Submit the Sublime—

Poetry Society of America
Chapbook Contest
now open for submission: October 1 - December 22, 2008
See full guidelines: http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-chapbook.php#guide

Translation: Call for Submissions

TWO LINES World Writing in Translation is currently accepting
submissions for its sixteenth volume, guest edited by award-winning
translators MARGARET JULL COSTA and MARILYN HACKER.
Deadline: October 31.
http://www.catranslation.org/translation.html

FLU SEASON

... not exactly, poetic ... but for those interested, flu shots are available for $20 *while supply lasts* and with QC i.d. across from Klapper Hall.

STATE OF THE UNION: A POETRY READING

Thursday, October 30, 6:30pm
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
John Ashbery + Dan Chelotti +
Thomas Sayers Ellis + Nick Flynn +
Caroline Knox + Eileen Myles +
Mathias Svalina + Azareen Van der
Vliet Oloomi + Elizabeth Willis + Rachel Zucker
William Carlos Williams wrote: "It is difficult/to get the news from
poems/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack/ of what is found
there." Join the contributors to the Wave Books anthology State of the
Union: 50 Political Poems.
The Amie and Tony James Gallery
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th St. NY, NY
212-817-2005, abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu, centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

Yvette—can't stay out of the White House!!!

Operation Lysistrata! is her new play inspired by Aristophanes' play, Lysistrata, and will be read as part of the Dramatist Guild's Friday Night Footlights reading series on this coming Friday, October 24, 6:00 - 7:30pm.
The Dramatist Guild, 1501 Broadway, Suite 701, NYC.
NOTE: the reading is FREE, but must begin promptly at 6:00pm, so please come a few minutes early!

A Helen Adam Halloween!

Wednesday, October 29, 8:00pm
Edmund Berrigan, Charles Bernstein, Lee Ann Brown, Bob Holman, Susan Howe, Serena Jost, Dan Machlin, Julie Patton, Kristin Prevallet & Cecilia Vicuña
Let the spirits move you to this musical and spoken word happening in honor of San Francisco Renaissance balladeer Helen Adam. Co-sponsored by Poet's House and ...
@ The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church 
131 E. 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue) 
$8, $7 for students and seniors, $5 for Poetry Project members 
Free to Poets House members

Don’t forget the 92nd St. Y:

John Ashbery on Oct. 27, Lucille Clifton and W.S. Merwin on Nov. 3, .. even Dostoevsky and Virginia Woolf have their say later in the season! [a number of tickets for those under 35 are available for 10!]
See full listing of readings at Unterberg Poetry Center: www.92y.org/poetry/

QC within Earshot!

EARSHOT readings
*Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 8 PM*
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!
Featuring:
Amy Lawless (Noctis Licentia)
Alex Smith (Lux)
Danielle Grace Warren (Hunter College)
**James Shultis (Queens College)**
Caedra Scott-Flaherty (New York University)
The Lucky Cat, 245 Grand Street (Driggs and Roebling), Brooklyn
Visit their website for directions: http://www.theluckycat.com.
EARSHOT is a bi-monthly reading series, dedicated to featuring new and emerging literary talent in the NYC area. Hosted by Nicole Steinberg. Visit http://www.earshotnyc.com for more information.

SYLVIA PLATH, evening of ...

Cornelia Street Cafe
Monday October 27, 6pm.
Evening assembled actor Paul Hecht: three actresses--Mireille Enos, Joyce van Patten & Jennifer van Dyke, with a little music from the violist Tanya Kalmanovitch. The cover is $10; $5 w student i.d..

Carol Muske Dukes & Susan Wheeler

Friday, October 17
4pm: Drinks and snacks
5pm Reading and conversation
NYU Creative Writing Program
Lillian Vernon Writers House
58 West 10th St, NY NY
$5 at the door

ARACELIS GIRMAY & ADA LIMÓN

CENTER FOR THE BOOK ARTS PRESENTS
Friday, October 17, 6:30 pm:
ARACELIS GIRMAY, Teeth
ADA LIMÓN, This Big Fake World & Lucky Wreck
Curator & Host: RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ
$10 admission includes a broadside with the work of one of the readers!
The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor, NY, NY; 212-481-0295
info@centerforbookarts.org

