Thursday, October 8, 2009 @ 6 pm
Readers
BLAS FALCONER, A Question of Gravity and Light
TYEHIMBA JESS, leadbelly
HELENA MESA, Horse Dance Underwater
SUSAN B.A. SOMERS-WILLET, Roam & Quiver
Curator & Host, RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ
$7 admission (includes a free drink)
A/C/E/F/V/B/D trains to W. 4th St. Stop in the Village
29 Cornelia St. 212-989-9319
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
BOOKS FOR SALE COURTESY OF MOBILE LIBRIS!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Anna In-Between...
HUE-MAN BOOKSTORE & CAFÉ
Elizabeth Nunez distinguished professor at Medgar Evers/CUNY, reads from her new novel, “Anna In-Between.” (2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd., between 124th and 125th Sts. 212-665-7400. Sept. 23 at 6.)
Elizabeth Nunez distinguished professor at Medgar Evers/CUNY, reads from her new novel, “Anna In-Between.” (2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd., between 124th and 125th Sts. 212-665-7400. Sept. 23 at 6.)
POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA on TIMES SQ.
The society celebrates its second annual “Bright Lights Big Verse: Poems of Times Square” competition with a reading by the contest’s winners and by the poets Kimiko Hahn, David Lehman, and Paul Muldoon. (Duffy Square, Times Square, Broadway at 47th St. No tickets necessary. Sept. 29 at 6:30.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
with TACT
The Actors Company Theater
Thursday, September 24 at 6:30pm.
@TACT's studio is located at 900 Broadway, between 19th and 20th streets.
NOTE from Nicole: "Our partnership with TACT is one of the most special aspects of our MFA program and while the work of writers in the playwriting workshop is featured at the sessions, the sessions are open to everyone. It's great, great fun to listen to the actors read work by writers in our program and to have a discussion of the work. Everyone please make a huge effort to attend this opening session at TACT! Even if you are not in the playwriting workshop! There is much to be learned about all writing from these sessions."
Thursday, September 24 at 6:30pm.
@TACT's studio is located at 900 Broadway, between 19th and 20th streets.
NOTE from Nicole: "Our partnership with TACT is one of the most special aspects of our MFA program and while the work of writers in the playwriting workshop is featured at the sessions, the sessions are open to everyone. It's great, great fun to listen to the actors read work by writers in our program and to have a discussion of the work. Everyone please make a huge effort to attend this opening session at TACT! Even if you are not in the playwriting workshop! There is much to be learned about all writing from these sessions."
Friday, September 18, 2009
POETS HOUSE GRAND RE-OPENING GALA
Saturday, September 26
10 River Terrace (at Murray Street)
3:00–5:00pm: Join us for this blowout celebration on our new "front lawn," Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, with dynamic readings by acclaimed poets as follows...
3pm Welcome Mark Doty Kimiko Hahn Michael Heller Patricia Spears Jones Dave Johnson
3:30 Meena Alexander Philip Levine Kathleen Fraser Regie Cabico Charles Bernstein Marie Ponsot
4:00 Cornelius Eady Galway Kinnell Marie Howe Quincy Troupe Billy Collins
4:30 Natalie Merchant plays
Cosponsored by the Battery Park City Authority.
@ Nelson A. Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City (1, 2, 3, A, C to Chambers Street. Walk west on Chambers Street all the way to River Terrace. Cross into the park at River Terrace and head south to the Pavilion.)
Admission free
10 River Terrace (at Murray Street)
3:00–5:00pm: Join us for this blowout celebration on our new "front lawn," Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, with dynamic readings by acclaimed poets as follows...
3pm Welcome Mark Doty Kimiko Hahn Michael Heller Patricia Spears Jones Dave Johnson
3:30 Meena Alexander Philip Levine Kathleen Fraser Regie Cabico Charles Bernstein Marie Ponsot
4:00 Cornelius Eady Galway Kinnell Marie Howe Quincy Troupe Billy Collins
4:30 Natalie Merchant plays
Cosponsored by the Battery Park City Authority.
@ Nelson A. Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City (1, 2, 3, A, C to Chambers Street. Walk west on Chambers Street all the way to River Terrace. Cross into the park at River Terrace and head south to the Pavilion.)
Admission free
Advancing Feminist Poetics
Thursday September 24th - Friday September 25th
*Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism: A Gathering*
Belladonna celebrates ten years of publishing and supporting the feminist avant-garde with a two-day conference on feminist poetics and activism. The conference launches on Thursday, September 24, with panels focusing on radical language processes and political thought, culminating in keynote performances by Kathleen Fraser, Erica Hunt, and Eileen Myles. On Friday, September 25, we will continue the conversation with a broad spectrum of panels focusing on a variety of topics including: the body as discourse, ecopoetics, multilingualism, exile and language, and writing from marginalized positions. The conference will conclude with a performance/collaboration between Carla Harryman, Catriona Strang & Christine Stewart, Sally Silvers, Lila Zemborain & Cecilia Torino. Other panelists and presenters include: Caroline Bergvall, Dodie Bellamy, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Zhang Er, Jeanne Heuving, Ann Lauterbach, Joan Retallack, Anne Waldman, Renaldo Wilson, and many others.
