Howard R. Wolf “Exit by Starlight at the Ritz Tropique,” Prosopisia, VIII, 1, 2015.

Kim Yaged Her play, Hypocrites & Strippers, was part of the 13th Annual Downtown Urban Theater Festival on May 21 at the HERE Arts Center in New York City. Kim describes it as “a comedy about selling sex and selling out.” The production starred Diana Oh and was directed by Leta Tremblay.

Film/Video/Audio

Kevin Dreyfuss wrote in March: “I’m a University of Michigan Film School and Hopwood Winner alum (Class of ’93), now working as head of Digital Content for AMC Network. As you may or may not know, the series Mad Men is returning for its final episodes this Spring, and we’re producing a video initiative called Mad Men: The Fan Cut (www.madmenfancut.com). Mad Men Creator Matthew Weiner let us slice and dice the pilot episode of Season 1 into short chunks, and we are letting people film their own versions of each clip, which will then be stitched together in the end into a Mad Men Fan Cut version to premiere online and on-demand as the series winds down to the final episodes. Here’s a little press about it: www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/mad-men-asks-fans-to-help-recreate-pilot-20150210 www.ew.com/article/2015/02/10/mad-men-fans-asked-help-recreate-pilot.”

Joseph Keckler “Last year VICE premiered my video ‘Goth Song’ and in 2013 Interview Magazine premiered ‘The Ride.’

10 Both were collaborations with Laura Terruso. BBC America and The Nerdist produced ‘Shroom Opera,’ an adaptation of one of my performance pieces, directed by Liam Lynch.” Benjamin Landry MichiganRadio.org: Poetically Speaking feature, “Bunyan,” “Shelter,” April 21, 2015.”

Bart Plantenga Selected Radio @ Wreck This Mess: Wreck Dead Father 1185: Audio memoir radio show Wreck Dub Acoustic War 1184: Audio as resistance; Wreck Reconditioned Silence #1183: Investigation of Silence; Wreck 4’33” SSHH #1182: Cage’s composition + David Tudor Memorial 4’33” Competition; Wreck Autumn Leaves 1181: Poetic & musical meditation on Autumn; Wreck Yodel Brussels Y-A 1180: Honoring the Brussels Yodel in HiFi performances; Wreck 2Kilos Von Black Magnet 1179: World Industrial band; Wreck Walk 1178: Meditations on walking; Wreck Yodel-EA-OH Telematic #1177: Reconstructing the NAIA; Wreck Retro #1176: 1994 > 2014: Return to 1994; WTM 1175: Wreck Football: World Cup Football + Politics; WTM 1174: Wreck BS [Black Sifichi]: International wordsmith; Wreck Kids #1173: Children sounds, noises & songs. Selected Other Radio: “Yodel & Radio,” Radio Brussels Radio, Interview November 2014; “Yodeling’s International Dimensions,” Musik der Welt #4 Interview, SRF Kultur 2 Radio, Zurich, December 5, 2014. Selected Yodel Films @ Yodel in HiFi Top 50+: “Yodel in HiFi in Brussels,” Brussels UOEIA #3 Trailer; “Randy Erwin: Tex-Czech Yodeler in Tornado Country”; Wreck Gun Bird 1187: “Chief disharmony: destruction [gun mind] vs transcendence [bird mind]”; Wreck BunnyTail WallPlaque 1186: “Reconstruction of 1986 Radio”; ART NEAR HOME #1–365: “365 Amsterdam secret artworks” in 2015 on Facebook.

Dr. Sherman Silber “The Saga of Joan and Sherm Paragliding, Summer 2014,” a DVD, Infertility Center of St. www.michigan.org/city/ann-arbor/Louis.

News & Notes

Alex Cigale “I have been awarded the 2015 NEA Translation Fellowship for my work on the last living poet of the St. Petersburg “philological school,” Mikhail Eremin. Interviews with me were published in The Conversant, Authors and Translators, and Asymptote. I edited the Spring 2015 Russia Issue of Atlanta Review. Featured in readings at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, NYPL, Williams Center, and at the Seattle AWP. At 2015 AWP Conference in Minneapolis, I presented on a panel: “From Pushkin to Pussy Riot; Poetics and Politics of Translating Russian Poetry”.

Tina Datsko de Sánchez With Tina’s poetry collection, The Delirium of Simón Bolívar, now out, she has been redoubling her efforts “at bringing forth the companion poetry documentarySearching for Simón Bolívar: One Poet’s Journey. At this writing, the picture is complete, the original music has been recorded and partially mixed—just a few finishing steps and then we look forward to sharing it with people.”

