HopwoodThe Newsletter Vol. LXXV, 2 http://hopwood.lsa.umich.edu/

July, 2014 HOPWOOD

Next year’s Hopwood Reader and Lecturer have not yet been selected. The date for the 2015 Hopwood Underclassmen Awards Ceremony will be Tuesday, January 27, at 3:30 in the Rackham Amphitheatre, but we haven’t set the date for the Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony. We’ll announce that date and the names of the two speakers in the January newsletter.

The Summer Hopwood Awards Ceremony was held on September 19, 2013. Hopwood Director Nicholas Delbanco presented the awards. The judges for the Summer Hopwood Contest and for the Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry were Kate Glahn and Raymond McDaniel. And the winners were:

The Summer Hopwood Contest Drama: Madalyn Hochendoner, $800 Nonfiction: Alex Winnick, $1,000; Leigh Sugar, $1,500 Fiction: Jake Offenhartz, $800; Joshua Duval, $1,000 Poetry: Carlina Duan, $1,750 The Marjore Rapaport Award in Poetry: Madalyn Hochendoner, $500; Emily Pittinos, $600

The Hopwood Underclassmen Awards Ceremony was held on January 28, 2014. Professor Laura Kasischke of the English Department presented the awards and introduced Kimiko Hahn, who gave a poetry reading following the announcement of the awards. Judges for the Underclassmen Contest’s fiction and nonfiction divisions were Hopwood winners Louis Cicciarelli and Lauren Kingsley. Judges for the poetry contests were T. Hetzel and Aaron McCollogh. Hopwood winner Nicholas Harp judged the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship. And the winners were:

The Hopwood Underclassmen Contest Fiction: Pei Hao, $800; Molly Reitman, $800; Julia Byers, $2,000 Nonfiction: Rachael Lacey, $1,200; Omar Mahmood, $1,200; Phoebe Young, $1,750 AVERY HOPWOOD Poetry: Molly Reitman, $800; Emma Saraff, $800; Madeline Rombes, $1,000; with Spanish Dancer Rose Rolanda, 1924 Karen Yuan, $1,000 INSIDE: Continued, page 2 3 Publications by Hopwood Winners 3 -books and chapbooks 5 -articles and essays 6 -reviews 7 -fiction 8 -poetry 10 -dramatic performances and publications 10 -audio 11 -film/video 12 News and Notes 14 Awards and Honors 15 Special Announcements AVERY HOPWOOD Michiganensian, 1922 Editor Andrea Beauchamp Design Hannah Yung The Academy of American Poets Prize: Nathaniel Marshall (Graduate Division), $100; Emily Pittinos (Undergraduate Division), $100 The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize: Kelsey Rose Miller, $600 The Michael E. Gutterman Award in Poetry: Kenzie Allen, $400; David Hornibrook, $600 The Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry: Eva Mooney, $650; Emma Saraff, $850 The Roy and Helen Meador Writing Award: Molly Reitman, $850 The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowships: Yasin Ibn Abdul-Muqit, $1,500; Jacob Brooks, $1,500; Sonja Pylvainen, $1,500; Juliana Roth, $1,500; Madalyn Hochendoner, $2,000; Erika Nestor, $2,500

The Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony was held on April 23, with Professor Nicholas Delbanco, Director of the Hopwood Awards Program, presiding. Paul Theroux delivered a lecture following the announcement of the awards. The local judges for the contests were Julie Babcock, Jim Burnstein, Amy Carroll, Natalie Condon, Pamela Erbe, Paul Fitzpatrick, Ruth Gretzinger, Michael Hinken, OyamO, Susan Rosegrant, and former Hopwood Award winners Laurie Barrett, Paul Barron, Scott Beal, Frank Beaver, Russell Brakefield, Joseph Horton, Aric Knuth, Todd McKinney, Patricia O’Dowd, Sara Schaff, Fritz Swanson, Sara Talpos, and Jessica Young.

The national judges for the Hopwood Contest were: Drama: Clarence Coo and Kia Corthron Novel: Joanna Hershon and Zachary Lazar Screenplay: Ryan Lewis and Samantha Starr Nonfiction:Sven Birkerts (Hopwood winner) and Christine Montross (Cowden Fellowship winner) Short Fiction: Sheila Kohler and Patrick O’Keeffe (Hopwood winner) Poetry: Marilyn Kallet and Jay Parini Marianne Boruch judged the Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize. Kasdan Pictures was the final judge for the Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing.

And the winners in the Hopwood Contest were: Drama: Stuart Richardson, $1,500; Graham Techler, $1,500; Elisabeth Frankel, $2.500; Tyler Dean, $10,000 Novel: Daniel Hornsby, $2,500; Chris McCormick, $4,000; Rayne Elizabeth Cockburn, $10,000 Screenplay: Nathan Go, $2,500; Chad Rhiness, $3,500; Michael Toner, $3,500; Phoebe Rusch, $5,000 Undergraduate Nonfiction:Carly Keyes, $3,000; Aleah Douglas, $3,000; Avery DiUbaldo, $8,000 Graduate Nonfiction: Jia Tolentino, $2,000; Kenzie Allen, $2,500; Mairead Small Staid, $4,500; Blair Austin, $7,500 Undergraduate Short Fiction: Sena Moon, $2,500; Nadia Langworthy, $6,000; Ryan Reid Hyun, $7,500 Graduate Short Fiction: Rayne Elizabeth Cockburn, $2,500; Chris McCormick, $2,500; Emily Nagin, $2,500; Daniel Hornsby, $3,000 Undergraduate Poetry: Carlina Duan, $2,000; Haley Patail, $7,000; Hannah Torres, $7,500 Graduate Poetry: Katie Willingham, $2,000; Mairead Small Staid, $3,500; Kenzie Allen, $4,500; Derrick Austin, $4,500 The Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize: Lauren Clark, $2,500; Chigozie Obioma, $2,500

And the other prize winners: The Frank and Gail Beaver Script Writing Prize: Anna Baumgarten, $500; Josh Schwartz, $500 The Andrea Beauchamp Prize: Daniel Hornsby, $1,000 The Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing: Blair Austin, $1,000; Phoebe Rusch, $1,000; Chigozie Obioma, $1,400 The Helen J. Daniels Prize: Avery DiUbaldo, $3,000 The Geoffrey James Gosling Prize:Rayne Elizabeth Cockburn, $800 The Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award: Hannah Torres, $2,900 The Robert F. Haugh Prize: Ryan Reid Hyun, $2,700 The Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing: Phoebe Rusch, $2,500; Matthew Montgomery, $4,500 The Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting: Elisabeth Frankel, $3,600; Stuart Richardson, $3,600 The Meader Family Award: Kat Finch, $2,000; Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, $2,000; Maya West, $2,000 The Arthur Miller Award of the University of Michigan Club of New York Scholarship Fund: Julia Byers, $2,500 The Naomi Saferstein Literary Award: Tyler Dean, $1,250 The Stanley S. Schwartz Prize: Nadia Langworthy, $575 The Helen S. and John Wagner Prize: Kenzie Allen, $500; Derrick Austin, $500 The John Wagner Prize: Blair Austin, $1,000

2 Publications by Hopwood Winners*

Books and Chapbooks

Brent Armendinger The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying, poetry, forthcoming from Noemi Press in January 2015.

