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Spring award deadlines are coming up!
Kristin Fitzsimmons has two poems in the Winter 2012 issue of Orange Quarterly.
Kristin also wrote the text for Barefoot, an interdisciplinary
collaborative performance (Feb. 10-11). See the Events section for
details.
Molly Sutton Kiefer’s project Balancing the Tide:
Motherhood and the Arts | an Interview Project has been launched and
thus far includes interviews with Rachel Zucker and Julie Schumacher.
Molly’s following poems have also been published: "Axis" and "figures"
in Anatomy and Etymology; “Prenatal Class" and "Things to do Around my Uterus" in Specter; and "Garter" in Gulf Stream.
Elisabeth Workman has poems forthcoming in the new issues of Ping Pong, The Claudius App, and Bone Bouquet.
Mary Chen’s book Butcher’s Tree is now online at Black Ocean AND she has a chapbook out from spork AND she will be appearing in Claudius App!
Holly Vanderhaar has an essay on The Next Family.
Luke Pingel’s (2009) cycle of poems, "How the Wind Erased Your Name," will be published in the Spring 2012 issue of West Trade Review.
Colleen Coyne (2011) has three poems up at Midway Journal. Also, her poem "The Sin Eater" will appear in a forthcoming issue of Cream City Review.
Kathleen Glasgow has two poems in the Winter 2012 issue of Orange Quarterly
M.J. Fitzgerald was one of a number of faculty members to be awarded the Imagine Fund
grant. Hers will be used for a non-fiction project: a series of essays
about Fitzgerald family letters and photographs that were found in a
building in Springfield Illinois just last year.
Charles Baxter’s review of Don DeLillo's book of stories, The Angel Esmeralda, appears in the February 9, 2012, issue of The New York Review of Books. He was also profiled last week by UMNews.
Peter Campion’s poem “Primitive Figure, Dogu Period” was published in Congeries. His poem “Securities” appeared in The Cortland Review, in a special issue edited by C.K. Williams. His review of David Wojahn’s collection World Tree appeared in Diode. His review “Find Yourself a City to Live In” was published in The Los Angeles Book Review. His interview with the poet David St. John appeared in Literary Imagination. He
was awarded a residency fellowship at the Montalvo Arts Center. His
poem “Airwaves, for Gary Eichten” was read by University of Minnesota
President, Eric Kaler, on “Midday,” Minnesota Public Radio, December 21,
2011.
Julie Schumacher's new YA novel, The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls, will be out in Spring 2012! Read an interview with her about the new book on our blog.
Friday, February 10 at 8 pm / 9 pm AND Saturday, February 11 at 7 pm / 8 pm / 10 pm
Room 130 West, Regis Center for Art, West Bank
BAREFOOT is an interdisciplinary creative collaboration exploring body, spirit, nature. Words by Kristin Fitzsimmons.
Admittance is FREE!!! But space is limited to 15 participants per
performance. Please make reservations by sending your name, preferred
time and number of people in party to hans2959@umn.edu. Check it out on Facebook.
Thursday, February 16, 7:30 pm. Our own Edelstein-Keller Professor of Creative Writing, Charles Baxter, reads at Magers & Quinn, 3038 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis. Baxter will read from his latest book, Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, which was a NYT Notable Book for 2011. Baxter is a living master of the short story. Don't miss this. FREE.
Saturday & Sunday, February 18 & 19
A Stone Thrown at the Guilty
7:30 pm, Stoll Thrust Theatre Rarig Center
A
free public staged reading of the new play by Somali novelist Nuruddin
Farah, CLA Winton Chair, directed by Assistant Professor of Theater
Dominic Taylor. The play is inspired by two historical uprisings in
Somalia under British rule, during 1922 and 1939-40.
Tuesday, February 21
Talk of the Stacks with David Treuer
7 pm, Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
Former U of M faculty member David Treuer (author of Little and The Hiawatha, among others) will read from his new non-fiction book, Rez Life.
Thursday, February 23 - Saturday, Feb. 25
New Indigenous Cinema
Tickets: $8 or $20 festival pass
A mini film festival featuring award-winning contemporary films and video made by American Indian artists.
Thursday, February 23
Celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens
4:00-6:00 p.m., Upson Room, Walter Library
The
Friends of the Libraries presents noted linguist and literary scholar
Anatoly Liberman, who will discuss Dickens' most memorable characters,
the features that make Dickens unique, and why he remains a universal
favorite. Free and open to the public; RSVP online or at 612-624-9339 by Thursday, Feb. 16.
Thursday, March 22
First Books Reading and Discussion
7 pm, Weisman Art Museum - FREE
Readings
by BA alum Peter Geye (fiction), MFA alum Arlene Kim (poetry),MFA alum Karen Rigby (poetry), and Paul
Metsa (nonfiction). Geye is the author of the
novel Safe from the Sea (Unbridled); Kim published What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes? (Milkweed Press); and Metsa, a Twin Cities musician, is the author of Blue Guitar Highway. Karen Rigby's debut collection of poetry, Chinoiserie, was the winner of the 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Each author will read from their work and take part in a panel discussion on publishing their first book. Books sales by the University of Minnesota Bookstore and reception to follow.
