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)