Helen Ratner Dietz took time off from her art-history writing to accept an invitation from the Integritas Institute at the University of Illinois Chicago to speak to students at the Medical School on two twentieth-century Chicago-area physicians who started the natural childbirth and the back to breastfeeding movements and who were involved in the founding of La Leche League. Her talk given on February 11 was entitled “Herbert Ratner, M.D. and Gregory White, M.D.: Pioneer Advocates of Maternal-Child Health.”

Melissa Jones “A year ago I joined the board of The Imagine Bus Project, a local Bay Area non-profit that brings art instruction into juvenile detention centers. At my day job, I work on the Adobe Education team, leading the world wide strategy for faculty professional development. I live in San Francisco with my husband, Larry, and our three year old daughter, Petra.”

Pat Kaufman Talk Scarf Theater, an exhibition presented by the Vitrina Gallery in New York City, was held June 1-21, 2015.

11 X.J. Kennedy “In early April,” the Sewanee Review announced, “Poets & Writers made it official, and with a generous prize indeed: More people should read the extraordinary poetry of X. J. Kennedy! Longtime friend and contributor to the Sewanee Review, Kennedy was named the ninth recipient of the Jackson Poetry Prize given “each year to an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition.” He is in excellent company with previous winners, Claudia Rankine, Arthur Sze, Henri Cole, James Richarson, Harryette Mullen, Linda Gregg, Tony Hoagland, and Elizabeth Alexander. Like our Aiken Taylor Award of Modern American Poetry, which Kennedy also won in 1998, there is no application process and poets are nominated anonymously by their peers. This year’s panel of final judges for the $50,000 prize was Heathery McHugh, Vijay Seshadri, and Rosanna Warren. Kennedy has been writing for the SR for over twenty years and has fulfilled with good humor and sharp wit the occasional prompt from Mr. Core to write a poem on this or that.”

Megan Levad had a residency for the month of March at Surel’s Place in Boise, Idaho. She resigned her position as Assistant Director of the MFA Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the U of M in May and is succeeded by Airea D. Matthews.

Andrea Lochen gave birth to a little girl on January 27th. Andrea and her husband Matt named her Kendalyn Grace Lochen. “She’s a beautiful, healthy, happy baby, and the love of our lives! At birth, she weighed 6 lbs 6 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long.”

David Masello attended the Sewanee Writers’ Workshop last summer and wrote a piece on it: www.nccsc.net/blog/ write-place-understanding-prose-and-poetry-annual-sewanee-writers-conference. He celebrates his third year as Executive Editor of Milieu (milieu-mag.com), a national print magazine about design. He delivered lectures about journalism and writing about art to the Dacia Art Foundation and the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Marcia Ochoa “I was the winner of a minor prize in Creative Non-fiction back in 1991. I have since done many things, including completing a PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University (2006) and getting tenure in the Feminist Studies Department at the University of California - Santa Cruz. I am now Associate Professor and Chair of Feminist Studies at UCSC.”

Marge Piercy is still the Advisory Editor for december magazine and the Poetry Editor for Lilith. She gave her annual Juried Intensive Poetry Workshop in Wellfleet from June 15–19, 2015.

Bart Plantenga Events, Performance, Lecture: “Insane Logic of (Dutch) Yodeling,” Utrecht Pindaconcert, September 6, 2014; “UOEIA III/ That Global Glottis,” Brussels Beursschouwburg, November 29, 2014: co-production, video, lecture, DJ; “Yodel – EA – OH!,” a 6-hour live telematic radio webcast performance, Deep Wireless Festival, NAISA [Toronto] 05.03.14: co-production, lecture, DJ.

Ian Singleton and his wife Natalya Sukhonos announced the birth of their daughter, Naomi Alexandra Sukhonos on November 27. “She weighs 9 lbs., 5 oz. She was 21.5 inches long. She has black wavy hair and dark eyes so far.”

Matthew Thorburn Recently interviewed poet Mary Biddinger for Ploughshares. “It was published on their blog on Christmas Day. This interview kicks off a series of monthly author interviews I’ll be doing for Ploughshares over the next year. Upcoming conversations will feature Angela Pelster, R. Erica Doyle, David J. Daniels, Jason Koo, Sandy Longhorn, Dan Albergotti and other writers whose work I admire. These interviews are “season two” of What Are You Reading? – the interview series I started back in April. If you missed them, please check out my earlier conversations with Victoria Chang, Renee Ashley, Alex

12 Dimitrov, Keith Taylor, Mari L’Esperance, Al Maginnes, Katrina Vandenberg and M. Bartley Seigel.”

Rosmarie Waldrop Wrote that Burning Deck has just published Frédéric Forte’s Minute-Operas, translated by Daniel Levin Becker, Ian Monk, Michelle Noteboom, and Jean-Jacques Poucel. The Minute-Operas are poems “staged” on the page.

