January 2016 Hopwood Newsletter Updated.Pdf

The Hopwood Newsletter Vol. LXXVII, 1 lsa.umich.edu/hopwood JANUARY, 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. If you would like to be placed on our direct-mailing email list, please contact me at [email protected].

The Summer Hopwood Awards Ceremony was held on September 25. The awards were presented by Professor Peter Ho Davies, Director of the Hopwood Awards Program. The winners were:

Nonfiction: Karen Duan, $1,200; Joshua Mandilk, $1,500 Fiction: Pei Hao, $1,000; Daniel Berry, $1,200 Poetry: Lang DeLancey, $1,000; Sofia Fall, $1,200 The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry: Susan Lamoreaux, $500; Adie Dolan, $600

The Hopwood Underclassmen Awards Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, January 26 at 3:30 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre

Reading by Marge Piercy Four-time Hopwood Award Winner

The winners of the fall term creative writing contests administered by the Hopwood Awards Program will be announced. A reading by Marge Piercy will follow the announcement of the awards. Ms. Piercy, a four- time Hopwood Award winner, has written 17 novels including the New York Times Bestseller Gone to Soldiers; the National Bestsellers Braided Lives and The Longings of Women; and Woman on the Edge of Time; He She, and It; and, most recently, Sex Wars. She has written 19 volumes of poetry including The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980-2010, The Crooked Inheritance, and, in spring 2015, Made in Detroit. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Marge Piercy Sleeping with Cats. Photo Credit: Ira Wood Continued, page 2 INSIDE: 2 Publications by Hopwood Winners 9 News and Notes 2 -books and chapbooks 10 Awards and Honors 4 -articles and essays 11 Deaths 5 -reviews 12 Special Annoucements 5 -fiction 6 -poetry Editor Andrea Beauchamp 8 -dramatic performances and publications Design Jessica Willard 8 -film/video/audio The Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, April 19 at 3:30 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre

Lecture by Susan Choi

Awards for the Winter Term writing contests administered by the Hopwood Awards Program will be announced. A lecture by Susan Choi will follow the announcement of the awards. Susan Choi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her second novel, American Women, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. With David Remnick she co-edited the anthology Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker. Her third novel, A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her latest novel is My Education (2013). Susan Choi Photo Credit: Adrian Kinloch

Publications by Hopwood Winners*

Books and Chapbooks

Amy Berkowitz Tender Points, a book-length lyric essay, published by Timeless, Infinite Light, 2015. The book is an SPD (Small Press Distribution) bestseller.

Sven Birkerts Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age, Graywolf Press, 2015.

Sharon Dilworth Edited Keeping the Wolves at Bay: Stories by Emerging American Writers, Autumn House Press, 2010.

Stephanie Ford All Pilgrim, poetry, Four Way Books, 2015.

Mary Gaitskill The Mare, a novel, Pantheon, 2015.

Steven Hamilton The Second Life of Nick Mason, a novel, Minotaur Books, 2015.

Patricia Hooper Separate Flights, poetry, winner of the Anita Claire Sharf Award, forthcoming from the University of Tampa Press, 2016.

Tung-Hui Hu A Prehistory of the Cloud, nonfiction, MIT Press, 2015.

Jason Kirk A Fabulous Hag in Purple on the Moor, a chapbook, Bitterzoet Press, June, 2015; The Other Whites in South Africa, ebook, July 2011.

Rita Lakin The Only Woman in the Room, nonfiction, Applause Hal Leonard Publishing, 2015.

Nate Marshall Wild Hundreds, Pitt Poetry Series, 2015.

Cammie McGovern A Step Toward Falling, a novel, HarperTeen, 2015.

Julia Older Edited and translated Boris Vian Invents Boris Vian: A Vian Reader, French-English bilingual edition, foreword by Patrick Vian, Black Widow Translation Series, Commonwealth Books, Boston, July 2015.

2 Marge Piercy My Life, My Body, Plus…, nonfiction, PM Press Outspoken Authors Series, 2015.

Paula Rabinowitz Edited and contributed to Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald (Maize Books), which developed from the symposium she organized when Professor Wald retired in 2013. Her book American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street (2014) has been widely reviewed and praised. It was co-winner of the 2015 DeLong Book History Prize, awarded last July by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). Her final volume of the Habits of Being series, Extravagances, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2015. The third volume, Fashioning the Nineteenth Century, appeared in 2014. In addition, she edited Red Love Across the Pacific: Politcal and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century, Palgrave, 2015.

