Join us at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!
Friday, April 10th at 8 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
Featuring:
Kenneth Hart (Uh Oh Time)
Noah Falck (Measuring Tape for the Midwest)
Thalia Aurinko-Mostow (The New School)
Sarah Feeley (Brooklyn College)
***Jenna Hymes (Queens College***
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Early Snapshots from Translation Conference:
thanks to Roger (which is why he is not in any of them--yet!)
Sunday, March 29, 2009
{{{{{TURNSTYLE reading series}}}}}
Wednesday, April 1st, 6:30 pm, The Martin E. Segal Theatre
Faculty Readers: Mark Mirsky & Mac Wellman
MFA Readers from Brooklyn, City, Hunter, and Queens Colleges:
Anna Marrian, Kerry Carnahan,
Diana Redman, Tejas Desai,
Michelle Brule, Wythe Marschall,
JP Howard, Laurel Kallen
@ The CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave @34th Street
Faculty Readers: Mark Mirsky & Mac Wellman
MFA Readers from Brooklyn, City, Hunter, and Queens Colleges:
Anna Marrian, Kerry Carnahan,
Diana Redman, Tejas Desai,
Michelle Brule, Wythe Marschall,
JP Howard, Laurel Kallen
@ The CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave @34th Street
POEMS & PINTS
Sharon Olds &
Sophie Cabot Black
Tuesday, April 7th, 6:30pm
Admission is free.
Fraunces Tavern
54 Pearl Street (corner of Broad Street), New York, New York
POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA, presented in partnership with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
From Ghazal to Zuihitsu
A CONFERENCE ON TRANSLATING ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
March 26, 27, 28 (see website for details)
HIGHLIGHTS:
THURSDAY, 6:30 pm—Keynote Reading by Li-Young Lee
Rosenthal Library, Room 230
Li-Young Lee reads from his new book, *Behind My Eyes*
MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation
FRIDAY, panels on translation
SATURDAY, student presentations; panel on translating culture;
workshop on the ghazal (Roger Sedarat) and zuihitsu (Kimiko Hahn)
Please visit our website for further information on schedule and locations:
www.qc.cuny.edu/creative_writing
Check out ...
... the PEN website's newest feature: an online translation slam that will invite two translators to submit "competing" translations of the same poem for publication on the site, with the goal of drawing attention to translation as an art. You can find the slam here: http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3294/prmID/1502.
[This is an online feature based on the live event held during the PEN World Voices Festival last year.]
[This is an online feature based on the live event held during the PEN World Voices Festival last year.]
Translation and Literary Selfhood
JONATHAN GALASSI, EDITH GROSSMAN, MARILYN HACKER, RIKA LESSER,
ROSANNA WARREN
March 31st 2009, Tuesday, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Poet and translator Rosanna Warren, author of Fables of the Self,
hosts four master translators reflecting upon the alchemy of voice,
style, and literary selfhood in the art of translation. Participants
include Jonathan Galassi (Eugenio Montale), Edith Grossman (Mario
Vargas Llosa), Marilyn Hacker (Venus Khoury-Ghata), and Rika Lesser
(Rainer Maria Rilke). The audience will be invited to join the
discussion
The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue
ROSANNA WARREN
March 31st 2009, Tuesday, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Poet and translator Rosanna Warren, author of Fables of the Self,
hosts four master translators reflecting upon the alchemy of voice,
style, and literary selfhood in the art of translation. Participants
include Jonathan Galassi (Eugenio Montale), Edith Grossman (Mario
Vargas Llosa), Marilyn Hacker (Venus Khoury-Ghata), and Rika Lesser
(Rainer Maria Rilke). The audience will be invited to join the
discussion
The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue
Monday, March 16, 2009
SHERMAN ALEXIE & ROBERT HERSHON!
POETS AT PACE:
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Schimmel Theater Lobby, One Pace Plaza,
New York City Campus
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966 and grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA. Since discovering poetry in his early 20s, he has published more than 20 books of poetry and fiction, written three screen-plays, directed a film, and received numerous awards. These include a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers' Award, a National Book Award, a PEN/Malamud Award, a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, and a Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award. Known for his wonderful reading performances, he is the only writer to have held the title of World Heavyweight Poetry Champion in Taos, NM four years in a row. Both his poetry and fiction have appeared in Notable Books of the Year lists in major newspapers.
Robert Hershon is a leading small-press publisher as well as an award-winning poet. He has published 12 books and his work has been included in more than 40 anthologies. An excellent reader of his work, he has performed in colleges, libraries, coffee houses and other venues throughout the country. Among his awards are two National Foundation for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships and three awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts. A longtime resident of Brooklyn, he curates the Poets Coffeehouse reading series at the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. In addition to his writing, he is co-editor of Hanging Loose Press, one of the oldest independent publishers in the country, and he directs The Print Center, Inc., a non-profit facility which serves literary publishers, arts and community organizations, and schools and colleges, in which capacity he has printed Pace's literary magazine, Aphros, for more than 20 years.
Admission is free to the Pace community and also to the public. It will be followed by a Q & A, a chance to meet the writers, a book-signing, and refreshments.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Schimmel Theater Lobby, One Pace Plaza,
New York City Campus
Sherman Alexie was born in 1966 and grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA. Since discovering poetry in his early 20s, he has published more than 20 books of poetry and fiction, written three screen-plays, directed a film, and received numerous awards. These include a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers' Award, a National Book Award, a PEN/Malamud Award, a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, and a Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award. Known for his wonderful reading performances, he is the only writer to have held the title of World Heavyweight Poetry Champion in Taos, NM four years in a row. Both his poetry and fiction have appeared in Notable Books of the Year lists in major newspapers.
