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Programs and ToursZell Visiting Writers Lecture SeriesUMMA is delighted to become the home of the Department of English Program in Creative Writing Zell Visiting Writers Lecture Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is endowed by a gift from UM alumna Helen Zell (’64). All readings are held in the Helmut Stern Auditorium at 5 pm on Thursdays unless noted and are free of charge. For more information, please see www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp. These events are cosponsored by the Department of English and the Office of the Provost of the University of Michigan. Patricia Hampl Nonfiction ReadingThursday, November 5, 5 pm Patricia Hampl’s most recent book is The Florist’s Daughter, winner of numerous “best” and “year end” awards, including the New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” and the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime, published in 2006 and now in paperback, was also one of the Times Notable Books; a portion was chosen for The Best Spiritual Writing 2005. Patricia Hampl first won recognition for A Romantic Education, her memoir about her Czech heritage, awarded a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. This book and subsequent works have established her as an influential figure in the rise of autobiographical writing in the past 25 years. She is the author as well of two collections of poetry, Woman before an Aquarium, and Resort and Other Poems. And she has published Spillville, a meditation on Antonin Dvorak's 1893 summer in Iowa, with engravings by Steven Sorman. This event is cosponsored by the Department of English and the Office of the Provost of the University of Michigan. Allan Gurganus in ResidenceFiction Reading Allan Gurganus, a North Carolina native, is the author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy), White People (Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Pen-Faulkner Finalist), Plays Well with Others, and The Practical Heart: Four Novellas (Lambda Literary Award). His stories have won the National Magazine Prize and the O’Henry Award. They are seen in Best American Stories and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. His political opinion pieces have frequently appeared in the New York Times and he is a popular commentator on PBS’ News Hour and NPRs All Things Considered. Gurganus has taught literature and fiction writing at Duke University, The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Stanford University, and Sarah Lawrence College. Fellow writer John Cheever wrote, “I consider Allan Gurganus the most technically gifted and morally responsive writer of his generation.” Cosponsored by the Department of English and the Office of the Provost of the University of Michigan. Day With(out) Art: Donald Hall
Tuesday, December 1, 5 pm In a review of Hall's recent Selected Poems, Billy Collins wrote in the Washington Post: "Hall has long been placed in the Frostian tradition of the plainspoken rural poet... It is a kind of simplicity that succeeds in engaging the reader in the first few lines." Donald Hall has published numerous books of poetry, most recently White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (2006), The Painted Bed (2002), and Without: Poems (1998), which was published on the third anniversary of his wife and fellow poet Jane Kenyon's death from leukemia. Other notable collections include The One Day (1988), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination; The Happy Man (1986), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and Exiles and Marriages (1955), which was the American Academy of Poet's Lamont Poetry Selection for 1956. He has also received numerous awards, including two Guggenheims. Since the first Day With(out) Art on December 1, 1989, it has grown into an international collaboration in which thousands of organizations acknowledge the devastating toll that HIV and AIDS have taken on the world wide creative and performing arts communities. As a museum devoted to fostering and presenting creative expression and to preserving cultural memory, UMMA has long been committed to participation in this worldwide event. This program is cosponsored by UMMA and the Creative Writing Program of the UM Department of English and is part of the Zell Visiting Writers Series, 2009-2010. Marjorie Sandor and Tracy Daugherty Fiction ReadingThursday, December 3, 5 pm Marjorie Sandor is the author of two story collections—Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime and A Night of Music—and a memoir, The Night Gardener: A Search For Home. She has published work in the Georgia Review, Southern Review, and the New York Times Magazine, and her writing has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for Fiction, the Oregon Book Award, and the National Jewish Book Award. Tracy Daugherty is the author of Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme, the short story collections It Takes a Worried Man and The Woman in the Oil Field, and the novels The Boy Orator, What Falls Away, and Desire Provoked. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Georgia Review, and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University. This event is cosponsored by the Department of English and the Office of the Provost of the University of Michigan. |
