HopwoodThe Newsletter Vol. LXVIII, 1 http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/hopwood/ January, 2007 HOPWOOD Vol. LXVIII, 1 January, 2007 We are happy to announce the publication this season of a special issue of Michigan Quarterly Review entirely devoted to “Hopwood Award Winners, 2000-2006,” edited by Nicholas Delbanco and Laurence Goldstein. This 256-page issue is mainly written by recent Hopwood winners, but it begins with three related items: The Hopwood Lecture for 2006 by Charles Baxter, “Losers”; a newspaper profile and chat with Avery Hopwood from 1920; and a long interview with Arthur Miller during his last visit to the University of Michigan in the fall of 2004. Contributors to the issue include Robyn Anspach, Phillip Crymble, Rae Gouirand, Nicholas Harp, Matthew Hittinger, Evan McGarvey, Jennifer Metsker, Derek Mong, Rachel Richardson, Tung-Hui-Hu, Katie Umans (poetry); Jeremy Chamberlin, Travis Holland, Valerie Laken, Patrick O’Keeffe (fiction); Margaret Lazarus Dean, Cyan James, Elizabeth Kostova (nonfiction); Ashley David, Benjamin Paloff, Preeta Samarasan (review essay). For a copy of the issue, send a check for $9 to Michigan Quarterly Review, 3574 Rackham Building, 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070. The Hopwood Underclassmen Awards Ceremony, at which the winners of the fall term writing contests are announced, will be held on Tuesday, January 30 in the Rackham Amphitheater (on the 4th floor of the Rackham Bldg.) at 3:30 p.m. There will be a poetry reading by Linda Pastan, author of 12 volumes of poetry, most recently The Last Uncle and Queen of a Rainy Country. The Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the Rackham Auditorium (main floor) on Wednesday, April 18. NPR’s Susan Stamberg will deliver the lecture. There will be receptions in the Rackham Assembly Hall after each ceremony. You are all cordially invited to attend. Continued, page 2 Inside: 2 Publications by Hopwood Winners 2 -books and chapbooks 4 -articles and essays 5 -reviews 6 -fiction 6 -poetry 9 -audio 9 -film Linda Pastan & 9 -Drama Performances and Publications Susan Stamberg 9 News Notes 12 Awards and Honors 15 Deaths 15 Special Announcements Editor Andrea Beauchamp Design Anthony Cece Awards for the 69th Summer Hopwood Contest were presented by Prof. Laurence Goldstein in the Hopwood Room on September 22. The judges were Raymond McDaniel and Laura Thomas, who is a former Hopwood Award winner. Drama/Screenplay: Bryan Kelly, $1,500 Fiction: Heidi Kaloustian, $1,500 Nonfiction: Katherine Montgomery, $1,500 Poetry: Michael Walsh, $800; Bethany Goad, $1,250 The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry: Jeremy Baruch, $300; Bryan Kelly, $500 Publications by Hopwood Winners* Books and Chapbooks Donald Robert Beagle The Information Commons Handbook, with contributions by Donald Russell Bailey and Barbara Tierney and a Foreword by Stephen Abram, Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., NY and London, 2006. Frank Eugene Beaver Dictionary of Film Terms: The Aesthetic Companion to Film Art, Peter Lang, 2006. Brett Ellen Block The Lightning Rule, an historical thriller, William Morrow, 2006. Christopher Paul Curtis Bucking the Sarge, Wendy Lamb Books, young adult novel, 2004; Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money, children’s novel, Wendy Lamb Books, 2005; Mr. Chickee’s Messy Mission, children’s novel, forthcoming from Wendy Lamb Books in 2007. Phillip Crymble Wide Boy, poetry, forthcoming from Lapwing Publications in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2007. Margaret Lazarus Dean The Time It Takes to Fall, a novel, Simon & Schuster, 2007. Ira Eisenstadt The Wedding Song, a novel, Melody Hill Press, January 2007. Lee Gerlach Selected Poems of Lee Gerlach, Ohio University Press, 2005. Steve Hamilton A Stolen Season, the 7th in the Alex McKnight mystery series, St. Martin’s/Minotaur, 2006. Tung-Hui Hu Mine, poetry, forthcoming from Ausable Press in 2007. Laura Kasischke Boy Heaven, a young adult novel, HarperTeen, 2006; Be Mine, a novel, Harcourt, 2007. Lynne Knight five books of poetry: Night in the Shape of a Mirror, a Stanza Series Selection, David Roberts Books, 2006; Deer in Berkeley, the 2003 Sow’s Ear Chapbook Competition Winner, Donalds /South Carolina, 2004; The Book of Common Betrayals, winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize 2002, Bear Star Press, 2002; Snow Effects: Poems on Impressionists in Winter, Small Poetry Press, Select Poets Series, 2000; Dissolving Borders, Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Book Series, Volume XXXV, 1996. Cecilia Kochanowski Plumbersutra: The Art of Living in the Suburbs, a memoir, iUniverse, Inc., 2006. Ferne LaDue Sarah, a novella, iUniverse, Inc., www.iUniverse.com, 2006. * Assume date unknown if no date is indicated. 