Robert Hershon is a leading small-press publisher as well as an award-winning poet. He has published 12 books and his work has been included in more than 40 anthologies. An excellent reader of his work, he has performed in colleges, libraries, coffee houses and other venues throughout the country. Among his awards are two National Foundation for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships and three awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts. A longtime resident of Brooklyn, he curates the Poets Coffeehouse reading series at the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. In addition to his writing, he is co-editor of Hanging Loose Press, one of the oldest independent publishers in the country, and he directs The Print Center, Inc., a non-profit facility which serves literary publishers, arts and community organizations, and schools and colleges, in which capacity he has printed Pace's literary magazine, Aphros, for more than 20 years.
Admission is free to the Pace community and also to the public. It will be followed by a Q & A, a chance to meet the writers, a book-signing, and refreshments.
James Tate!
Westside YMCA/Writer’s Voice
We are honored as the very special American poet James Tate: (National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, Wallace Stevens Award) will be reading at our Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater on March 20th at 7PM.
63rd Street off Broadway
We are honored as the very special American poet James Tate: (National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, Wallace Stevens Award) will be reading at our Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater on March 20th at 7PM.
63rd Street off Broadway
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
FILL THE PANTRY and hear two outstanding writers...
Come hear Cornelius Eady and Jessica Hagedorn read in the third "Fill the Pantry" benefit at Middle Collegiate Church.
Friday, March 20
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Middle Collegiate Church
2nd Avenue at 7th Street
Poet Cornelius Eady is the author of Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems (Marian Wood/Putnam, 2008); Brutal Imagination, which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry; the autobiography of a jukebox; You Don't Miss Your Water; The Gathering of My Name, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; BOOM BOOM BOOM; Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, which was chosen for the 1985 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and Kartunes. He has collaborated with jazz composer Deidre Murray in the production of several works of musical theater, including You Don't Miss Your Water; Running Man, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1999; Fangs; and Brutal Imagination. Eady and the poet Toi Derricote are co-founders of Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization serving black poets. With Derricote, he also edited the anthology Gathering Ground. Eady is a professor in the Creative Writing program at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
Jessica Hagedorn, born in Manila, Philippines, is a celebrated poet, fiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, and multimedia performance artist whose works include three novels: Dream Jungle; The Gangster of Love; and Dogeaters, which won the American Book Award and was nominated for a National Book Award. Hagedorn also is the author of a collection of poetry and prose, Danger And Beauty, and the editor of Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction and Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World. Her screenplays include Fresh Kill, a feature-length film directed by Shu Lea Cheang; and episodes of The Pink Palace, an animated series created for Oxygen TV. Among her plays are Dogeaters, adapted from the novel; Stairway to Heaven; and Most Wanted, a collaboration with composer Mark Bennett. She is the Parsons Family Professor of Creative Writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn.
All proceeds go to Middle Collegiate Church's community programs including its Food Pantry, Tompkins Square Park Butterfly lunch, LGBTIQ homeless youth meal, and Celebrate Life meal for those with HIV/AIDS. Suggested donations of $10 and/or bags of rice and canned food.
For directions or information call 212.477.0666 or visit www.middlechurch.org
Friday, March 20
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Middle Collegiate Church
2nd Avenue at 7th Street
Poet Cornelius Eady is the author of Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems (Marian Wood/Putnam, 2008); Brutal Imagination, which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry; the autobiography of a jukebox; You Don't Miss Your Water; The Gathering of My Name, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; BOOM BOOM BOOM; Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, which was chosen for the 1985 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and Kartunes. He has collaborated with jazz composer Deidre Murray in the production of several works of musical theater, including You Don't Miss Your Water; Running Man, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1999; Fangs; and Brutal Imagination. Eady and the poet Toi Derricote are co-founders of Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization serving black poets. With Derricote, he also edited the anthology Gathering Ground. Eady is a professor in the Creative Writing program at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
Jessica Hagedorn, born in Manila, Philippines, is a celebrated poet, fiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, and multimedia performance artist whose works include three novels: Dream Jungle; The Gangster of Love; and Dogeaters, which won the American Book Award and was nominated for a National Book Award. Hagedorn also is the author of a collection of poetry and prose, Danger And Beauty, and the editor of Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction and Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World. Her screenplays include Fresh Kill, a feature-length film directed by Shu Lea Cheang; and episodes of The Pink Palace, an animated series created for Oxygen TV. Among her plays are Dogeaters, adapted from the novel; Stairway to Heaven; and Most Wanted, a collaboration with composer Mark Bennett. She is the Parsons Family Professor of Creative Writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn.
All proceeds go to Middle Collegiate Church's community programs including its Food Pantry, Tompkins Square Park Butterfly lunch, LGBTIQ homeless youth meal, and Celebrate Life meal for those with HIV/AIDS. Suggested donations of $10 and/or bags of rice and canned food.
For directions or information call 212.477.0666 or visit www.middlechurch.org
TURNSTYLE TURNSTYLE TURNSTYLE TURNSTYLE TURNSTYLE
NICOLE COOLEY & KATHRYN HARRISON
Read with students from the four CUNY MFA Programs
March 12, 6:30
Martin E. Segal Theatre
The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th Street)
Free and open to the public!
Read with students from the four CUNY MFA Programs
March 12, 6:30
Martin E. Segal Theatre
The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (at 34th Street)
Free and open to the public!
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