Table of contents

Contents
Introduction
List of Contents
Marisa Jordan Galarza (she/her) Last Look
Sever Harper Johnston (she/her) Unfinished Conversations
Lucy (Australophithecus)
Dearest Joan,
Grand Canyon
Myself, again Niyah Reeves (she/her) Worms Reagan Keller (she/her) why i write
after he died, i wrote my first poem
Preservation of the Soul Hanqui (Charlie) Shang (they/them) An atheist's prayer Camren Thorpe (he/him) this is why i don't play "through me" by beach house when i have company Hannah Cronin (she/her) Fingertip Length   Lillian Maloney (she/her) Sonnet One Julian Creutz (he/him) The Sun Knew I Was a Boy Before I Did: Reflections on a Religion All My Own (Or, the Miracle of Creation) Carolyn Potter (she/her) Elements Alycia Pietrzak (she/her) Festival of Ghosts Macie Hayden (they/them) on my fifteenth birthday, i came out to my father
on election night, i find a stranger across the street
poem for dad
grief grows scales
but even bullets Maddie Shouman (she/her) Whispers of the Tide Shereen Shahid (she/her) Combustion Confessions Piece Lillian Reed-Nordwall (she/her) Dauðamey Saga   Ruby Lewis (she/her) In the lamplight
There is a year you cannot go outside
The Heron
Suppose
Duck Hunting on the 5th of November, 2024 Lukas Price (he/him) Coley Moleville and the Mushroom Lab Alina Murata (they/them/she/her) Sugary Air
FAMILY SIZE
Hold Her Canvas in My Eye Phoebe Cavanaugh (she/her) The Low Down Luke Homans (any/all) Untitled
It's been said
Grotesquerie
far too warm and dying carvings Kyla Kralapp (she/her) The Bug Catchers   Olivia Perrine (she/her) I Submerged Myself And Came Out Dripping
Dead Girls Are Skinnier
Blood on Your Hands
Just a Girl
Dear Love, I hate you
A Star Jewell Mason (she/her) The T-Shaped Dock
 

Description

Café Shapiro is an annual event where undergraduate student writers, nominated by their instructors to participate, read from their creative works.

Café Shapiro began in February 1998 as part of the University’s “Year of the Humanities and Arts” (YoHA). and was originally conceived as a student coffee break. Café Shapiro takes place in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library during winter evenings in March. For many student writers, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their work.

Café Shapiro features poems and short stories authored by University of Michigan students, becoming an annual celebration of undergraduate student writers as they think creatively and critically, reason, ask questions, and develop the skills that help them understand and participate in our world.