Monday, December 13, 2010
reminder: MFA Community Event (for current students)
Three workshops--Susan's translation, Nicole's poetry, and John's thesis--will all gather on Tuesday night for an end-semester reading celebration. 6:30 pm
CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POLITICAL THEATRE AND
... "THE GREAT GAME": TRICYCLE THEATRE'S NICOLAS KENT
Nicolas Kent, Artistic Director of London's Tricycle Theatre, joins us for a discussion of contemporary political theatre in the UK and around the world. Called "Britain's foremost political theatre" by The Guardian, The Tricycle Theatre has established a unique reputation for presenting plays that reflect the cultural diversity of its community; in particular plays by Black, Irish, Jewish, Asian and South African writers, as well as for responding to contemporary issues and events with its ground- breaking ‘tribunal plays’ and political work. Presented with the support of the British Council, in conjunction with Tricycle's concurrent run of The Great Game at the Public Theater, in association with NYU Skirball Center.
Date:
December 16, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
Admission:
Free
Nicolas Kent, Artistic Director of London's Tricycle Theatre, joins us for a discussion of contemporary political theatre in the UK and around the world. Called "Britain's foremost political theatre" by The Guardian, The Tricycle Theatre has established a unique reputation for presenting plays that reflect the cultural diversity of its community; in particular plays by Black, Irish, Jewish, Asian and South African writers, as well as for responding to contemporary issues and events with its ground- breaking ‘tribunal plays’ and political work. Presented with the support of the British Council, in conjunction with Tricycle's concurrent run of The Great Game at the Public Theater, in association with NYU Skirball Center.
Date:
December 16, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
Admission:
Free
Monday, December 6, 2010
A Flurry of Events...
**AN EVENING WITH JOHN GUARE**
U.S. playwright John Guare returns to the Segal for an intimate evening. His new play, A Free Man of Color, weaves a Don Juan narrative into the lush, lawless melting pot of early 19th Century New Orleans on the eve of the Louisiana Purchase. Guare will discuss the production, running concurrently at the Lincoln Center Theater in a production directed by George C. Wolfe, with Distinguished Professor and Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre David Savran (Graduate Center, CUNY).
Date:
December 6, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
**OHIO THEATRE: 29 YEARS OF DOWNTOWN THEATRE**
Join us for an evening with Robert Lyons, Artistic Director of the two-time OBIE Award-winning Soho Think Tank/Ohio Theatre, as we look back on the Ohio's extraordinary history, now closing its doors after 29 remarkable years. Lyons and guests will share stories, images, and video from the many productions that helped make this converted Soho factory one of Lower Manhattan's great cultural centers. Although the building has closed, the Ohio's programming now continues off-site through the Ohio Interrupted series.
Date:
December 8, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
**THE LAST QUEEN OF EGYPT: STACY SCHIFF ON CLEOPATRA**
Join the Leon Levy Center for Biography for a night of discovery and insight with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff, who will discuss her new biography, Cleopatra: A Life. Schiff has created "a cinematic portrait of a historical figure far more complex and compelling than any fictional creation, and a wide, panning, panoramic picture of her world," says Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times. "Schiff offers not just Cleopatra's story but the story of an amazing era," notes Azar Nafisi, "one that has vanished but still affects us, questioning the way we look at myth, history and ourselves."
Date:
December 10, 2010
Time:
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
Building:
CUNY Graduate Center
Room:
Elebash Recital Hall
Phone:
212-817-2008
Website:
http://www.leonlevycenterforbiography.org
U.S. playwright John Guare returns to the Segal for an intimate evening. His new play, A Free Man of Color, weaves a Don Juan narrative into the lush, lawless melting pot of early 19th Century New Orleans on the eve of the Louisiana Purchase. Guare will discuss the production, running concurrently at the Lincoln Center Theater in a production directed by George C. Wolfe, with Distinguished Professor and Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre David Savran (Graduate Center, CUNY).
Date:
December 6, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
**OHIO THEATRE: 29 YEARS OF DOWNTOWN THEATRE**
Join us for an evening with Robert Lyons, Artistic Director of the two-time OBIE Award-winning Soho Think Tank/Ohio Theatre, as we look back on the Ohio's extraordinary history, now closing its doors after 29 remarkable years. Lyons and guests will share stories, images, and video from the many productions that helped make this converted Soho factory one of Lower Manhattan's great cultural centers. Although the building has closed, the Ohio's programming now continues off-site through the Ohio Interrupted series.
Date:
December 8, 2010
Time:
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
Building:
--
Room:
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Phone:
212-817-1860
Website:
http://www.theSegalCenter.org
**THE LAST QUEEN OF EGYPT: STACY SCHIFF ON CLEOPATRA**
Join the Leon Levy Center for Biography for a night of discovery and insight with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff, who will discuss her new biography, Cleopatra: A Life. Schiff has created "a cinematic portrait of a historical figure far more complex and compelling than any fictional creation, and a wide, panning, panoramic picture of her world," says Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times. "Schiff offers not just Cleopatra's story but the story of an amazing era," notes Azar Nafisi, "one that has vanished but still affects us, questioning the way we look at myth, history and ourselves."
Date:
December 10, 2010
Time:
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
Building:
CUNY Graduate Center
Room:
Elebash Recital Hall
Phone:
212-817-2008
Website:
http://www.leonlevycenterforbiography.org
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
A POLITICAL THEATER FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: RESTAGING ANGELS IN AMERICA
December 2, Thursday, 5:00pm, The Skylight Room (9100)
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, in conversation with Steven Kruger (English, Queens College and The Graduate Center), David Savran (Theatre, The Graduate Center), and Alisa Solomon (School of Journalism, Columbia), as they discuss the politics of restaging of Angels in America in the current moment and the potential for vital political theater in the twenty-first century.
THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
THE CUNY GRAD CENTER
365 FIFTH Ave. (btwn 34 and 35 St.)
Manhattan
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, in conversation with Steven Kruger (English, Queens College and The Graduate Center), David Savran (Theatre, The Graduate Center), and Alisa Solomon (School of Journalism, Columbia), as they discuss the politics of restaging of Angels in America in the current moment and the potential for vital political theater in the twenty-first century.
THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
THE CUNY GRAD CENTER
365 FIFTH Ave. (btwn 34 and 35 St.)
Manhattan
TENDENCIES: POETICS AND PRACTICE
December 9, Thursday, 7:00pm, The Skylight Room (9100)
Co-sponsored by CLAGS, the PhD Program in English, and the Poetics Group
This series of talks by and about contemporary poets and artists, curated by Tim Peterson (Trace) and titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between queer theory, poetic manifesto, poetic practice, and pedagogy. This event will feature poets Abigail Child, Michael D. Snediker, and Timothy Liu. Abigail Child is a poet, director, producer, and writer of a number of films; her most recent book is This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film (2005). Michael D Snediker is the author of Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions (2009) and the poetry collection Nervous Pastoral (2008). Timothy Liu is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Polytheogamy and Bending the Mind Around the Dream’s Blown Fuse (2009); he has also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (2000). Visit http://tendenciespoetics.com for commentary and sample recordings from past events, as well as news about upcoming events.
THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
THE CUNY GRAD CENTER
365 FIFTH Ave. (btwn 34 and 35 St.)
Manhattan
THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
THE CUNY GRAD CENTER
365 FIFTH Ave. (btwn 34 and 35 St.)
Manhattan
Monday, November 29, 2010
PAUL MULDOON reading
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010
5-6:30 PM
QC, ROSENTHAL LIBRARY 230
Internationally renowned poet Paul Muldoon this year published the acclaimed poetry collection Maggot. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, Muldoon has published over 32 collections. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2003 for Moy Sand and Gravel and has been poetry editor of the New Yorker since 2007. Following his reading, he will entertain questions from the audience.
*Sponsored by Irish Studies at Queens College, the event is free and open to the public.*
...Reception to follow supported by the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing...
For more information, contact: Clare Carroll, Director, Irish Studies: clare.carroll@qc.cuny.edu or 718 997 5691. This is a CLIQ event.
5-6:30 PM
QC, ROSENTHAL LIBRARY 230
Internationally renowned poet Paul Muldoon this year published the acclaimed poetry collection Maggot. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, Muldoon has published over 32 collections. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2003 for Moy Sand and Gravel and has been poetry editor of the New Yorker since 2007. Following his reading, he will entertain questions from the audience.
*Sponsored by Irish Studies at Queens College, the event is free and open to the public.*
...Reception to follow supported by the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing...
For more information, contact: Clare Carroll, Director, Irish Studies: clare.carroll@qc.cuny.edu or 718 997 5691. This is a CLIQ event.
A Reading by Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cunningham
35th Anniversary Season of Queens College Evening Readings
Mr. Cunningham is the author of novels A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD, FLESH AND BLOOD, THE HOURS (winner of the PEN/Faulker Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and SPECIMEN DAYS. In addition to reading from his work, he will be interviewed by Leonard Lopate.
NOTE: *The 35th Anniversary Season of Queens College Evening Readings* features several of the world's greatest living novelists in the English language, such as Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan, National Book Award-winner Jonathan Franzen, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cunningham, National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Edwidge Danticat, as well as two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Cynthia Ozick--all in conversation with Leonard Lopate of radio station WNYC--plus A Centennial Celebration of the Work of Czeslaw Milosz with Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Hass, Guggenheim Foundation President Edward Hirsch, and Neustadt International Prize-winner Adam Zagajewski.
All events take place on Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm (except for the reading by Peter Carey, which is on a Wednesday) at the Music Building at Queens College (at exit 24 on the LIE). Admission to each event is $20. Season Tickets are now available through the mail at substantial discounts, or (beginning September 8) by calling the Kupferberg Center Box Office at 718-793-8080. For subscription information, directions, or a more detailed description of our New Season, please visit www.qc.edu/readings
November 30, 2010 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Queens College, Music Building
718-544-8080
Website:
http://www.qc.edu/readings
Mr. Cunningham is the author of novels A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD, FLESH AND BLOOD, THE HOURS (winner of the PEN/Faulker Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and SPECIMEN DAYS. In addition to reading from his work, he will be interviewed by Leonard Lopate.
NOTE: *The 35th Anniversary Season of Queens College Evening Readings* features several of the world's greatest living novelists in the English language, such as Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan, National Book Award-winner Jonathan Franzen, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cunningham, National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Edwidge Danticat, as well as two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Cynthia Ozick--all in conversation with Leonard Lopate of radio station WNYC--plus A Centennial Celebration of the Work of Czeslaw Milosz with Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Hass, Guggenheim Foundation President Edward Hirsch, and Neustadt International Prize-winner Adam Zagajewski.
All events take place on Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm (except for the reading by Peter Carey, which is on a Wednesday) at the Music Building at Queens College (at exit 24 on the LIE). Admission to each event is $20. Season Tickets are now available through the mail at substantial discounts, or (beginning September 8) by calling the Kupferberg Center Box Office at 718-793-8080. For subscription information, directions, or a more detailed description of our New Season, please visit www.qc.edu/readings
November 30, 2010 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Queens College, Music Building
718-544-8080
Website:
http://www.qc.edu/readings
A Giving Season ...
Faculty and Staff Holiday Food Drive (through December 10): Collection boxes for non-perishable canned food or boxed items can be found in Rosenthal Library, Powdermaker Hall, Kiely Hall, Student Union, FitzGerald Gym, the Science Building, and Jefferson Hall.
CUNY Cares Toy Drive (through December 13): Collection boxes for new and unwrapped toys can be found outside the Child Development Center at Kiely Hall 245 and in Delany Hall, rooms 112 and 231. Alos, "Toys for Tots Toy Drive" (through December 15): donate new and unwrapped toys at President's Holiday Party on December 7 or at Office of Human Resources, Kiely Hall 163.
*TRANSLATIONISTA*
Check out our MFA colleague Susan Bernofsky's fun and smart and wonderful new blog: http://translationista.blogspot.com/
Little Anthology Reading by Argos Books
December 8, 2010, 7:00 pm
KGB bar, New York, NY
A reading in celebration of the first Little Anthology. Amanda Smeltz, Katie Byrum, Josh Edwin, Rajiv Mohabir, & Morgan Parker will be reading.
