TheHopwood Newsletter Vol. LXXV, 1

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T he Hopwood Reader and Lecturer have been selected for next year. Kimiko Hahn will give a poetry reading at the 2014 Underclassmen Awards Ceremony, to be held on Tuesday, January 28, in the Rackham Amphitheatre at 3:30 p.m. She is the author of

seven collections of poetry, including The Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton, 2006); The Artist’s Daughter (2002); Mosquito and Ant (1999); Volatile (1998); and The Unbearable Heart (1995), which received an American Book Award. Poets.org notes: “Her work often explores desire and death, and the intersections of conflicting identities. She frequently draws on, and even reinvents, classic forms and techniques used by women writers in Japan and China, including the zuihitsu, or pillow book, and nu shu, a nearly extinct script Chinese women used to correspond with one another. About her own work and its place in Asian American writing, Hahn has said: ‘I’ve taken years to imagine an Asian American aesthetic. I think it’s a combination of many elements—a reflection of Asian form, an engagement with content that may have roots in historical identity, together with a problematic, and even psychological, relationship to language.’ She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award. She is a Distinguished Professor in the English department at Queens College/CUNY and lives in New York.”

The Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, April 23 at 3:30 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Paul Theroux, fiction and travel writer, will deliver a lecture following the announcement of the awards. He is the author of 32 novel and short story collections, beginning with The Great Railway Bazaar. His most recent novel is The Lower River (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). He is also the author of 17 nonfiction books, most recently The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). Several of his books have been made into feature films (Saint Jack, The Mosquito Coast).

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Publications byHopwood Winners*

Books and Chapbooks

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

co-authored with Eileen Pollack, Creative Composition, Cengage Learning, 2013.

The Boss, poetry, McSweeney’s, 2013.

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.

When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man, a novel, Riverhead Hardcover, 2012. It was the winner of the 2013 Society of Midland Authors Award.

Echoes in the Universe: A Spiritual Memoir, CreateSpace 2013, available on Amazon.com.

The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose, Poets on Poetry series, University of Michigan Press, 2011.

Monville: Forgotten Luminary of the French Enlightenment, CreateSpace, 2013.

“I just this moment ago received an email from my publisher, Bruce McPherson [McPherson & Company, Kingston,NY] that Siren Songs & Classical Illusions [Kindle Version], in the newly-revised, amplified edition, went up today[July 8, 2013] at amazon.com.” King Solomon’s Seal, Xlibris, 2013.

Home Fires, a novel, 2013, available at Barnes & Noble or on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Home-Fires-Judith-Kirscht-ebook/dp/B00FW71PI2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382462657&sr=8-1&keywords=Judith+Kirscht

The Fishermen, forthcoming from One, a new imprint of Pushkin Press, in 2015.

Jack Be Nimble: The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director, a memoir, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013.

The Visitors, a novel, forthcoming from Viking in March 2014 and Bloomsbury in the U.K. in June 2014. Patrick teaches at Ohio University in Athens.

Braided Lives, a novel, republished with a new introduction by Ms. Piercy, PM Press, 2013.

Incendiary Girls, short stories, forthcoming from Amazon/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in April 2014, by Little A/New Harvest.

Her children’s book Sheep in a Jeep will be part of Start Your Engines: 5-Minute Stories, a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt anthology, forthcoming in March.

Perchance to Dream, poetry, The Last Automat Press, 2013. 

Men We Reaped: A Memoir, Bloomsbury, 2013.

Sacred Monsters, writings on artists and writers, Magnus Books, 2012.

* Assume date unknown if no date is indicated.

John U. Bacon

Natalie Bakopoulos and Jeremiah Chamberlin

Victoria Chang

Steve Coffin

Nick Dybek

Leonard Goodwin

Lawrence Joseph

Ronald Kenyon

Jascha Kessler

Judith Kirscht

Chigozie Obioma

Jack O’Brien

Patrick O’Keeffe

Marge Piercy

Kodi Scheer

Nancy Shaw

Laurence W. Thomas

Jesmyn Ward

Edmund White

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Articles and Essays

“Lost in Translation,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Summer, 2013; “How to Pay Teachers More Like Doctors,” English, September 2012.

“Viewpoint: One Long Sentence,” The Threepenny Review, Summer 2013; “Semblance: Something Else Again,” AGNI #78, 2013.

