BENEFIT READING...

Breyten Breytenbach joins Chuck Wachtel to stage this first benefit reading in a series during the following year. All the proceeds will go to Middle Collegiate Church's community programs including its Food Pantry, Butterfly lunch program and its Celebrate Life Meal for those with HIV/AIDS.
Friday, December 5 | 7 PM - 8:30 PM
Middle Collegiate Church
2nd Avenue at 7th Street
We suggest a donation of $10 and/or bags of rice and canned food.
For directions or more information please go to www.middlechurch.org or call them at 212.477.0666.
BIOS...
Breyten Breytenbach will read from his work of short prose All One Horse and new poems. A native of South Africa, he is a distinguished painter and a writer of more than 30 books of poetry, novels, short story compilations, and essays. A committed opponent of apartheid, Breytenbach was a political prisoner in South Africa from 1975–1982, serving two terms of solitary confinement. He is known as the finest living poet of the Afrikaans language. Chuck Wachtel will read from a new novel 3/03 and new shorter works. He is the author of the novels Joe The Engineer, winner of the Pen/Hemingway Citation, and The Gates; a collection of stories and novellas: Because We Are Here; and five collections of poems and short prose, including What Happens to Me. He wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Joe The Engineer, scheduled to go into production in summer of 2009. He teaches Creative Writing at New York University.

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY:

Beginning in the fall of 2009, Dalkey Archive Press at the University of Illinois will be offering a unique opportunity for young translators of fiction working from world languages into English to gain experience in translation and publishing. This program is in response to the need to create the means for translators to take the next major step in their careers.
INFORMATION: www.dalkeyarchive.com
WHERE: Dalkey Archive Press, University of Illinois
217.244.5700
1805 S. Wright Street, MC-011
Champaign, IL 61820

EMPLOYMENT IDEAS . . .

Visit "Jobs for Students" (www.cuny.edu/studentjobs) today, the new CUNY employment opportunities initiative aimed at helping students obtain part-time and full-time work and internships. Through special arrangements with the United States Census Bureau, the New York State Civil Service Commission and Unified Court System, New York City's 311 Customer Service Call Center and many other organizations and agencies, students can apply for jobs to help meet the costs of attending college and to gain invaluable professional experience.

Music and Text and Kevin--

Avery Fisher Hall
Tuesday, December 2, 7 pm
Kevin Mullany conducts Flushing High School Chorus and accompanies them on piano.

LANES NOT LINES--

There's a rumor going around that QC MFA students are bowling this Sunday... ?!!!

THE EMPIRE’S NEW CLOTHES

In this new piece, The Synaesthetic Theatre undresses the “The Emperor’s New Clothes” to expose the fairy tale’s relevance within the current cultural and political climate. Secrets, confessions, fear and apathy woven into Hans Christian Andersen’s text are unraveled and patched together in a series of absurd, disparate yet connected vignettes. Fro those who are suspect they’re being fooled and those are fooling themselves, it’s Fashion Week in the land of once upon a time. Check time and dates:
Studio Theatre on Theatre Row. Information:
http://www.synaesthetic-theatre.com/

Translation Studies: the Challenge of Broad Interdisciplinarity

Prof. Luise von Flotow, from the University of Toronto
Thursday, Nov. 20, 6 pm, CUNY Grad Ctr, Room, C 204
... you know where it is!

Rivenbank Twice

Our Tyler Rivenbank ...
Nov. 28 @ Gizzi's Coffee, 7 pm
16 W. 8th Street
He'll be playing with Princess and Lisa Roma.
&
Nov. 30 @ Parkside Lounge, 8 pm
317 E. Houston between Ave. B and C
He's opening for Collective Pursuit and the Chase Experiment.

Mark Doty at CUNY Grad Ctr

Mark Doty, the John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston, is the author of 7 books of poems, most recently School of the Arts, and 3 volumes of nonfiction prose.
November 20th, Thursday, 7 pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY, Rm 9206/07
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Scott at EARSHOT!

EARSHOT at hip new spot!
Friday, November 21 @ 8 PM
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
Featuring:
Scott Cheshire (Hunter)
Brie Huling (SLC)
Sara Batkie (NYU)
KATHLEEN ROONEY (Oneiromance, That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness)
MICHAEL MONTLACK (Girls, Girls, Girls; Cover Charge)
ROSE LIVE MUSIC
345 Grand Street in Brooklyn (Havemeyer and Marcy).
For directions: http://liveatrose.com/.
EARSHOT is a bi-monthly reading series, dedicated to featuring new and emerging literary talent in the NYC area.
Visit http://www.earshotnyc.com

The Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series

Featuring Patrick Rosal, Matthew Dickman, and Bianca Stone
Thursday, November 20th @ 7:00PM
Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(between St. Marks & Bergen St)
ATLANTIC/PACIFIC SUBWAY stop
http://www.pacificstandardbrooklyn.com

HYPERTEXTING

QC MFA On the Same Page discussion series
will be On-the-Same-Screen
Tuesday 2 December at 6:30 PM
QC, Klapper Hall Room 708.
John Weir will facilitate a discussion on electronic literature or network fiction with a thought toward hypertext literary projects and their various rules-of-engagement. … In preparation check out a couple of online projects (links included below):
1. Poet Oni Buchanan's *The Mandrake Vehicles*:
www.conduit.org/online/buchanan/buchanan.html
2. Michael Joyce's network fiction, *Twelve Blue*:
eastgate.com/TwelveBlue/Twelve_Blue.html
3. Also a Mark Z. Danielewski's novel *House of Leaves* which started as an online project but exists now only as a published manuscript from Pantheon Books.