OUR FIRST LITTLE ANTHOLOGY:
We decided to start our collecting in the city and in the community that we are currently a part of. The first Little Anthology will draw from the diverse group of students that are studying to receive their MFA’s in poetry from one of the six NYC schools that offer that degree. How are we alike, and how are we different? What does the future hold for this disparate group of writers currently in their journeyman phase? We hope that by bringing together these (mostly) young writers on the page, we will also help to bring them together in real life with events surrounding the NYC/MFA anthology.
http://argosbooks.org/?cat=7
KGB bar, New York, NY
A reading in celebration of the first Little Anthology. Amanda Smeltz, Katie Byrum, Josh Edwin, Rajiv Mohabir, & Morgan Parker will be reading.
OUR FIRST LITTLE ANTHOLOGY:
We decided to start our collecting in the city and in the community that we are currently a part of. The first Little Anthology will draw from the diverse group of students that are studying to receive their MFA’s in poetry from one of the six NYC schools that offer that degree. How are we alike, and how are we different? What does the future hold for this disparate group of writers currently in their journeyman phase? We hope that by bringing together these (mostly) young writers on the page, we will also help to bring them together in real life with events surrounding the NYC/MFA anthology.
http://argosbooks.org/?cat=7
Actors Read New Work by MFA Students:
Come out to TACT--
Jonathan Karpinos, Jonathan Alexandratos, and Brian Kim will have readings of new plays.
Thursday, Dec. 2 at 6:30 at The Actors Company Theater, 900 Broadway (at 20th Street), 9th floor
This is our last reading with TACT this fall, so please come out and hear the reading and discussion!
Jonathan Karpinos, Jonathan Alexandratos, and Brian Kim will have readings of new plays.
Thursday, Dec. 2 at 6:30 at The Actors Company Theater, 900 Broadway (at 20th Street), 9th floor
This is our last reading with TACT this fall, so please come out and hear the reading and discussion!
MFA Community Event (current and alum--)
December 1 at 6:30 pm
Editor, poet and translator Jeffrey Yang will speak about the future of publishing. Nicole: "A number of you have asked for discussions and sessions on publishing, so here we go! Jeffrey will talk about publishing, answer questions, and we will have light refreshments. If you are in my class or Susan's class on Wed night, this is our class for the evening. I hope others of you--both current MFA students and alums--will come too!" Jeffrey Yang is an editor at New Directions. AN AQUARIUM (Graywolf, 2008) was given a rave review in the NYT; the opening sentence, "Here is a first book written from a very high floor of the Tower of Babel and the view is exhilarating."
Sorry! Due to space limitation we cannot accommodate outside guests.
Editor, poet and translator Jeffrey Yang will speak about the future of publishing. Nicole: "A number of you have asked for discussions and sessions on publishing, so here we go! Jeffrey will talk about publishing, answer questions, and we will have light refreshments. If you are in my class or Susan's class on Wed night, this is our class for the evening. I hope others of you--both current MFA students and alums--will come too!" Jeffrey Yang is an editor at New Directions. AN AQUARIUM (Graywolf, 2008) was given a rave review in the NYT; the opening sentence, "Here is a first book written from a very high floor of the Tower of Babel and the view is exhilarating."
Sorry! Due to space limitation we cannot accommodate outside guests.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Eileen Myles and Ammiel Alcalay Read from New Work
Monday Nov 15, 6:30 pm
QC campus: Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall
Eileen Myles’s Inferno (a poet’s novel) just out from orbooks.com is called “Zippingly melancholy” by John Ashbery and “this shimmering document” by Alison Bechdel. Her other books include Not Me, School of Fish and Sorry, Tree. Chelsea Girls, her first fiction, appeared in 1994 followed by Cool for You (a nonfiction novel) in 2000. Her essays were collected in 2009 in The Importance of Being Iceland for which she won a Warhol/Creative Capital grant. The Poetry Society of America gave her the Shelley Award in 2010.
Ammiel Alcalay’s books include Scrapmetal (2006); from the warring factions (2002); Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays (1999); After Jews and Arabs (1993), and the cairo noteboooks (1993). His translations include Sarajevo Blues (1998) and Nine Alexandrias (2003), Keys to the Garden (1996), and a co-translation (with Oz Shelach), of Outcast (2007). Islanders, a novel, came out in 2010. Through the PhD Program in English and the Center for the Humanities at the Grad Center, he initiated Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative.
A reception will follow the reading, and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
QC campus: Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall
Eileen Myles’s Inferno (a poet’s novel) just out from orbooks.com is called “Zippingly melancholy” by John Ashbery and “this shimmering document” by Alison Bechdel. Her other books include Not Me, School of Fish and Sorry, Tree. Chelsea Girls, her first fiction, appeared in 1994 followed by Cool for You (a nonfiction novel) in 2000. Her essays were collected in 2009 in The Importance of Being Iceland for which she won a Warhol/Creative Capital grant. The Poetry Society of America gave her the Shelley Award in 2010.
Ammiel Alcalay’s books include Scrapmetal (2006); from the warring factions (2002); Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays (1999); After Jews and Arabs (1993), and the cairo noteboooks (1993). His translations include Sarajevo Blues (1998) and Nine Alexandrias (2003), Keys to the Garden (1996), and a co-translation (with Oz Shelach), of Outcast (2007). Islanders, a novel, came out in 2010. Through the PhD Program in English and the Center for the Humanities at the Grad Center, he initiated Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative.
A reception will follow the reading, and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
EARSHOT!
Join us at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!
Friday, November 19 at 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!
Guest Host: Gregory Crosby
Featuring:
Eric Nelson (The Silk City Series)
Chris Tarry
David James Miller (Brooklyn College)
Jessie Male (Hunter College)
Jessica Beyer (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.
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EARSHOT!
http://www.earshotnyc.com
http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
Friday, November 19 at 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!
Guest Host: Gregory Crosby
Featuring:
Eric Nelson (The Silk City Series)
Chris Tarry
David James Miller (Brooklyn College)
Jessie Male (Hunter College)
Jessica Beyer (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.
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EARSHOT!
http://www.earshotnyc.com
http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Translating A Past That Haunts the Present: Philippe Claudel and Jenny Erpenbeck
Wednesday, November 17th, 3:00pm
Acclaimed authors Jenny Erpenbeck and Philippe Claudel join their American translators, **Susan Bernofsky** and John Cullen, to discuss the delicate art of fictionalizing the fraught history of Germany and France during WWII in their novels Visitation and Brodeck and the translation of this history into English. The audience will be invited to try its hand at selected translation problems as well. Moderated by Susan Bernofsky, MFA Program in Writing and Translation, Queens College.
This program is part of the 2010 New Literature from Europe festival (a joint event organized by eight European cultural institutes in New York, including the Goethe-Institut New York and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, co-sponsors of this event). Visit the Festival’s website at http://www.newlitfromeurope.org/
The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Acclaimed authors Jenny Erpenbeck and Philippe Claudel join their American translators, **Susan Bernofsky** and John Cullen, to discuss the delicate art of fictionalizing the fraught history of Germany and France during WWII in their novels Visitation and Brodeck and the translation of this history into English. The audience will be invited to try its hand at selected translation problems as well. Moderated by Susan Bernofsky, MFA Program in Writing and Translation, Queens College.
This program is part of the 2010 New Literature from Europe festival (a joint event organized by eight European cultural institutes in New York, including the Goethe-Institut New York and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, co-sponsors of this event). Visit the Festival’s website at http://www.newlitfromeurope.org/
The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Thursday, November 4, 2010
POETICS AND PRACTICE...
TENDENCIES
This series of talks by and about contemporary poets and artists, curated by Tim Peterson (Trace) and titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between queer theory, poetic manifesto, poetic practice, and pedagogy. This event will feature Stephanie Gray, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Nathaniel Siegel. Stephanie Gray is a poet and experimental filmmaker whose first collection of poetry, Heart Stoner Bingo was published by Straw Gate Books in 2007. Dawn Lundy Martin, a poet, essayist, and activist, was most recently winner of the 2009 Nightboat Books Poetry Prize for her manuscript, DISCIPLINE, selected by Fanny Howe and forthcoming in February, 2011. Nathaniel Siegel is a poet, artist, activist and real estate broker in NYC, author of TONY (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and Executive Director of HOWL ! Festival of the Arts.Visit http://tendenciespoetics.com for commentary and sample recordings from past events, as well as news about upcoming events.
Thursday, November 11th, 7:00pm
The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
This series of talks by and about contemporary poets and artists, curated by Tim Peterson (Trace) and titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between queer theory, poetic manifesto, poetic practice, and pedagogy. This event will feature Stephanie Gray, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Nathaniel Siegel. Stephanie Gray is a poet and experimental filmmaker whose first collection of poetry, Heart Stoner Bingo was published by Straw Gate Books in 2007. Dawn Lundy Martin, a poet, essayist, and activist, was most recently winner of the 2009 Nightboat Books Poetry Prize for her manuscript, DISCIPLINE, selected by Fanny Howe and forthcoming in February, 2011. Nathaniel Siegel is a poet, artist, activist and real estate broker in NYC, author of TONY (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and Executive Director of HOWL ! Festival of the Arts.Visit http://tendenciespoetics.com for commentary and sample recordings from past events, as well as news about upcoming events.
Thursday, November 11th, 7:00pm
The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
REMINDER OF UPCOMING MFA FALL EVENTS ...
Marilyn Hacker reads her work and chats with Alice Quinn
The New Salon in Queens
Tomorrow night! Wednesday!
6:30pm Rosenthal Library 230
Writers and translators Ammiel Alcalay and Eileen Myles read new work
Monday November 15 at 6:30pm
Godwin Ternbach Museum, fourth floor Klapper Hall
Jeffrey Yang, editor at New Directions and award-winning poet talks about the publishing world
Wednesday Dec 1, 6:30pm, Klapper 710
Paul Muldoon reads his poetry
Tuesday December 7
Rosenthal 230, 5pm
MFA Open House for Prospective Students
Tuesday December 7
7pm (directly following Muldoon reading)
Klapper 710
* Stay tuned, too, for the annual MFA holiday party and Ozone Park launch.*
The New Salon in Queens
Tomorrow night! Wednesday!
6:30pm Rosenthal Library 230
Writers and translators Ammiel Alcalay and Eileen Myles read new work
Monday November 15 at 6:30pm
Godwin Ternbach Museum, fourth floor Klapper Hall
Jeffrey Yang, editor at New Directions and award-winning poet talks about the publishing world
Wednesday Dec 1, 6:30pm, Klapper 710
Paul Muldoon reads his poetry
Tuesday December 7
Rosenthal 230, 5pm
MFA Open House for Prospective Students
Tuesday December 7
7pm (directly following Muldoon reading)
Klapper 710
* Stay tuned, too, for the annual MFA holiday party and Ozone Park launch.*
Monday, October 25, 2010
‘My Pace Provokes My Thoughts’: Poetry and Walking
The Stanley Burnshaw Lecture presents EDWARD HIRSCH
Edward Hirsch will present this year’s lecture, titled “My Pace Provokes My Thoughts: Poetry and Walking.” Hirsch is a noted poet, president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City, and author of the best-selling *How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry.*
Given by distinguished poets and critics in honor of Stanley Burnshaw’s literary career and contributions to New York intellectual life, this lecture is a joint project of The Center for the Humanities and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin, which holds the papers of Stanley Burnshaw.
Monday, November 1st, 6:00pm
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. 212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Edward Hirsch will present this year’s lecture, titled “My Pace Provokes My Thoughts: Poetry and Walking.” Hirsch is a noted poet, president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City, and author of the best-selling *How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry.*
Given by distinguished poets and critics in honor of Stanley Burnshaw’s literary career and contributions to New York intellectual life, this lecture is a joint project of The Center for the Humanities and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin, which holds the papers of Stanley Burnshaw.
