Darcie Dennigan and Tung-Hui Hu
Thursday, March 11, 5:15 pm
Helmut Stern Auditorium

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the UM Department of English Program in Creative Writing Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from UM alumna Helen Zell (’64).

Darcie Dennigan’s first book, Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, won the Poets Out Loud prize and was published by Fordham University Press in 2008. Her poems and other writing have appeared in 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Atlantic Monthly, The Believer, Gulf Coast, The Nation, POOL, and Tin House. She is an associate editor at H_NGM_N, an online journal of poetry, poetics, etc., and a graduate of the Michigan MFA program. The recipient of recent awards from Coldfront Magazine and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Tung-Hui Hu is the author of two books of poetry, Mine (Ausable/Copper Canyon, 2007), and The Book of Motion (University of Georgia, 2003). Described as a “contained surreal style that deftly shapes a philosophical argument” (Los Angeles Times), his writing has appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, Gastronomica, and Martha Stewart Living Radio. At the University of Michigan, he teaches courses on time-based art and poetry. His latest project is a sound installation titled The Last Time You Cried (lasttimeyoucried.com).

ARTIST TALK: Jeffrey Brown
Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7PM
Admission: Free
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Comic artist and Michigan native, Jeffrey Brown has gained much renowned for his trio of books dedicated to past relationships, the self-published Clumsy (2003), Unlikely (2003) and AEIOU: An Easy Intimacy (2005), as well as more recent comic works The Incredible Change-bots (a Transformers parody) and his most recent work Funny Misshapen Body: A Memoir. His work is simultaneously wry and sincere, crude yet beautiful and emotional. His simple, sweet, illustrated novels, composed of snippets and snapshots of everyday life, have drawn attention to Brown from established comic icons like Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan, Acme Novelty Datebook) and Daniel Clowes (Eightball, Ghost World), and more mainstream praise from Ira Glass and his This American Life program on National Public Radio on which Brown has appeared to discuss his work. Jeffrey Brown will present a lecture about his own work and about the fumbles and foibles of being an independent comic artists/illustrator today.

Position to start May 1, 2010
Application deadline February 28, 2010

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