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

“An Equal-Time Critique of Education in the Mid-1950’s” at Education News: http://www.educationnews.org/k-12-schools/an-equal-time-critique-of-education-in-the-mid-1950s/; “Lessons in How Not to Teach Math,” the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy: http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2887; a publication in the November 2013 edition of AMS “Notices”  (American Mathematical Society): http://www.ams.org/notices/201310/rnoti-p1340.pdf. Reference: Notices of the AMS Volume 60, Number 10. “Where We Write: Detroit, Michigan,” Poets & Writers, September/October 2013.

“Middle-Aged Music Man,” New York Times, Sunday, June 16, 2013; “A Nose for Words: Developing a love of language, with a little help from Stanley H. Kaufman,” New York Times Book Review, August 25, 2013.

“Letter From Venice: Showing a Little Leg, a pilgrimage to Ellen Altfest’s body paintings,” Harper’s Magazine, November 2013. “Miscellany,” Eclectica, XVII, 3, July/August 2013; letters to the editor, Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2013, August 19, 2013, September 26, 2013, October 24, 2013, October 31, 2013; letters in Financial Times, August 17, 2013, October 11, 2013, November 13; letter to the editor, Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2013; “The Centaur’s Blood,” Eclectica, October/November 2013.

“Swimming With Howard Moss,” Gay & Lesbian Review (March/April 2013); “Last Night at the Web,” Gay & Lesbian Review (May/June 2013); “Open Admissions: Yale University’s Art Gallery Goes Public,” American Arts Quarterly (Spring 2013); “The Barnes Foundation: An Artful Resolution,”American Arts Quarterly (Winter 2013); “An Inside Look at the Outside,” American Arts Quarterly (website June 2013); “The Book of Ours,” American Arts Quarterly (website April 2013) “The Boys Who Sailed Away,” Fine Art Connoisseur (May/June 2013); “The Interior Worlds of Kenny Harris,” Fine Art Connoisseur (July/August 2013); “In Praise of Revolution,” Financial Times of London (May 3, 2013); “Tulle Men: Les Ballets Trockedero de Monte Carlo,” Pasatiempo (Santa Fe New Mexican), June 30, 2013: “Adopted Son,” included in the anthology Our Naked Lives: Essays from Gay Italian-American Men (Bordighera Press).

An interview for Broadkill Review, VI, 4, July/August 2013.

“Renting the American Dream” City Journal, Spring 2013; “My Job Isn’t So Bad,” op-ed, New York Times, Aug. 17, 2013; “A klezmer Christmas?  He’s actually in favor of good will to men,”Cleveland Plain Dealer, op-ed, Nov. 29, 2013. 

Some Complicity, poems by Mr. Thomas and translations from five Italian poets, Un-Gyve Press, “a small and new press in Boston,” 2013.

Nostalgia Is in the Future and Other Exaggerations,eighteen short stories, Tate Publishers, Oklahoma, 2013.

Interviewed by Heather Placko in North Central Review: http://orgs.noctrl.edu/review/authorinterviews.html

“Challenges to the Self in the 20th Century: Keats, Fitzgerald, and Extreme Theory,” and “Farewell to South Florida: A Generational Memoir,” The Commonwealth Review, XXII, 1, 2013, and forthcoming in the Winter issue of Evening Street Review; “Writing in the Shadow of the Holocaust,” Buffalo Jewish Review (BJR), July 12, 2013; “The Novels of William Inge: Sex

Beth Aviv

Sven Birkerts

Steve Coffin

Barry Garelick

francine j. harris

Joshua Henkin

Dan Keane

Jascha Kessler

David Masello

Marge Piercy

Bert Stratton

Harry Thomas

Laurence W. Thomas

Melanie Rae Thon

Howard R. Wolf

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and Identity in American Culture,” Objet D’Art (M.L.S. University,  Udaipur, India), I, 1, Winter, 2012: “I presented this paper at the 2011 William Inge Theatre Festival (Independence Community College, Kansas)”; “College Reunion Reveals Changing World: Planet of the Apps,” “My View” column, Buffalo News, August 3, 2013; “Out of the Diaspora: Lost in Jerusalem,” Buffalo Jewish Review, Sept. 6, 2016.

Reviews

A review of Fools by Joan Silber, New York Times Book Review, July 28, 2013.