Howard R. Wolf gave a lecture, “Writing Personal Fiction After the Shoah: The End of Tragedy,” at the Crossing Disciplines on Interdisciplinary Comparative Studies Colloquium, the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Buffalo, NY, January 15, 2015.

Awards& Honors

Paul Barron and are the 2014 winners of the Ben Prize at the University of Michigan. The Ben Prize, funded by an James Pinto 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.

Frank Beaver was awarded the 2014 DT Smithwick Newspaper & Magazine Article Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians for “The Moses/Rena Beaver Family: 1941.” The award was presented on October 25, 2012 in Mooresville, North Carolina.

Christopher Paul Curtis is the recipient of the 2015 E. B. White Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of eight books for young adults, most recently The Madman of Piney Woods, the second chapter in his Newbery Honor Book Elijah of Buxton trilogy.

Francine J. Harris is the recipient of a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for 2015.

Tung-Hui Hu is the recipient of a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for 2015.

Laura Kasischke is a finalist for the Kingsley-Tufts Award forThe Infinitesmals. The poetry award, offered by Claremont Graduate University, is $100,000.

Joseph Keckler is the recipient of the 2015-16 Roman J. Witt Residency at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design, where he will be creating a series of new performances, writings and videos and working with students. He was recently awarded residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell and received a Village Voice Award for “Best Downtown Performance Artist, 2013.”

Arthur F. Kinney Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, has been named the only recipient of both the Paul Oskar Kriisteller Lifetime Achievement Award of the Renaissance Society of America and the Jean Robertson Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Sidney Society.

Judith Kirscht Home Fires, her third novel, was a finalist for the Nancy Pearl Award, given by the Pacific Northwest Writers Association for the best literary novel published in 2013. It also won an Honorable Mention in the general fiction category for the 2013 Readers Favorite Award.

Christine Montross was awarded a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Creative Arts, in General Nonfiction. Christine is the author of Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab (Penguin Books, 2007) and Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist’s Encounters with the Mind in Crisis (Penguin Books, 2014). “Often characterized as ‘midcareer’ awards, Guggenheim Fellowships are

13 intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.”

is the winner of the $500 Page Davidson Clayton Prize for emerging poets. It is awarded annually by to Rachel the best poet appearing in Michigan Quarterly Review who has not yet published a book. Morgenstern-Clarren Her novel, Everything I Never Told You, was selected by the New York Times as one of its 100 Notable Celeste Ng Books of 2014.

was the recipient of a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship to attend The Millay Colony for Randon Billings Noble the Arts, September 2013.

Is the recipient of the David Tudor Memorial 4’33” Competition. Bart Plantenga received a Spring 2014 Orlando Prize of A Room of Her Own Foundation for her short story “The Katie Uman Banshee and the Chef.” She received $1,000 and publication in Los Angeles Review. The awards are given twice yearly for a poem, a short story, a short short story, and an essay by women writers.

won a 2015 D.C. Commission on the Arts grant to continue work on her first novel. She has published Joyce Winslow 13 short stories, most of which have won national awards. Her poem “The” received second place in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards in 2010.

Deaths

William R. Brashear, winner of Minor Essay and Drama Awards in 1953 and a Major Essay Award in Wiliiam R. Brashear 1955, died in Birmingham, Michigan of June 22, 2013; he was 80 years old. Mr. Brashear, who had been a retired Senior Partner in Creighton, McLean & Shea, a Detroit area law firm, was the author ofThe Gorgon’s Head: A Study in Tragedy and Despair, The Desolation of Reality, and Albert Kahn and His Family in Peace and War.

recipient of a Minor Fiction Award in 1943 and a Major Fiction (Novel) Award in 1944, died in Rene Kuhn Bryant Lexington, Massachusetts on January 30, 2013. She was 89. She was the author of two novels, 34 Charlton and Cornelia. As a writer and editor, she worked at Life Magazine, the United States Embassy in London, and at the Radcliffe Institute and theHarvard Gazette.

Jacqueline Perrett winner of a 1977 Summer Fiction Award, died in Sun City, Arizona on January 13, 2015.

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