Sarah Sala The Ghost Assembly Line, a poetry chapbook, Finishing Line Press, 2015.

Sara Schaff Say Something Nice About Me, short stories, Augury Books, forthcoming in 2016.

Erik Schielke Streets of Gold, a novel, Viewfinder Publishing, 2015. (writing as E.P. Shelky)

Carrie Smith Silent City: A Claire Codella Mystery, Crooked Lane Books, 2015.

Leah Stewart The Myth of You and Me: A Novel, Shaye Arehart Books, 2005; The History of Us: A Novel, Touchstone, 2013; The New Neighbor: A Novel, Touchstone, 2015.

Harry Thomas Some Complicity, poetry, Un-Gyve Press, 2014.

Melanie Rae Thon The 7th Man, a chapbook, Tucson, Arizona: New Michigan Press, November 2015. The book has a wonderful cover image, a micrograph of a human blood vessel. “Morning Twilight,” broadside, from Saltfront: Studies in Human Habit(at) and Saltgrass Printmakers, fine art limited edition of 75.

Keith Waldrop Keith’s novel Light While There Is Light came out in French translation: Pendant qu’il fait jour, trans. Paol Keineg, Bordeaux: Editions de l’Attente, 2015.

Rosmarie Waldrop In Pieces, a chapbook, 2015; Mandarin Primer, a chapbook, San Francisco: Hooke Press, 2015; a book in German translation: Hölderlin-Hybride (trans. Thomas Schestag), Solothurn: Urs Engeler Editor, “Roughbooks” #33, 2015. Her translation of Farhad Showghi’s End of the City Map was shortlisted for “Best Translated Book.”

Next year, both Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop will have Selected Poems come out.

Patricia Ward Skinner Luce, a novel (described as an “urban fantasy”), Talos, 2016. Talos is a sci-fi/fantasy publisher.

Suki Wessling Hanna, Homeschooler, illustrated by Megan Trever Ryan, children’s literature, Chatoyant, 2016; Exploring Homeschooling for Your Gifted Learner, National Association for Gifted Children, September 2015.

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

U-M Law School Photo Credit: Michigan Photography 3 Articles and Essays

Beth Aviv “Stranded in the Arctic: 1881-1884; A Moral Monster,” forthcoming in the Winter 2016 issue of Story Magazine.

Donald Beagle “Digital Authoring, Electronic Scholarship, and Libraries,” a chapter of a book forthcoming from Purdue University Press in its “Charleston Insights Series.”

Sven Birkerts “The Little Magazine in the World of Big Data,” The Sewanee Review, Spring 2015; “Jagged City Thinking Meets the Northeast Kingdom,” AGNI Newsletter, July 2015; “Strange Days,” The Best American Essays, edited by Ariel Levy, 2015; “Double Take,” AGNI #82, 2015.

Jeremiah Chamberlin “Interview with Matt Bell and Benjamin Percy,” Glimmer Train, Fall 2015; “Teaching the Rust Belt,” U –M Department of English 2015 Newsletter; “Instinct, Energy, and Luck,” Poets & Writers Magazine, November/ December 2015.

Barry Garelick “Pernicious Egalitarianism Shrinks 8th Grade Algebra Programs”; “Access Denied: Algebra in Eighth Grade and Egalitarianism”; “The Never Ending Story: Procedures vs Understanding in Math”; Atlantic (online): “Explaining Your Math: Unnecessary at Best, Encumbering at Worst”; Heartlander: “Common Core Math Standards Intensify the Existing Reform Math Agenda”; Heartlander: “Common Core Math Standards Encourage Dubious ‘Inquiry-Based’ Approaches”; Heartlander: “Common Core Math Strategies Supplanting Standard Processes”; “A Math Teacher’s Day at Ed Camp”, November 30, 2015.

Jascha Kessler Letters: at Wall Street Journal: July 6; Speakwithoutinterruption: June 5, 27, July 10; Financial Times: July 15; “DA! DA! DA! A Séance with a Sybil,” eclectica.org, July/August 2015; “These, My Women,” eclectica. org, October/November 2015; LA Times, November 12, 2015.

Arthur F. Kinney Renaissance 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 An interview with Anacortes online paper; An interview conducted by Liz Sez on her novel Hawkins Lane.