John U. Bacon Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football, Simon & Schuster, 2013.

Carmen Bugan The House of Straw, poetry, Shearsman Books, 2014; Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile, Oxford, 2013.

Lyn Coffin Translated with Nato Alhazishvili Still Life with Snow by Dato Barbakadze, bedouin books, 2014; 10 X 10, a collection of 5 American and 5 Russian Plays by Lyn Coffin and Natalya Churlyaeva, translated by Sergey Yakhimovich and Lyn, forthcoming from bedouin books in 2014; Animalarky by Zaza Abiadnidze, translated from the Georgian, forthcoming from Ice House Press in 2014; edited Georgian Poetry: Rustaveli to Galaktion: A Bilingual Anthology, Slavica Indiana University, translation from Georgian; White Picture by Jiri Orten, Night Publishing, 2011, translation from the Czech with Eva Eckert, Zdenka Broadska, and Leda Pugh; In the Stream of Time: Selected Poems by Germain Droogenbroodt, translation from the Dutch with collaboration by the author.

Steve Coffman Words of the Founding Fathers, compiled and edited by Steve Coffman, McFarland & Co. Publishers, September 2012; Off To A Bang: New Millennium Poems,FootHills Publishing, November 2012.

Tina Datsko de Sanchez The Delirium of Simón Bolívar, a bilingual poetry collection with an Introduction by Edward James Olmos, Floricanto Press, 2013, available on Amazon.

Judith Laikin Elkin The Jews of Latin America, 3rd Edition, Lynne Rienner Publisher, the foundational text for this field, April 2014. This follows by a year and a half her self-published memoir, Walking Made My Path.

Barry Garelick Letters from John Dewey/Letters from Huck Finn: An inside look at math education: https://www.createspace.com/4561286. “It is based on columns I wrote under the names John Dewey (at the Edspresso blog) and Huck Finn (at the Out in Left Field blog), which chronicle my experiences in ed school, and as a student teacher.”

David “Gus” Garelick Baker’s Dozen, a Collection of Mandolin Tunes, listed in the Elderly Instruments catalogue in Lansing, Michigan, 2014. David writes, “There are 13 (baker’s dozen) original tunes I’ve written over the years, transcribed with annotations about the history of the tunes, etc. Eventually, I plan to add a CD to the collection. Also in the works are two other books devoted to mandolin music. I had set out to write one large book, but the costs of production were daunting, so I broke it down to three collections.”

Emery George A Necklace for Ekdilla: Book Two of the Villanelles, Kylex Press, Princeton, NJ, 2014. Emery writes that the 104 poems represent the continuation of the cycles of and experiments with the villanelle form begun in his ninth poetry collection, Compass Card: One Hundred Villanelles (Mellen, 2000).

Susan Jane Gilman The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street, a novel, Grand Central, 2014.

Diane Haithman Dark Lady of Hollywood, a novel (“a merry mashup of Shakespeare and Hollywood’s television industry”), Harvard Square Editions, 2014. It was a finalist in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition.

* Assume date unknown if no date is indicated. 3 Eric Jager Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris, Little, Brown, and Company, 2014. There’s also an audiobook, read by René Auberjonois, plus features here and there at various blogs: a tour of the medieval Marais at Fodor’s, tie-in features at The Daily Beast, France Today and other places.

Lawrence Joseph Poet With a Steady Job: An Introduction to Lawrence Joseph, in Jacket2. The symposium includes articles and essays by Eric Murphy Selinger, Lisa M. Steinman, John Lowney, Lee Upton, Frank D. Rashid, Thomas DePietro, Norman Finkelstein, Tyrone Williams, and Lawrence Joseph.

Laura Kasischke Mind of Winter, a novel, HarperCollins, 2014.

Pat Kaufman O Thank You, Thank You: Collages 2014, O Yes! Press (New York, NY).

Ronald W. Kenyon My Beautiful France: Landscapes, CreateSpace, 2013.

Benjamin Landry Particle and Wave, Phoenix Poets series, University of Chicago Press, 2014; An Ocean Away: Collected Poems, iUniverse, Inc, 2006.

Ted Lardner We Practice For It, poetry, winner of the 2013 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. He receives a $1,000 cash prize, an introductory reading at the Summer 2014 Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, and publication of the chapbook by Tupelo Press. The Festival will be held at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut.

Bich Minh Nguyen Pioneer Girl, a novel, Viking, 2014.

Patrick O’Keeffe The Visitors, a novel, Viking, 2014.

Marge Piercy The Cost of Lunch, Etc., short stories, PM Press, 2014. This is Marge’s first short story collection. She has also written 17 novels, 17 volumes of poetry, and a memoir.

Rebekah Marie Remington Asphalt, winner of the Harriss Poetry Prize chapbook contest, CitLit Press, 2013, available on Amazon.

Lucy Rosenthal The World of Rae English, a novel, Black Lawrence Press, 2014.

Jess Row Your Face in Mine, a novel, Riverhead, 2014.

Sara Schaff House Hunting, fiction, an Amazon e-book published by StoryFront (appeared originally in Day One).

Porter Shreve The End of the Book, a novel, Louisiana State University, 2014.

Harvey Swados A number of works have recently been re-published in electronic (e-book) format by Open Road Media: http://www.openroadmedia.com/harvey-swados. The titles may be downloaded directly from Open Road (via multiple portals such as Apple, B&N, Google, Kobo and Sony). In addition, the Open Road titles -- and many of Mr. Swados’s other works -- may be purchased on Amazon.