A review of “Tirza” by Arnon Grunberg, New York Times Book Review, May 12, 2013. A review of Guy Vernon: A Novelette in Verse by John Townsend Trowbridge, The Hopkins Review, Fall 2013.

A review of Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns by David Margolick, New York Review of Books, August 15, 2013; a review of The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, New York Times Book Review, August 4, 2013.

Fiction

“Princess Anne,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2013; “The Deer Woods,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, February 2012.

Three very short stories by Daniil Kharms forthcoming in Narrative Magazine; 3 more very short stories by Daniil Kharms in The Literary Review, “Cry Baby” issue.

“My Best Work Is Buried in Tiny Coffins,” Down & Out, June 2013:http://downandoutmag.com/2013/06/27/my-best-work-is-buried-in-tiny-coffins/

“Three Summers,” Ploughshares, Fall 2013.

“After These Messages,” Split Lip Magazine, July 2013.

“Planet of Fear,” Ploughshares, Fall 2013.

“The Captain,” Granta #124, Travel Issue, Summer 2013.

“Spider Legs,” Glimmer Train, Fall 2013. The story was the winner of the Family Matters contest in June 2012. 

“Ring Around the Kleinbottle,” Fifth Wednesday #12, Spring 2013; “The Border,” Crossborder Journal of Fiction, Fall 2013.

“Things You Dreamed of and Things You Didn’t,” Big Bridge:  http://bigbridge.org/BB17/editorschoice/fiction/Ann_Tashi_Slater.html; “A Year in a Japanese Teahouse,” Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ann-tashi-slater/a-year-in-a-japanese-teah_b_3668582.html.  “Jackrabbit, Lizard, Rattlesnake, Saguaro,” AGNI #77; “Galaxies Beyond Violet,”  hybrid fiction / lyric essay,  Five Points, XV, 1 and 2; “My Country Before, My Country After,”  hybrid poetry / fiction / lyric essay, Lumina, XII; “The Immigrants,” hybrid fiction/lyric essay, rpt. in Rock & Sling, VIII, 2 with additional commentary.

“Reunion at the Driftwood,” Coowweescoowee, 2013.     

Poetry

“Flotilla,” “Narrow Hallways,” Colorado Review, Summer 2013.

Natalie Bakopoulos

Scott Hutchins

X. J. Kennedy

Edmund White

Jim Allyn

Alex Cigale

Leslie (Bayern) Doyle

Nick Dybek

Timothy Hedges

Travis Holland

Rattawut Lapcharoensap

Danielle Lazarin

Marge Piercy

Ann Tashi Slater

Melanie Rae Thon

Howard R. Wolf

Brent Armendinger

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“Feats of Pain and Daring,” Rattle #41, 2013.

“Lavender,” “Driving West,” Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series, edited by Matthew Olzmann and Ross White, Bull City Press, 2012.

“We Buried Time in Your Backyard,” Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series, edited by Matthew Olzmann and Ross White, Bull City Press, 2012.

“three poems,” The American Poetry Review, July/August 2013.

Poem in http://anthemjournal.tumblr.com/post/64783241265/gegenschein-the-sky-as-my-limit; “They Built on Water, Dared Defy the Sea” in http://aboutplacejournal.org/the-future-of-water/alex-cigale-ii-iii/ (Black Earth Institute); Translations: two poems by Gennady Aygi in Beloit Poetry Journal, LXIV, 2, Winter 2013-2014; four miniatures by Anna Akhmatova in Cutthroat #15, http://www.cutthroatmag.com/LasteditCT15.pdf; four poems by Vassily Kandinsky, along with introduction, in Eleven Eleven #16; “Quantum Subway” by Feodor Svarovsky in Eye to the Telescope #10; foue epigrams each by 18th C. Nikolai Karamzin and Vasilii Kapnist, and a long poem “An Anonymous Manuscript” by Evgeny Turenko in Four Centuries #6 (http://www.perelmuterverlag.de/page8.html); 30-page feature on indigenous writing from the former USSR in Fulcrum #8; four limericks by Tatyana Scherbina in Gobshite Quarterly #13; selection of some dozen each of Russian Minimalist poems by Mikhail Faynerman and Rea Nikonova in Hot Street #2; translation of the prose from Russian Absurdist Alexander Vvedensky Grey Notebook in Lana Turner #6; long selection, with introduction, from Kubat Djusubaliev’s book-length poem “Paris, month of fermentation: April 1994” in Modern Poetry in Translation #3, 2013; two ekprastic poems by Gennady Katsov in Verse Junkies, I, 2, http://versejunkies.com/?author=12.