***WRITER IN RESIDENCY***

The Roger Madoff Literary Fellowship will be awarded to one emerging Queens author who has shown literary excellence, potential for future success and a commitment to building the Queens literary community. The fellowship includes a cash award, a year’s residency to the Writer’s Room and access to literary opportunities through the Queens Council on the Arts including public readings and mentorship from literary professionals. It requires the completion of significant literary work over the course of the one-year fellowship.
http://www.queenscouncilarts.org/grant-programs/literary-fellowship.html

QC Poetry Reading by Ciaran Berry and Nadine Meyer

Wednesday, November 12, 6:30pm,
Queens College Campus, Klapper Hall, rm. 403
With a reception to follow
Ciaran Berry’s first full-length volume, The Sphere of Birds, won the 2007 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition and was published by Southern Illinois University Press. The same volume was published in Ireland and the UK by The Gallery Press. Berry's work is featured in The Best American Poetry 2008. He teaches in the Expository Writing Program at NYU and is originally from the northwest of Ireland.
Nadine Sabra Meyer's first book of poems, The Anatomy Theater, won the National Poetry Series and was published by HarperCollins in 2006. Her poems have won the New Letters Prize for Poetry as well as a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including Chelsea, Pleiades, North American Review, The Southern Review and Southwest Review. She is an Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College.

OZONE PARK online journal

Congratulations to the MFA Program editors for their first-rate online journal! Plus the Launch Party was truly splendid! Anyone out there who still hasn't checked out the quality--and the submission guidelines--what you are waiting for? We don't engrave invitations around here--

ozoneparkjournal.org/

Terrance Hayes' WIND IN A BOX

Thursday, November 13, 7pm
The New Salon series
Terrance Hayes is the author of three books of poetry: Hip Logic, which won National Poetry Series, Muscular Music, and most recently Wind in a Box. In conversation with Robert N. Casper; co-sponsored with the Poetry Society of America
N.Y.U., Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House,
58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues

Drunken Boat Design Contest - $2500 for winning designer

Drunken Boat < www.drunkenboat.com >, an international online journal of the arts, celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2009! Part of our conceptual origin has been in exhibiting works of art that use the medium of the Web as constitutive of meaning; with this in mind we are soliciting proposals for the design of a special 10th issue dedicated to arts and literature online. The winning designer receives a $2500 honorarium in return for designing the home page of a publication that attracts nearly half a million unique visitors per year.

from the BASQUE

Two bilingual readings:
by Kirmen Uribe and translator, Elizabeth Mackey
[See http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1879/prmID/1551]
Friday, December 12th, 7 P.M.
A bilingual reading from Uribe’s Meanwhile Take My Hand
@ Nicholas Roerich Museum
319 West 107th St., NY
http://www.roerich.org/museum.html?mid=events
AND
Monday, December 15th, 7 P.M.
A bilingual combination of new poems and selections from Uribe’s new novel, Bilbao New York Bilbao,
@ KGB Bar, 85 East Fourth Street (near 2nd), NY
http://kgbbar.com/calendar/2008/12/

IRANIAN AMERICAN WRITERS: THE NEXT GENERATION

Saturday, November 8, 6pm
Reading and Book Signing Featuring:
Porochista Khakpour
Born in Tehran, raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in New York and currently teaches Fiction at Bucknell University. Khakpour's debut novel Sons and Other Flammable Objects was a New York Times "Editor's Choice," Chicago Tribune "Fall's Best," 2007 California Book Award winner, and Dylan Thomas Prize longlist selection is out in paperback this.
Roger Sedarat
His first poetry collection, Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, won Ohio UP's Hollis Summers' Prize. Sedarat has also publishes scholarly articles on American and Middle Eastern literature. He teaches poetry and translation in the MFA program at Queens College, City University of New York.
Aphrodite Desiree Navab
She has published poetry and autobiographical essays, and her short story, a prose revisit of "Tales Left Untold" will be published in the forthcoming anthology edited by Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank, Powow: American Short Fiction from Then to Now.
Manijeh Nasrabadi
Her essay "Before I Knew Him" won the City University of New York Arts Gala Memoir Prize in 2005 and. "Souvenir," her essay on the challenges of seeing the self clearly, appeared in About Face. "Forest Fire." An essay on the intersection between Jewish and Zoroastrian cultures, will be appearing in the anthology Love and Pomegranates.
Co-sponsored by ArteEast and Association of Iranian American Writers.
@ The Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor (btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
$5 suggested donation; open to the public

WHO READS POETRY? Robert Pinsky asks ...

Who are today’s poetry readers, and how did they acquire the habit of poetry? Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky examines the changing landscape of American poetry and its audiences. Robert Pinsky is a Professor in the English Department of Boston University, and the author of, most recently, Gulf Music: Poems. During his Laureateship, he founded the Favorite Poem Project, a program dedicated to celebrating, documenting, and encouraging poetry’s role in Americans’ lives.
November 12th, Wednesday, 6:30pm
The Elebash Recital Hall
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat.

THIS CURRIE IS HOT!

Our own John Currie ran the whole darn New York Marathon! Congrats John! (Come toast him at OZONE PARK Launch on November 10th!)

Gotta love Matthea and P.S Bar and--

Chin Music: The Pacific Standard Poetry Reading Series
Featuring Matthea Harvey, Amber West and Rachel Rothbart
Thursday, November 6th @ 7:00PM
PACIFIC STANDARD BAR
82 Fourth Avenue, borough of Brooklyn
(between St. Marks and Bergen Streets)
BASICALLY NEAR ALL SUBWAY LINES: ATLANTIC/PACIFIC STOP