Upcoming Events

JANUARY
Mondays, 18/25 7 p.m.
 Read a Poet/Write a Poem:
featuring the work of Maxine Kumin
MSU Horse Teaching and Research Center, 3327 Collins Rd.
This two-part workshop presents a detailed introduction of an acclaimed poet and their work in the first part, with a related writing assignment. This assignment is then work-shopped in the second part.

Thursday 28, 7 p.m.
Brian Gilmore
(co-sponsored with Dept. of English and MI Writers Series)
MSU Main Library, Green Room (4th floor, West wing)

FEBRUARY
Wednesday, 17, 7 p.m.
Sheila Kay Adams
(co-sponsored with Ten Pound Fiddle)
RCAH Theater, Snyder Hall

Saturday, 20, 1-3 p.m.
First monthly Haiku Study Group with Michele Root Bernstein
3rd Saturday monthly
Snyder C302

Monday, 22, 7 p.m.
Translation Conversation
Snyder C303
In advance of the Festival of Listening, the translation conversation features study of various translation projects. This year we welcome Nesreen Akhtarkhavari, director of Arabic Studies at DePaul University, and translator for Desert Sorrows: Poems by Tayseer al-Sboul (MSU Press), with live nye music by Nadim Dlaikan.

MARCH
Tuesday, 1, 7 p.m.
Festival of Listening 7 p.m., (SCENE) Metrospace
An evening of poetry readings in languages other than English.

Tuesday, 15, 7:30 p.m.
 Voicing Poetry II
Cook Recital Hall, College of Music
The second annual collaboration between the RCAH Center for Poetry and the Composition Studio at the College of Music features original poetry and musical compositions created in response to, and in concert with one another.

Monday, 21, 7 p.m.
 Matthew Gavin Frank
(co-sponsored with Dept. of English and MI Writers Series)
MSU Main Library, Green Room (4th floor, West wing)

Saturday, 19, 1-3 p.m.
 Haiku Study Group with Michele Root Bernstein
3rd Saturday monthly
Snyder C302

Thursday, 31, 12 p.m.
Edible Book Contest
2nd Floor Snyder Hall

APRIL
Wednesday 13, 7 p.m.
Spring Poetry Festival: Tarfia Faizullah
(Co-sponsored with Dept. of English)
RCAH Theater

Saturday, 16, 1-3 p.m.
Haiku Study Group with Michele Root Bernstein
3rd Saturday monthly
Snyder C302.

Sunday, 17, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Haiku Hike
MSU Science Festival

Wednesday, 20, 7 p.m.
Spring Poetry Festival: Lindsay Tigue,
with 2016 Annie Balocating Undergraduate
Prize for Poetry Presentation,
RCAH Theater

Wednesday, 27, 7 p.m.
 Spring Poetry Festival: Robin Coste Lewis
RCAH Theater

All events free and open to the public

For more information, contact us at cpoetry@msu.edu