February 2019 Vol. LXXX, No. 1 The Hopwood Newsletter is published electronically twice a year. It lists the publications and activities of winners of the Hopwood Underclassmen
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HOPWOOD NEWSLETTER
id you hear about the polar vortex?! We were all set to celebrate the first round of 2019 Hopwood Awards last Wednesday — the Hop-
wood Underclassmen Awards, as well as the Academy of American
Poets Prizes, The Meador Family Award, The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry, The Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize
Contest, Graduate and Undergraduate
in Poetry, The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry, and the Roy W. Cowden
Hopwood Contest, and the Hopwood
Memorial Fellowship — when historic lows caused the University of Michigan
Award Theodore Roethke Prize.
to shut down for two days. We’re working on a reschedule of this event, and the students’ prizes —totaling $40,475 this winter! — won’t be delayed. Stay tuned
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for details about our rescheduled ceremony on our website and social media.
News and Notes
Books and Chapbooks
sub-zero temparatures, and is one to circle on the calendar. We’ll be joined by
Fiction Publications
essayist and critic Hilton Als, who will deliver an original lecture after we award
Poetry Publications
the Graduate + Undergraduate Hopwood Awards. The April awards will include
Nonfiction Publications
three new awards to undergraduate writers: The Cora Duncan Award in Fiction,
Drama
in honor of Ms. Cora Duncan, who won a remarkable five Hopwood Awards
Reviews
in her time as an undergraduate in the 1950s; the Peter Philip Pratt Award in
Awards and Honors
Fiction, in honor of Peter Pratt who won a Hopwood Major Essay Award in
January 2019 Winners
the 1980s; and the Keith Taylor Excellence in Poetry Award, in honor of Keith
Our April awards ceremony will hopefully go ahead without any
Taylor, whose recent retirement has given occasion to celebrate his legacy of mentorship at Michigan. Please join us as we celebrate these new prizes — and, of course, all the rest of the awards! — on Thursday, April 18, 2019, 6:00 PM at Rackham. We hope this newsletter finds you warm and happy—stay in good touch! Yours, Hannah Ensor
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HILTON ALS TO GIVE HOPWOOD LECTURE IN APRIL Hilton Als began contributing to
provocative contributions to the
The New Yorker in 1989, writing
discourse on theatre, race, class,
pieces for ‘The Talk of the Town,’
sexuality, and identity in America.
he became a staff writer in 1994, theatre critic in 2002, and lead
We’re excited for Mr. Als’s lecture
theatre critic in 2012. Week after
in April —we think he’ll be a great
week, he brings to the magazine
fit for these April awards, which
a rigorous, sharp, and lyrical per-
include drama, screenplay, fiction,
spective on acting, playwriting, and
and nonfiction categories.
directing. With his deep knowledge of the history of performance—not
Stay tuned to our website and
only in theatre but in dance, music,
social media channels for more
and visual art—he shows us how
details about this event.
to view a production and how to place its director, its author, and its performers in the ongoing continuum of dramatic art. His reviews are not simply reviews; they are
NEWS AND NOTES BOOKS AND CHAPBOOKS News and Notes
dling of a Title IX complaint after a student is assaulted on a fictional
GABRIELLE CIVIL (1992)
college campus.
Gabrielle Civil will be participating in a reading and dialogue with leg-
Books and Chapbooks
endary Detroit poet and publisher
NATE MARSHALL FINNA, a book of poems forthcoming from One World/Random House, 2020. CHIGOZIE OBIOMA An Orchestra of Minorities, pub-
Naomi Long Madgett through the
DONALD BEAGLE (1977)
Hopwood program in March.
The Hopwood Poets Revisited, LP
and you can see documents from
Press, December 2018. The book is
her recent book club project, The
the winner of the 2018 “Gail O’Day
Small Beauty Book Club in the Full
Award for Outstanding Achieve-
Stop Literary Supplement.
ment in Poetry.”
BART PLANTEGA (1977)
GABRIELLE CIVIL (1992)
bart plantenga has published and/or
Experiments in Joy, forthcoming
produced over 28 new works, all of
from The Accomplices in 2019 with
which are featured on his newly-up-
a launch at the AWP Conference in
dated website.
