ANN ARBOR—Rackham Amphitheater on the University of Michigan Central Campus is the site of the 1999-2000 Visiting Writers Series. All events begin at 5 p.m.

On Sept. 30, poet Anne Carson will read from Autobiography of “Red: A Novel in Verse.” Honored with the National Book Critics Circle nomination, this epic poem is a story about a boy’s passage into manhood. Carson teaches at McGill University in Canada.

The Novelist Frederick Busch plans to read from his new novel “The Night Inspector” on Oct. 14. This book, published in May, portrays a fiction setting of writer Herman Melville in post-Civil War New York. Busch has now published 20 books in addition to being a professor of literature at Colgate University.

Sponsored by the U-M Department of English and the U-M Office of the Provost, all readings are free and open to the public. Call Ian Reed Twiss at (734) 647-6471 for more information.

Frederick BuschDepartment of English