Daniel Waldron Blackstone: A Magician’s Life, issued in a new edition by Meyerbooks Publisher, Chicago. It newly includes an Introduction by David Copperfield. The magic-reading public has named the original edition one of the best magic books of the 20th century.

Keith Waldrop The Not Forever, “inventions,” poetry, Omnidawn Publishing, Richmond, California, 2013.

Rosmarie Waldrop Translated End of the City Map by Farhad Showghi, prose poems, Burning Deck Press, 2014.

Edmund White Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris, a memoir, Bloomsbury USA, 2014; The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014.

4 Articles and Essays

Natalie Bakopoulos “Europe, Notice Your Poet,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 2013.

Donald Beagle “Integrating Digital and Archival Sources in Historical Research: Recovering Lost Knowledge about a Catholic Poet of the Civil War,” Catholic Library World. 81(3) March 2011.

Jeremiah Chamberlin “How to Make a Life, Maybe Even a Living,” Poets & Writers, January/February, 2014.

Victoria Chang “Breaking through the Noise,” Poets & Writers, January/February, 2014.

Steve Coffman “Perfume River,” a memoir, Pea River Journal, Spring 2013.

Alyson Hagy “On the Opening of Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Good Country People,’” New Ohio Review #15, Spring 2014.

Eric Jager “True Detective: Medieval Edition: Five Little-Known But History-Changing Medieval Crime Stories,” The Daily Beast: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/11/five-little-known-but-history- changing-medieval-crime-stories.html

Randa Jarrar “Imagining Myself in Palestine,” Guernica, May 2012, chosen as year’s best by Harvard’s Nieman Storyboard, Longreads, and Autostraddle; “Boaters,” the Rumpus, April 2013; “Why I Can’t Stand White Belly Dancers,” Salon, 2014.

Jascha Kessler Letters in the Wall Street Journal December 2 and 13, 2013, January 1 and 23, Feb. 17, March 17, April 4, 5, 15, and May 19; Financial Times: December 31, 2013; “À La Recherche Des Parents Perdus,” Eclectica, January/February 2014; Los Angeles Times: January 28, March 12, April 14, May 7, 2014; “A Belated Postscript to Some Obits for C. Page Smith,” and “…Leave Not a Rack Behind,” Eclectica XVIII, 2, April/May 2014.

Judith Kirscht an interview on Writers Alive, a website done by John Byk, who interviews authors. The link is: http://2012writersalive.blogspot.com/2014/04/judith-kirscht-and-home-fires.html

Elizabeth Kostova “No Ideas but in Things,” Poets & Writers, January/February, 2014.

Benjamin Landry “Possible Selves: Dennigan, Lantz, and the Case for Multiplicity,” AGNI Online, October 1, 2012; “Spirit Lines: The Poetry of Incompletion (Cohen/Dickinson/McCrae/Swenson,” The Volta, May 1, 2014.

Lawrence Lieberman “Homage to the Unburied—James Dickey’s ‘Sleepers’: A Column,” The American Poetry Review, March/April 2014.

David Masello “A New World Around Every Corner,” New York Times, January 22, 2014; “A Place in the Sun: Russian artist Leon Gaspard in Taos,” Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo, December 6, 2013; “Harmonious Celebration; The Philharmonic Welcomes the Year of the Horse,” Playbill, January 2014; “Reasons for Looking,” “Collecting Habits: Tomilson Hill’s Bronzes Strike a Pose,” Fine Art Connoisseur, March/April 2014; “California Split: What Became of Chris,” Gay & Lesbian Review, August 2013.

Allan R. Pearlman “No Rules in a Knife Fight,” published in Course Materials for New York County Lawyers’ Association’s Continuing Legal Education program, Toto, We’re Not Just Looking at the IRC Anymore: Tax Research Resources, Techniques and Tips, April 8, 2014.

Marge Piercy Interviews: in FemSpec, Winter 2014 and The Best American Poetry, Winter 2014; with PM Press for new Outspoken Author Essay Book, March 2014; Trivia Magazine, March 2014.

5 Bart Plantenga “Beer Mystic Burp #18: The Long Windy Road to a Closed Bar,” Sensitive Skin; “The Geographical Rewriting of Memory,” Urban Grafitti; “The Yodel Climbs Out Through the Roof,” Public Sound #4 [Rotterdam]; “Beer Mystic Burp #20: Ron Kolm: No Longer Chugging Rank Cologne,” Sensitive Skin; “Bart Plantenga in conversation with John Wisniewski and Mark McCawley,” Urban Grafitti; “Beer Mystic Burp #19: Beer in Times of Distillation: On Karen Garthe,” Sensitive Skin; “Brul, Gil, Juich, Jool, Joel, Jodel, ‘T is Een Wonder,’” Gonzo Circus: http://www.scribd.com/doc/162537875/Brul-Gil-Jodel-It-s-a-Wonder.

Margaret Price “Then You’ll Be Straight,” selected as one of “ten remarkable true stories from our first 50 issues,” Creative Nonfiction, Fall 2013/Winter 2014. The essay was originally published in Issue 28, 2006.

Davy Rothbart “Summit Fever,” The Sun, January 2014.

Sara Schaff “The Country Outside Us,” a personal essay, The Rumpus; “Waiting for the Story,” Superstition Review.

Ian Singleton “The Value of Naïveté: Shishkin’s Maidenhair in Russian and English,” Fiction Writers Review, April 10, 2014.

Ann Tashi Slater “The Literature of Uprootedness: An Interview with Reinaldo Arenas,” The New Yorker online: New Yorker website, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/12/the-literature-of-uprootedness- an-interview-with-reinaldo-arenas.html; “On Exile and the Longing for Home: Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas,” Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ann-tashi-slater/on-exile-and-the-longing- _b_4451017.html. essay on Reinaldo Arenas, exile, and 1987 Havana in The Paris Review Daily: http:// www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/03/04/fata-morgana/.

Bert Stratton http://annarborobserver.com/blogs/movieblog/. “I wrote this for the Ann Arbor Observer. It’s how I got bumped by Judy Collins last year at The Ark.” “Jazz and Real Estate,” New York Times op ed, April 13, 2014.

Dr. Alvin Ureles Ectopic Rhythms, poetry, on Kindle and a soon-to-be-released Audio edition of his book, Following Joe: The Patriot Doctor and the Siege of Boston.

Daniel Waldron “Last Act, Final Curtain,” was the first to be made electronically available among the contents of Magicol #173 at http://www.magicol.org.membership.html.