Monday, November 1st, 6:00pm
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. 212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Marilyn Hacker, Poet & Translator, at New Salon in Queens
Wednesday October 27, 6:30pm
Benjamin Rosenthal Library, Room 230
Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, including Names (Norton, 2009), Essays on Departure (Carcanet Press, UK, 2006) and Desesperanto (Norton, 2003). Her essay collection Unauthorized Voices, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2010. Her ten volumes of translations from the French include Marie Etienne’s King of a Hundred Horsemen (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2008) which received the 2007 Robert Fagles Translation Prize and the 2009 American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles (The Graywolf Press, 2008). For her own work, she is a past recipient of the Lenore Marshall Award, the Poets’ Prize, the National Book Award and two Lambda Literary Awards, and the American PEN Voelcker Award for poetry in 2010. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Alice Quinn is the Executive Director of The Poetry Society of America.
A reception will follow the reading, and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
Co-sponsors: The Poetry Society of America & The MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation Reading Series
Benjamin Rosenthal Library, Room 230
Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, including Names (Norton, 2009), Essays on Departure (Carcanet Press, UK, 2006) and Desesperanto (Norton, 2003). Her essay collection Unauthorized Voices, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2010. Her ten volumes of translations from the French include Marie Etienne’s King of a Hundred Horsemen (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2008) which received the 2007 Robert Fagles Translation Prize and the 2009 American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles (The Graywolf Press, 2008). For her own work, she is a past recipient of the Lenore Marshall Award, the Poets’ Prize, the National Book Award and two Lambda Literary Awards, and the American PEN Voelcker Award for poetry in 2010. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Alice Quinn is the Executive Director of The Poetry Society of America.
A reception will follow the reading, and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
Co-sponsors: The Poetry Society of America & The MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation Reading Series
ROBERT ALTER: "Translating Ecclesiastes"
Tuesday, October 26th, 6:30pm
Join eminent scholar and translator Robert Alter as he discusses the special challenges of conveying biblical poetry and prose in English, and reads from his new work, an ambitious and impressive new translation, with commentary, of The Wisdom Books, including Job, the work of “the greatest biblical poet,” The Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes. Robert Alter is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Berkeley and has published many acclaimed works on the Bible, literary modernism, and contemporary Hebrew literature, including several previous translations from the Hebrew Bible.
The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat.
212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Join eminent scholar and translator Robert Alter as he discusses the special challenges of conveying biblical poetry and prose in English, and reads from his new work, an ambitious and impressive new translation, with commentary, of The Wisdom Books, including Job, the work of “the greatest biblical poet,” The Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes. Robert Alter is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Berkeley and has published many acclaimed works on the Bible, literary modernism, and contemporary Hebrew literature, including several previous translations from the Hebrew Bible.
The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat.
212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Thursday, October 21, 2010
*Black Renaissance Noire* journal
a reading to celebrate
summer/fall 2010, issue 2-3
Meena Alexander
Wanda Coleman
Victor Hernandez Cruz
Kamau Daaood
Martin Espada
Kimiko Hahn
Friday, October 22 (7pm-9pm)
Institute of African-American Affairs
New York University
41 East 11th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003-6687
FREE and open to public
limited space
summer/fall 2010, issue 2-3
Meena Alexander
Wanda Coleman
Victor Hernandez Cruz
Kamau Daaood
Martin Espada
Kimiko Hahn
Friday, October 22 (7pm-9pm)
Institute of African-American Affairs
New York University
41 East 11th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003-6687
FREE and open to public
limited space
POETS FOR LIVING WATERS
Join poets Nicole Cooley and Tonya Foster, poets and editors of the Poets for Living Waters initiative Amy King and Heidi Lynn Staples, and guest readers Jan Heller Levi, Marcella Durand, Julian Brolaski, Ana Bozicevic, Joanna Hoffman, and Brenda Iijima for an evening of poetry and eco-poetics in the wake of large-scale catastrophes in the Gulf and the surrounding regions. The online poetry forum and activist group Poets for Living Waters features daily poetic responses to the recent oil spill; for more information, visit www.poetsforlivingwaters.com.
Friday, October 22th, 6:30pm
The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Friday, October 22th, 6:30pm
The Skylight Room (9100)
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Translators Congregate, "Byrdes of on kynde ..."
ALTA, the American Literary Translators Association Conference is underway in Philadelphia, Oct. 20-24.
It is THE place to be for those in love with language/s.
Highlighting our MFA members' participation...
Roger Sedarat is facilitating the panel, "Translating [In]Visible Drama: Japanese, Italian, Persian, and Amerian Perspectives" with Ilaria Papini, Yoshihisa Tomonaga, Josefina Coisson and Alejandro Armando
and
"Translating in Collaboration" with Roger & Rouhollah Zarei, Yoshi [who collaborates with Kimiko], Dolores Deluise an Maria de Vasconcelos
and
"Roudtable: Publishing LIterary Translations" with Steven Bradbury, Susan Bernofsky, et al.
and
"For the Sake of Music: Shifting Notions in Poetry Translation" with Susan et al.
BTW--Yoshi is one of the ALTA Fellows this year--congrats!
http://www.utdallas.edu/alta/conference/current-conference
Show Up for Alums...
The Smalls Poetry Feature - Hosted by Lee Kostrinsky
present
Stefanie Lipsey and John Reid Currie
...About Smalls Jazz Club Smalls was created in 1993 by jazz impresario Mitch Borden, a former nurse and the son of an art-gallery owner. The original Smalls was a raw basement space that quickly became the late-night hangout for a multi-generational assortment of jazz musicians. Many masters such as Frank Hewitt, Tommy Turrentine, Bubba Brooks, Jimmy Lovelace and Herman Foster made their final homes at Smalls and shared their musical legacy with an eager and dedicated younger crowd. Many of the well-known musicians of the current jazz scene cut their teeth at Smalls during this period. The list of musicians who played at Smalls at that time is enormous and includes such luminaries as: Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Josh Redman, Brian Blade, Sam Yahel, Roy Hargrove, Peter Bernstein, Mark Turner, Omer Avital, Jason Linder, Sasha Perry, Chris Byars, Ari Roland, Ned Goold, William Ash, Zaid Nasser, Spike Wilner, Grant Stewart, Larry Goldings, Joe Magnarelli, Guillermo Klein and Norah Jones among many, many others.
Looking forward to seeing you there:
smallsjazzclub.com 183 West 10th Street New York, New York 10014
present
Stefanie Lipsey and John Reid Currie
...About Smalls Jazz Club Smalls was created in 1993 by jazz impresario Mitch Borden, a former nurse and the son of an art-gallery owner. The original Smalls was a raw basement space that quickly became the late-night hangout for a multi-generational assortment of jazz musicians. Many masters such as Frank Hewitt, Tommy Turrentine, Bubba Brooks, Jimmy Lovelace and Herman Foster made their final homes at Smalls and shared their musical legacy with an eager and dedicated younger crowd. Many of the well-known musicians of the current jazz scene cut their teeth at Smalls during this period. The list of musicians who played at Smalls at that time is enormous and includes such luminaries as: Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Josh Redman, Brian Blade, Sam Yahel, Roy Hargrove, Peter Bernstein, Mark Turner, Omer Avital, Jason Linder, Sasha Perry, Chris Byars, Ari Roland, Ned Goold, William Ash, Zaid Nasser, Spike Wilner, Grant Stewart, Larry Goldings, Joe Magnarelli, Guillermo Klein and Norah Jones among many, many others.
Looking forward to seeing you there:
smallsjazzclub.com 183 West 10th Street New York, New York 10014
Friday, October 15, 2010
History of Opera and ...
Women's Studies colloquium at QC will be on Wed., Oct. 20, Rosenthal Library, Pres. Conf. Room #1. Emily Wilbourne from the Music Dept. will speak on "One Woman's Impact on the History Of Opera." Noon/Free hour. Complimentary lunch.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
New Salon in Queens: Marilyn Hacker reads her poetry and talks with Alice Quinn
Wednesday October 27, 6:30pm
Benjamin Rosenthal Library, Room 230
Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, including Names (Norton, 2009), Essays on Departure (Carcanet Press, UK, 2006) and Desesperanto (Norton, 2003). Her essay collection Unauthorized Voices, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2010. Her ten volumes of translations from the French include Marie Etienne’s King of a Hundred Horsemen (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2008) which received the 2007 Robert Fagles Translation Prize and the 2009 American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles (The Graywolf Press, 2008). For her own work, she is a past recipient of the Lenore Marshall Award, the Poets’ Prize, the National Book Award and two Lambda Literary Awards, and the American PEN Voelcker Award for poetry in 2010. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Alice Quinn is the Executive Director of The Poetry Society of America.
A reception will follow the reading, and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
Co-sponsors: The Poetry Society of America & The MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation Reading Series
Benjamin Rosenthal Library, Room 230
Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, including Names (Norton, 2009), Essays on Departure (Carcanet Press, UK, 2006) and Desesperanto (Norton, 2003). Her essay collection Unauthorized Voices, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2010. Her ten volumes of translations from the French include Marie Etienne’s King of a Hundred Horsemen (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2008) which received the 2007 Robert Fagles Translation Prize and the 2009 American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles (The Graywolf Press, 2008). For her own work, she is a past recipient of the Lenore Marshall Award, the Poets’ Prize, the National Book Award and two Lambda Literary Awards, and the American PEN Voelcker Award for poetry in 2010. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Alice Quinn is the Executive Director of The Poetry Society of America.
A reception will follow the reading, and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
Co-sponsors: The Poetry Society of America & The MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation Reading Series
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Writing for Children -- Acclaimed Author, David Adler
"I love to Write: Meet the Author David Adler '68"
David Adler is the author of more than 200 books for children and young adults, most notably the Cam Jansen mystery series, the "Picture Book of..." series, and several acclaimed works about the Holocaust for young readers. This event is sponsored by the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education and is being generously funded through the Lottie and Henry Burger Children's Literature Endowment Fund. All are welcome.
Date: October 14, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
College: Queens College, Student Union, 4th Floor
Admission:
Free
David Adler is the author of more than 200 books for children and young adults, most notably the Cam Jansen mystery series, the "Picture Book of..." series, and several acclaimed works about the Holocaust for young readers. This event is sponsored by the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education and is being generously funded through the Lottie and Henry Burger Children's Literature Endowment Fund. All are welcome.
Date: October 14, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
College: Queens College, Student Union, 4th Floor
Admission:
Free
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Looking for Employment?
Don't forget to check out the 'career opportunities' on the website of major institutions. For example, the Brooklyn Museum of Art is looking for an Associate Editor:
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/careers/career_description.php?id=160
Major institutions? Museums, universities, hospitals, etc.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/careers/career_description.php?id=160
Major institutions? Museums, universities, hospitals, etc.
Reading and Interview ...
Frederic Tuten and Wayne Koestenbaum
*two CUNY profs*
Tuesday October 5, 2010
6:00 p.m.
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum
Room 227 (2nd Floor)
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Avenue
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
212-340-0871
www.nypl.org
*two CUNY profs*
Tuesday October 5, 2010
6:00 p.m.
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum
Room 227 (2nd Floor)
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Avenue
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
212-340-0871
www.nypl.org
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
True Crime Writer HAROLD SCHECHTER
... reads at noon at the QUEENS COLLEGE BOOKSTORE from his latest book, *KILLER COLT: murder, disgrace, and the making of an American legend* (Random House). Prof. Schechter teaches American literature and culture at QC. Renowned for his true-crime writing, he is the author of the nonfiction books Fatal, Fiend, Bestial, Deviant, Deranged, Depraved, and, The Serial Killer Files. He is also the author of Nevermore and The Hum Bug, the acclaimed historical mysteries featuring Edgar Allan Poe.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Several Opportunities/Deadlines at CBA
THE CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS ...
*2010 Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers*
Deadline October 1, 2010
The Center for Book Arts invites applications for our Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers. The next section of this seminar is scheduled for Wednesday through Sunday, November 10-14. The seminar is tuition-free for participants and includes the cost of materials. Those selected must attend the entire five-day workshop.
Participants will hear lectures from various professionals in the field--printers, fine press publishers, book artists, and dealers, to get a practical overview of letterpress printing and fine press publishing. They will learn the basics of letterpress printing, both traditional typesetting and options with new technology, by collaboratively printing a small edition of broadsides or other projects. This workshop is most suitable for those with little to no previous letterpress experience.
Each seminar will be offered to a maximum of eight students. Writers from culturally diverse backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants mus be 18 or older, and may not be enrolled in a degree program during September 2010 - May 2011.
