Wednesday Night Sessions: A Monthly Reading Series

Christine Hume is the author of three books, most recently Shot (Counterpath, 2010), and three
chapbooks, Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008),  Ventifacts (Omnidawn, 2012), and Hum (Dikembe, 2013). She teaches in the interdisciplinary
creative writing program at Eastern Michigan University.

Rob Halpern is the author of several books of poetry, including Rumored Place, Disaster Suites, and most recently, Music for Porn. Together with
Taylor Brady, he also co-authored the book length poem Snow Sensitive
Skin. His recent critical essays and translations appear in Modernist
Cultures, Journal of Narrative Theory, Chicago
Review and The Claudius App. He currently lives in Ypsilanti,
Michigan, where he teaches at Eastern Michigan University.

Carla Harryman, an innovator in
interdisciplinary performance, poetry, and prose, has authored seventeen books
including W— /M— (2013), Adorno’s Noise (2008), Gardener of Stars (2001), and
the multi-authored work The Grand Piano, an Experiment in
Autobiography: San Francisco, 1975-1980.  Open Box (with Jon Raskin),
a CD of music and text performances was released on the Tzadik label in 2012.
Her Poets Theater, interdisciplinary, and bi-lingual performances have
been presented nationally and internationally. Recent performances include San
Francisco’s Outsound Festival (2012) and The Center
for New Music (2013), a version of Mirror Play performed
as a dialogue in Czech and English (Prague Micro-festival, 2011), and Occupying
Theodore W. Adorno’s “Music and New Music,” a keynote
lecture-performance (with pianist Magda Mayas) presented at dOCUMENTA
13  (2012). She serves on the faculty of Eastern Michigan University
and is currently a Sr. Writer-in-Residence in the University of
Washington, Bothell’s Poetics Program and a Primary Mentor for the Banff Center
of the Art’s February residency program.