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

“Trophy,” “Stonefruit,” “Sarabande,” “Birthright,” “Exchange,” “Spending My Breath,” The Iowa Review, Fall 2012; “Field Guide,” Quarterly West, Fall 2012; “Two-Point Perspective,” “All I Remember of Meteorology,” Fence, Winter 2012;  “Cathedral,” Better: Culture & Lit, Spring 2013; “Settlement,” Columbia Poetry Review, Spring 2013; “True Survival Story, “ “Portrait with Instruments,” VOLT, Fall 2013; “Our Rapture Happens Here,” TYPO, Fall 2013.

“Glass is Glass Water is Water,” American Poetry Review; “Address That Returns Twice,” “The Times,” Barrow Street; “Language,” “Tenor and Vehicle,” The Brooklyner; “Dishes,” Cider Press Review; “February,” Citron Review; “Sounds,” Clay Bird Review; “Covers,” “Snoqualmie,” “Thinking About Things While You Work On My Right,” Educe; “Sex Dream With Friend,” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide; “The Names,” Georgetown Review; “Inheritance,” Gertrude; “Blood and Stone,” “Elkhorn,” “Kinney Reservoir,” Handsome; “Ice,” “Sense, Since,” “Submission,” Hobart; “Fourth Grade,” “Ghazal With Time,” MARY: A Journal of New Writing; “At The End,” “Book,” “Idea of It,” “Pearlskin,” New South; “In Lieu of Questions,” PANK; “Dream With Forms,” Santa Clara Review; “By Heart,” “Red Rain,” The Southampton Review; “Milk Glass,” “On Remembering,” “Storytelling,” Souvenir; “Watermark,” VOLT; “On Rereading My Journal,” “What We Mean,” Watershed Review. Poems in anthologies: “You Form,” 100 Poems Your Teachers Don’t Want You To Read, edited by Brett Fletcher Lauer & Lynn Melnick,Viking Penguin, forthcoming Spring 2015 (“I wrote this poem my second week at Michigan!”); “Like You Mean It,” “Shame,” “The Times,” Fierce Hunger: A Benefit to Support Ten Years of Writing Ourselves Whole, edited by Jen Cross, WOWPress, 2013; “Blood and Stone,” Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Edited by Peg Alford Pursell, MPC Press, forthcoming Fall 2014.

“i dare you to remember,” “whenever anyone says no,” “all the rules,” “the way i remove clothes,” Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series, edited by Matthew Olzmann and Ross White, Bull City Press, 2012.

Selections from “Confidences: A Rendering of Saint Augustine’s Confessions,” Birmingham Poetry Review, 2013; “Cuticles,” RHINO, 2013; “The I Wish It Would Rain But That Song’s Been Written Motel,” “The Let’s Have a Cigarette and Assess the Situation Extended Stay Motel,” and “N67: Stella Maris,” Jet Fuel Review, Spring 2013;  “The Buried in Sleep and Wine Hotel,” “The Grant Me the Stamina to Pray Extended Stay Motel,” “The Western Edge of a Time Zone Hotel,” Beloit Poetry Journal, Summer 2013; “Medea in Red River Gorge,” “The Angelization of Mr. Vodka,” Fifth Wednesday, Fall 2013; “Wings on Wheels,” “Bonfire,” Southern Indiana Review, Fall 2013; “The Flooded Grave,” Measure, Fall 2013. 

“Monet Paints the Willows, 1918,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer 2013; “Moving South,” The Yale Review, Summer 2013; “Evening at a Mountain Inn,” 5 A.M., Spring 2013; “Fall Sequence,” “Letter to My Mother,” The Hudson Review, Summer 2013.

Scott Beal

Joshua Buursma

Amanda Carver

Victoria Chang

Alex Cigale

Steve Coffin

Stephanie Ford

Rae Gouirand

francine j. harris

Katie Hartsock

Patricia Hooper

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“Green,” “Nine Herbs,” “The Owls,” New England Review, XXXIV, 2, 2013.