*2011 Poetry Chapbook Competition*
Deadline December 1, 2010
The Center for Book Arts invites submissions to its annual Poetry Chapbook Competition by December 1, 2010. The winning manuscript will be chosen in April 2011 and will be awarded with the publication of a beautifully designed, letterpress-printed, limited-edition chapbook printed and bound by artists at the Center for Book Arts. The edition is limited to one hundred signed and numbered copies, ten of which are reserved for the author and the remained of which will be offered for sale through the Center. The winning poet will also receive a cash award of $500, and a $500 honorarium for a reading, to be held at the Center in the fall of 2011, as well as an exclusive opportunity to stay at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York as one of their Winter Shakers. This year's judges will be Kimiko Hahn and Sharon Dolin.
*Professional Development Workshop: Find a Collaborator!"
An Artists and Writers Mixer With Wennie Huang and Ed Go
Wednesday, October 6, 6:30pm
Have you ever wanted to work collaboratively? Are you looking for a new collaborator? Bring a piece of your visual or written work to this Professional Development Workshop to learn more about the collaborative process and meet other emerging artists and writers. Wennie Huang and Ed Go will discuss their collaboration, and we will experiment with short hands-on exercises.
Where:
Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, Third Floor
New York, New York 10001
Suggested Admission:
$5 members/$10 non-members
*2010 Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers*
Deadline October 1, 2010
The Center for Book Arts invites applications for our Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers. The next section of this seminar is scheduled for Wednesday through Sunday, November 10-14. The seminar is tuition-free for participants and includes the cost of materials. Those selected must attend the entire five-day workshop.
Participants will hear lectures from various professionals in the field--printers, fine press publishers, book artists, and dealers, to get a practical overview of letterpress printing and fine press publishing. They will learn the basics of letterpress printing, both traditional typesetting and options with new technology, by collaboratively printing a small edition of broadsides or other projects. This workshop is most suitable for those with little to no previous letterpress experience.
Each seminar will be offered to a maximum of eight students. Writers from culturally diverse backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants mus be 18 or older, and may not be enrolled in a degree program during September 2010 - May 2011.
*2011 Poetry Chapbook Competition*
Deadline December 1, 2010
The Center for Book Arts invites submissions to its annual Poetry Chapbook Competition by December 1, 2010. The winning manuscript will be chosen in April 2011 and will be awarded with the publication of a beautifully designed, letterpress-printed, limited-edition chapbook printed and bound by artists at the Center for Book Arts. The edition is limited to one hundred signed and numbered copies, ten of which are reserved for the author and the remained of which will be offered for sale through the Center. The winning poet will also receive a cash award of $500, and a $500 honorarium for a reading, to be held at the Center in the fall of 2011, as well as an exclusive opportunity to stay at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York as one of their Winter Shakers. This year's judges will be Kimiko Hahn and Sharon Dolin.
*Professional Development Workshop: Find a Collaborator!"
An Artists and Writers Mixer With Wennie Huang and Ed Go
Wednesday, October 6, 6:30pm
Have you ever wanted to work collaboratively? Are you looking for a new collaborator? Bring a piece of your visual or written work to this Professional Development Workshop to learn more about the collaborative process and meet other emerging artists and writers. Wennie Huang and Ed Go will discuss their collaboration, and we will experiment with short hands-on exercises.
Where:
Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, Third Floor
New York, New York 10001
Suggested Admission:
$5 members/$10 non-members
While You're At It...
Read then submit to *Storyscape*--an online literary journal that is story-centered:
www.storyscapejournal.com
The editors want your:
True story, invented story, overheard story, visual story, poetic story, audio story, found story, given story.
*Just captivate us with the strength of the story. The premise of the journal is to expand the notion of what stories are while shaking up the labels we use to define them. To this end, we've come up with 3 sections of the journal: Truth, Untruth, and We Don't Know and They Won't Tell Us. You label your piece, which means you decide what "the truth" means to you. We are actively looking for unique modes of storytelling that fall outside conventional boundaries while still maintaining the core essence of “story.” Past contributors include: Shelley Jackson, Nelly Reifler, David Hollander, Kimiko Hahn, David Shapiro, Kate Johnson, and many more.*
The next issue comes out in January of 2011.
To check out the site: www.storyscapejournal.com
Our mission statement: www.storyscapejournal.com/mission.html
Our submission guidelines: www.storyscapejournal.com/submit.html
www.storyscapejournal.com
The editors want your:
True story, invented story, overheard story, visual story, poetic story, audio story, found story, given story.
*Just captivate us with the strength of the story. The premise of the journal is to expand the notion of what stories are while shaking up the labels we use to define them. To this end, we've come up with 3 sections of the journal: Truth, Untruth, and We Don't Know and They Won't Tell Us. You label your piece, which means you decide what "the truth" means to you. We are actively looking for unique modes of storytelling that fall outside conventional boundaries while still maintaining the core essence of “story.” Past contributors include: Shelley Jackson, Nelly Reifler, David Hollander, Kimiko Hahn, David Shapiro, Kate Johnson, and many more.*
The next issue comes out in January of 2011.
To check out the site: www.storyscapejournal.com
Our mission statement: www.storyscapejournal.com/mission.html
Our submission guidelines: www.storyscapejournal.com/submit.html
Sunday, September 26, 2010
On the Same Page, Too: Living a Lie?
Important NYT 'Week in Review' article this morning on art and representation and the artist her/himself. "When Life Gets in the Way of Art": does the revelation that Withers betrayed his community and viewers by spying while on the job--does that new knowledge change your preception?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/week...inreview/26kennedy.html?ref=weekinreview
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/week...inreview/26kennedy.html?ref=weekinreview
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
On the Same Page, Too
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/19/opinion/20100919_opart_lorenz.html
"Op-Art"
"Inaccessible New York" photo essay and essay:
"...Abandoned ships, forbidden islands, derelict creeks — this is a part of New York that few people see."
"Op-Art"
"Inaccessible New York" photo essay and essay:
"...Abandoned ships, forbidden islands, derelict creeks — this is a part of New York that few people see."
HURRICANE KATRINA, FIVE YEARS LATER...
...TWO DAUGHTERS OF NEW ORLEANS—BOTH QUEENS COLLEGE PROFESSORS—REVISIT KATRINA IN POEMS, READINGS AND DISCUSSION ON SEPT. 27
--English Professor & Poet Nicole Cooley and Media Studies Professor Joy V. Fuqua Share Their Perspectives on the 2005 Tragedy and Life Now on the Gulf Coast--
WHAT:
In commemoration of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, two Queens College professors will look at the storm’s aftermath in a President’s Roundtable presentation of Reflections on the Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Coast, 5 Years Later.
English professor Nicole Cooley, who grew up in New Orleans, and media studies professor Joy V. Fuqua, a decade-long New Orleans resident, have both written about Hurricane Katrina and its consequences. Cooley will read from her new book, Breach, a collection of poems about Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Coast and discuss her recent visits to New Orleans. Fuqua will discuss the tensions between vulnerability and resilience in Spike Lee's If God is Willing and the Creek Don't Rise (2010), his recent documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
WHEN:
Monday, September 27, 2010 from 12:15 -1 :30pm
WHERE:
Queens College, Dining Hall, Q Side Lounge
65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushng, Queens
Directions: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/welcome/directions/Pages/default.aspx
Campus Map: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/welcome/directions/3d/Pages/Home.aspx
RSVP by Sept. 22 at (718) 997-3600 or email PresEvents.RSVP@qc.cuny.edu
For space reasons, seating priority will be given to those who respond.
*
Background:
Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, the nation witnessed images of a drowned city and its citizens dying in the oppressive heat; today, the Gulf Coast, surrounded by oil flows and suffocating wildlife, is once more in the news. Some of the questions the Reflections on the Water Presidential Roundtable participants will consider are, “In what ways do these two events complicate the ways of understanding what it means for a disaster to end?” “When do we know if a crisis is over?” “What are our indicators that suggest resilience or vulnerability?” Representing different disciplines and interests, the roundtable hopes to bring a renewed sense of critical examination to the function of such “anniversaries.”
“Hurricane Katrina devastated so much of the Gulf Coast and left 80% of the city of New Orleans underwater. It is crucial to remember what happened there,” says Cooley, who also directs the college’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
Fuqua’s current research examines the idea of home and belonging in relation to disaster. Her first book, Ill Effects: Prescribing Television in the Hospital and at Home, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
--English Professor & Poet Nicole Cooley and Media Studies Professor Joy V. Fuqua Share Their Perspectives on the 2005 Tragedy and Life Now on the Gulf Coast--
WHAT:
In commemoration of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, two Queens College professors will look at the storm’s aftermath in a President’s Roundtable presentation of Reflections on the Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Coast, 5 Years Later.
English professor Nicole Cooley, who grew up in New Orleans, and media studies professor Joy V. Fuqua, a decade-long New Orleans resident, have both written about Hurricane Katrina and its consequences. Cooley will read from her new book, Breach, a collection of poems about Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Coast and discuss her recent visits to New Orleans. Fuqua will discuss the tensions between vulnerability and resilience in Spike Lee's If God is Willing and the Creek Don't Rise (2010), his recent documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
WHEN:
Monday, September 27, 2010 from 12:15 -1 :30pm
WHERE:
Queens College, Dining Hall, Q Side Lounge
65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushng, Queens
Directions: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/welcome/directions/Pages/default.aspx
Campus Map: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/welcome/directions/3d/Pages/Home.aspx
RSVP by Sept. 22 at (718) 997-3600 or email PresEvents.RSVP@qc.cuny.edu
For space reasons, seating priority will be given to those who respond.
*
Background:
Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, the nation witnessed images of a drowned city and its citizens dying in the oppressive heat; today, the Gulf Coast, surrounded by oil flows and suffocating wildlife, is once more in the news. Some of the questions the Reflections on the Water Presidential Roundtable participants will consider are, “In what ways do these two events complicate the ways of understanding what it means for a disaster to end?” “When do we know if a crisis is over?” “What are our indicators that suggest resilience or vulnerability?” Representing different disciplines and interests, the roundtable hopes to bring a renewed sense of critical examination to the function of such “anniversaries.”
“Hurricane Katrina devastated so much of the Gulf Coast and left 80% of the city of New Orleans underwater. It is crucial to remember what happened there,” says Cooley, who also directs the college’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
Fuqua’s current research examines the idea of home and belonging in relation to disaster. Her first book, Ill Effects: Prescribing Television in the Hospital and at Home, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Monday, September 20, 2010
A Constellation of Campuses
A wealth of events take place all over the boroughs and many are sponsored by CUNY. To keep up with many of these presentations, check out:
"this week at cuny" and visit www.cuny.edu
then click 'subscribe to newswire'
What sorts of events? Here are a number of upcoming events:
*Photographing Woodlawn Cemetery*
... features the work of twenty-six artists whose photographs explore the sylvan landscapes and Gilded Age mausoleums of Woodlawn, one of America’s most important cemeteries. Located on 400 acres in the northern Bronx, Woodlawn incorporates the work of some of the country’s most accomplished architects, landscape designers and artists. In this exhibition the photographers record the grounds and monuments using a range of techniques and styles, offering panoramic views, high definition close-ups, sepia-toned imagery, and performance-based photography.
Location Information: Lehman College Art Gallery
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, NY 10468 -- The Bronx
Phone: 718-960-8731
Lehman College Art Gallery
*The e-Publishing Debate: What Is the Future of the Book?*
Kindles, iPads, Nooks, and Google books -- the average reader is often bewildered by the rapidly developing world of ebooks and has plenty of questions: will paper books and book stores continue to exist? What do ebooks mean for authors and their publishers? Is piracy a concern? Is reader privacy a concern? Moderated by agent Eric Simonoff, this panel will explore some of the thorny issues raised by this ongoing digital revolution and its impact on the publishing world. Featuring Simon Lipskar from Writers House representing the perspective of agents; Jon Sargent, CEO of Macmillan, speaking for publishers: David Naggar of Amazon; and Roland Lange from new book e-tailer Google. Click the e-VENTS online reservation icon; for more information call 212-817-8215. Unclaimed reservations will be released to a standby line at the event on a first-come, first-served basis.
