Scenes from the New Salon in Queens ...

Nicole Cooley, MFA Director introduces.
Yusef Komunyakaa reads and is interviewed by Alice Quinn.

*LOST AND FOUND*

CUNY Center for the Humanities invites you to celebrate the publication of
The Amiri Baraka/Edward Dorn Correspondence
The Kenneth Koch/Frank O’Hara Letters: Selections
Muriel Rukeyser: Darwin & the Writers
Philip Whalen’s Journals: Selections
Robert Creeley: Contexts of Poetry, with selections from Daphne Marlatt’s Journals
... the inaugural chapbook series in
LOST & FOUND
The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative
Tuesday December 8th, 2009
6:30 pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
New York City
Introduction by Ammiel Alcalay
Readings and Presentations: Stefania Heim, Claudia Moreno Pisano, Josh Schneiderman, Brian Unger, special guests David Henderson, Bill Berkson, and others

Lost & Found is a publication project emerging from archival and textual scholarship done by students at The Graduate Center, with the primary focus on writers falling under the rubric of the New American Poetry. Since accessibility to archival material proposes alternative, divergent and enriched versions of literary and cultural history, the Lost & Found initiative takes the New American rubric writ large, including the affiliated and unaffiliated, precursors and followers.

*QC Congrats Hunter Prof, Colum McCann*

CUNY MFA Pride: our faculty and students congratulate Colum McCann who won the National Book Award for fiction last week. Motoko Rich describes the novel in her NYT article, "Significant (Little) Moments Pulled From Obscurity": "All sorts of tiny and extraordinary moments make up 'Let the Great World Spin,' a polyphonic novel set in 1970s New York that also works as an allegory about resilience and recovery after Sept. 11, 2001." For the whole article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/books/28mccann.html?ref=todayspaper

And remember, to keep up with CUNY creative writing news:
http://web.cuny.edu/academics/academic-programs/programs-of-note/creative-writing-at-CUNY.html

*City Harvest* with QC MFA Students ... and Open House

Come and meet faculty and students from the MFA Program and attend *READ IT and REAP: A Benefit Reading for City Harvest*
Emerging poets, fiction writers, memoirists, playwrights, and musicians from the MFA Program read and perform
Monday, November 30, 6:30 p.m.
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, 4th Floor, Klapper Hall
Admission by suggested donation of $5
All proceeds to go to City Harvest for hunger relief
READ IT AND REAP is a new reading series of the Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation, in partnership with City Harvest, a nonprofit food-rescue organization that delivers food free of charge to community food programs throughout New York City. All tax-deductible proceeds go directly to City Harvest.
RECEPTION and MFA Program Open House to follow
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information
General info: www.qc.cuny.edu/Creative_Writing

'Inflation" is a good thing on Thanksgiving...

Skip the Parade--or get a preview! The best holiday thing to do is watch the parade balloons get blown up. Go to 77nd Street and Columbis Avenue (near American Museum of Natural History) on Wednesday, from 3 - 10 pm. Very cool.

And, Happy Thanksgiving!

Points of View:

Novelist Susan Isaacs
talks about Writing, Publishing and the Literary World
Monday November 23
6:30pm
@
QC Campus, Klapper 710
Information: 718-997-4600

Center for Book Arts’ POETRY CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

The Center for Book Arts invites submissions to its annual Poetry Chapbook Competition by December 1, 2009. This year’s judges will be Terrance Hayes & Sharon Dolin.

See DETAILS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Send Entries to:
2010 CHAPBOOK COMPETITION The Center for Book Arts 28 West 27th St., 3rd Floor New York, NY 10001(212) 481-0295 or visit www.centerforbookarts.org.

AS URBAN CABIN FEVER SETS IN... GO OUT!

Check out things to do on the CUNY Creative Writing Website:
cuny.edu/academics/academic-programs/programs-of-note/creative-writing-at-CUNY.html
AND
The CUNY Calendar:
www.cuny.edu/cunymonth
for events such as--
Monday, Nov. 16, Bill Kelly in conversation with Patti Smith
at the Grad. Ctr., 7-8:15 pm, free
...
Sunday, Nov. 29, "The Nutcracker" Moscow Classical Ballet at Lehman College, 4 pm, $10-45
…
Center for worker Education new “Book Talks” include: CUNY alumnus and Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Hijuelos (Nov. 3), Lori Marie Carlson on bilingual Latina/o poetry (Nov. 16), Distinguished Prof of History at John Jay Mike Wallace on his book, GOTHAM. Free. 6 pm.

... Isn't this why you live here?