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.