September 20, 2010, 7:00 PM
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
Elebash Recital Hall
212-817-8215
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/public_programs.htm
Free , Registrations Required
Student Employment Opportunites--CUNY 311
The CUNY/311 Project, a collaboration between the NYC Department of Education Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) and the City University of New York, provides qualified CUNY students with the opportunity to work as part-time Call Center Representatives within New York City's Customer Service Center. 311 provides New Yorkers with one easy-to-remember number to access all City agencies and services.Students can pick up an application in advance at the Center for Career Development, Monday-Thursday, 9:00AM-5:00PM. Please be sure to complete all information listed and neatly on the application. Submit completed applications to Shemeka Peters, Employer Relations Specialist at the Center. Back
September 23, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
College: Borough of Manhattan Community College
199 Chambers Street, Manhattan
Building: Main, Room S-370
212-220-8170
Email:
speters@bmcc.cuny.edu
Free
* The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao*
Author Junot Diaz will give a reading on Monday, September 20, 2010 in Gould Memorial Library Auditorium from 10AM - 12PM. Junot Diaz is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Nobel Prize, The National Book Critics Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literacy Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), the Office of Student Life, and the BCC Latino Faculty & Staff Association.
September 20, 2010, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
College: Bronx Community College
2155 University Avenue--The Bronx
Building: Gould Memorial Library, Auditorium
Phone: 718.289.5075
Website:
http://www.bcc.cuny.edu
Admission: Free
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What sorts of events? Here are a number of upcoming events:
*Photographing Woodlawn Cemetery*
... features the work of twenty-six artists whose photographs explore the sylvan landscapes and Gilded Age mausoleums of Woodlawn, one of America’s most important cemeteries. Located on 400 acres in the northern Bronx, Woodlawn incorporates the work of some of the country’s most accomplished architects, landscape designers and artists. In this exhibition the photographers record the grounds and monuments using a range of techniques and styles, offering panoramic views, high definition close-ups, sepia-toned imagery, and performance-based photography.
Location Information: Lehman College Art Gallery
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, NY 10468 -- The Bronx
Phone: 718-960-8731
Lehman College Art Gallery
*The e-Publishing Debate: What Is the Future of the Book?*
Kindles, iPads, Nooks, and Google books -- the average reader is often bewildered by the rapidly developing world of ebooks and has plenty of questions: will paper books and book stores continue to exist? What do ebooks mean for authors and their publishers? Is piracy a concern? Is reader privacy a concern? Moderated by agent Eric Simonoff, this panel will explore some of the thorny issues raised by this ongoing digital revolution and its impact on the publishing world. Featuring Simon Lipskar from Writers House representing the perspective of agents; Jon Sargent, CEO of Macmillan, speaking for publishers: David Naggar of Amazon; and Roland Lange from new book e-tailer Google. Click the e-VENTS online reservation icon; for more information call 212-817-8215. Unclaimed reservations will be released to a standby line at the event on a first-come, first-served basis.
September 20, 2010, 7:00 PM
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
Elebash Recital Hall
212-817-8215
http://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/public_programs.htm
Free , Registrations Required
Student Employment Opportunites--CUNY 311
The CUNY/311 Project, a collaboration between the NYC Department of Education Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) and the City University of New York, provides qualified CUNY students with the opportunity to work as part-time Call Center Representatives within New York City's Customer Service Center. 311 provides New Yorkers with one easy-to-remember number to access all City agencies and services.Students can pick up an application in advance at the Center for Career Development, Monday-Thursday, 9:00AM-5:00PM. Please be sure to complete all information listed and neatly on the application. Submit completed applications to Shemeka Peters, Employer Relations Specialist at the Center. Back
September 23, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
College: Borough of Manhattan Community College
199 Chambers Street, Manhattan
Building: Main, Room S-370
212-220-8170
Email:
speters@bmcc.cuny.edu
Free
* The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao*
Author Junot Diaz will give a reading on Monday, September 20, 2010 in Gould Memorial Library Auditorium from 10AM - 12PM. Junot Diaz is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Nobel Prize, The National Book Critics Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literacy Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), the Office of Student Life, and the BCC Latino Faculty & Staff Association.
September 20, 2010, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
College: Bronx Community College
2155 University Avenue--The Bronx
Building: Gould Memorial Library, Auditorium
Phone: 718.289.5075
Website:
http://www.bcc.cuny.edu
Admission: Free
Sunday, September 19, 2010
EARSHOT!
EARSHOT is a reading series that combines MFA grad students and published writers in an ever-so-cool-venue. See what's out there--
Friday, September 24 @ 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Hosted by Gregory Crosby
$5 + one free drink
Featuring:
Peter Davis (Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!)
Eileen Malone (i should have given them water)
Mark Gurarie (The New School)
Lia Ottaviano (Hunter College/CUNY)
Sarah Heffner (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.
Follow the EARSHOT twitter feed at http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
--
EARSHOT!
http://www.earshotnyc.com
http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
Friday, September 24 @ 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Hosted by Gregory Crosby
$5 + one free drink
Featuring:
Peter Davis (Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!)
Eileen Malone (i should have given them water)
Mark Gurarie (The New School)
Lia Ottaviano (Hunter College/CUNY)
Sarah Heffner (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.
Follow the EARSHOT twitter feed at http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
--
EARSHOT!
http://www.earshotnyc.com
http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
Friday, September 17, 2010
MFA Program Orientation ... Continues with
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Cumberland Diagnostic Treatment Center: 100 N. Portland Ave., 11205
718-260-7500
QC Women's Studies Colloquia
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
CAROL GIARDINA
Forging the Women's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970
Carol Giardina teaches Women's Studies and United States History at Queens College. She is a pioneer of the 1960's
Women's Liberation Movement and a feminist scholar activist who continues to fight for Women's Liberation in the
uncompromising spirit of the Sixties. Her book *Freedom for Women: Forging the Women's Liberation Movement,
1953-1970* was published this spring.
[1 CLIQ Point for undergraduates]
Complimentary lunch will be served
CAROL GIARDINA
Forging the Women's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970
Carol Giardina teaches Women's Studies and United States History at Queens College. She is a pioneer of the 1960's
Women's Liberation Movement and a feminist scholar activist who continues to fight for Women's Liberation in the
uncompromising spirit of the Sixties. Her book *Freedom for Women: Forging the Women's Liberation Movement,
1953-1970* was published this spring.
[1 CLIQ Point for undergraduates]
Complimentary lunch will be served
Monday, September 13, 2010
On the Same Page
This Wednesday night, Sept. 15, at 6:30 is our *On the Same Page* Community discussion in Klapper 710. If you need a hard copy of the packet, Brian has some at his desk in the English Dept. office. Beverages provided; brown-bag dinners encouraged. Nicole reminder: "Everyone in the MFA Program should be there, unless you have a literature class meeting at that time." This is a great opportunity for our community to meet in a cross-genre setting and to begin a spirited discussion about thought-provoking texts. Who else but John Weir could lead us into these realms--
QC Art Opening: Nature and Cosmos, work by Marlene Tseng Yu
Recent retrospectives in Beijing and Shanghai, and major exhibitions in Paris, Prague, Taipei and New York, have put her on the map as a contemporary artist of no-little-significance. To date, she has had 63 solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and the Far East, which have been reviewed in nine languages in over 170 publications. Her works are included in more than 1000 public and private collections. Paintings on paper and canvas selected from her long and prolific career show the artist's development from figuration to abstraction, culminating in the colossal murals for which she is renowned. Nature and Cosmos is a primary, ongoing theme that reveals Tseng Yu's inspiration in the forms and energies of natural and cosmic phenomena. Overwhelming in their radiance and outsize proportions, these works mirror the staggering beauty and power of nature abstractly capturing its intensity and diversity, from cascading avalanches to melting glaciers; from the intimate structure of cellular systems to crystals of minerals and ice. Related public programs include an opening reception, a lecture, and a film series related to current cultural and environmental issues in the newly-industrialized China. For information about the exhibition and programs call (718) 997-4747 or go to www.qc.cuny.edu/godwin_ternbach.
September 13, 2010 - November 24, 2010
QC: Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall
Friday, September 10, 2010
The Center for Book Arts
Take a look at CBA's really splendid new fall line up: readings, making chapbooks and broadsides, exhibits, and on and on. Here is an example of one event not to miss:
Book Arts Lounge
Zinemaking Party
Friday, October 8th , 6-9pm
With Sarah McCarry. Whether you’ve been making zines since the dawn of Riot Grrl or have always wanted to but never gotten around to it, tonight’s the night for you. We’ll look at examples of different kinds of zines, talk about what goes into writing, editing, layout, and production, and cover some basic methods of binding that work well for large editions. Participants will leave with binding samples and the beginnings of their own zine. Bring bits of your writing, images to cut up, and any other paper ephemera that strikes your fancy.
$10/$5 CBA Members Suggested Donation
28 West 27th Street, third floor, NY 10001
http://www.centerforbookarts.org/
Book Arts Lounge
Zinemaking Party
Friday, October 8th , 6-9pm
With Sarah McCarry. Whether you’ve been making zines since the dawn of Riot Grrl or have always wanted to but never gotten around to it, tonight’s the night for you. We’ll look at examples of different kinds of zines, talk about what goes into writing, editing, layout, and production, and cover some basic methods of binding that work well for large editions. Participants will leave with binding samples and the beginnings of their own zine. Bring bits of your writing, images to cut up, and any other paper ephemera that strikes your fancy.
$10/$5 CBA Members Suggested Donation
28 West 27th Street, third floor, NY 10001
http://www.centerforbookarts.org/
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Our Own Emerging Writers Read with Lan Samantha Chang...
Friday, September 10, 2010 @ 7PM
All for Art: Lan Samantha Chang's All Is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost and Emerging Writers
Lan Samantha Chang's new novel, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost, follows the trials of a class of emerging writers, their love/intimidation relationship with their brilliant poet professor, and the different ways they sacrifice their lives for writing. As Booklist praises, "it is [Chang's] indelible portrait of the loneliness of artistic endeavor that will haunt readers the most in this exquisitely written novel about the poet's lot." In honor of the book's portrait of emerging writers, young writers from New York City, included Queens College's Sunu Chandy and Dana Collins, will read, and possibly read works that would horrify their workshop peers.
@The Asian American Writers' Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
Buzzer 600
Open to the public
All for Art: Lan Samantha Chang's All Is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost and Emerging Writers
Lan Samantha Chang's new novel, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost, follows the trials of a class of emerging writers, their love/intimidation relationship with their brilliant poet professor, and the different ways they sacrifice their lives for writing. As Booklist praises, "it is [Chang's] indelible portrait of the loneliness of artistic endeavor that will haunt readers the most in this exquisitely written novel about the poet's lot." In honor of the book's portrait of emerging writers, young writers from New York City, included Queens College's Sunu Chandy and Dana Collins, will read, and possibly read works that would horrify their workshop peers.
@The Asian American Writers' Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
Buzzer 600
Open to the public
Thursday, September 2, 2010
***A Rare Gathering***
100 YEARS OF AMERICAN POETRY, 1910-2010
with U.S. Poets Laureate Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Louise Glück, Donald Hall, Daniel Hoffman, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, and Charles Simic
Our U.S. Poets Laureate read their own poems and poems by their predecessors at the famous hall, in honor of the anniversary of the first meeting of the Poetry Society of America in October, 1910, and the publication of The Poets Laureate Anthology.
Co-sponsored by the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center.
Tuesday, Oct 12, 7:00 pm
Admission is free.
at
The Great Hall, Cooper Union,
7 East 7th Street at 3rd Avenue, Manhattan
with U.S. Poets Laureate Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Louise Glück, Donald Hall, Daniel Hoffman, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, and Charles Simic
Our U.S. Poets Laureate read their own poems and poems by their predecessors at the famous hall, in honor of the anniversary of the first meeting of the Poetry Society of America in October, 1910, and the publication of The Poets Laureate Anthology.
Co-sponsored by the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center.