Lynne Knight “The Substantial Dark,” The Sun, August 2015.

Aric Knuth “NELP, Forty Years On,” U-M Department of English 2015 Newsletter.

Laurence Lieberman “Flowering Olives—Two James Wright Poems,” American Poetry Review, September/October 2015.

David Masello “The Other Russian Revolution,” American Arts Quarterly, June 2015; “From Russia With Love: Iliya Mirochnik,” American Arts Quarterly, Summer 2015; “The New Poetic Voice,” American Arts Quarterly, Summer 2015; “A Man of All Seasons: Vincent Van Gogh,” American Arts Quarterly, Fall 2015; “Come Through For Me,” Gay & Lesbian Review, June/July 2015; “Model Citizens,” Gay & Lesbian Review, November/December 2015; “Taking the Fork in the Road,” Avenue, June 2015.

Derek Mong “Ten New Ways to Read Ronald Johnson’s Radios,” Kenyon Review, July/August 2015; “To Help My Son Live Easily: Notes on the Dead in American Poetry,” The Gettysburg Review, Winter 2015.

Paula Rabinwitz A number of interviews about American Pulp for radio, television, websites and magazines in Ireland, UK, and US. She wrote several short essays on pulp, including “The Serious Business of Pulp Fiction,” for Zocalo/The Public Square, which was picked up by Time.com and Fortune.com among other news locations in the US and India. The information about this can be found on the Facebook page Princeton University Press maintains for the book. Her essay “Street / Crime: From Rodney King’s Beating to Michael Brown’s Shooting” appeared in Cultural Critique, Spring 2015, as part of the journal’s ongoing series “In the Conjuncture,” which was “For Michael Brown.”

4 Sara Schaff “Rhode Island Beach Bus,” Personal Essay, The Butter, August 2015.

Sherman Silber with Jorge Pineda, Kathleen Lenahan, Michael DeRosa and Jeffrey Melnick, “Fresh and cryopreserved ovary transplantation and resting follicle recruitment,” Reproductive BioMedicine Online, XXX, 6, 2015.

Ann Tashi Slater “Tibetan Butter Tea and Pink Gin: Life in Old Darjeeling”, 2015. “Jaimie Warren: Self-Portrait as Pennywise the Clown,” July 14, 2014, VICE (online).

Bert Stratton “Don’t Go to Music School,” New York Times op-ed, June 13, 2015; “My Acceptance Letter” (‘About my dad -- my ‘literary secretary’), Belt Magazine, June 18, 2015; op-ed. “At Harvey Pekar’s Pad,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 12, 2015; “Homeboy -- Cleveland Diarist,” in City Journal, Summer 2015.

Sara Talpos “A Celebration of Orson Welles,” Michigan Alumnus, Early Fall 2015.

Melanie Rae Thon “All Life Is Love: Silence & Song”; “Blood on Fire: Notes on the 7th Man”; “Cracking Consciousness Open: Samuel Beckett, Kurt Cobain, and The Book of Job”; “Dangerous Discoveries”; “Early Trouble: Girls in the Grass”; “Music & Meaning”; “The Heart Breaks and Breaks Open: Seven Reasons to Tell a Story in the New Millennium”; “Troubling the Waters: Judy Ruiz, John Wideman, Lance Olsen, and my Astonishing Students”; “You Can’t Avoid Trouble: First Body on Fiction Collective Two’s website.

Matthew Thorburn “’So that the poem is an act of discovery’: An Interview with Brian Komei Dempster,” Ploughshares online, June 4, 2015.

Norma Crawford Tomlinson “Dear Cora,” Michigan Quarterly Review website, August 11, 2015.

Howard R. Wolf “Towards a New Old Land,” Buffalo Jewish Review, 2015; “Academic Portraits: UB or Not to Be,” Buffalo Jewish Review, July 24, 2014.

Reviews

Dean Bakopoulous A review of The Gap of Time: “The Winter’s Tale” Retold by Jeanette Winterson, New York Times Book Review, October 25, 2015.

Scott Hutchins A review of Immunity by Taylor Antrim, New York Times Book Review, July 12, 2015.

Matthew Thorburn “On Bondhus’s All the Heat We Could Carry,” Pleiades, XXXV, 2, 2015.