“Cold Blue,” anthologized in Poetry in Michigan / Michigan in Poetry, New Issues Press, 2013. The anthology features 90 Michigan poets and 30 Michigan artists.

“The Unintended Lecture on Desire,” “After Her Affair,” “While Plum Blossoms Sweep Down Like Snow,” Rattle #42, 2013.

“Gilgamesh,” The Threepenny Review #135, Fall 2013.

“Stella Blue,” “Assignment,” Poet Lore, Fall/Winter 2013.

“praise song,” Poetry, October 2013.

“In Bas Relief,” “Historic House,” American Arts Quarterly (Spring 2013); “A Dinner Party in Richmond,” The Richmond Register (February 2013). “Fiona Apple (American Musician, 1977-),” “Metamorphosis/Minor Suit/Militarism,” Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series, edited by Matthew Olzmann and Ross White, Bull City Press, 2012.

“No spring at all,” “Decades of intimacy creating,” Third Wednesday, Spring 2013; “The rented lakes of my childhood,” “Fodors, bye bye,” Third Wednesday, Summer 2013; “What the camera sees,” Visions International #88, Spring 2013; “One of the expendables,” Cape Cod Times, May 28, 2013, rpt. in Spare Change, Boston’s homeless newspaper; “The first one this year,” “January Orders,” “We have come through,” “The blizzard withdraws into the Atlantic,” The Poetry Porch, Spring 2013; “Being layed off,” “The passion of a fan,” “The weatherman knows nothing,” “We are visited among visitors,” Literary Arts Annual, 2013; “June 15th, 8 p.m.,” San Pedro River Review, Special Issue: Harbors and Harbor Towns, Summer 2013; “Working at it,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, IX, 2013; “Why she frightens me,” “Between trips,” “Night Sounds,” “Something we can save,” “Unexpected as the storm begins,” “The come, they go in the space of a breath,” Paterson Literary Review, XLI, 2013-14; “Fearing for the trees,” “How I gained respect for night herons,” Elohi Gadugi Journal, Summer 2013; “She has work to do,” The Lunar Calendar, 2014; “If I go ten thousand miles,” San Pedro River Review, V, 2, Fall 2013; “Why did the palace of excess have cockroaches?” Haibun Today, September 2013; “Beauty as a bonus,” “Little house with no door,” “Relatively small hurricane,” “Good morning, we hope,” Broadkill Review, VII, 4, July/August 2013; “Once at supper at a friend’s old house,” Connecticut River Review, 2013; “We fixed or had fixed,” 5 AM #37, September 2013; “Statistics don’t talk loud enough,” Word Soup #1, September 2013; “Looking at quilts,” Not Just About Quilting: Creating and Connecting with Maine Mountain Quilters, 2013; “Contemplating my breasts,” “After the garden party,” “Sun in January,” Muddy River Poetry Review, Fall 2013.

“Vessels,” Poetry, October 2013.

“Not the Blue Walls Blackening, Then the Ghostly Curtains,” Witness, Spring 2012. “Stutter Stutter,” “Schadenfreude,” “A Little Dickens,” Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series, edited by Matthew Olzmann and Ross White, Bull City Press, 2012. “Renascence,” Blue Unicorn, June, 2013; “Pantoum for Getting Together,” Third Wednesday, Summer 2013; “Aging,” forthcoming in Metamorphosis: Writing About Aging, Future Cycle Press; “Cro-Magnon,” Driftwood (Ludington, MI), 2013.

“Flight,” An Outriders Anthology: Poetry in Buffalo 1969-1979 and After, Selected with an Introduction by Max Wickert, Outriders Poetry Project, 2013.

Drama Performances and Publications will have her most recent play, Love Alone, produced by The University of Utah and PlayMakers Repertory Company in the 2013-2014 season. Love Alone premiered at Trinity Repertory Company, where she is Playwright in Residence, in 2012, and was awarded the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award in 2011.

Laura Kasischke

Josie Kearns

Lynne Knight

Dave Lucas

Ted Lardner

Nate Marshall

David Masello

Karyna McGlynn

Marge Piercy

Paisley Rekdal

Holly Wren Spaulding

Sheera Talpaz

Laurence W. Thomas

Howard R. Wolf

Deborah Salem Smith

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His play, “Reunion of a Summer Evening,” a one-act play for two characters with music, had its premiere staged reading on October 16, 2013, at the Newman Center, the University of Buffalo. His one-act play “Unveiling at Twilight on the Back Nine of the Hotel de Dream” will be given a staged reading at the Newman Center (SUNY Buffalo) in 2014.