Tuesday, Oct 12, 7:00 pm
Admission is free.
at
The Great Hall, Cooper Union,
7 East 7th Street at 3rd Avenue, Manhattan
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Katrina Project Presents Poetry
Today, Tuesday, Aug 31 7:00p to 8:30p
at Bryant Park, 42nd St., Manhattan
Katrina Project Presents Poetry:
Nicole Cooley
Tonya Foster
Cynthia Hogue
Yusef Kommunyakaa
at Bryant Park, 42nd St., Manhattan
Katrina Project Presents Poetry:
Nicole Cooley
Tonya Foster
Cynthia Hogue
Yusef Kommunyakaa
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Welcome/Back - MFA Orientation Gathering
Meet the faculty, current and new MFA students at this welcome/back gathering with refreshments and information on the upcoming year.
Monday, August 30, 5:30 pm
Fourth Floor Student Art Gallery, Klapper Hall
For information contact MFA Director, Nicole Cooley
or call the English Dept.: 718-997-4600
"On the Same Page, Too" -- Bulletin Blog Addition
In the interest of continuing to offer readings to our community of writers, Kimiko is inaugurating this addition to our Bulletin Blog: she and other faculty will post online articles. Some will be on topics related to writings, some of general interest to citizens of this planet. In the spirit of "On the Same Page," we hope that these stimulate conversations and maybe even become part of one's own writing--directly or indirectly.
From THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY 'WEEK IN REVIEW'
Now Playing: Night of the Living Tech
By STEVE LOHR
Published: August 21, 2010
" ... An unscheduled call from people other than family members, they say, is often regarded as a rude intrusion. ... Broad swaths of the blogosphere lie fallow, abandoned. But again, this is a sign of adaptive behavior. ... Text is not going away, nor is reading. Paper is going away."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/weekinreview/22lohr.html?_r=1&ref=weekinreview
Crime (Sex) and Punishment (Stoning)
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: August 21, 2010
"It may be the oldest form of execution in the world, and it is certainly among the most barbaric. In the West, death by stoning is so remote from experience that it is best known through Monty Python skits and lurid fiction like Shirley Jackson’s short story 'The Lottery.'”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/weekinreview/22worth.html?ref=weekinreview
From THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY 'WEEK IN REVIEW'
Now Playing: Night of the Living Tech
By STEVE LOHR
Published: August 21, 2010
" ... An unscheduled call from people other than family members, they say, is often regarded as a rude intrusion. ... Broad swaths of the blogosphere lie fallow, abandoned. But again, this is a sign of adaptive behavior. ... Text is not going away, nor is reading. Paper is going away."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/weekinreview/22lohr.html?_r=1&ref=weekinreview
Crime (Sex) and Punishment (Stoning)
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: August 21, 2010
"It may be the oldest form of execution in the world, and it is certainly among the most barbaric. In the West, death by stoning is so remote from experience that it is best known through Monty Python skits and lurid fiction like Shirley Jackson’s short story 'The Lottery.'”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/weekinreview/22worth.html?ref=weekinreview
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Katrina
Sunday, August 29, 2010 marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the Gulf Coast.
A local reading in memory of the storm will take place at Bryant Park on Tuesday evening.
Word for Word Poetry
Katrina Project Presents Poetry
7:00pm – 8:30pm | Bryant Park Reading Room
Katrina Project Presents Poetry:
Nicole Cooley
Tonya Foster
Yusef Komunyakaa
Rain Venue(s):
*The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 West 44th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
A local reading in memory of the storm will take place at Bryant Park on Tuesday evening.
Word for Word Poetry
Katrina Project Presents Poetry
7:00pm – 8:30pm | Bryant Park Reading Room
Katrina Project Presents Poetry:
Nicole Cooley
Tonya Foster
Yusef Komunyakaa
Rain Venue(s):
*The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
20 West 44th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Welcome/Back - MFA Orientation Gathering
Meet the faculty, current and new MFA students at this welcome/back gathering with refreshments and information on the upcoming year.
Monday, August 30, 5:30pm
Fourth Floor Student Art Gallery, Klapper Hall
For information contact MFA Director, Nicole Cooley
or call the English Dept.: 718-997-4600
Friday, July 23, 2010
music in queens...
Tyler Rivenbark's FIRST show in Queens for FREE! And while enjoying some lovely music you can help yourself to some FREE food. It doesn't get much better than that.
LIC Bar
Monday, August 9th
I open at 6:45pm
45-58 Vernon Blvd
fyi:
Tyler
www.myspace.com/mygoodname
LIC Bar
Monday, August 9th
I open at 6:45pm
45-58 Vernon Blvd
fyi:
Tyler
www.myspace.com/mygoodname
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Role of Writing in Tumult of Urban Change...
Open City: Poet Fay Chiang and Scholar-Activist Peter Kwong on Gentrification and Chinatown/Loisada
Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 7-9 PM
Galleries, luxury condos, displacement, rezoning, affordable housing, neighborhood preservation. These are a few keywords in the conversation around gentrification. ***But what is the role of writing in the face of this kind of urban change?*** Two activists, scholar Peter Kwong of Hunter College/CUNY and artist Fay Chiang, will thread personal accounts of their lives as scholars and artists in Chinatown/Loisada with broader analyses of neighborhoods in flux. Their discussion will launch the Workshop’s community-based writers fellowship, “OPEN CITY: Blogging Urban Change,” where fellows collect oral history from residents of Chinatown/LES, Sunset Park, and Flushing. Partnering with the Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA) and its Archeology of Change Project, Open City is an innovative spin on the neighborhood blog, one that incorporates oral history, video/audio content, and new interdisciplinary writing.
@The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
Buzzer 600
Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 7-9 PM
Galleries, luxury condos, displacement, rezoning, affordable housing, neighborhood preservation. These are a few keywords in the conversation around gentrification. ***But what is the role of writing in the face of this kind of urban change?*** Two activists, scholar Peter Kwong of Hunter College/CUNY and artist Fay Chiang, will thread personal accounts of their lives as scholars and artists in Chinatown/Loisada with broader analyses of neighborhoods in flux. Their discussion will launch the Workshop’s community-based writers fellowship, “OPEN CITY: Blogging Urban Change,” where fellows collect oral history from residents of Chinatown/LES, Sunset Park, and Flushing. Partnering with the Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA) and its Archeology of Change Project, Open City is an innovative spin on the neighborhood blog, one that incorporates oral history, video/audio content, and new interdisciplinary writing.
@The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
Buzzer 600
Where to send work? Where to find a job? Contests? Residences?
http://www.pw.org/constant_contact/signup
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Translations and Transitions
Writers and translators will share both the challenges and benefits of inhabiting two discourses, cultures, and traditions with high school aged writers in a workshop setting.
In-coming QC MFA students Ilaria Papini (translation), Panagiota Lilikaki (playwriting), and our recently graduated student Andriana Rizos (poetry) will join Roger Sedarat in a brief discussion and reading at:
PEN American Center, located at 588 Broadway, NYC
On the following dates and times:
10 am on Fri. July 23rd and Sat. July 24th.
Monday, July 19, 2010
The City that Never Takes a Break--or stops celebrating art...
There is a great deal happening all over the boroughs this summer. Here are two from POETS HOUSE:
18th Annual Poets House Showcase, a display of all the poetry books published in the United States in the last year, on view through Saturday, July 31 during regular library hours. Admission to the Showcase is free. Read about the 18th Annual Poets House Showcase in the New York Times. BTW--it's air conditioned with a river view!
*
*Poets House Showcase Readings* are held in conjunction with the above. Coming up is a reading of several poets from *Persistent Voices*--a much acclaimed anthology that brings to life the poetry of poets who died from AIDs. Among the poets whose work will be read by other poets: Melvin Dixon, Tim Dlugos and Tory Dent.
Admission to the Showcase is free.
July 27, 7 p.m.
10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282 | www.poetshouse.org |
18th Annual Poets House Showcase, a display of all the poetry books published in the United States in the last year, on view through Saturday, July 31 during regular library hours. Admission to the Showcase is free. Read about the 18th Annual Poets House Showcase in the New York Times. BTW--it's air conditioned with a river view!
*
*Poets House Showcase Readings* are held in conjunction with the above. Coming up is a reading of several poets from *Persistent Voices*--a much acclaimed anthology that brings to life the poetry of poets who died from AIDs. Among the poets whose work will be read by other poets: Melvin Dixon, Tim Dlugos and Tory Dent.
Admission to the Showcase is free.
July 27, 7 p.m.
10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282 | www.poetshouse.org |
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Andriana: "Found (Self) in Translation"
From Tuesday's DAILY NEWS:
AT FIRST, it was all Greek, but thanks to a new creative writing program at Queens College, Andriana Rizos, a Greek-American has found her own voice in translation [at Queens College]. ... She can be found in Francis Lewis Park, penning verses on a yellow legal pad under the Whitestone Bridge. ..."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2010/07/13/2010-07-13_found_self_in_translation.html#ixzz0talH9rzU
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
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Monday, July 5, 2010
A couple CUNY things probably air conditioned...
THE WORLD OF TAP DANCE: A TWO-DAY CELEBRATION
The Segal Center is pleased to devote two days to Tap Dance, a complex American popular art with a rich and under-recognized history and a present that's vibrant and international. Presented in partnership with the American Tap Dance Foundation, The World of Tap Dance will feature discussions with renowned tap artists across the generations, special screenings of classic and rare dance footage, and live performances by a curated lineup of dynamic tap artists. Day 1 will look back on the history of tap, with a special focus on the late and legendary Chuck Green, while Day 2 will survey the recent bloom in tap activity around the world, from Europe to Brazil to Japan.
Date:
July 6, 2010 - July 7, 2010
Time:
10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
Call (866) 553-3609 or email PDA@lagcc.cuny.edu
Date:
July 7, 2010
Time:
5:45 PM – 7:15 PM
College:
LaGuardia Community College
Address:
31-10 Thomson Avenue Long Island City, Queens
The Segal Center is pleased to devote two days to Tap Dance, a complex American popular art with a rich and under-recognized history and a present that's vibrant and international. Presented in partnership with the American Tap Dance Foundation, The World of Tap Dance will feature discussions with renowned tap artists across the generations, special screenings of classic and rare dance footage, and live performances by a curated lineup of dynamic tap artists. Day 1 will look back on the history of tap, with a special focus on the late and legendary Chuck Green, while Day 2 will survey the recent bloom in tap activity around the world, from Europe to Brazil to Japan.
Date:
July 6, 2010 - July 7, 2010
Time:
10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue Manhattan
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
Call (866) 553-3609 or email PDA@lagcc.cuny.edu
Date:
July 7, 2010
Time:
5:45 PM – 7:15 PM
College:
LaGuardia Community College
Address:
31-10 Thomson Avenue Long Island City, Queens
Monday, June 28, 2010
Vital Theatre: Marcus Gardley’s “...and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi”
The Segal Center is pleased to present a staged reading of acclaimed poet and playwright Marcus Gardley’s "...And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi," a story of love and longing set at the bitter end of the Civil War in the American South. Experience Mr. Gardley’s "richness of... language, which often finds pungent poetry in the African-American vernacular" (The New York Times) in this special evening of theatre. Tea Alagic ("The Brothers Size") directs.
6:30 p.m., Monday, June 28, 2010 Martin E. Segal Theatre.
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309 | ph: 212-817-1860 Free!
6:30 p.m., Monday, June 28, 2010 Martin E. Segal Theatre.
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309 | ph: 212-817-1860 Free!
Monday, June 7, 2010
Free and Open...
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House/NYU
58 West 10th Street (bet 5th and 6th Avenues)
Thursday, June 17, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Free & Open to the Public
Robert Hershon's most recent book is Calls from the Outside World, his 12th collection. His work has appeared in The Nation, American Poetry Review and Poetry 180, and numerous other magazines and periodicals, and he has recently written for the Poetry Foundation and Best American Poetry websites. Among his awards are two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Hershon has edited Hanging Loose Press since 1966 and served as director of The Print Center since 1976.
Hettie Jones has published three collections of poems: Drive (winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award), All Told, and Doing 70. Her celebrated memoir of the Beat Scene, How I Became Hettie Jones, is regarded as a model of the genre. Her many other books include, No Woman No Cry, co-authored with Rita Marley, and several books for children. Jones lectures widely and currently teaches in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at the New School and at the 92nd Street Y.
