University of Michigan Department of English

10/15/2026

Please join us on 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟮𝗻𝗱 for a Zell Visiting Writers Series reading, Q & A, and book signing featuring acclaimed author 𝗧𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗕𝗿𝘆𝗮𝗻𝘁!

Details here: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers/news-and-events/readings-and-events/upcoming-events.detail.html/150942-21910479.html

Virtual login here (no pre-registration needed): https://myumi.ch/ZellWriters26

We hope to see you there! 🙂

10/06/2026

https://www.fox2detroit.com/video/fmc-1nti4mhrahzycsxw

Julie Buntin is an author and teacher at the University of Michigan. Her bestselling novel, Famous Men, is a gripping story about ambition, parents and children, and all the ways women still pay for men's mistakes. She also has a new book, Notes to New Mothers, where 65 writers and artists capture e...

10/01/2026

Friday, 10/2: Head to the Hatcher Gallery (or join us on Zoom) for the 1pm opening of the exhibit Comics Beyond Sight. Comics can be made accessible! https://myumi.ch/X87Nn

10/01/2026

The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan welcomes applications for 2027-2028 research fellowships. Interested in joining a community of researchers, scholars, artists, creatives, journalists, and musicians? Join the newest cohort of long-term, short-term, or week-long fellows ma...

10/01/2026

The Undergraduate English Association at the University of Michigan (UEA) aims to foster development and communication between University of Michigan undergraduate students and faculty, the English department, and the community. From career panels to poetry readings, to class-choosing parties and movie nights, the UEAssociation is dedicated to enhancing the experience of undergraduate students across all majors and minors.

10/01/2026

Please join us on 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟴𝘁𝗵 for a Zell Visiting Writers Series reading, Q & A, and book signing featuring acclaimed author 𝗝𝗮𝘀𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮!

Details here: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers/news-and-events/readings-and-events/upcoming-events.detail.html/150544-21909581.html

Virtual login here (no pre-registration needed): https://myumi.ch/ZellWriters26

We hope to see you there! 🙂

09/17/2026

Please join us on 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟰𝘁𝗵 for a Zell Visiting Writers Series reading, Q & A, and book signing featuring acclaimed author 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗻!

Details here: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers/news-and-events/readings-and-events/upcoming-events.detail.html/150513-21909543.html

Virtual login here (no pre-registration needed): https://myumi.ch/ZellWriters26

We hope to see you there! 🙂

09/04/2026

Poetry, Traumatic History, Memory: Thinking about the Armenian Genocide
2026 Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture
Peter Balakian (Colgate University)

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Helmut Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
525 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Zoom: 990 8053 2632

How can a past historical event be transformed by literature that comes after? Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Balakian will discuss the impact of the Armenian Genocide on his work. He will explore the transmission of trauma across generations and how poetry’s resources can ingest the past. Balakian examines how his ancestors have provided a grounding for his work, ancestors like his great-great uncle, Krikoris Balakian (Bishop in the Armenian Church), one of the 250 cultural leaders arrested on April 24, 1915, and his grandmother, Nafina Shekerlemdjian who along with her two young daughters survived the Genocide enduring a harrowing death march into the Syrian desert.

Peter Balakian is an award winning poet, author and translator. His Ozone Journal was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Most recently he has published a book of poems, New York Trilogy (2025), that moves between decades of tumultuous life in New York City and the politics of the Middle East. Balakian’s poems have appeared widely in leading magazines and journals including, The New Yorker: 100 Years of Poetry. His prose books range from Vice and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art and Culture to Black Dog of Fate, a memoir-winner of the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for the Art of the Memoir (a best book of the year for the New York Times, the LA Times, and Publisher’s Weekly). Balakian is the recipient of many awards and prizes amongst them: the Pulitzer Prize, The Presidential Medal and the Movses Khorenatsi Medal from the Republic of Armenia, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is the Rebar Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English at Colgate University.

This event is free & open to the public.

Co-sponsors:
University of Michigan Department of English
Department of Middle East Studies (U-M)
Residential College Creative Writing Program (U-M)
University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research - NAASR

09/03/2026

NOTES TO NEW MOTHERS
reading and launch party
Wed, Sep 9, 6-7:30pm
Recess Play Cafe

Featuring Gina Maria Balibrera, Julie Buntin, Alana DeRiggi, Madhumita Lahiri, Rebecca Knight, Brittany Rogers, and more

Books, refreshments, and community — kids welcome.

09/02/2026

During James Watke-Stacy’s time as Intern for Instruction and Engagement, he was often tasked with looking through the Clements collections for materials that would assist with class instruction or an event. Before graduating last spring, he compiled some lessons he learned through this process to...