Edmund White “American Vogue,” Granta #126, Winter 2014; “The Great Jean Giono,” New York Review of Books, June 5, 2014.

Howard R. Wolf “Of quills and tweets: the old and the new,” The Buffalo News.com, January 2, 2014; a profile by Sue Wuetcher, www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/spotlight/profiles-host.host.html was published on February 20, 2014; “My Mother’s World: A New York Memoir,” Buffalo Jewish Review, February 14, 2014.

Reviews

Judith Laikin Elkin Recent invited reviews include The New Jewish Argentina by Adriana Mariel Brodsky and Raanan Rein (HispanicAmerican Historical Review 94.2); The Jews of the Caribbean by Jane S. Gerber (Choice); Oy, my Buenos Aires by Mollie Lewis Nouwen (Choice, February 2014); Labor and Love in Guatemala by Catherine Komisaruk (Choice, January 2014); Rethinking Jewish Latin Americans, eds. Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein (LACE, V, 3, 2010; Rethinking Latin American Jewish Studies, A bibliographic essay (Latin American Research Review XLV, 2, 2010; Creole Jews: Negotiating Community in Colonial Suriname, by Wieke Vink, American Historical Review, December 2011; Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation. A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880-1955 by Sandra McGee Deutsch, Bulletin of Latin American Research, XXXI, 3, 2012.

Alyson Hagy A review of The Kept by James Scott, New York Times Book Review, January 26, 2014.

6 Benjamin Landry Reviews of: Brenda Shaughnessy’s Our Andromeda, The Kenyon Review Online, May 14, 2014; Karla Kelsey’s A Conjoined Book, Colorado Review, May 14, 2014; Gillian Conolev’s Peace, The Rumpus, May 10, 2014; Lisa Olstein’s Little Stranger, Boston Review, May/June 2014; Kate Greenstreet’s Young Tambling, CutBank, April 7, 2014; Ellen Bryant Voight’s Headwaters, Los Angeles Review of Books, March 25, 2014; Martha Ronk’s Transfer of Qualities, The Rumpus, March 15, 2014 and in Boston Review, January/February 2014; Julie Carr’s Rag, The Rumpus, March 7, 2014; Ann Lauterbach’s Under the Sign, Colorado Review, January 28, 2014; Mary Ruefles’sTrances of the Blast, CutBank, December 5, 2013; Fady Joudah’s Alight, The Rumpus, November 22, 2013; Marianne Boruch’s The Book of Hours, Lemon Hound, November 22, 2013; Zubair Ahmed’s City of Rivers, Coldfront, October 4, 2013; Darcie Dennigan’s Madame X, Pleiades, XXXIII, 2, Summer 2013.

David Masello A review of Geordie Greig’s Breakfast With Lucien: The Outstanding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain’s Great Modern Painter, Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo, February 2, 2014; “Drawing the Line: The Sketches and Scribblings of Edward Hopper,” “Tales at the Rue Morgan: Edgar Allen Poe’s Literary Life Is a Tale Worth Reading,” American Arts Quarterly, Fall 2013.

Jess Row A review of Kinder than Solitude by Yiyun Li, New York Times Book Review, March 9, 2014.

Edmund White “Divine Decadence,” a review of Lovers at the Chameleon Club by Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review, April 20, 2014.

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Fiction

Alex Cigale Translations of 3 fictions by the Russian Absurdist Daniil Kharms were the “Story of the Week” in Narrative Magazine, week March 17, 2014; a translation of “Claudio,” a flash fiction by Margarita Meklina, in Eleven Eleven #17, a feature on Gay and Lesbian writing from Russia.

Lyn Coffin “Counting the Wounds” on amazon.com, 2014.

Leslie Doyle “Remediation,” Wind Magazine, Fall 2012: http://www.windmag.org/prose97/.

Gail Gilliland “Seeds On Stone,” the title story from a linked collection, forthcoming in Vermont Literary Review, 2014.

Perry Janes “Night Movers,” Glimmer Train, Spring/Summer 2014.

Randa Jarrar “How Can I Be of Use to You?” Booth, January 2014; “Two-Sentence Holiday Fiction: Amazing Short Stories from Amazing Writers,” Salon, December 2013; “Building Girls,” MAKE Magazine, January 2013.

Marge Piercy “The Shrine,” december, XXIV, Winter 2013; “She’s Dying,” The Literarian, December 2013.

Bart Plantenga “Beauty Is As Beauty Does,” Station to Station [Berlin]; ”Paris Sex Tête: An Excerpt,” Evergreen Review, “Beer Mystic #16,” Smoke Signals; “Zen Blinks [excerpts from NY Sin Phoney in Fact Flat Minor],” http:// manhattanlinear.com/posts/zen-blinks/ ; “Beer Mystic Vehicles,” Public Illumination Magazine #57 [Italy]; “Beer Mystic #17,” Smoke Signals; “Beer Mystic #18,” I; “Beer Mystic #19,” Smoke Signals; “Beer Mystic excerpt 9: Summer Mid-Manhattan,” Summer Anthology, Silver Birch Press; “Contemplating Bukowski’s First Kiss,” co-written with black Sifichi,Bukowski: An Anthology of Prose & Fiction about Charles Bukowski, Silver Birch Press.

7 Jess Row “The Ax,” Tin House 60, Summer Reading, XV, 4, 2014.

Sara Schaff “When I Was Young and Swam to Cuba,” The Saint Ann’s Review.

Brian Ralph Short “Runaway Strollers,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2014.

Melanie Rae Thon “Desierto Peligroso,” hybrid fiction / lyric essay,Pleiades , XXXIV, 1; “Letters in the Snow: for kind strangers and unborn children ~ for the ones lost and most beloved,” originally published in One Story, published in Arabic translation (as part of an audio, print, and online anthology) by Albawtaka Review, Cairo, Egypt, 2014. (Non-profit project funded by UNESCO and the British Council for the benefit of the blind and visually impaired in Egypt. Translation by Hala Salah Eldin.) http://www.albawtaka.com/contents.htm.

Lizzi Wolf “Sleepover,” “The Magic Potion,” “Moving,” Boston Literary Magazine, June 2014; “Charcot,” a novella, Seattle Review, VI, 1, 2013.

Poetry

Brent Armendinger “Dennis Richmond,” Hayden’s Ferry Review #54, Spring/Summer 2014.