On-site registration required. See http://belladonnaconference.blogspot.com for a complete schedule and registration information, or contact belladonnaseries@gmail.com.
AND Saturday September 26th ...
*Celebrating Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick*
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Elebash Recital Hall
Please join us to honor the extraordinary life and work of Eve Sedgwick, a beloved member of the CUNY faculty, whose groundbreaking work includes Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1986); Epistemology of the Closet (1991); Tendencies (1993) and Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003), as well as Dialogue on Love (1999) and her book of poems, Fat Art Thin Art (1994). To confirm your attendance, please e-mail abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu.
Further details on these events and others are available on Center for the Humanities website: http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/.
*Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism: A Gathering*
Belladonna celebrates ten years of publishing and supporting the feminist avant-garde with a two-day conference on feminist poetics and activism. The conference launches on Thursday, September 24, with panels focusing on radical language processes and political thought, culminating in keynote performances by Kathleen Fraser, Erica Hunt, and Eileen Myles. On Friday, September 25, we will continue the conversation with a broad spectrum of panels focusing on a variety of topics including: the body as discourse, ecopoetics, multilingualism, exile and language, and writing from marginalized positions. The conference will conclude with a performance/collaboration between Carla Harryman, Catriona Strang & Christine Stewart, Sally Silvers, Lila Zemborain & Cecilia Torino. Other panelists and presenters include: Caroline Bergvall, Dodie Bellamy, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Zhang Er, Jeanne Heuving, Ann Lauterbach, Joan Retallack, Anne Waldman, Renaldo Wilson, and many others.
On-site registration required. See http://belladonnaconference.blogspot.com for a complete schedule and registration information, or contact belladonnaseries@gmail.com.
AND Saturday September 26th ...
*Celebrating Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick*
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Elebash Recital Hall
Please join us to honor the extraordinary life and work of Eve Sedgwick, a beloved member of the CUNY faculty, whose groundbreaking work includes Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1986); Epistemology of the Closet (1991); Tendencies (1993) and Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003), as well as Dialogue on Love (1999) and her book of poems, Fat Art Thin Art (1994). To confirm your attendance, please e-mail abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu.
Further details on these events and others are available on Center for the Humanities website: http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Todd S. is teaching ESL in Korea...
E-MAIL FROM TODD...
hey kimiko,
i hope your semester is going well. my experience in korea so far has been very full. i've only been here for three weeks, but i feel like it's been three months. i think it's a combination of the lack of sleep, the constant dynamic schedule, settling down, trying to navigate a foreign country, ... it's definitely been fun, though, and interesting. the koreans i'm working with are very excited that i write, and hope to read my writing when i told them i planned on featuring korea in my fiction now. but [the teaching] has been an interesting experience so far. though there is talk of korea being more selective in their applicants and wanting mostly people who have taught before, i think that that goal is a far way off for now. ... and korea is desperately looking for people to teach their children, so anyone in the Queens College MFA program who is interested should definitely look into it. ... thanks to all to helped get me here.
todd
hey kimiko,
i hope your semester is going well. my experience in korea so far has been very full. i've only been here for three weeks, but i feel like it's been three months. i think it's a combination of the lack of sleep, the constant dynamic schedule, settling down, trying to navigate a foreign country, ... it's definitely been fun, though, and interesting. the koreans i'm working with are very excited that i write, and hope to read my writing when i told them i planned on featuring korea in my fiction now. but [the teaching] has been an interesting experience so far. though there is talk of korea being more selective in their applicants and wanting mostly people who have taught before, i think that that goal is a far way off for now. ... and korea is desperately looking for people to teach their children, so anyone in the Queens College MFA program who is interested should definitely look into it. ... thanks to all to helped get me here.
todd
JOURNAL LAUNCH: EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts presents Issue 5:
... includes our own, Rajiv Mohabir on Sunday, Oct 4, at 6 pm.
Check out website for whole THREE-day lineup! or just ask Rajiv...
Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn
http://chax.org/eoagh
Check out website for whole THREE-day lineup! or just ask Rajiv...
Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn
http://chax.org/eoagh
Friday, September 11, 2009
Jocelyn Lieu
... our visiting professor ...
Fiction reading
6:30 p.m. Monday, September 21
Godwin Ternbach Museum
Klapper Hall, 4th Floor
Queens College-CUNY campus
free and open to the public
Fiction reading
6:30 p.m. Monday, September 21
Godwin Ternbach Museum
Klapper Hall, 4th Floor
Queens College-CUNY campus
free and open to the public
Thursday, September 10, 2009
BOWERY...
September 13, 2009, 6-7:30 p.m.
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery St, New York, NY
Annie Finch, Kimiko Hahn, Deena Metzger, Anna Rabinowitz, and Julie Shigekuni
read from their works at the Bowery Poetry Club on Sunday, September 13th.