Patricia Ward A review of Geographies of Light by Lisa Suheir Majaj, The Electronic Intifada, March 2012; a review of Book of Sins by Nidaa Khoury, The Electronic Intifada, April 2011; and a review of Touch by Adania Shibli, The Electronic Intifada, April 2010.

Edmund White A review of Cy Twombly: Late Paintings 2003-2011, New York Times Book Review, June 28, 2015.

Fiction

Lydia Fitzpatrick “Safety,” One Story #207, 2015.

Joseph Horton “The Tribe,” a Kindle Edition, Amazon.com, 2015.

Jascha Kessler “De Minimus: A Cold Case in California,” eclectica.org, October/November 2015.

Sharon Pomerantz “Friending Elise,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Summer 2015.

5 Sara Schaff “Faces at the Window,” Hunger Mountain, April 2015. It was the runner up for the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, selected by Robin Black. “The Condominium,” Five Chapters, February 2015; “Ports of Call,” Sou’wester, Fall 2014; “Of All the Times in the World,” Slippery Elm, 2014 issue; “We Are Ready,” Burrow Press Review, August 2015; “Affective Memory,” Hobart, November 2015; “When I Was Young and Swam to Cuba,” Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, Fall 2015 (appeared originally in the Saint Ann’s Review).

Ann Tashi Slater “Flowers Would Fall from the Sky Like Rain,” a story about pilgrimage and Tibet, Asia Literary Review website, July 2015.

Melanie Rae Thon A Fine Art Edition Broadside, September 2015: “Morning Twilight,” Saltfront: Studies in Human Habit(at) and Saltgrass Printmakers, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Patricia Ward “East Beirut,” a novel excerpt, Guernica, June 2011; “Dead Boys,” a novel excerpt, Banipal, Summer 2010; “Paradise Bluffs, 1993: the right to drown,” a novel excerpt, Mizna, July 2006; “War on Willful Ignorance,” a serial cartoon, Mizna, July 2005.

Michigan Union Photo Credit: Michigan Photography

Poetry

Derrick Austin “Cedars of Lebanon,” The Best American Poetry 2015, edited by Sherman Alexie, Scribner Poetry.

Scott Beal “In Praise of the Tap Drain,” Third Wednesday, VIII, 4, 2015.

Victoria Chang “Is It Rude to Tell Men That You Don’t,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2015.

Hannah Ensor “Spectacular 03: Super Bowl XLVI, Crab Orchard Review, Summer/Fall 2015.

Rae Gouirand “Petrichor,” Beloit Poetry Journal, Summer 2015.

Katie Hartsock “Western Reserve,” Crab Orchard Review, Winter/Spring 2015.

Robert Hayden “Those Winter Sundays,”, rpt. in “And Another Generation Cometh,” The Sun, November 2015.

6 Patricia Hooper “Fall Changes,” The Yale Review, October 2015; “Answers,” Southern Poetry Review, Summer 2015; “Here in the Piedmont,” “Judith,” The Hudson Review, Autumn 2015.

Laura Kasischke “For the Young Woman I Saw Hit by a Car While Riding Her Bike,” The Best American Poetry 2015, edited by Sherman Alexie, Scribner Poetry.

Jane Kenyon “At the IGA, Franklin, New Hampshire,” rpt. in “And Another Generation Cometh,” The Sun, November 2015.

Jason Kirk “The Guardian from the Sea” in Phantasma: Stories (September 22, 2015); Untitled haiku in IN MY BED Magazine, November 2014; Untitled haiku in IN MY BED Magazine, August 2014; Untitled haiku in IN MY BED Magazine, May 2014; Untitled haiku in Synaethesia Magazine, May 2014; Untitled haiku in Synaethesia Magazine, February 2014; Untitled haiku in Haiku of the Dead, Dreamscape Press, January, 2014; Untitled haiku in Synaethesia Magazine, November 2013; two untitled haiku in Star*Line: The Magazine of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, Fall 2015.

Lynne Knight “The Twenty-Year Workshop,” Rattle, Winter 2015.

Benjamin Landry “African Grey,” The New Yorker, June 8, 2015; “Pina,” Poetry Daily, October 10, 2015 (this is Benjamin’s second time on Poetry Daily); “Pina,” The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 56, No. 3, Fall 2015; “Never Been,” “Unlearning Object Permanence,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, August 21, 2015.