Audio “Storyville” project, mentioned in our last newsletter, debuted on September 26 on WWNO.org. The show is a collaboration between MFA students at the University of New Orleans and the local NPR station. http://wwno.org/post/uno-s-creative-writing-workshop-and-wwno-launch-storyville “For two years now, I’ve been part of Deana Carter’s band.  Her new album, Southern Way of Life, is now available! I got to play piano, Wurli, and Rhodes on a truly amazing collection of songs.   Deana is releasing this independently on her new label, Little Nugget Records, which means that nobody hears the record unless WE spread the word.  In order to get full pressing onto a CD, there needs to be 25,000 downloads of both Southern Way of Life, and her re-released Christmas record, Father Christmas that she recorded several years back with her father before he passed away. You can be part of the team through my site, Mathyu Djän Myuzik where I’ll post updates, let you know when we’ll have band shows and appearances, and any other news, along with all new music projects I am working on.  Like the page to stay in touch.” Both albums may be downloaded at iTunes and Amazon.

Film/Video

developed with Meredith Stiehm the FX television series, The Bridge. The series is based on the Danish/Swedish series Bron and stars Demián Bichir and Diane Kruger. Mr. Reid was the Executive Producer.

Father and Son Camping in Africa 2013, DVD.

“I’m thrilled to share the news that the animated promo for Hypocrites & Strippers will be part of the Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, October 4-6, and the Polari Film Festival in Austin, October 16-20. Now that the promo is completed, we’re excited to start working on the first episodes of Hypocrites & Strippers—the animated series.”

& NotesNews

continues his monthly “Talking Abour Movies” column for Michigan Today. In September, he wrote about the 30th anniversary of The Big Chill, written and directed by Hopwood winner Lawrence Kasdan.

Howard R. Wolf

Richard Goodman’s

Matthew Schmidt

Elwood Reid

Dr. Sherman Silber

Kim Yaged

Frank Beaver

Photo by Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com

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“I have come on board as an editor with various responsibilities (poetry, translations, Central Asia, Russian) with Asymptote, Mad Hatters’ Review, The St Petersburg Review, and VerseJunies.com. In November 2013, I contributed a month-long tribute to the Russian Chuvash poet Gennady Aygi in Beloit Poetry Journal, http://blog.bpj.org/search?q=alex+cigale also conducting a long interview with the translator Peter France, and ‘Drove’ the Truck, as editor of the blog journal at http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.com/.  I will be editing an issue of Contemporary Writing from Siberia, Central Asia, Caucuses, and the Baltics online at The Mad Hatters’ Review, and a Spring 2015 Russian Poetry issue of the Atlanta Review.”

were participants in the State of the Book Conference, “a day-long literary symposium celebrating Michigan Writers & Writing,” held September 28 at the U of M. Ms. Djanikian is the author of the novel The Art of Mercy and her panel was “The Haunted Past, the Strange Future.” Mr. Hamilton has written the Alex McKnight series (set in the Upper Peninsula) and the stand-alone novel, The Lock Artist; his panel was “Way up North in Michigan.” Dr. Montross is the author of the nonfiction books Body of Work and Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist’s Encounters with the Mind in Crisis; her panel was “The Art of Fact.” was a judge for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay ($10,000), for a book of essays published in 2012 that exemplifies the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature.

The NYC premiere of Atlanta composer Curtis Bryant’s setting of four sections of Mr. Bluestone’s The Laughing Monkeys of Gravity took place at the Cornelia Street Café in the West Village on August 8, 2013. Soprano Arietha Lockhart, who performed the piece at the world premiere, also sang it on this occasion. “ I’m still based in Davis, teaching poetry workshops part-time for the Department of English at UC-Davis and running my own workshops locally and online (including a cross-genre one I just started one last winter called Scribe Lab). I know I wrote when my first book, Open Winter, won the Bellday Prize, but following publication it also won the 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Award and a 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award for poetry, and was a finalist for the 2012 Montaigne Medal, Audre Lorde Award, and California Book Award for poetry.”