'DAILY NEWS' TIPS: THEATER TKTS

The new and improved TKTS booth opens next Thursday at 3 p.m. - and not a minute too soon. ... The booth is back at 47th St. and Broadway ... For the first time in 35 years, credit cards will be accepted, along with cash and travelers checks for tickets for same-day performances, usually at 50% or 25% off the full price. RELATED: FALL BROADWAY PREVIEW ... There are other ways to score day-of-performance discounts:
BE IN IT TO WIN IT Feeling lucky? "Hairspray," "In the Heights" and "Wicked" have an in-person ticket lottery. You sign up 2 to 2 1/2 hours before showtime and names are drawn 1 1/2 to 2 hours before curtain. Winners can buy two tickets, generally front-row, which go for $25-$26.50.
BE THE FIRST Many productions ... offer a limited number of rush tickets that are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. (Two per person, generally $20 each, cash only). Some rush programs are only for students and require a valid student ID.
STAND AND BE DELIVERED Other productions offer standing room, with tickets starting from $20-$27. You can watch from the back, but only when the show is sold out. To find out if a show offers rush or standing-room tickets, call the box office or go to "On the Boards" at www.talkinbroadway.com.
JOIN NOW, SEE LATER Many shows offer reduced-rate tickets (up to 70% off) to members of the Theatre Development Fund (www.tdf.org ), the group that runs the TKTS Booth. The annual fee is $27.50. You can join the service if you're a full-time student or teacher, a union member, 62 or over, a civil servant, a performing-arts pro, work for a nonprofit or a member of the armed forces or clergy.
TAKE YOUR CHANCE ONLINE Theaters continue to get creative in ways to drum up business and reach out to people who might not be able to afford pricey tickets. At Playwrights Horizons, the LIVEforFIVE program makes $5 tickets available for the first preview performance of each show through an online lottery. The lottery for Craig Lucas' "Prayer for My Enemy" with Victoria Clark will begin the week of Nov. 5. Go to www.playwrightshorizons.org for details.

A DAY OF CHINESE ART, October 15

'The White Haired Girl: Chinese Revolutionary Ballet on Film'
presentation & discussion by director of Shanghai Ballet
Patio Room, Dining Hall
12-1:30 pm

President's Reception
[RSVP
by Oct. 10: 718-997-5621]


Dance by Yin Mei, QC dance program
Klapper Hall Museum, 6-6:30

Contemporary Chinese Landscape
Opening with original student music composition
6:30-8 pm
All Programs on the QC/CUNY campus.

mfa open house/ozone park launch

Feeling crafty? Maybe a little dramatic?
Searching for the right word? Trying to revise a short short?
Please come and meet faculty and students at an Open House for our MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation. This is also the launch of our online journal, OZONE PARK.
Monday, Nov. 10, 6-8 pm
Art Museum, fourth fl, Klapper Hall
Queens College/CUNY campus
for directions: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/about/directions.php
*If you cannot make this Open House, but are still interested in applying to our MFA Program by Feb. 15, 2009, please contact the director, Nicole Cooley, Nicole.Cooley@qc.cuny.edu*

GO TO BED!

BEDROOM FARCE
The Actors Company Theatre
*a special performance with discussion following*
October 23, 7:30 pm
Beckett Theatre, Theatre Row, 42nd St.
(between 9th and 10th Avenues)

Book Launch for Suheir Hammad’s “breaking poems”

Imagine this: Using “break” as a trigger for every poem, Hammad destructs, constructs, and reconstructs the English language for us to hear the sound of a breath, a woman's body, a land, a culture, falling apart, broken, and put back together again.
Thursday, October 30, 6-8pm
Bowery Poetry Club, 310 Bowery, New York City
Guests readers include: Paul Beatty, Patricia Smith, Roger Bonair-Agard, Patrick Rosal, Aracelis Girmay!
$20 (with a copy of breaking poems)
$10 w/out

SEASON OF ANTHOLOGIES

MAMA PhD: a book tour
Women write about motherhood and academic life.
Caroline Grant and Elrenea Evans read w contributors... Jennifer Cognard-Black, Nicole Cooley, Susn O-Dogerty
Monday, Oct. 20, 7 pm
Bluestocking Bookstore
172 Allen St.
and

Tuesday, Oct. 21, 7:15 pm
KGB bar, 85 E. 4th St.

LANGUAGE FOR A NEW CENTURY
Thursday, October 30, 7pm
A celebration of the ground-breaking Norton anthology, Language For A New Century: Contemporary from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond including a panel discussion with Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Tina Chang, Kimiko Hahn, Nathalie Handel, Khaled Mattawa, and Ravi Shankar and readings by Monica Ferrell, Eric Gamalinda, Cathy Park Hong, and Barbara Tran.
Poets House and Asian American Writers Workshop
@ The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, TRIBECA Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, $10/Free to students and Asian American Writers' Workshop and Poets House Members

ATTN Scrabble-lovers! A Party!

Tuesday, October 28, 7pm 
A Party!
Scrabble is for lovers...of The Asian American Writers' Workshop
Do you refer to the day Scrabulous was taken off Facebook as 'The Day the Wordplay Died'? Thinking of tattooing that last triple word score on your arm? Come to our inaugural Scrabble party and get your group wordplay on again! Play hard, drink some Singha Beer, and make new friends/worthy opponents.
@ The Workshop 
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor 
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
$5 suggested donation; open to the public