2 Kristin Lems Imagine That! Songs for Creative Teachers, a book with CD, ordered from http://cdbaby. com/cd/kristinlems4. Kristin writes: “The book includes lyrics to each of the 14 original songs on one page, and two suggested lesson plans for that song on the other side. People who just want to enjoy the songs look at the lyrics. Those who want to use the songs in a classroom or conference can use the suggested techniques—or come up with their own. The CD is tucked into a clear envelope in the inside back cover.” Bich Nguyen Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a memoir, forthcoming from Viking in February. Marge Piercy The Crooked Inheritance, poetry, Knopf, 2006; Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Own, forthcoming from Schocken February 5. Bart Plantenga Rough Guide to Yodel, World Music Network, a compilation with liner notes, September 2006. Timothy Prentiss Miss Keen Needs Help, illustrated by Ronnie Rooney, fiction, and A VolunteerHelps, nonfiction, Benchmark Education Co., 2006. The books are sold to school districts nationwide to inspire the volunteer spirit in first and second graders. Paisley Rekdal The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, Pitt Poetry Series, forthcoming in April 2007. Porter Shreve When the White House Was Ours, a novel, Houghton Mifflin, forthcoming in 2008. Martha Bennett Stiles One Among the Indians, a young adult novel, reissued as part of the celebration of Jamestown’s 400th anniversary. The book was first published in 1962. Deborah Tall A Family of Strangers, a memoir written in the form of a lyric essay, Sarabande Books, 2006. Laurence W. Thomas Co-edited the anthology Third Wednesday, which contains the work of 16 local poets, Leadfoot Press, Detroit, 2006. Keith Waldrop translated from the French An Earth of Time by Jean Grosjean, poetry, Burning Deck, 2000 and The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire, Wesleyan University Press, 2006. Mildred Walker The Orange Tree, a novel, edited by Carmen Pearson, University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Richard Widerkehr Mountain, a chapbook of poems, forthcoming from Pudding House Publications. Dallas E. Wiebe The Nofziger Letters II (following The Sayings of Abraham Nofziger and The Nofziger Letters), fiction, Dallas E. Wiebe, 2006. Final Harvest, forthcoming at Christmas, 2007, will be the final volume of the series. Howard R. Wolf The Education of Ludwig Fried, three stories, his 12th book, Atma Ram & Sons, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India, 2006; Far Away Places: Lessons in Exile (described by Mr. Wolf as a collection of travel essays with a Jewish-American subtext), to be published by an English language publisher in Jerusalem in 2007. The following Hopwood winners appear in the anthology UnSquared: Ann Arbor Writers Unleash Their Edgiest Stories and Poems, 826Michigan and The Neutral Zone, 2006: Patrick OKeeffe, “Only One of Us” (poem); Davy Rothbart, “Maggie Fever” (story); Laura Kasischke, “If a Stranger Approaches You About Carrying a Foreign Object onto the Plane” (story); Scott Beal, “Bullet with Your Name on It,” “Assessment of My Masculinity” (poems); Rattawut Lapcharoensap, “Farangs” (story); Jon Liberzon, “By Birth” (poem); Dean Bakopoulos, “Happy” (story); Laura Hulthén Thomas, “Kiss” (story); Elizabeth Kostova, “Dear Mrs. Bender-Wong” (story); David Lawrence Morse, “Conceived” (story); Deanne Lundin, “Four Hollows” (poem). 3 Articles and Essays Two Hopwood winners were featured in the Fall 2006 Michigan Today, Christopher Paul Curtis, “The Bard of Flint,” and Marilynn Rosenthal, “Searching for Her Son’s Killer.” Jessica Apple “At War, at Home Again,” “Lives”, Sunday Magazine section, The New York Times, August 6, 2006. Frank Beaver writes a column on film for Michigan Today NewsE. Recent topics have included: “Talking About the Movies: Remembering the French New Wave,” “Japanese Cinema Surfaces” and “Demanding Movies.” Frank is the author of the recently released Dictionary of Film Terms. Sven Birkerts “Finding Traction,” Agni 63, 2006; an interview conducted by William Giraldi, “A Conversation with Sven Birkerts,” The Missouri Review, Summer 2006. Barry Garelick “Miracle Math,” Education Next, Fall 2006. The article is posted at http://www.hoover. org/publications/ednext/3853357.html; “A Textbook Case in Textbook Adoption,” Third Education Group Review in Essays, II, 6, http://www.thirdeducationgroup.org/Review/Essays/ v2n6.htm; “A Tale of Two Countries and One School District,” Third Education Group Review / Essays: Volume II, Number 8: http://www.thirdeducationgroup.org/Review/Essays/v2n8. htm Nigel Gearing “’In Your Own Kingdom, Sir,’” Michigan Quarterly Review, October 2006. Richard Goodman “The Music of Prose,” AWP Writer’s Chronicle, December 2006; “Why I Live in New York,” Pilgrimage, Fall 2006; “When I’m Sixty-Four,” forthcoming in The Rambler; an essay on the handcrafted books of Tara Books, the Indian publishing house located in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu, Fine Books & Collections, November/December 2006. Lizzie Hutton “The Sublime Rebellion of Eveline Mahyère,” New England Review, XXVII, 3, 2006. Eric Jager “Trial By Combat,” History Magazine, August/September 2006. Jascha Kessler letters in the Financial Times: “’Pope of surrealism’ and his battle with a New York butterfly,” May 20, 2006; “The shopfloor sight that cured my longing for a Jag,” Aug. 12; “Witch doctor’s herb gave us piece,” Nov. 11; “The $140m Pollock I could have bought for $450,” Nov.