francine j. harris, author of allegiance, along with Airea Dee Matthews will be reading poety at the U-Club on the University of Michigan's Campus, as part of the Slam Team Series. The U-Club is located at 1310 Michigan Union, 530 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1349. For more information, please call (734) 763-3202.

Richard Bak, author of Boneyards: Detroit Under Ground, and Detroitland: A Collection of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, and History Makers of Detroit's Past will speak about his books at the Livonia Public Library (5 Mile and Farmington Road) at 2:00 p.m.

Bill Harris, author of Booker T & Them and Birth of a Notion, and his wife Carole are being honored for their achievements in art from the Friends of African and African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Books will be available for sale and signing.

Jack Driscoll, author of The World of a Few Minutes Ago, will be reading and signing books at Horizon Books in Traverse City on Saturday, February 18, 2012 from 5:30-8:30 pm.

Poet Vievee Francis will read along with WSU student Aricka Foreman.

Vievee Francis is the author of BlueTail Fly. She is the recipient of a 2009 Rona Jaffe Award, a 2010 Kresge Artist Fellowship, and Callaloo and Cave Canem fellowships.

Aricka Foreman is a Cave Canem Fellow and English major at Wayne State University.

WSU Press will display and sell books at the 2012 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference in Chicago, IL.

The MOCAD will be hosing Bill Harris for a book launch event for Booker T & Them: A Blues. This event will take place on March 1, 2012 at 5:30 pm.

Jean Alicia Elster, author of Who’s Jim Hines?, will be the inaugural visiting author for The Lori Lutz Visiting Artist Series at The Roeper School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Elster will speak at both the Bloomfield Hills (lower school) and Birmingham (middle/upper school) Campuses during the full-day event.

Richard Bak, author of Detroitland: A Collection of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, and History Makers from Detroit's Past, will be reading from and signing copies of his new book at the Dearborn Historical Museum's McFadden-Ross House on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 7:30 pm. The McFadden-Ross House is located at 915 S. Brady St., Dearborn, MI 48124. For questions, please contact Kirt Gross, curator, at (313)565-3000.

Terry Blackhawk, author of The Light Between, and francine harris, author of allegiance, will be reading at the University of Michigan campus on March 8, 2012, beginning at 5:10 pm. This event will be held in the Helmut Stern Auditorium of the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Jack Driscoll, author of The World of a Few Minutes Ago, will be reading and signing books at Literary Life Book Store in Grand Rapids on March 8, 2012 from 7:00 - 8:30 pm.

Jean Alicia Elster, author of Who's Jim Hines?, will be attending the Michigan Reading Association's annual conference. She will be participating in the Author/Illustrator breakfast on March 11, 2012 at 8:00 am. Location: DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Registration required.

Join us for the book launch event for The United State District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan by David Gardner Chardavoyne. The event takes place on March 15th, 2012, from 4:00 - 6:00 pm at the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse located at 231 W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit, Michigan 48226. Light refreshments will be served, and copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. Parking meters are available on the far side of Fort Street, but street parking is prohibited next to the courthouse on all sides. Numerous parking lots and structures in the area offer public parking for $8 to $10 per day. Please note that cell phones, cameras, and recording devices are prohibited. RSVP instructions forthcoming.

Anthony J. Yanik, author of The Fall and Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812: In Defense of William Hull,, will be speaking at the Algonquin Club in Monroe, MI, on March 20, 2012, at 7:00 p.m.

The Press will be attending and selling our Film and Television studies titles at the 2012 Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference in Boston, MA.

Bruce Ruben, author of Max Lilienthal: The Making of the American Rabbinate, will be speaking about his book on March 23 at the Beth El Congregation in Fort Worth, Texas.

WSU Press will display and sell books at the Michigan in Perspective: Local History Conference in Warren, MI at Macomb Community College South Campus' John Lewis Center on March 31st, 2012.

WSU Press authors and Detroit Free Press reporters Joe Grimm and Katherine Yung will present a program relating to their latest book, Coney Detroit, that explains why Detroit became the world capital for Coney Island hot dogs.

Gleaners Community Foodback of Southeastern Michigan (located at 2131 Beaufait, Detroit, MI 48207) will be hosting the book launch event for Coney Detroit. This event will take place on Wednesday, April 4th 2012, from 5:00-8:00pm. More details to come!

Poets Terry Blackhawk, author of The Light Between, and francine j. harris, author of allegiance, will be at Literary Life Bookstore reading and signing copies of their new books. The event takes place on April 13.

Jean Alicia Elster, author of Who’s Jim Hines?, will be the featured author/speaker at the National Library Week celebration at Duffield Branch-Detroit Public Library (2507 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit) from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. More info at http://www.detroitpubliclibrary.org/duffield/index_duffield.htm or call (313) 481-1711.

Wayne state University Press and the WSU Press Board of visitors cordially invite you to the 7th annual celebration of new books in the Made in Michigan Writers Series!

More details forthcoming.

Richard Bak, author of Detroitland: A Collection of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, and History Makers of Detroit's Past will speak about his books at the Roseville Public Library on April 17, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.

Wayne State University Press will be exhibiting and selling books at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting which takes place April 18 through April 22, 2012 at the Cobo Conference Center in Detroit Michigan. Dr. Charles Hyde, author of Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors and The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy will be the keynote speaker for this event. Visit the website for more information.

Detroit Free Press reporters Joe Grimm and Katherine Yung will present a program relating to their latest book, Coney Detroit, that explains why Detroit became the world capital for Coney Island hot dogs.

Learn the stories behind the restaurants that have made Metro Detroit the coney island capital. The authors of Coney Detroit, the first comprehensive book on the subject, will take you into the past and behind the scenes with anecdotes and photos that will help you see coney islands in a whole new light. The dogs, the sauce, the families, the different styles of coneys and how people across the country are copying the Detroit experience -- it's all in there. Enjoy a coney and a coke as you enjoy the history! Book for sale at class (optional), $24.95. Wednesday, 4/25, 7-8:30pm. RSVP required.

Poet Terry Blackhawk, author of The Light Between, will be at the Detroit Institute of Arts on Friday, April 27th, as a part of the Free Fridays at the DIA. She will be reading and signing copies of her new book.

Joe Grimm and Katherine Yung, authors of Coney Detroit, will be at Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor signing copies and talking about the new book.

Richard Bak, author of Detroitland: A Collection of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, and History Makers from Detroit's Past, will be speaking about and signing copies of his new book at the Northville District Library on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 7:00 pm.

Jean Alicia Elster, author of Who’s Jim Hines?, with sell and sign copies of her book at the Flint Public Library Book Expo 2012 located at 1026 E. Kearsley, Flint, MI, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. More info at www.fpl.info.

"Visions of Bay View: The Exhibit"  Photography by Robert Cleveland (Bay View, An American Idea) Petoskey District Library, Petoskey, Michigan, May 28 through September 13, 2012.

Richard Bak, author of Detroitland: A Collection of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, and History Makers from Detroit's Past, will be speaking about his book and signing copies at the Sterling Heights Public Library on June 7th at 7pm.

Power Point Presentation on Bay View: An American Idea by Mary Jane Doerr, Walloon Public Library, Walloon Lake, Michigan, June 14, 2012, 7 p.m.
 

Mary Jane Doerr, author of Bay View: An American Idea, will be at the International Hemingway Society Conference, June 17 through June 24, in Bay View, Michigan.