Chuck Wachtel 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 (all Viking-Penguin); and five collections of poems and short prose, including The Coriolis Effect and, most recently, What Happens to Me. A new novel, 3/03, will appear in summer 2010. He has written the screenplay for Joe The Engineer currently in pre-production as a film. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at N.Y.U.
58 West 10th Street (bet 5th and 6th Avenues)
Thursday, June 17, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Free & Open to the Public
Robert Hershon's most recent book is Calls from the Outside World, his 12th collection. His work has appeared in The Nation, American Poetry Review and Poetry 180, and numerous other magazines and periodicals, and he has recently written for the Poetry Foundation and Best American Poetry websites. Among his awards are two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Hershon has edited Hanging Loose Press since 1966 and served as director of The Print Center since 1976.
Hettie Jones has published three collections of poems: Drive (winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award), All Told, and Doing 70. Her celebrated memoir of the Beat Scene, How I Became Hettie Jones, is regarded as a model of the genre. Her many other books include, No Woman No Cry, co-authored with Rita Marley, and several books for children. Jones lectures widely and currently teaches in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at the New School and at the 92nd Street Y.
Chuck Wachtel 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 (all Viking-Penguin); and five collections of poems and short prose, including The Coriolis Effect and, most recently, What Happens to Me. A new novel, 3/03, will appear in summer 2010. He has written the screenplay for Joe The Engineer currently in pre-production as a film. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at N.Y.U.
A SEA OF POETRY...
Poets for Living Waters Action -- In Honor of WORLD OCEAN DAY
Tuesday, June 8th @ 7 p.m.
Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave (between Dean St & St Marks Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Trains -- 7th Ave (Q, B) // Grand Army Plaza (2, 3) //
Clinton-Washington Aves (C)
Readings from Poets for Living Waters and of work by Leslie Scalapino,
Muriel Rukeyser, and Lorine Niedecker
http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/
Poets included are BEYER, BOZICEVIC, BROLASKI, COOLEY, IIJIMA, KING and MOHABIR
Tuesday, June 8th @ 7 p.m.
Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave (between Dean St & St Marks Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Trains -- 7th Ave (Q, B) // Grand Army Plaza (2, 3) //
Clinton-Washington Aves (C)
Readings from Poets for Living Waters and of work by Leslie Scalapino,
Muriel Rukeyser, and Lorine Niedecker
http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/
Poets included are BEYER, BOZICEVIC, BROLASKI, COOLEY, IIJIMA, KING and MOHABIR
EARSHOT Reading Series this Friday:
Friday, June 11th @ 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg
$5 + one free drink
Featuring: Chip Livingston (Museum of False Starts) Ana Bozicevic (Stars of the Night Commute) ***
Emily Brandt (New York University)
Danniel Schoonebeek (Sarah Lawrence College) *Michael Alpiner (Queens College)*
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. Follow the EARSHOT twitter feed at http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
***No doubt you know Michael--and, if you’ve been to TURNSTYLE reading series, you also know Ana as one of the coordinators from the Center for the Humanities/CUNY Grad. Ctr.
$5 + one free drink
Featuring: Chip Livingston (Museum of False Starts) Ana Bozicevic (Stars of the Night Commute) ***
Emily Brandt (New York University)
Danniel Schoonebeek (Sarah Lawrence College) *Michael Alpiner (Queens College)*
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. Follow the EARSHOT twitter feed at http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
***No doubt you know Michael--and, if you’ve been to TURNSTYLE reading series, you also know Ana as one of the coordinators from the Center for the Humanities/CUNY Grad. Ctr.
Theater, Art, Installations, ... CUNY in the Summertime
"This Week at CUNY"
SUBSCRIBE TO THIS WEBSITE FOR EVENTS ACROSS THE CUNY CAMPUSES:
http://www.cityuniversityofnewyork.org/news/newswire-services.html
[CLICK “SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSWIRE” ETC.]
… GONE IN 60 SECONDS -- THE WORLD'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL … Artist Dorrit Title explores her grandparents' memories of the Holocaust through paintings and mixed media. … Michael Yates Crowley and Michael Rau Theatre: Real Dogs--Their suburban basement is the set and fear is the main character. … Students in all majors compete for a chance to win cash prizes for their entrepreneurial ideas. ...Installation of Susan Sills' re-interpreted life-size wood cutouts of characters and objects from Old Masters restructures the timelines of modern art history, making way for playful narrative….
SUBSCRIBE TO THIS WEBSITE FOR EVENTS ACROSS THE CUNY CAMPUSES:
http://www.cityuniversityofnewyork.org/news/newswire-services.html
[CLICK “SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSWIRE” ETC.]
… GONE IN 60 SECONDS -- THE WORLD'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL … Artist Dorrit Title explores her grandparents' memories of the Holocaust through paintings and mixed media. … Michael Yates Crowley and Michael Rau Theatre: Real Dogs--Their suburban basement is the set and fear is the main character. … Students in all majors compete for a chance to win cash prizes for their entrepreneurial ideas. ...Installation of Susan Sills' re-interpreted life-size wood cutouts of characters and objects from Old Masters restructures the timelines of modern art history, making way for playful narrative….
Friday, June 4, 2010
**Summertime Opportunities**
Sun Jun 20, 12:00pm
11th Annual Literary Magazine Fair
The Fair offers a wide variety of literary magazines and journals sold to the public at discount prices. All proceeds from sales will go to Housing Works and CLMP.
at Housing Works Bookstore
126 Crosby St., NYC
Sun Jun 27th 12:00-5:00pm
2010 Bronx Museum Book Fair
An afternoon of food, music, local writers and the work of ten publishers to promote small presses and publications.
1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY
**these gleaned from Ugly Duckling Presse website:
info@uglyducklingpresse.org
11th Annual Literary Magazine Fair
The Fair offers a wide variety of literary magazines and journals sold to the public at discount prices. All proceeds from sales will go to Housing Works and CLMP.
at Housing Works Bookstore
126 Crosby St., NYC
Sun Jun 27th 12:00-5:00pm
2010 Bronx Museum Book Fair
An afternoon of food, music, local writers and the work of ten publishers to promote small presses and publications.
1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY
**these gleaned from Ugly Duckling Presse website:
info@uglyducklingpresse.org
Sunday, May 16, 2010
PROUDLY PRESENTING:
**The Louis Armstrong Writers-in-Residence Reading**
@
Louis Armstrong House Museum Garden
34-56 107th Street
Corona, NY 11368
Monday May 17
5: 30 reception followed by a 6:00 reading
for directions: www.louisarmstronghouse.org
John Olsen was born and raised in the Adirondack park. As an undergraduate, he studied Psychology at Hofstra University and is currently studying for an MFA at Queens College. His poetry has appeared previously in The Orange Room Review and is forthcoming in Chest and Big Lucks.
Ann Podracky is finishing her MFA in Creative Writing at Queens College this semester. She is a Fiction Editor for the program's online journal Ozone Park and is currently working on a collection of short fictions called Housing Authorities. She thanks Louis and Lucille Armstrong, and all those individuals who have created and made it possible to participate in the Writers-in-Residence at the Louis Armstrong Archives.
Jenna Telesca writes, teaches, lives, and learns in four different boroughs. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and will receive her MFA in creative writing from Queens College this May. Her writing has been published in elimae and Counterexample Poetics; she’s at work on a collection of strange fairy tales, fables, and other short fiction.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.cuny.edu for more information.
@
Louis Armstrong House Museum Garden
34-56 107th Street
Corona, NY 11368
Monday May 17
5: 30 reception followed by a 6:00 reading
for directions: www.louisarmstronghouse.org
John Olsen was born and raised in the Adirondack park. As an undergraduate, he studied Psychology at Hofstra University and is currently studying for an MFA at Queens College. His poetry has appeared previously in The Orange Room Review and is forthcoming in Chest and Big Lucks.
Ann Podracky is finishing her MFA in Creative Writing at Queens College this semester. She is a Fiction Editor for the program's online journal Ozone Park and is currently working on a collection of short fictions called Housing Authorities. She thanks Louis and Lucille Armstrong, and all those individuals who have created and made it possible to participate in the Writers-in-Residence at the Louis Armstrong Archives.
Jenna Telesca writes, teaches, lives, and learns in four different boroughs. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and will receive her MFA in creative writing from Queens College this May. Her writing has been published in elimae and Counterexample Poetics; she’s at work on a collection of strange fairy tales, fables, and other short fiction.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.cuny.edu for more information.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
OZONE PARK JOURNAL: SPRING '10 ISSUE LAUNCH
Sponsored by the Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation
**Come celebrate the launch of the Spring '10 Ozone Park Journal.
This issue will feature work from established and emerging writers. **
There will be a reading and a reception to follow.
Sunday, May 23rd, 6:30-9pm
@Heskin Contemporary
443 West 37th Street
New York, New York 10018
HORN
"Horn" by Tyler Rivenbark
**written during his QC MFA residency using archival material
from the Louis Armstrong House Museum**
Sunday, May 23, 6pm
Manhattan Theatre Club - 311 W. 43rd Street, 8th Floor, Studio 2
A **suggested** donation of $15
Synopsis:
HORN explores a moment in time in the off-stage life of Louis Armstrong – a man who wanted to be remembered by everybody, a man who everyone thought they knew, but is only known by the public image he left behind. This journey into the personal life of the grand public figure with a smile just as big digs deep into the psyche of Armstrong and carves away a small, intimate story few know about a man in 1950’s Corona amidst his marital issues at home, civil rights abroad, personal struggles within, and a longing to escape everything, if just for a moment, and blow his horn.
**written during his QC MFA residency using archival material
from the Louis Armstrong House Museum**
Sunday, May 23, 6pm
Manhattan Theatre Club - 311 W. 43rd Street, 8th Floor, Studio 2
A **suggested** donation of $15
Synopsis:
HORN explores a moment in time in the off-stage life of Louis Armstrong – a man who wanted to be remembered by everybody, a man who everyone thought they knew, but is only known by the public image he left behind. This journey into the personal life of the grand public figure with a smile just as big digs deep into the psyche of Armstrong and carves away a small, intimate story few know about a man in 1950’s Corona amidst his marital issues at home, civil rights abroad, personal struggles within, and a longing to escape everything, if just for a moment, and blow his horn.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
**TURNSTYLE -- last of the season**
Monday, MAY 10th, 2010
Turnstyle, a cross-genre MFA reading series, features the faculty and students of four CUNY graduate creative writing programs.
Each evening, two faculty readers and eight second-year MFA creative writing students will read a mix of non-fiction, plays, fiction, and poems.
FEATURING:
Faculty readers: Richard Schotter & Colum McCann
MFA readers: Evelyn Spence, Jenny Williams, Andriana Rizos, Leah
Pollack, Bill Cheng, Peter Messina, Maryam Alikhani, Lynn Dion
DETAILS:
Skylight Theater
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
(btw 34th & 35th streets in Manhattan)
Readings start at 6:30pm.
Co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, MFA in Creative
Writing Affiliation Group and Center for the Humanities.
Authenticity and Accent
Women's Studies colloquium will be on Wednesday, May 12, 12:15-2 p.m., President's Conference Room #1, Rosenthal Library. Miryam Segal, of the Department of Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures, will speak on "THE POETESS WHO SINGS A MASCULINE HEBREW, and Other Problems of Authenticity and Accent." Complimentary lunch.
QC campus
QC campus
Friday, April 30, 2010
THIS WEEK: THE CHAPBOOK
Monday, May 3 & Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The Festival celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a medium for alternative and emerging writers and publishers. Now in its second year, the Festival features a two-day bookfair with chapbook publishers from around the country, workshops, marathon poetry readings, and a closing-night reading of prize-winning Chapbook Fellows.