Samiya Bashir “Carnot Cycle,” “Consequences of the Laws of Thermodynamics,” Poetry, April 2014.

Scott Beal “The Academy,” “The Dream of the Foam Toy Sword,” Beloit Poetry Journal, Spring 2014; “To a Sports Talk Caller Who’d Refuse to Cheer a Gay Athlete,” forthcoming in Southern Indiana Review, Spring or Fall 2014; “Chicken Soup,” Prairie Schooner, Spring 2014; “I Have Come to Spit Hot Fire,” “Sugar Rush,” forthcoming in Sonora Review, issue 64/65, Spring 2014.

E. G. Burrows “The Barrier,” Blue Unicorn, Spring 2014.

Alex Cigale “The Paul Bunyan Sestina” anthologized in Obsession: Sestinas in the 21st Century (Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Marilyn Krysl, eds.); “What the Tractor was Saying to The Bird,” “At the Fleetwood Diner, Ann Arbor, MI,” The Common Online (Amherst College); Translations: “Amadeo Modigliani, Portrait of Chaim Soutine (1915)” by Gennady Katsov in Cimarron Review 187; “Menagerie” and “The Sky is Pregnant with the Future” by Osip Mandelstam in Colorado Review, Fall/Winter 2014; “On the day of the Russian literary assembly” by Dmitri Kuzmin and “Bowing – Into Distance” by Gennady Aygi, in Eleven Eleven #17; 3 poems by Fedor Svarovsky in Mad Hatter Review 16; 5 poems by “the father of Russian Futurism,” David Burlyuk at National Translation Month blog (Feb. 11, 2014); Osip Mandelstam’s “He Who Had Found a Horseshoe (A Pindaric Fragment) and Vladimir Narbut’s “Séance” and “Seventeenth (part 1)” in New England Review, XXXIV, 3-4; Alexander Blok’s “Angst/Trevoga,” Ping Pong (journal of the Henry Miller Society); “A Stone’s Face is on the Inside” by Alexander Ulanov and 2 poems by Gennady Aygi in Plume Anthology 2013; “Butchering the Ram,” and “James Cameron Descends into Lake Baikal” by Russian- Buryat Amarsana Ulzytuev in Plume; Fedor Svarovsky’s in StarLine 36.2; short poems by Sveta Litvak in Telephone 4, Fedor Svarovsky’s “Happy Mutants” in Thermos; “Tramp” and “Omul Barrel” by Amarsana Ulzytuev in World Literature Today (May 2014); forthcoming, 3 miniatures by Anna Akhmatova in Tiferet; poem by Ekaterina Simonova in Unsplendid 5.

Lauren Clark “Kim Kardashian and the Ray J Sex Tape,” Ninth Letter, Spring/Summer 2014.

Steve Coffman “In The Same Boat—Brother!” Liberty’s Vigil, The Occupy Anthology: 99 Poets among the 99%, FootHills Publishing, December 2012.

Larry O. Dean “Just Tires,” forthcoming in I-70 Review, September 2013; “How to Defend Your Elf,” “Nixon Era Panda Dies,” Language Lessons,Vol. I anthology, April 2014; “Caesar,” “Couch,” “hi instructor,” “Vegetarian Starter Kit,” Festival Writer, II, 2, February 2014; “Letter to the Editor,” “Paint,” “Toothpaste,” Seeds, February 2014; “The Meteorologists,” Scissors & Spackle #12, January 2014; “Confessional,” Everyday Genius, November 2013.

8 Michelle Regalado Deatrick: “In the Hothouse,” Crab Creek Review, Summer 2013, also in the OutRider Press’s anthology, Mountain, forthcoming in Fall 2014; “For My Daughter,” Split This Rock: Poem of the Week, May 2013.

Kathleen Halme “There Was a Deer Whom…,” The Antioch Review, Spring 2014.

Matthew Hittinger “Frost Pear,” “Caliper Owl Thistle Fork,” “The Sphinx * The Asterisk,” “Villa Lyric,” Crazyhorse #84, Fall 2013; “Rune Stories,” Blue Fifth Review’s Winter Quarterly: City issue, February 2013. “There Are Characters I Omit,” Blue Fifth Review, Poetry Special, December 2013; “The Library The Lion,” a poem in response to a drawing Portrait of Dennis of Dennis (In His Library) by Ira Joel Haber, Blue Fifth Review’s collaboration issue; “Ditch-Digger, Raintown Review, XI, 1; “Black & White Gotham,” Kin; “My Cinemascope Life (With Stereophonic Sound),” in the ‘Heroes & Villains’ issue of Poets/Artists magazine. “It was a collaboration with painter Francien Krieg, a response to her painting of an elderly woman in the bathtub. Got me thinking: if Marilyn had lived to be 80, what would her thoughts be looking back at her life?” “Script Sculpt,” Weave #10.

Laura Kasischke “The Common Cold,” Granta #126, Winter 2014; “Recall the Carousel,” Poetry, February 2014.

Jascha Kessler Two translations: “Centaur” by Draga Dyulgerova and with Miklós Vajda, “A Little Old Night Poetry” by György Somlyó, Eclectica, January/February 2014.

Benjamin Landry “Night Vision,” Guernica, May 15, 2014; “H (Hydrogen),” Poetry Daily, April 23, 2014; “Aquarium,” Subtropics #17, Winter/Spring 2014; “Kr (Krypton),” Mid-American Review. XXXIV, 1, Fall 2013; “Waver,” The Kenyon Review Online, November 7, 2013; “Trusting the Senses,” Tupelo Quarterly #1, Fall 2013, Inaugural Poetry Contest Finalist; “Ga (Gallium),” “S (Sulfur),” American Letters & Commentary #24, Fall 2013.

Lawrence Joseph “In a Post-Bubble Credit-Collapse Environment,” The New Yorker, November 18, 2013; “So Where Are We?” The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition, Guest Editor, Robert Pinksy; Series Editor, David Lehman.

Benjamin Landry “KR (Krypton),” Mid-American Review, XXXIV, 1, 2013.

Laurence Lieberman “Lives Thump into Your Hands,” Five Points, XV, 3, 2013; “Humpback, Through a Spyglass,” The American Poetry Review, March/April 2014; “Divemaster,” “Swimming with the Immortals,” Southwest Review, XCIX, 2, 2014.

Nate Marshall “Chicago high school love letters,” Beloit Poetry Journal, Spring 2014.

Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren “Lenox Avenue,” “Civil War Photographer,” The Jet Fuel Review, Fall 2013; “Long Exposure on All Fours,” Mead:The Magazine of Literature & Libations, Spring 2014.

Kevin Phan “from ‘My Life with Andy Goldsworthy,’” Colorado Review, Fall/Winter 2013; “Glitter-Brained,” “Swarm,” Crazyhorse, #85, Spring 2014.

Marge Piercy “There were no mountains in Detroit,” “Why did the palace of excess have coackroaches?” “Sometimes things slow down for a moment,” Haibun Today, VII, 3, September 2013; “How can I?” “The orchestra playing to deaf ears,” “Money moves in,” “We know,” “The real event,” EcoPoetry.org, November 2013; “For my old friend Jose,” Oddball Magazine, November 2013 and in Spare Change News, February 2014; “Even if we try not to let go,” “The wolf moon,” “What the note almost says,” december, XXIV, Winter 2013; “Ignorance bigger than the moon,” Ibettson Street Press #4, December 2013; “The sound of weeping,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, XLI, 3 & 4; “One of my summer jobs,” Blue Collar Review, Autumn 2013; “Behind the war on women,” Narrative Northeast, January 2014; “Loving clandestinely,” “Of course I’m always truthful,” “We used to be close, I said,” Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2014; “My first real job,” San Pedro River Review, VI, 1, Spring 2014; “Who has little, let them have less,” Monthly Review, LXV, 8, January 2014; “The first time,” “Lessons seldom learned,” “Trying to peel,”The San Diego Poetry Annual, 2013-14.

9 Paisley Rekdal “’When It Is Over It Will Be Over,’” “Saturdays at Reynolds Work Release,” New England Review, XXXIV, 3 and 4, 2014.

Rebekah Remington “November Diary” and “Soul,” AGNIonline, May 27, 2014.

Rachel Richardson “Whale Study (1),” “Whale Study (2),” Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 2013.

Matthew Rohrer “Collage,” “Collage,” Tin House 60, Summer Reading, XV, 4, 2014.

Marc Sheehan “Lilacs,” Peninsula Poets, Member Edition, Poetry Society of Michigan, Spring 2014.

Anne Stevenson “Anaesthesia,” The Hudson Review, Winter 2014; “The Gift Bowl,” The Hudson Review, Spring 2014.

Laurence W. Thomas “Be Ye Lift Up,” Blue Unicorn, October 2013; “The Games Children Play,” Peninsula Poets, Member Edition, Poetry Society of Michigan, Spring 2014; “Rondino,” Blue Unicorn, Spring 2014.

Melanie Rae Thon “The Sleepwalker Speaks to the Good Samaritan,” hybrid poetry/lyric essay, Puerto del Sol, XLIX, 1.

Ronald Wallace “Song of Myself,” The Massachusetts Review, Spring 2014.

Douglas (Woody) “Racist Insult,” Denver Quarterly, Winter 2014; “Vagaries in an Open Boat,” Gray’s Sporting Journal (“the Woodsum sporting journal for English majors,” they call themselves), July, 2014; “Splitting Wood in Winter,” published in January 2014 in many newspapers in Maine as part of the state poet laureate’s “Take Heart” column and also included in the Take Heart anthology published in Spring 2013; “Applause for the Old Low Bridge,” “Dog Glory,” in the anthology Port City Poems: Contemporary Poets Celebrate Portland, Maine, Fall 2013; “The Captain,” in Maine Writes, an anthology of poetry and prose published by educators involved in the Maine Writing Project, part of the National Writing Project, Fall 2013.

Martha Zweig “Atrorubens Impulse,” “Burn,” The Chattahoochee Review, XXXIII, 2 & 3, Fall-Winter 2013; “But I Digress,” Spillway #20, Summer 2013; “Afterspat,” “Advance Directive,” South Dakota Review 50th Anniversary issue, 10/13; “Futurity,” Sou’wester, XLII, 1, Fall 2013.

Drama Performances and Publications

Kim Yaged “I’m excited to share the news that my play Hypocrites & Strippers, a comedy about selling sex and selling out, opens this Wednesday, April 30th, at Richmond Triangle Players in Virginia.”

Audio

Bert Plantenga Selected Radio @ Wreck This Mess: “Wreck Gainsbourg: Vivre L’Amour, La Mort & More”; “Wreck Birthing Pain #1171”; “Wreck Yule #1168”; “Wreck [NOT] Jazz”; “Wreck Hallowed Autumn #1166”; “Wreck Travel Memory #1165”; “wRECK wREVOLT wRESIST”; Selected Other Radio: “Wreck Risky Yodel,” on Epsilonia Radio Libertaire, Paris; “Wreck AudiYOmetric #1167” on French radio: Jet FM, Radio Active, Radio Grenouille, RTF Eko des Garrigues, Radio Grenouille 88.8 FM; “Wreck the Drummer’s Yodel” on WFMU, NY; “Wreck Yodel-in-HiFi Resonance,” on Resonance FM, London; “Yodeling in Wisconsin,” on NPR.

Dr. Sherman Silber Two DVDs: “Dr. Silber Does IVF Live on the Today Show” and “Sherm and Gravity,” 2013.

10 com/events/matthaei-botanical-gardens-and-nichols-arboretum/ Nichols Arboretum peony garden:Nichols Arboretum http://www.awesomemitten.

Film/Video

Carmen Bugan Two BBC World Service and News documentaries, The Man Who Went Looking for Freedom, based on Carmen’s memoir were broadcast in March 2014: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3csw9yn http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2014/13/ws-man-freedom.html

Tina Datsko de Sanchez “We are also nearing completion on the companion piece to the book [The Delirium of Simón Bolívar], our poetry documentary Searching for Simón Bolívar: One Poet’s Journey. Tina’s husband José, who has collaborated on her projects, has been working with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive on the preservation of Latin American films.

Ashley David Four poems & a video-performance were published by The Offending Adam (162:1) http:// theoffendingadam.com/issue/162/david/. The video-performance is called “American (post): Multiple Dimensions,” and poems included “Jeopardy,” “Multiple Dimensions,” “A Celebration of America’s Refuse,” and “Courtesy of Choice.” Ashley is currently living in Warsaw.