Gregory Loselle “Prehistoric Bone Flute: Six Definitions” (First Place in the Antiquity category); “Van Eyck’s ‘St. Jerome in His Study’” (Second Place in the Spiritual category), Peninsula Poets: Fall 2015 Contest Edition, Poetry Society of Michigan, Fall 2015.

Dave Lucas “About Suffering--,’” The Threepenny Review #142, Summer 2015; “Narcissus Himself.” Kenyon Review, September/October 2015.

Nate Marshall “Harold’s Chicken Shack #86,” “Oregon Trail,” Poetry, December 2015.

David Masello “Still-Life,” American Arts Quarterly, Summer 2015

Karena McGlynn “Blue-Eyed Boyfriends,” “I Can’t Stop Being Performative,” Kenyon Review, July/August 2015.

Rachel “The Summer We Moved West,” Cimarron Review, Issue 191, Spring 2015. Morgenstern-Clarren

Rachel Nelson “April,” Little Patuxent Review #18, 2015; “The Heat in the Belly,” a finalist for the 2014 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, Smartish Place #22; “Portrait of My Mother on the Bus,” Hartskill Review, Autumn 2015; “Crowd,” and “Honey,” pinwheel, Issue 9; “Makeup,” pluck, Issue 9.

Celeste Ng is a judge for the 2016 $5,000 PEN Open Book Award for an exceptional work of literature by an author of color.

Kevin Phan “Fledgling,” Subtropics #19, Spring-Summer 2015.

Marge Piercy “Wisteria can pull down a house” (from Made in Detroit), The Writer’s Almanac, July 9, 2015.

Paisley Rekdal “Facing Graves,” Prairie Schooner, Summer 2015.

Jess Row is a judge for the 2016 $25,000 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for an outstanding work of debut fiction.

Anne Stevenson “Poem For a Daughter,” rpt. in “And Another Generation Cometh,” The Sun, November 2015; “Pronunciation (1954-55),” The Hudson Review, Autumn 2015.

7 Laurence W. Thomas “The End of Autumn,” “Anatomy of Love,” Third Wednesday, Summer 2015. Larry is now Editor Emeritus of this journal, which he founded. “At the Check-Out Counter,” Lucidity Poetry Journal, October 2015; “It Came - - - ,” Blue Unicorn, October 2015.

Keith Waldrop Three poems from “Of And” (“old to dominate,” “so often,” “a temporal distance”), Loose Change 5.1, 2015.

Rosmarie Waldrop “White is a color” in Hambone 21 (2015) on Keith’s breaking his neck in 2012.

Martha Zweig “Pearly Everlasting,” River Styx 93, April 2015; “Against Consolation,” Faultline, Vol. 24, July 2015; “Reincarnal,” The Main Street Rag, XX, 3, Summer 2015; “Anathema,” River Styx 94, The Revenge Issue, October 2015; featured also on Poetry Daily online, October 18, 2015.

Richard Widerkehr In the past year or so, I submitted widely and had poems accepted or published in Rattle: “In The Presence Of Absence”; Floating Bridge Review: “Wager”; Poetry Super Highway: “Pulling The Stopper” and “Saying The Mourner’s Kaddish” (the latter won second prize in their contest); Pennine Ink: “Discreet”; Grey Sparrow: “Breath”; Nomad’s Choir Poetry Review: “Her Murmur Like Bees And Sunlight”; Clay Bird Review: “Saying The Mourner’s Kaddish,” “What Have I Asked For?” Clover, A Literary Rag: “Balance,” “Your Speech Therapist Asked, ‘Does She Speak A Foreign Language?’”; Crack The Spine: “House Lights”; Jewish Literary Journal: “Doors”; Penumbra: “I Thought She Was Fire”; Soundings: “Waiting”; Future Cycle Press: “Homeless.”

Drama Performances and Publications

Joseph Keckler played and sang the role of Chaliapin in Dave Malloy’s Preludes, a musical concerning Rachmaninoff’s “three years of creative silence,” performed at Lincoln Center in June and July, 2015.

Film/Video/Audio

David Masello His essay, “Time to Go Home,” was videotaped during a live performance at New York’s Cell Theater on October 11, 2015 writersreadonline.com/?page_id=2093

Lawrence Kasdan co-wrote the wildly popular film Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens, directed by J. J. Abrahms and released last December. He also wrote screenplays for previous films in the series: Star Wars Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI—The Return of the Jedi (1996).

