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February
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1996
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LITERARY EVENTS

8 AGENDA FEBRUARY 1996

 

Send your Literary Events tor the March issue of AGENDA by February 15 to: AGENDA, 220 S. Main St, Ann Arbor, Ml 48104.

2 Friday

Book Signing: Shaman Drum 4-6 pm, 315 S. State. SHELDON DANZIGER, Prof. of Social Work and Public Policy at U-M, will sign copies of "America Unequal" which he co-authored with Peter Gottschalk, Professor of Economics at Boston College. They challenge the view promoted in the Republicans' "Contract with America" that restraining government spending an cutting welfare should be our top domestic priorities. 662-7407

3 Saturday

Children's Hour Borders 1 1 am. 612 E. Liberty. Theme: "Warming Up"-Go with us to warm places. 668-7652

4 Sunday

Poetry Reading: Del Rio Bar 1:30-4:30 pm, 122 W. Washington. Join the FEED THE POETS GROUP for an afternoon of poetry from the area's finest poets, including Jan Worth, Danny Rendleman, and Rachel Pinsky. There will also be one hour of open mike reading for those brave souls yet to achieve recognition. Interested poets should contact the Del Rio for scheduling arrangements or further information. 761-2530

Kerry Tales: A Mother Goose Valentine Story": Kerrytown Shops 2 pm, Workbench, 2nd fl., 410 N. Fourth Ave. TRUDY BULKLEY, storyteller, entertains as Mother Goose with rhymes, and riddles. All ages welcome. 769-3115

5 Monday

Writers Series: Guild House 8:30 pm, 802 Monroe. Ypsilanti's FREDERICK MASON presents his mini-narrative poems from a book he is compiling. Also, CHARLES ZWINAK will read his energy packed poems he describes as "most alive when read to a live audience." 913-4574

7 Wednesday

Children's Book Signing: Borders 3:30 pm, 612 E. Liberty. Children's author illustrator JAN BRETT will be signing copies of her books, including her newest,"Armadillo Rodeo."lllustrated in great detail with entertaining border panels, it tells the story of Bo, a young armadillo with typically bad eyesight, who mistakes a pair of red cowboy boots for another armadillo. 668-7652 Reading: Borders 7:30 pm, 612 E. Liberty. JEFF NOON will read from his new novel, "Pollen." Storyline: Coyote was the best black-cab driver of all time, picking up passengers where others were afraid to drive. Now he's the first fatality of the Pollination, the massive cloud of pollen that has descended upon a remixed and futuristic Manchester, England. Amid vicious blooms and a soaring pollen count, people are sneezing themselves to death. Noon was the 1 994 winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for "Vurt." 668-7652

8 Thursday

Reading: Shaman Drum 8 pm, 315 S. State. GERSHEN KAUFMAN, clinical psychologist and professor at Michigan State, and LEV RAPHAEL, author of "Dancing on Tisha B' Av." co-authored "Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay and Lesbian Lives." Their book examines the nature of shame and its profound impact on the emergence of a gay or lesbian identity. The authors, life partners for 10 years, recognize the necessity of breaking the silence around the dynamics of gay shame and offer a way to "come out" of shame and begin the process of reinventing one's life. 662-7407

9 Friday

Publication Celebration: Shaman Drum 4-6 pm, 315 S. State. SHARON STEPHENS, Assistant Prof. at the U-M, celebrates publication of "Children and the Politics of Culture." The book is a collection of papers from researchers, policymakers, health professionals, educators and others concerned with child-related issues around the world. The papers examine the lack of protection of children's fundamental rights to physical safety, heafth education,self-expression, and other rights. 662-7407

10 Saturday

Children's Hour: Borders 11 am, 612 E. Liberty. The "Mouse" from LAURA NUMEROFF's book, "If You Give A Cookie," will be visiting all his friends at Story Hour. 668-7652

12 Monday

Writers Series: Guild House 8:30 pm, 802 Monroe. Using rhyme and rhythms, recent Bowling Green graduate JORDAN DOWUNG's poetry creates a half rap, half sing-song musical soundscape.Ann Arbor poetry Slam emcee and Plymouth/Canton High School teacher LARRY FRANCIS performs his brief, intense psycho-dramas (and perhaps some loopy folderol). 913-4574