Kevin Dreyfuss “I wanted to just let you know that a movie I wrote and produced is going to be screening in Ann Arbor on February 20th. It’s a proudly stupid horror-comedy called Knights of Badassdom, stars Peter Dinklage, Steve Zahn, Ryan Kwanten and a bunch of other very funny people doing things that are truly beneath them. Here’s a link to info about the screening, which is being handled through a service called Tugg: http://www.tugg.com/events/7341 And here’s a link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnQ9Vp4fV4I Official site here: http://knightsofbadassdom-movie.com/ The story behind the production of the movie and the journey to this particular cut being released is a doozy in and of itself, but I’d still love to see it screen at my old Alma Mater.”

Laura Kasischke White Bird in a Blizzard, based on Laura’s novel of the same name, was directed by Gregg Araki and debuted at the 2014 Sundance Festival as part of the non-competition “Premieres” section. It starred Shailene Woodley and Eva Green and was produced by Why Not Productions and Desperate Pictures.

Bart Plantenga Poetry Film: “I Don’t Feel Like Myself [Remix],” Youtube. Selected Yodel Films @ Yodel in HiFi Top 50+: “The INSANE Logic of the YODEL,” premiered in London, March 11, 2014; “The Miraculous Echo of the Yodel,” Mediamatic Ignite #31, Amsterdam; “Uoeia: Yodel In HiFi Opera by Ergo Phizmiz,” premiered at Rotterdam Opera Days 2013; “Yes There’s YODELING in Korea”; “YODELING YIPPIE by Ed Sanders & The Fugs”; “Yodel in HiFi comes to Boston”; “Yodel in HiFi Does Gangnam Style.”

11 Davy Rothbart presented Medora at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor on December 12. He directed the documentary with Andrew Cohn. “Medora is the story of a dwindling town in rural Indiana and its resilient high school basketball team, the Medora Hornets. The film was inspired by an article in the New York Times by John Branch. We’ve heard our film described as Hoop‘ Dreams meets Gummo,’ or a real-life modern-day Hoosiers. The Washington Post just called Medora one of the Best Movies of 2013, and we also got insanely glowing reviews in the Village Voice and the New York Times, among others. Our film’s Executive Producers are Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci.”

Dr. Sherman Silber “The Spirituality of Fly Fishing,” a DVD, Infertility Center of St. Louis, 2014.

News & Notes

Brent Armendinger “Back in NYC after 2 years as Assistant Professor at American University of Central Asia, part of the has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at Pitzer College, where he teaches creative writing.“

Alex Cigale “Interviews with me were published in The Conversant and Asymptote. Dmitry Kuzmin’s reading at PEN World Voices of my translation of his poem updating Catullus 16 to Putin’s Russia received a notice in Words Without Borders. I am editing the special Russia Issue of Atlanta Review, Spring 2015.”

Lyn Coffin “’She is the Land” will be the lead-off poem of Leaf Press’s accordion book of Cascadia Poets next year. (Ursula Vaira, the editor of Leaf Press, will respond to my poem, then send her poem to someone in the US Northwest for comment, and so it will go. I will have finished my translation of Shota Rustaveli’s Knight in the Panther Skin by the summer. My translation of Dato Barbakadze, Still Life with Snow, was the recipient of a $2,000 translation award from the Georgian government in 2014. I won another such grant ($2,000) in 2014 from the Georgian government for my translation of Animalarky, by Zaza Abiadnidze. (Other news: a collection of my fiction,The First Honeymoon, will be published in Georgia this month.) I have also been invited back to teach at the Shota Rustaveli Institute this summer: July 1 and on.”

Ashley David A photo-text series, “Imaginary Friends & Family: Portraits,” was featured in Hyperallergic’s series, “I, Selfie: Watching the Selfie Olympics” by Alicia Eler, January 13, 2014: http://hyperallergic.com/102916/ watching-the-selfie-olympics/.

David “Gus” Garelick recently published Baker’s Dozen, a Collection of Mandolin Tunes. He writes: “By the way, my initial interest in the mandolin began in Ann Arbor years ago, when I inherited an old mandolin and started fooling around with it (instead of studying). I discovered some wonderful Italian music for the instrument, and then a whole bunch of Bluegrass groups happened to pass through Ann Arbor, and I was off and running. I also play the fiddle (a result of my Bluegrass days) and for 14 years, from 1998 to 2012, I produced a radio show on our local community radio station, KRCB in Santa Rosa, devoted to traditional fiddling and mandolin music from around the world. I also have a regular column about fiddle music and other folk-related topics forThe Fiddler Magazine (in Los Altos, California). I’ve been writing articles for that publication for about five years now, and with those articles and transcriptions of interviews I’ve done on the air, I may eventually write a book about American fiddlers. After I finish my mandolin books, that is.”

Matthew Hittinger “I’m guest editing the relaunch issue of OCHO magazine and will be staying on as Managing Editor for future issues, though [Hopwood winner] Rae Gouirand will be the next guest editor. I gave a multimedia special workshop on ekphrasic poetry, ‘Poetry and the Visual Arts’ in March at Muhlenberg College as the inaugural speaker of their new Sigma Tau Delta English Major Honor Society. I gave a talk on ‘The Art of Collaboration’ at UM’s upstART festival in April. I was on the cover of Poets/ Artists magazine for the ‘Motion to Stillness’ exhibit held in Chicago. It featured my poem ‘Movable Mound Music’ and an accompanying sound art piece collaboration with composer John Glover. ‘My Cinemascope Life (With Stereophonic Sound)’ appeared in the ‘Heroes & Villains’ issue of Poets/Artists magazine. It was a collaborationwith painter Francien Krieg, a response to her painting of an elderly

12 woman in the bathtub. Got me thinking: if Marilyn had lived to be 80, what would her thoughts be looking back at her life?” ‘Orange Colored Sky’ was reprinted in the anthology Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books (Minor Arcana Press, 2014) edited by Bryan D. Dietrich and Marta Ferguson.” The OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts that Matthew edited went live on May 18: http://8888ocho.com/.

Randa Jarrar now serves as a faculty member in the Sierra Nevada College Low-Residency MFA Program, run by poet Brian Turner. This is in addition to her work at the Fresno State MFA Program.

Ronald W. Kenyon received a commission from an agency of the French government, “the Agence des Espaces Verts de la Région Ile-de-France, which will purchase 150 copies of a new book of landscape photographs taken exclusively in the Ile de France region. Although I have not reached a final decision on the title, it will probably be Ile de France, Terres d’Inspiration. The president of the agency will provide a preface and I will draft an introduction, and the book will consist of approximately 50 color photographs, many of which have already appeared in My Beautiful France.”