Portland.
Press in spring 2019.
JULIANA ROTH (2014)
JOE FLETCHER (1998-1999)
JESS ROW (2000)
Juliana Roth is at work fundraising
The Hatch, a poetry collection pub-
for her first film, What We Know,
lished by Brooklyn Arts Press, June
which is centered on the mishan-
2018.
lished by Little, Brown and Company, January 8, 2019. It has been chosen for Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by EW, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Lithub, and Bustle, among others. PAISLEY REKDAL (1996) Nightingale, a poetry collection forthcoming from Copper Canyon
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination, a book of essays forthcoming from Graywolf Press in August 2019. SHERMAN SILBER (1965) Fundamentals of Male Infertility, co-authored with Dr. Fan, published by Springer. Assistive Reproductive Technology, co-edited with Dr. Xiaoyan Liang.
BOOKS AND CHAPBOOKS FICTION AND POETRY PUBLICATIONS SARAH STONE (1997, 1998)
JESS ROW (2000)
Winter 2018. Four broadsides created
Hungry Ghost Theater, a novel pub-
“Radical Sufficiency” in Granta, Fall
in collaboration with Michigan artist
lished by WTAW Press, October 2018.
2018.
John Elkerr, in Oak Foliate Literary Magazine, December 2018. “Miss
KEITH WALDROP (1958)
ROSEMARY HARP (1993)
Crable Introduces Herself to the Sev-
The second volume of Selected Poems
“Capetown 1991” in Everyday Fiction,
enth Graders at Scarlett Junior High
in German, Gravitationen II: Aus-
February 2019, and “The Widows
School,” forthcoming in Aji Magazine,
gewählte Gedichte, edited by David
Club” in Pithead Chapel, March 2019.
spring 2019. “The Wilding Days,”
Frühauf & Jan Kuhlbrodt, 2018.
forthcoming in The Tampa Review. JOYCE WINSLOW (1968)
“Night Shift at the Globe” and “Stro-
KEITH AND ROSMARIE WALDROP
“The Juggler” winner of the F. Scott
phes from the Minotaur” in World
(1958 and 1963)
Fitzgerald Literary Award, forthcom-
Literature Today.
Keeping / the window open: Interviews,
ing in Persimmon Tree. “Never Count
Statements, Alarms, Excursions, edited
a Man Unhappy” and “One Day At
ALEX CIGALE (1985)
by Ben Lerner with an introduction
the End of His World,” forthcoming
Translation of Alexander Ulanov’s
by Aaron Kunin, forthcoming from
from Cascais Interarts Journal.
prose poem, in Asympotote, October
Wave Books in 2019.
2018. Translation of Naum KorHOWARD WOLF (1967)
zhavin’s “A Date with Moscow,” in
HOWARD WOLF (1967)
“The Icicles of Eggertsville” in Tra-
Four Centuries. Translation of Nikolai
Ends and Beginnings: A Cycle of Jewish
jectory, Spring 2018. “Second Time
Nekrasov’s “Petersburg’s Missive,”
American Stories, forthcoming from
Around” in Evening Street Review.
in The Hopkins Review, Fall 2018.
Prestige Books International.
Translation of two poems by Fyodor Poetry Publications
Fiction Publications
Svarosky, in Multiverse. Translation of Viacheslav Kupriyanov’s “The Sun,” in
DONALD BEAGLE (1977) GREGORY LOSELLE (1989)
“Time, Considered as Driving in
“Lint, Dust & Hair” published online
Ohio” in Blue Unicorn, fall 2018.
in Typishly.
Offcourse. GABRIELLE CIVIL (1992) In November, Gabrielle Civil had a
STEPHEN BERRY (1986)
poem, “19th Birthday in Paris,” evok-
JULIANA ROTH (2014)
“Bagram Theater Internment Facility
ing her Michigan year abroad, pub-
“Unwinding” in GASHER Journal.
Prisoner No. 421” and “Encomium
lished through the American Acade-
for Miroslav Holub,” in Sukoon,
my of Poets’ Poem-a-Day program.