13 Tuesday

Publication Celebration: Shaman Drum 4-6pm, 315 S.State.JOHN E.TROPMAN will be on hand to sign "The Catholic Ethic In American Society, An Exploration of Values." Tropman contrasts the Catholic ethic with the Protestant ethic and considers their differences in areas such as core concepts, central properties and illustrative attitudes. He focuses on the interplay of the differing ethics in the formation of U.S. society, values, and politics. 662-7407

16 Friday

Publication Celebration: Shaman Drum 4-6 pm, 315 S. State. TIMOTHY BAHTI celebrates two new books: "Ends of the Lyric: Direction and Consequence in Western Poetry" and "Jewish Writers, German Literature: The Uneasy Example of Nelly Sachs and Walter Benjamin." 662-7407

17 Saturday

Children's Hour: Borders 11 am, 612 E. Liberty. Detroit storyteller WILADEL SNEED JOHNSON will tell stories and lead songs commemorating "Black History Month." 668-7652

Discussion: Shaman Drum 8 pm, 315 S. State. NELSON LICHTENSTEIN, Prof. of History at the Univ. of Virginia, will discuss "The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor." In his research about the automobile industry and the can labor movement, Lichtenstein found Reuther the most imaginative and powerful trade union leader of the past half century. This stirring biography of a hero in the struggle for economic justice probes the question: Whatever happened to labor liberalism in America? 662-7407

19 Monday

Reading and Discussion: Borders 7:30 pm, 612 E. Liberty. RYAN EDWARDS, who has appeared in major operatic roles in Europe and North America, will read from and talk about his new book, 'The Verdi Baritone: Studies in the Development of Dramatic Character." 668-7652 Writers Series: Guild House 8:30 pm, 802 Monroe. DECKY ALEXANDER's one person dramatic works both captivate and mesmerize. Hopwood Award winner AKASHA FLUEGGE performs her free verse, drawing on an isolated upbringing in rural Michigan. She promises she will not eat worms this evening. 91-34574

20 Tuesday

Performance: The Green Room 9 pm, 206 W. Michigan Ave, Ypsi. Local writer KURT LINDEMANN performs poetry and fiction using language, physical performance, humor and imagery to draw on autobiographical and fictional observations on everything from urban politics to poverty and the being of nothingness. 482-8830

22 Thursday

Reading: Borders 7:30 pm, 612 E. Liberty. MARK WINEGARDNER will read from "The Veracruz Blues." 668-7652

23 Friday

Short Story Reading: Shaman Drum 8 pm, 315 S. State. JANET KAUFFMAN, EMU Prof. of English, will read from her collection of short stories "Places in the World a Woman Could Walk.' This book thrust this Michigan farmer to the front of her generation's concern with the business of restating the terms of literature and with the discourse on feminist issues. 662-7407

24 Saturday

Children's Hour: Borders 11 am, 612 E. Liberty. Theme: What do children do "All Day Long?" 668-7652 Publication Celebration: Shaman Drum 3-5 pm, 315 S. State. CARLA. ANDERSON celebrates publication of "Athena's Epithets: Their Structural Significance in Plays of Aristophanes." Anderson is Associate Prof. of Romance and Classical Languages at MSU. 662-7407

26 Monday

Writers Series: Guild House 8:30 pm, 802 Monroe. The Writers Series own Coordinator, CARMEN BUGAN, will read from her own politically and emotionally charged work. Carmen is also known for her translations into her native Romanian. Winner of the 1995 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, DAVID SOSNOWSKI's first novel "The Rapture Blues" is due to be published in hard back in 1996 by Velard Random House. 913-4574

27 Tuesday

Discussion: Borders 7:30 pm, 612 E. Liberty. PAUL KROPP will talk about his new book, "Raising a Reader: Make Your Child A Reader For Life." 668-7652

28 Wednesday

Reading: Borders 7:30 pm, 612 E. Liberty. JENNIFER EGAN will read from "Emerald City and Other Stories." 6687652

29 Thursday

Reading: Borders 7:30 pm, 612 E. Liberty. GARY PAULSEN will read from "Brian's Winter." 668-7652

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