was a participant in the panel discussion of Robert Hayden’s work in the Robert Hayden Centennial Conference, held at the University of Michigan on November 1. Robert Hayden was the winner of a Summer Hopwood Poetry Award in 1938 and a Major Poetry Award in 1942. The conference was organized by Professor Laurence Goldstein. had a Residency at the Jentel Artist Residency Program in Wyoming in Spring 2013. delivered his second lecture on New York’s public art at the 92nd Street Y (Tribeca branch) in March. serves as an advisory editor to the revived december Magazine. She was an editor back in the early 60s. She is still the Poetry Editor for Lilith. She will be giving her annual Juried Intensive Poetry Workshop in Wellfleet, MA from June 16-20.

Alex Cigale

Ariel DjanikianSteve Hamilton

Christine Montross

Sven Birkerts

Stephen Bluestone

Rae Gouirand

Lawrence Joseph

Timothy Hedges

David Masello

Marge Piercy

ROBERT HAYDENPhoto by Jill Krementz

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spoke on “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kindle” at the Solarium Symposium, held at the U of M on September 27. “Ive just been named and Emeritus Professor from The University of Texas-Pan American, the university where I taught for the last 30 years of my academic life.  My e-fiction writing life is now my avocation.” The most recent book in his Scott Kraven mystery series is The Love Craft Murders and his latest story is “Dangerous Camp on the Kenai.”

moderated the panel “Perspectives in Independent Publishing” at the Solarium Symposium on the Business of Writing, held at the U of M on September 27 and demonstrated a letterpress during the State of the Book Symposium at the U of M on September 28. and his wife Lillian welcomed Preston Ming Koo Thorburn on July 23, 2013. He weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces and measured 21 inches. writes that Burning Deck has published a new book of poetry: A Motive for Disappearance by Ray Ragosta. “I am working on editing and e publishing a number from those Generation years, including perhaps Carl Oglesby, Tiny Stoneburner, and Konstantinos Lardas. Still working on getting a handle on formats and the three or four major outlets, such as Apples iTunes.”

“I have four one act plays and a collection of stories in the pipeline: Home at the End of the Day (Plays) and Exiles by Starlight and Other Stories. I gave a talk at my 55th reunion in relation to the exhibit: ‘On a Generational Collection: The Howard R. Wolf Amherst College Class of 1958 Papers.’ I’ve been invited by Wolfson College (Cambridge) to give a talk on May 28, 2014: ‘The Role of Creative Nonfiction in the American Literary Curriculum.’ I was a Senior Academic Visitor at Wolfson in 2007 for the Easter Term.”

Awards& Honors

won a $1,600 English and Bulgarian scholarships from the Sozopol Fiction Seminars, which she attended in Bulgaria. was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012. He is Director of the Bennington College Writing Seminars, the editor of the literary journal AGNI, and the author of seven books, including The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age and, most recently, The Other Walk. His essay “It Wants to Find You” in AGNI was listed as a “Notable Essay of 2012” in the Best American Essays 2013, Mariner Books.

“Malaria” was selected for the Best American Short Stories 2013, edited by Elizabeth Strout, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. was awarded the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize for Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight. Graywolf will publish the book in 2015.

is the recipient of a Granta New Voices selection, a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and a Maytag Fellowship.

“Craquelure” in Conjunctions was listed as a “Notable Essay of 2012” in the Best American Essays 2013, Mariner Books. had two Pushcart Prize nominations: “Brave in the Attempt” (fiction) and “Fire When Ready” (essay).

received the silver medal in the alternative category for his short film “Zug.” Janes was the first student honored from the University by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which started the awards in 1973. The film is based on Mr. Janes’s short story of the same name, and “follows two guys who complete a dare by visiting the mysterious Zug Island, a real man-made island along the River Rouge and Detroit River near Detroit.” http://www.toledofreepress.com/2013/06/11/university-of-michigan-grad-perry-janes-wins-student-academy-award/

His poem “Syria” was selected for the Best American Poetry 2013, edited by Denise Duhamel, Scribner Poetry, 2013.