POETRY PUBLICATIONS TARIK DOBBS (2018)
JENNIFER METSKER (2003)
French by Diane Scott, Revue Incise
Poems forthcoming or recently ap-
“Release” recently featured on Poetry
5, August 2018.
peared in Cream City Review, Diode
Daily. Poem forthcoming in The Jour-
Poetry Journal, The Journal, Glass,
nal and will have an audio narrative
ROSMARIE WALDROP (1963)
and Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
featured in the upcoming Bookmarks
“Aging” was the Poem-a-Day poem
Exhibition at the University of Mich-
on the Academy of American Poets
igan.
website on November 1, 2018, with
HANNAH ENSOR (2009) “Feel Piece 4,” co-written with Laura
fourteen more poems up on the web-
Wetherington, was the Poem-a-Day
PAISLEY REKDAL (1996)
site on November 20. Other poems
poem on the Academy of American
“Four Marys” in Best American Poetry
in the online “MeToo” issue, Chicago
Poets website on January 11, 2019.
2019, edited by Major Jackson, out in
Review, edited by Emily Critchley &
fall 2019.
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, September
LEAH FALK (2012)
2018. Part of The Road is Everywhere
Poems out or forthcoming in the
JULIANA ROTH (2014)
was translated into German by Alex-
most recent FIELD, Jewish Currents,
“Bi-coastal“ forthcoming in Yemassee.
ander Wöran & Mathias Müller, in Triëdere, 2018. Part of Driven to Ab-
Grist Online, EcoTheo, and Orange Quarterly. “Sara Turing’s Archive” was
HARRY THOMAS (1979)
straction was translated into French
selected by Kyle Dargan for Best New
“Bearings” in Literary Imagination.
by Françoise de Laroque, in La tête et
Poets 2018.
les cornes, 2018. LAURENCE W. THOMAS (1956)
X.J. KENNEDY (1970)
“Aging” in Calliope, Fall 2018. “The
MARTHA ZWEIG (1966)
“Vermont Seasons” in The Poetry of
Art of Patience, ” “At An Event,”
“The Breakfast Nook” and “Mutt
US, edited by J. Patrick Lewis, 2018.
“Ghazal on a Clouded Day,” and “A
Mix” in Poetry, December 2018.
Nocturnal Visit” in Spare Mule, OctoGREGORY LOSELLE (1989)
ber 2018. “On the Edge of a Cliff ” in
“The Stars from the Tennis Courts”
Lucidity Poetry Journal International.
published online in The Alexandria
“My True Love” in Grist Magazine,
Quarterly. “Lobster in Broth” forth-
September 2018.
coming in Burningword Literary Journal. “Do Not Touch the Art”
KEITH WALDROP (1958)
forthcoming in The New Guard.
“71 Elmgrove Avenue” translated into
NONFICTION PUBLICATIONS, DRAMA, REVIEWS, AWARDS AND HONORS Nonfiction Publications
True, in The Hopkins Review.
JOYCE WINSLOW (1968) Won a 2019 fellowship grant from the
HANNAH ENSOR (2009)
MARTHA ZWEIG (1966)
D.C. Commission on the Arts and
An advent calendar essay, “On Denise
Review of Patricia Corbus’ Finestra’s
Humanities to continue work on her
Levertov’s ‘On the Function of the
Window, in the Poetry Foundation’s
novel-in-progress.
Line’ (1979)” on Essay Daily.
online blog The Reading List, December 2018.
X.J. KENNEDY (1970) Essay in A Festschrift for John Irwin,
HOWARD WOLF (1967) The Twentieth Century Club of Buf-
Awards and Honors
John Hopkins University Press.
falo, one of the oldest women’s clubs in the United States, has decided to
JULIANA ROTH (2014)
set up a “Howard R. Wolf Writer’s
JESS ROW (2000)
Twice nominated for this year’s Best
Corner” in their library to acknowl-
“Why is Being Held Accountable So
of the Net Anthology from Sundress
edge my contributions as a lecturer
Terrifying Under Patriarchy?” in The
Publications.
and teacher.
JESS ROW (2000)
Drama Performances and
A. BRAD SCHWARTZ (2011, 2013)
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the
Publications
“Orson Welles and the Birth of Fake
American Imagination, winner of a
News,” article, The New York Times,
Whiting Foundation Creative Non-
DEAN BAKOPOULOS (1997)
October 30, 2018.
fiction Grant for a work in progress,
Co-wrote and co-produced Don’t
September 2018.