Aerial View of Campus Photo Credit: Michigan Photography

8 News & Notes

Max Gordon gave a talk “Through the Unusual Door: an Honest Conversation on Race, Sexual Identity, Gender Politics, and Addiction,” at the U of M on November 2. The event was sponsored by the Michigan Community Scholars Program and Lloyd Hall Scholars Program. “Max Gordon is a writer and activist. He has been published in the anthologies Inside Separate Worlds: Life Stories of Young Blacks, Jews and Latinos (University of Michigan Press, 1991), Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of African- American Lesbian and Gay Fiction (Henry Holt, 1996), and Mixed Messages: An Anthology of Literature to Benefit Hospice ad Cancer Causes. His work has appeared on openDemocracy, Democratic Underground and Truthout, in Z Magazine, Gay Times, Sapience, The New Civil Rights Movement, other progressive online and print magazines in the U.S. and internationally.”

Rita Lakin “Here I am writing again (last time in 2005) when my mystery Getting Old is Murder was published. Six other mysteries followed the first. You would be amused by the titles. Getting Old is the Best Revenge, Getting old is Criminal, Getting Old is to Die For, Getting Old is Tres Dangereux, Getting Old is a Disaster, and for the final word on the subject, Getting Old Can Kill You. But to catch you up on my exciting latest news. In the 1960s, 70s and 80s I worked as a writer and then producer in Television. It was 50 years later, when I finally realized I had been one of the first women in that business, a pioneer woman writer, I decided to write my memoir. It’s entitled, The Only Woman in the Room and it is being published by Applause Hal Leonard Publishing this coming October.

David Masello In addition to his ongoing role as executive editor of Milieu, a national print magazine about design, David Masello writes two columns for Fine Art Connoisseur, the antiques column for Cottages & Gardens, and contributes feature articles to many other periodicals and sites. He has been named to the board of writersreadonline.com, a live essay reading series in New York.

Paula Rabinowitz “I serve as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, which was launched last year. We just commissioned our 100th essay and will be posting the first completed one soon….I will be retiring at the end of this academic year--finish teaching in December and have a fellowship at the Centre for US Studies at University of Sydney, Australia, in Spring--then out of here, and back to NYC.”

U-M Art Museum Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons

9 Norma Crawford “My short stories have been collected in a book of ten, The Day of the Dance. “Snowbound” in the Tomlinson collection received special mention in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses anthology.”

Rosmarie Waldrop Gave a presentation in the Harvard Seminar “Rethinking Translation” on November 9, 2015.

Suki Wessling “I am still doing a fair amount of journalism, but most of my work time is being taken up with teaching at Athena’s Advanced Academy, which is an online school for homeschoolers. I’m having fun teaching my first online writing seminar. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of my students went on to win a Hopwood, assuming they ever grow past wanting to write Minecraft fan fiction! It’s so inspiring to see how being connected on the Internet can inspire young writers. Writers of my generation largely grew up without a community, unless they were lucky enough to have another writer friend at school. My little community of writers extends from coast to coast and up into Canada!”

Howard Wolf “Just finished a 7-city lecture tour. I’ll be lecturing at University of Aveiro (Portugal) on Dec. 3. My topic: ‘Fitzgerald and Hemingway: The Legacy of American Modernism.’” He gave a talk “Goethe to Grass and Beyond: Responsibilities of the Writer in the Postwar Period” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for European Studies on November 10.

Awards& Honors

Derrick Austin won BOA Editions’ 2015 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for his collection, Trouble the Water. He received $1,500 and his book will be published by BOA Editions in 2016.

Jeremiah (Jeremy) was selected by the College of LSA for a 2015 Individual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Chamberlain Undergraduate Education.

Louis Cicciarelli Sweetland and Lloyd Hall Scholars Program instructor Louis Cicciarelli has been named a U-M Collegiate Lecturer. Awarded to a lecturer with an sustained record of outstanding teaching and service and a demonstrable impact on students’ lives, this is a rare honor, with no more than three awarded campus-wide in any given year. In addition to receiving the title of Collegiate Lecturer, Louis will have the opportunity to name his lectureship to honor a former U-M instructor. Not only is Louis an outstanding classroom teacher and student mentor, he has been a key player in helping Sweetland develop a range of courses and outreach programs central to its mission. His new title is Charles Baxter Collegiate Lecturer.

