ANN ARBOR—Two distinguished writers will read at the University of Michigan’s visiting writers series in January.

Grace Paley, short story writer and poet, will read at the Hopwood Underclassmen Awards ceremony Jan. 27 in Rackham Auditorium. Paley’s stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly. She has published three volumes of stories, two books of poetry, as well as a volume of poems and prose.

Known as a “somewhat combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist,” Paley has tackled many issues in her long career, including the Viet Nam War and the feminist movement, and has taught at several universities. The often-honored writer was named the first official New York State writer in 1989.

Laurence Goldstein, U-M professor of English, will read from his work Jan. 29 in Rackham Amphitheater. Goldstein has published three books of poetry, three more of literary criticism, and has co-edited six others. For 20 years he has been editor of Michigan Quarterly Review.

His poetry has appeared in many magazines, as well as Best American Poetry 1995. He writes, as poet Lawrence Joseph has said, “of a Los Angeles turned into a Blakean Jerusalem . . . Goldstein casts poetry’s cold eye on America’s dreams.”

The Hopwood Underclassmen awards are administered every winter to U-M students for their short fiction, poetry and essays.

The visiting writers series is co-sponsored by the U-M Department of English and Borders Books and Music, and features prominent writers and poets from within and without the University. Both readings are free.

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