David Masello continues his role as executive editor of Milieu, a new national (print) magazine about design (milieu-mag.com).

Bich Nguyen wrote in January: “I’m now teaching in the MFA Program in Writing at the University of San Francisco. We moved to the Bay Area last July. It’s been so lovely... I tell you, this Midwesterner is not used to such weather. The kids (Henry, 4, Julian, 2) love all the outdoor possibilities and all the transportation opportunities. My next book, Pioneer Girl (novel), will be published next month with Viking. It’s about the parallels between Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House” books and a contemporary Vietnamese American family. Porter [Shreve] also has a novel out in late February, a novel titled The End of the Book, with Louisiana State University Press. It alternates between an imagined sequel to Winesburg, Ohio and a story about a guy who works for a company that is digitizing books.”

Chigozie Obioma sent news of his novel, The Fisthermen. “In the London Book fair last week, The Fishermen emerged as the ‘literary fiction debut’ of the fair. On day one, there were strong pre-empts from Olivier Cohen of Edition D’Olivier, the french publisher of Jonathan Franzen, Cormac McCarthy amongst others. And on the same day, Little, Brown pre-empted the North American rights with Judy Clain, the editor-in- chief, publishing. A German auction began the next day after three firm offers and is just closing in now as I write with two publishers refusing to relent! But rights have also been sold for Brazil/Portugal (Portuguese) rights to Globo, and an Italian auction is underway, with offers also in from Australia!”

Frank O’Hara The Fire Island Pines Arts Project is sponsoring the first Frank O’Hara Fire Island Pines Poetry Festival on July 12 at Whyte Hall. Mr. O’Hara, a founder of the New York School of poets, died at 40 in the summer of 1966 after being hit by a dune buggy on the island. The Festival line-up includes Hopwood winner Edmund White.

Allan R. Pearlman was appointed chair of New York County Lawyers’ Association’s Committee on Taxation in October 2013. Recently, he organized and moderated the Continuing Legal Education program titled Toto, We’re Not Just Looking at the IRC Anymore: Tax Research Resources, Techniques and Tips, a three-hour program which was presented on April 8, 2014.

Marge Piercy writes that she 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 16-20.

Sara Schaff will be a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College in 2014-2015. She will be teaching fiction and screenwriting.

Ian Singleton is an Adjunct Instructor at Cogswell Polytechnical College in Sunnyvale, California, teaching Classics of Western Drama. He has also been teaching a workshop at Rhoda Goldman Plaza, an assisted-living facility in San Francisco. He has taught elsewhere, too: a Character Development mini-course through the OLLI Program at San Francisco State University and he has taught for the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop.

13 Dr. Alvin Ureles writes: “I will be 93 years old in August and am probably one of the oldest living Hopwood winners (poetry and drama in my freshman and junior years—’39-42). I was accepted to medical school in my junior year so I left a year early, since the war had started and I was never able to finish my 4th year in Ann Arbor. I am now a retired Professor of Medicine here at the URMC [University of Rochester Medical Center] and I am still writing.”

Rosmarie Waldrop writes that Burning Deck has just published a book by Jena Osman: “On the heels of “CITIZENS UNITED 2,” or, MCCUTCHEON VS. FEC, here is a work between essay and poem that researches the constitutional rights granted to corporations and their implications—starting soon after the Civil War. At the same time it investigates a shaky analogy: If corporations are persons, are persons machines?” The book is available at www.spdbooks.org and www.burningdeck.com.

Douglas (Woody) Woodsum gave a talk in March 2014, “My Rock Star Life as a Poet…Not!” to educators from schools throughout the school district in Maine. As a guest of the Maine Writing Project in March 2014 he presented a writing workshop to Maine educators at the University of Maine in Orono. His topic was writing short poems and haiku in the classroom.

Awards& Honors

Brittany Bennett and In partnership with Amistad/HarperCollins, the Hurston/Wright Foundation announced the first Nathaniel Marshall winners of the Hurston/Wright Amistad Award for College Writers. The prizes are provided by Amistad, a venerable African-American imprint that is part of HarperCollins Publishers. Brittany won in Fiction and Nathaniel in Poetry. They each received $1,000. The winners will be honored at the 2014 Hurston/ Wright Legacy Award Ceremony on October 24th at the Carnegie Library in Washington, D.C. as part of an evening celebrating the 2014 Legacy Award winners.

James Pinto and were recipients of this year’s David and Linda Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching Composition Rebecca Scherm at the University of Michigan.

Natalie Bakopoulos was presented with the U of M English Department’s 2014 Louis I. Bredvold Prize for Scholarly or Creative Publication.

Steve Coffman is the recipient of the first annual Janus Award presented by Just Poets of Greater Rochester for his poem “Museo del Oro.”

Donald Beagle has been named the winner of the 2014 John Brubaker Memorial Award, given annually “to recognize an outstanding work of literary merit,” for his article “Integrating Digital and Archival Sources in Historical Research.” The Brubaker Award presentation will be made at the April 2014 annual conference of the Catholic Library Association in Boston. For more information: http://www.cathla.org/awards/john-brubaker.

Michael Byers received the U of M Rackham’s Master’s Mentoring Award.

Rayne Cockburn is the winner of the 2014 Henfield Prize for a first-year MFA student at the U of M. She won for her excerpt from The Place of Mud, selected by Ethan Canin.

Art Corriveau 13 Hangmen, a young adult novel (Harry N. Abrams, 2012) was nominated for a 2013 Edgar Award.

Kathleen Halme won the 2014 Green Rose Prize of New Issues Poetry & Prose for My Multiverse. She was awarded $2,000 and New Issues Poetry & Prose will publish her book in 2015. “The annual award is given for a poetry collection by a poet who has published at least one book of poetry.”

Sara Houghteling is the recipient of a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

14 Laura Kasischke is the winner of the 2013 Michigan Author Award.

Josie Kearns received an artist-in-residency in fiction from Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois for the month of January, 2014.

Rebekah Remington Her chapbook Asphalt (CityLit Press, 2013) was selected by Marie Howe for the Clarinda Harriss Poetry Prize.

Kodi Scheer was awarded an artist-in residency in fiction from the Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, for the month of February.

Jia Tolentino is the winner of a 2014 Meijer Fellowship in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program of the University of Michigan.

Jesmyn Ward Men We Reaped: A Memoir (Bloomsbury) was selected as one of the “100 Notable Books of 2013” by the New York Times Book Review.

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