City Harvest with Queens College MFA Students ... and Open House

MFA Program Open House and ...
READ IT and REAP: A Benefit Reading for City Harvest
Emerging poets, fiction writers, memoirists, playwrights, and musicians
from the MFA Program read and perform
Monday, November 30, 6:30 p.m.
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, 4th Floor, Klapper Hall
Admission by suggested donation of $5
All proceeds to go to City Harvest for hunger relief
READ IT AND REAP is a new reading series of the Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation, in partnership with City Harvest, a nonprofit food-rescue organization that delivers food free of charge to community food programs throughout New York City. All tax-deductible proceeds go directly to City Harvest.
RECEPTION and MFA Program Open House to follow
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information
General info: www.qc.cuny.edu/Creative_Writing

'Inflation" is a good thing on Thanksgiving...

Skip the Parade--or get a preview! The best holiday thing to do is watch the parade balloons get blown up. Go to 77nd Street and Columbis Avenue (near American Museum of Natural History) on Wednesday, from 3 - 10 pm. Very cool.

And, Happy Thanksgiving!

Points of View:

Novelist Susan Isaacs
talks about Writing, Publishing and the Literary World
Monday November 23
6:30pm
@
QC Campus, Klapper 710
Information: 718-997-4600

Center for Book Arts’ POETRY CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

The Center for Book Arts invites submissions to its annual Poetry Chapbook Competition by December 1, 2009. This year’s judges will be Terrance Hayes & Sharon Dolin.

See DETAILS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Send Entries to:
2010 CHAPBOOK COMPETITION The Center for Book Arts 28 West 27th St., 3rd Floor New York, NY 10001(212) 481-0295 or visit www.centerforbookarts.org.

AS URBAN CABIN FEVER SETS IN... GO OUT!

Check out things to do on the CUNY Creative Writing Website:
cuny.edu/academics/academic-programs/programs-of-note/creative-writing-at-CUNY.html
AND
The CUNY Calendar:
www.cuny.edu/cunymonth
for events such as--
Monday, Nov. 16, Bill Kelly in conversation with Patti Smith
at the Grad. Ctr., 7-8:15 pm, free
...
Sunday, Nov. 29, "The Nutcracker" Moscow Classical Ballet at Lehman College, 4 pm, $10-45
…
Center for worker Education new “Book Talks” include: CUNY alumnus and Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Hijuelos (Nov. 3), Lori Marie Carlson on bilingual Latina/o poetry (Nov. 16), Distinguished Prof of History at John Jay Mike Wallace on his book, GOTHAM. Free. 6 pm.

... Isn't this why you live here?

An Invitation to a Chapbook Launch ...

*A Field Guide to the Intractable*
by Kimiko Hahn
and artfully created by
Small Anchor Press
join us on Sunday, November 8th
from 3 – 6 pm
at The Four-Faced Liar
~a traditional pub~
165 West 4th Street, New York, NY

Play Opens by MFA Student, Yvette Heyliger...

The Obie Award winning Billie Holiday Theatre is pleased to present the New York premiere of What Would Jesus Do? , written by Queens College MFA Creative Writing-Playwriting candidate, Yvette Heyliger. What Would Jesus Do? is an inter-faith, intergenerational play with music about family, church, sex and HIV. The play challenges the faith and secular communities to do more to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Previews begin October 23 rd with opening night on November 7 – December 20, 2009 (Thursdays & Fridays at 8pm ; Saturdays at 3pm & 8pm ; and Sundays at 4:00pm ) at the Billie Holiday Theatre, 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn , NY (take the “A” train to Nostrand Ave. ). Group rates are available. Theatre patron parking is located at 1360 Fulton Street for 8$. Tickets are $23 and can be purchased online at www.thebillieholidaytheatre.org or at the box office. Several shows are already sold out, so the QC community is strongly encouraged to purchase their tickets today!

HAWAII DURING INTERSESSION...

Doing homework on Waikiki Beach? Hiking to a Waterfall as part of a writing assignment?
It's tough being a graduate student during intersession...
QUEENS COLLEGE:
EDUCATION ABROAD PROGRAM

"Mirrorland:
Encountering the Self and the Other in Hawaii"
This literature course, with an emphasis on creative writing, will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, this January, 2010 by two QC professors, the writers Harold Schechter and Kimiko Hahn. For further information on the course and faculty bios, see this website:
www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/StudyAbroad

Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa
reads his poetry and talks with
Alice Quinn as part of
The New Salon in Queens
Mr. Komunyakaa is the author of over a dozen collections of poems and the recipient of such honors as The Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Born and raised in Bogalusa, Louisiana, he worked as a correspondent and editor of the U.S. Army’s Southern Cross during the Vietnam War. He is Distinguished Senior Poet in NYU’s graduate creative writing program.
Ms. Quinn was the poetry editor of the New Yorker for twenty years and is the Executive Director of The Poetry Society of America.
Free and Open to the Public
Wednesday October 21, 6:30pm
QUEENS COLLEGE CAMPUS
Benjamin Rosenthal Library, Room 230

THIS ISLAND EARTH

Matthew Boyd Goldie (Rider University) to speak on
"This Island Earth: Insularity in Ancient and Medieval Literature, Science, and Maps"
(sponsored by The English Department and Writing Across the Curriculum)
Tuesday, October 20, 4:30 - 6:30,
@ QUEENS COLLEGE CAMPUS, in the Q-Side Lounge (next to the Dining Hall)