Kodi Scheer

Jack Stanley writes:

Fritz Swanson

Matthew Thorburn

Rosemary Waldrop

George Abbott White

Howard R. Wolf

Natalie Bakopoulos

Sven Birkerts

Michael Byers

Margaret Lazarus Dean

Nick Dybek

Ryan Flaherty

Timothy Hedges

Perry Janes

Lawrence Joseph

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was selected to receive the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from Rackham. She was also included in a list of the top 25 women professors in Michigan. She holds the Allan Seager Collegiate Professorship in English. Her poem “Perspective” was selected for the Best American Poetry 2013, edited by Denise Duhamel, Scribner Poetry, 2013.

won a grant from NoMAA (the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance) for the third time.

won the Pace Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets for a group of poems that appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review. The $500 prize is given to a poet who has not yet published a book at the time of publication in the journal. was awarded the 2013 Rilke Prize. She was also one of three finalists for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her poem “Birthday Poem” was selected for the Best American Poetry 2013, edited by Denise Duhamel, Scribner Poetry, 2013.

“Human Snowball” in Paris Review was listed as a “Notable Essay of 2012” in the Best American Essays 201, Mariner Books.

“Summer Song” in Tin House was listed in “Other Distinguished Stories of 2012” in the Best American Short Stories 2013. is the recipient of a $7,500 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, given “for lyric poems celebrating the human spirit.” is the winner of a $2,500 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize.

Almost 1 Book/Almost 1 Life by Elfriede Czurda (Burning Deck), translated by Ms. Waldrop, was shortlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000), for a book-length translation of poetry into English published in 2012.

“My Deer” won the 2013 Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize. She receives $1,000 and the chance to participate in Stony Brook’s summer 2014 Writers Conference.

Deaths Phyllis Bronstein, winner of a 1961 Minor Fiction Award, died at the age of 73 in Los Altos Hills, California. She is the author, co-author, and editor of several books, including Teaching a Psychology of People, Teaching Gender and Multicultural Awareness, and Fatherhood Today. The obituary notes that she committed her life to bringing about equal rights and social change.

Rene Kuhn Bryant died on January 30, 2013 in Lexington, Massachusetts. She was the recipient of a 1943 Minor Fiction Award and a 1944 Major Fiction-Novel Award. She was the author of two novels, the best-selling 34 Charlton (her Hopwood novel) and Cornelia. A writer and editor, she worked at Life Magazine, the United States Embassy in London, at the Radcliffe Institute and the Harvard Gazette.

Anne Devereaux Jordan Crouse, a resident of Mansfield Center, Connecticut, died on February 2, 2013. She was the recipient of Summer Hopwood Fiction and Poetry Awards in 1968. She founded the Children’s Literature Association in 1973 and served as its Executive Secretary/Treasurer as well as Director of the Annual Conference in Children’s Literature until 1976. She served as an editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction from 1979-1989 and had a distinguished teaching career. In 1992, she was the first recipient of the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award, an award established in her honor and now annually by the Children’s Literature Association for outstanding contributions to the field of children’s literature. She is the author of eleven books, as well as the ghost writer for several more.

Frederic (Fritz) Lyon died at the age of 68 on September 10, 2013 in Belfast, Maine. He was the winner of a Minor Drama Award in 1966, a Special Drama Award in 1967, and a Major Drama Award in 1968. His obituary notes: “Fritz began his professional career as one of the first employees of Maine Public Broadcasting, serving as a writer and on-air personality. Later he moved to New York City and was a successful writer and public relations guru. In his long career he had many big clients, including American Express, Harvard Business Review, GE, Price Waterhouse…even the government of Luxembourg.” After moving back to Maine, he formed Leo Marketing Partners and wrote frequent pieces for the Belfast, Maine Republican Journal.

Laura Kasischke

Danielle Lazarin

Margaret Reges

Paisley Rekdal

Davy Rothbart

Jess Row

Ali Shapiro

Matthew Thorburn

Rosmarie Waldrop

Kaitlin Williams

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Our thanks to all of you who have so generously donated copies of your books to the Hopwood Library. The special display of recent books by Hopwood winners always attracts a lot of attention. We appreciate your thoughtfulness very much and enjoy showing off your work to visitors.

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A special thank you to wonderful Program Assistants Summer Powers and Sam Wittmer, and, of course, to Nicholas Delbanco, who has so splendidly directed the program for so many years. Do stop by to say hello if you’re visiting Ann Arbor. All best wishes for a happy, healthy, and productive new year.

Andrea BeauchampAssistant Director

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