Mary Gaitskill Her novel, The Mare, was selected by the New York Times as one of “100 Notable Books of 2015.”

X.J. Kennedy won the ninth annual $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize. The award is given to “an American Poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition.”

Jason Kirk was awarded a 2016 residency on Orcas Island, WA, by Artsmith, a non-profit organization promoting arts education and the creation of new works.

Benjamin Landry The Believer concluded its 2015 Poetry Award competition, and Particle and Wave was one of five titles on the shortlist.

Lillian Li is the recipient of the Short Story Award for New Writers. She received $1,500 and her story will be published in the Spring 2016 Glimmer Train Stories.

Dave Lucas Weather received the 2012 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. He is teaching at Case Western Reserve.

Airea S. Matthews is the recipient of a $25,000 Kresge Artist Fellowship. The fellowships are awarded to visual, performing and literary artists living and working in metropolitan Detroit.

10 Cammie McGovern received the 2015 Whole Children’s Disability Awareness Pioneer Award on October 18 in Hadley, Massachusetts.

Celeste Ng won the 2015 Friends of American Writers Literary Award in fiction for her novel Everything I Never Told You.

Chigozie Obioma His novel, The Fishermen, was long-listed for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was published by Scribe Publications in the UK and by Little, Brown and Company in the US. This is the second year that the prize, first awarded in 1969, has been open to writers of any nationality, writing originally in English and published in the UK. The novel was also selected by the New York Times as one of “100 Notable Books of 2015.” Chigozie is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

Benjamin Paloff was awarded a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship in 2015.

Margaret Reges is the recipient of a $500 “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize for 2015.

Davy Rothbart won an Emmy Award in the category of ” Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting—Long Forum” for his documentary Medora. Davy and Andrew Cohn produced and directed the film and Rachel Denzig was a producer. Medora “tells the story of an economically depressed, rural Indiana town and its long-losing high school basketball team’s players….[It] aired on PBS via its ‘Independent Lens’ series and was one of PBS’ 17 wins Monday [September 28, 2015].”

Patricia Ward writes that she has developed a whole other career in book arts. Her website is patriciasarrafianward. com if you’d like to take a look.

Richard Widerkehr His book of poems, Blue Maraca, was a finalist at Blue Light Press.

Howard Wolf Led a discussion on “Kristallnacht: Echoes and Reflections of a Shattered World,” at the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo (NY) on October 11, 2015.

Deaths

Mary Wiedenbeck We were so sorry to hear of the death of Mary Wiedenbeck George, winner of a 1969 Minor Essay Award, on August 9 in Trenton, New Jersey. She was a reference librarian at the Princeton University Library System and taught library science courses at Drexel University and other nearby institutions. Her book, The Elements of Library Research: What Every Student Needs to Know, was published by Princeton University Press in 2008. She is survived by her husband of 46 years, Professor Emery George, who was the recipient of a Major Poetry Award in 1960 and is a poet, translator, and scholar.

Ellis Edward Perraut winner of a Hopwood Minor Drama Award in 1976, died at the age of 54 in Auburn Hills, Michigan of Lewy Body Dementia on January 10, 2010.

Doris Vidaver-Cohen died on February 2, 2015. She was the winner of a Minor Poetry Award in 1944 and a Minor Essay Award in 1945. She taught literature and creative writing at Roosevelt University and was on the faculty of Rush University where, with her husband Dr. Maynard Cohen, she inaugurated and co- directed the Program for Humanities in Medicine. She was the first to dramatize C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for the stage in 1966. The play was performed at Roosevelt University and several other Chicago Venues. She was the author of Arch of a Circle, a poetry collection.

11 Special Annoucements

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Our thanks to all of you who have so generously donated copies of your books to the Hopwood Library. The special display of recent books by Hopwood winners always attracts a lot of attention. We appreciate your thoughtfulness very much and enjoy showing off your work to visitors.

The Hopwood Program has a web page address: lsa.umich.edu/hopwood. Visit the English Department’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program site at lsa.umich.edu/writers.

A special thank you to our wonderful Program Assistants Summer Powers and Sam Wittmer.

Do stop by to say hello if you’re visiting Ann Arbor.

All best wishes for a happy, healthy, and productive winter.

Andrea Beauchamp Assistant Director Hopwood Awards Pr

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