Annie Finch is the author of four books of poetry and the recipient of the 2009 Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award.
Kimiko Hahn is the author of seven collections of poetry, including the forthcoming, Toxic Flora.
Deena Metger is a poet, novelist, teacher, and healer whose latest book of poetry is Ruin and Beauty.
Anna Rabinowitz’s latest volume of poetry is The Wanton Sublime: A Florilegium of Whethers and Wonders.
Julie Shigekuni is the author of the novels A Bridge Between Us, a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery St, New York, NY
Annie Finch, Kimiko Hahn, Deena Metzger, Anna Rabinowitz, and Julie Shigekuni
read from their works at the Bowery Poetry Club on Sunday, September 13th.
Annie Finch is the author of four books of poetry and the recipient of the 2009 Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award.
Kimiko Hahn is the author of seven collections of poetry, including the forthcoming, Toxic Flora.
Deena Metger is a poet, novelist, teacher, and healer whose latest book of poetry is Ruin and Beauty.
Anna Rabinowitz’s latest volume of poetry is The Wanton Sublime: A Florilegium of Whethers and Wonders.
Julie Shigekuni is the author of the novels A Bridge Between Us, a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
EARSHOT!
Join us at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the first event of the Fall '09 Season!
Friday, September 11th at 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
$5 = Admission + FREE DRINK!
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
Featuring:
James Belflower (*Commuter*)
Claire Donato (*Someone Else's Body*)
Deenah Vollmer (@ Columbia University)
Elizabeth Powers Howort (@ The New School)
David Grumblatt (@ New York University)
ROSE LIVE MUSIC is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions: http://roselivemusic.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 for more information or e-mail Nicole Steinberg at earshotnyc@gmail.com.
Friday, September 11th at 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
$5 = Admission + FREE DRINK!
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
Featuring:
James Belflower (*Commuter*)
Claire Donato (*Someone Else's Body*)
Deenah Vollmer (@ Columbia University)
Elizabeth Powers Howort (@ The New School)
David Grumblatt (@ New York University)
ROSE LIVE MUSIC is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions: http://roselivemusic.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 for more information or e-mail Nicole Steinberg at earshotnyc@gmail.com.
Persian Poetry: Origins, Translations, and Influences
September 22, 2009, 7:00 PM
Poetry Reading & Discussion
Participants: Iraj Anvar, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Roger Sedarat, Niloufar Talebi
The Philoctetes Center, 247 East 82nd Street, 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10028
Phone: 646-422-0544
info@philoctetes.org
Thursday, September 3, 2009
OVERVIEW OF MFA FALL SEMESTER EVENTS:
On the Same Page: Craft Discussion
Tuesday September 8
6:30pm
Klapper 710
Fiction Reading: Jocelyn Lieu
Monday September 21
6:30pm
Godwin Ternbach Museum, Klapper 4th Floor
The New Salon in Queens: A Poetry Reading by Yusef Komunyakaa
*Co-sponsored with The Poetry Society of America
Wednesday October 21
6:30pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper 4th Floor
Publishing Discussion: Susan Isaacs
Monday November 23
6:30pm
Klapper 708
*CHECK THIS BLOG FOR CHANGES*
Tuesday September 8
6:30pm
Klapper 710
Fiction Reading: Jocelyn Lieu
Monday September 21
6:30pm
Godwin Ternbach Museum, Klapper 4th Floor
The New Salon in Queens: A Poetry Reading by Yusef Komunyakaa
*Co-sponsored with The Poetry Society of America
Wednesday October 21
6:30pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper 4th Floor
Publishing Discussion: Susan Isaacs
Monday November 23
6:30pm
Klapper 708
*CHECK THIS BLOG FOR CHANGES*
CREATIVE WRITING AT CUNY
For the website devoted to creative writing across the City University of New York system, click on to:
http://web.cuny.edu/academics/academic-programs/programs-of-note/creative-writing-at-CUNY.html
http://web.cuny.edu/academics/academic-programs/programs-of-note/creative-writing-at-CUNY.html
Poetry and Politics--? Naturally!
“Foreign Policy in Focus: a think tank without walls”
http://www.fpif.org/fpifzines/wb/6395
has a piece describing poets’ participation: “The Iranian Struggle Continues.” You can see the poems that were included in the protest itself—one by Roger Sedarat. And as the summer draws to a close, here is a quote to think about:
“Don’t live in the world as if you were renting or here only for the summer, but act as if it were your father’s house…. Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all.” Nazim Hikmet, 20th Century Turkish poet (thanks to Persis Karim for this sending this).
http://www.fpif.org/fpifzines/wb/6395
has a piece describing poets’ participation: “The Iranian Struggle Continues.” You can see the poems that were included in the protest itself—one by Roger Sedarat. And as the summer draws to a close, here is a quote to think about:
“Don’t live in the world as if you were renting or here only for the summer, but act as if it were your father’s house…. Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all.” Nazim Hikmet, 20th Century Turkish poet (thanks to Persis Karim for this sending this).
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