Come Back from the Moon, starring
New Yorker, November 2018.
SHERMAN SILBER (1965)
Rashida Jones, James Franco, and
“Ovary Transplantation Results from
FRITZ SWANSON (1997, 1998, 1999,
Jeffrey Wahlberg. It premiered at the
One Center in the United States” in
2001)
Los Angeles Film Festival and opens
Assisted Reproduction and Genetics.
“A Dirge for the Doubly Dead” nomi-
in select theaters January 19, 2019.
“The Intrinsic Fertility of the Human
nated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize.
Oocyte” in Fertility and Sterility. KD Williams (2011) Reviews
The short story “Fearsome Critters and the Great Unknown” was selected
X.J. KENNEDY (1970)
for the Top 25 of Glimmer Train’s
Review of Greg Williamson’s The Hole
Fiction Open.
Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the
WINNERS OF 2019 UNDERCLASSMEN AWARDS
WINNERS OF 2019 HOPWOOD
2022 LSA English and Creative
$1,500 to Jena Vallina, a class of
AWARDS
Writing and Literature student from
2022 LSA English student from
Bloomfield Hills for “Bombshells and
Romeoville, Illinois, for “Family
Blood: Three Stories.”
Heirlooms.”
HOPWOOD UNDERCLASSMEN
$1,800 to Grace Roberts, a class
FICTION $600 to Maya Gompper, a class of
$1,500 to Natasha Vatalaro, a class of
of 2022 LSA student from South
2021 LSA English student from Ann
2022 LSA English and Chemistry stu-
Portland, Maine, for “A Life in Few
Arbor for “Soap Swirls.”
dent from Grosse Pointe Park for “Si-
Words.”
lence, and Other Too-Loud Things.” HOPWOOD UNDERCLASSMEN
$600 to Jo Chang, a class of 2021 LSA English student from Ridgewood,
HOPWOOD UNDERCLASSMEN
POETRY
New Jersey, for “The Weeping and
NONFICTION
$600 to Magdalena Mihaylova, a
Gnashing of Teeth.”
$600 to Yi Qing Zhou, a class of
class of 2021 LSA Comparative
2022 LSA Psychology student from
Literature
$800 to Megan Chou, a class of 2021
Ann Arbor for “Identity, Ability, and
student from Ann Arbor for “Dear
LSA English and Film, Television,
Dubiety.”
Bulgaria,”.
$800 to Lia Baldori, a class of 2021
$800 to Alexander Wagner, a class
LSA student from Okemos for “Pop
of 2021 LSA Residential College
Quiz’ & ‘If It Makes You Happy.”
Creative Writing and Literature
and Media student from Ann Arbor for “Butter.” $1,500 to Sofia Spencer, a class of
student for “Under the Christmas Lights.” $1,700 to Nora Hilgart-Griff, a class of 2021 LSA student for “Sometimes, the Title Comes First.” $1,800 to Hiba Dagher, a class of 2022 LSA student from Dearborn for “Excerpts from a Mother Tongue.”
AN ADDENDUM + STAY IN TOUCH!
AN ADDENDUM Marge Piercy has published the short story “The service” in the 60th anniversary issue of December Magazine, Fall/Winter 2018. She has also published poems in several literary journals, including: “A bush of surprises,” “A great morning arrives,” “Another request comes in,” “Memory lurks in them” in The Poetry Porch, spring 2018; “After the operation,” “Fooled again, she said” and “O frabjous joy, the turkeys” in Muddy River Poetry Review, Spring 2018; “Algonquins call this crow moon” in Lunar Calendar 2018; “Early Education,” “Endless Rage,” and “World that doesn’t lack an ending”in LIPS, Spring 2018; “Mother seized what she could” in Patterson Literary Review, 2018; “Power to the people” in Haibun Today, Spring 2018; “Will the drought ever break?” in Contemporary Haibun Online, October 2018; “As I try to imagine it” in Broadkill Review, January/February 2018; “Happy birthday to me” in Patterson Literary Review, 2017-2018; and “When the body is cranky” in Hanging Loose, 2018.
Marge received the Rose Dorthea
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