Schedule of Events
BOOKFAIR
11:30am to 7pm both days (May 3-4)
in the Proshansky Auditorium Lobby, C Level
Free and open to the public
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
WORKSHOPS
C Level Breakout Rooms
Registration required. To attend workshops, please register by e-mailing abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu
10 – 11:30am Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Poets
With Brenda Iijima (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna*), and [Lonely Christopher (The Corresponding Society) - tentative]
10 – 11:30am Do-It-Yourself Chapbooks: Make and Distribute Your Own
With Mary Gannon and Jean Hartig (Poets & Writers Magazine), Emily Goodale (Brave Men Press), Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse), and [Adam Robinson (Publishing Genius) - tentative]
11:30am – 1pm Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Publishers
With Jan Heller Levi (Hunter College), Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna*), and [Bill Marsh (Factory School) – tentative]
11:30am – 1pm Chapbooks as Art Objects
With Roni Gross (Center for Book Arts, Roni Gross Design), Sarah Nicholls (Center for Book Arts), and Jeremy Thompson (The Autotypograph)
CHAPBOOK POETS: A MARATHON READING
2 – 7pm, C Level Breakout Rooms
Poets from participating presses read. For a full lineup, visit www.chapbookfestival.org
Free and open to the public.
OPENING RECEPTION
7 – 8pm, Proshansky Auditorum Lobby
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010
WORKSHOPS
Registration required. To attend workshops, please register by e-mailing abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu
10 – 11:30am Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Poets
With Sommer Browning (Flying Guillotine Press), Jill Magi (Sona Books), and Daniel Lin (Love Among the Ruins)
10 – 11:30am Do-It-Yourself Chapbooks: Make and Distribute Your Own
With Mary Gannon and Jean Hartig (Poets & Writers Magazine), Emily Goodale (Brave Men Press), Anna Moschovakis (Ugly Duckling Presse), and [Adam Robinson (Publishing Genius) - tentative]
11:30am – 1pm Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Publishers
With Jan Heller Levi (Hunter College), Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna*), and Andrew Levy (CRAYON Magazine)
11:30am – 1pm Chapbooks as Art Objects
With Roni Gross (Center for Book Arts, Roni Gross Design), Sarah Nicholls (Center for Book Arts), and Jeremy Thompson (The Autotypograph)
CHAPBOOK POETS: A MARATHON READING
2 – 7pm, C Level Breakout Rooms
Poets from participating presses read. For a full lineup, visit www.chapbookfestival.org
Free and open to the public.
PSA CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP READING
7pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre
Alice Quinn with judges Mark Doty, Linda Gregg, and Arthur Sze, and winners Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman, Haines Eason, Heidi Johannesen Poon, and Stephanie Adams-Santos.
Followed by reception
***On Wednesday, May 5, The Center for Book Arts will host printing and bookbinding workshops. To sign up, visit their www.centerforbookarts.org***
Participating publishers
2nd Ave Poetry
Bateau Press
Belladonna*
BOOK Works
BookThug
Business Press
Cervena Barva Press
Concrete Wolf Chapbook Press
Corollary Press
Creature Press
Cy Gist Press
DoubleCross Press
Dusie Kollektiv
Effing Press
Etched Press
Finishing Line Press
Five Spice Poetry
Flying Guillotine Press
Forklift, Ohio
Greying Ghost Press
Instance Press
Kissena Park Press
Little Scratch Pad
Love Among the Ruins
Magic Helicopter Books
Noemi Press
Open Thread Publications
Pen Press
Plan B Press
Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press
Poets Wear Prada
Poinciana Paper Press
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs
Rain Taxi
River Poets Journal/Lilly Press
Sarabande Books
Seven Kitchens Press
Slapering Hol Press
Small Anchor Press
Sona Books
Spire Press
sunnyoutside
Tarpaulin Sky Press
The Physiocrats
Toadlily Press
Ugly Duckling Presse
Upset Press
X-ing Press/Agriculture Reader
and others!
***Co-sponsored by The Office of Academic Affairs, The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center and MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the City University of New York, The Center for Book Arts, Poets House, Poetry Society of America, and Poets & Writers
The Festival celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a medium for alternative and emerging writers and publishers. Now in its second year, the Festival features a two-day bookfair with chapbook publishers from around the country, workshops, marathon poetry readings, and a closing-night reading of prize-winning Chapbook Fellows.
Schedule of Events
BOOKFAIR
11:30am to 7pm both days (May 3-4)
in the Proshansky Auditorium Lobby, C Level
Free and open to the public
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
WORKSHOPS
C Level Breakout Rooms
Registration required. To attend workshops, please register by e-mailing abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu
10 – 11:30am Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Poets
With Brenda Iijima (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna*), and [Lonely Christopher (The Corresponding Society) - tentative]
10 – 11:30am Do-It-Yourself Chapbooks: Make and Distribute Your Own
With Mary Gannon and Jean Hartig (Poets & Writers Magazine), Emily Goodale (Brave Men Press), Matvei Yankelevich (Ugly Duckling Presse), and [Adam Robinson (Publishing Genius) - tentative]
11:30am – 1pm Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Publishers
With Jan Heller Levi (Hunter College), Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna*), and [Bill Marsh (Factory School) – tentative]
11:30am – 1pm Chapbooks as Art Objects
With Roni Gross (Center for Book Arts, Roni Gross Design), Sarah Nicholls (Center for Book Arts), and Jeremy Thompson (The Autotypograph)
CHAPBOOK POETS: A MARATHON READING
2 – 7pm, C Level Breakout Rooms
Poets from participating presses read. For a full lineup, visit www.chapbookfestival.org
Free and open to the public.
OPENING RECEPTION
7 – 8pm, Proshansky Auditorum Lobby
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010
WORKSHOPS
Registration required. To attend workshops, please register by e-mailing abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu
10 – 11:30am Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Poets
With Sommer Browning (Flying Guillotine Press), Jill Magi (Sona Books), and Daniel Lin (Love Among the Ruins)
10 – 11:30am Do-It-Yourself Chapbooks: Make and Distribute Your Own
With Mary Gannon and Jean Hartig (Poets & Writers Magazine), Emily Goodale (Brave Men Press), Anna Moschovakis (Ugly Duckling Presse), and [Adam Robinson (Publishing Genius) - tentative]
11:30am – 1pm Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Publishers
With Jan Heller Levi (Hunter College), Rachel Levitsky (Belladonna*), and Andrew Levy (CRAYON Magazine)
11:30am – 1pm Chapbooks as Art Objects
With Roni Gross (Center for Book Arts, Roni Gross Design), Sarah Nicholls (Center for Book Arts), and Jeremy Thompson (The Autotypograph)
CHAPBOOK POETS: A MARATHON READING
2 – 7pm, C Level Breakout Rooms
Poets from participating presses read. For a full lineup, visit www.chapbookfestival.org
Free and open to the public.
PSA CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP READING
7pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre
Alice Quinn with judges Mark Doty, Linda Gregg, and Arthur Sze, and winners Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman, Haines Eason, Heidi Johannesen Poon, and Stephanie Adams-Santos.
Followed by reception
***On Wednesday, May 5, The Center for Book Arts will host printing and bookbinding workshops. To sign up, visit their www.centerforbookarts.org***
Participating publishers
2nd Ave Poetry
Bateau Press
Belladonna*
BOOK Works
BookThug
Business Press
Cervena Barva Press
Concrete Wolf Chapbook Press
Corollary Press
Creature Press
Cy Gist Press
DoubleCross Press
Dusie Kollektiv
Effing Press
Etched Press
Finishing Line Press
Five Spice Poetry
Flying Guillotine Press
Forklift, Ohio
Greying Ghost Press
Instance Press
Kissena Park Press
Little Scratch Pad
Love Among the Ruins
Magic Helicopter Books
Noemi Press
Open Thread Publications
Pen Press
Plan B Press
Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press
Poets Wear Prada
Poinciana Paper Press
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs
Rain Taxi
River Poets Journal/Lilly Press
Sarabande Books
Seven Kitchens Press
Slapering Hol Press
Small Anchor Press
Sona Books
Spire Press
sunnyoutside
Tarpaulin Sky Press
The Physiocrats
Toadlily Press
Ugly Duckling Presse
Upset Press
X-ing Press/Agriculture Reader
and others!
***Co-sponsored by The Office of Academic Affairs, The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center and MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the City University of New York, The Center for Book Arts, Poets House, Poetry Society of America, and Poets & Writers
Friday, April 23, 2010
The Art of Translation: on 多和田葉子
Susan Bernofksky will present this week in our Trends in Translation series. Susan, who is an amazingly accomplished translator and fiction writer and who will be our visiting professor for the fall semester, will speak on "The Art of Translation." She will talk in part about her translation of Yuko Tawada, a Japanese novelist who lives in Berlin and writes in German.
Wednesday May 5, in Klapper 710 at 6:30 pm
Reception to follow
Wednesday May 5, in Klapper 710 at 6:30 pm
Reception to follow
Thursday, April 22, 2010
LAUNCHINGS ...
April 24
Nicole Cooley and Maria Terrone
Smalls Jazz Club
183 10th St, Manhattan
April 27
Nicole: Poetry reading
Monmouth University, NJ
April 29, 8 pm
Double book launch Kimiko Hahn and Colin Cheney
Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn (Atlantic/Pacific subway)
May 5th, 7 pm
Kimiko Hahn and Diane Ackerman: "The Poetics of Flora and Fauna"
Poets House
River Terrace, Manhattan
May 7, 7 pm
Kimiko Hahn introduces Wing Tek Lum
A reading from his manuscript of poems on the Nanjing Massacre
Asian American Writers Workshop
NEW ADDRESS: 110-112 W. 27th Street, 6th Floor (btwn. 6th and 7th Avenues)
May 26
Double book launch for Breach and Toxic Flora:
Nicole Cooley and Kimiko Hahn
Cornelia Street Café, Manhattan
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
June 1
Nicole Cooley and Kimiko Hahn
Perch Café, Brooklyn
With Kimiko Hahn
www.theperchcafe.com
June 17
Nicole Cooley at The Writers Center
Bethesda, MD
www.writer.org
Followed by community workshop June 18
Nicole Cooley and Maria Terrone
Smalls Jazz Club
183 10th St, Manhattan
April 27
Nicole: Poetry reading
Monmouth University, NJ
April 29, 8 pm
Double book launch Kimiko Hahn and Colin Cheney
Pacific Standard Bar
82 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn (Atlantic/Pacific subway)
May 5th, 7 pm
Kimiko Hahn and Diane Ackerman: "The Poetics of Flora and Fauna"
Poets House
River Terrace, Manhattan
May 7, 7 pm
Kimiko Hahn introduces Wing Tek Lum
A reading from his manuscript of poems on the Nanjing Massacre
Asian American Writers Workshop
NEW ADDRESS: 110-112 W. 27th Street, 6th Floor (btwn. 6th and 7th Avenues)
May 26
Double book launch for Breach and Toxic Flora:
Nicole Cooley and Kimiko Hahn
Cornelia Street Café, Manhattan
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
June 1
Nicole Cooley and Kimiko Hahn
Perch Café, Brooklyn
With Kimiko Hahn
www.theperchcafe.com
June 17
Nicole Cooley at The Writers Center
Bethesda, MD
www.writer.org
Followed by community workshop June 18
OPERATION: CODE NAME LYSISTRATA
Please join us on Tuesday, April 27th, for our second QC MFA in Creative Writing staged reading in partnership with The Actor's Company Theatre. Second-year student Yvette Heyliger's satiric comedy OPERATION: CODE NAME LYSISTRATA will be read by members of TACT.
The reading begins at 6:30 p.m. at the TACT Studio, 900 Broadway (at 20th Street), Ninth floor.
The reading begins at 6:30 p.m. at the TACT Studio, 900 Broadway (at 20th Street), Ninth floor.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Karl Knausgaard in conversation with Jocelyn Lieu
Tuesday, 4/27, 7-9 p.m.
Smorgas Chef West Village
283 W. 12th Street
RSVP to Archipelago Books
http://www.archipelagobooks.org/contact.php
Please join The Royal Norwegian Consulate General, Archipelago Books, and the Bay and Paul Foundations for a conversation between Karl O. Knausgaard and Jocelyn Lieu.
Karl O. Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968 and made his debut with the novel Out of This World (Ute av verden). A Time for Everything is his second novel and was nominated for the Nordic Council Prize. It is his first to be translated into English.
**Note from Jocelyn: "Knausgaard's only book now translated into English, A Time for Everything, is intoxicating in that it is a deconstructive high-wire act that also manages to pull off some gripping storytelling (based on the Cain and Abel and Noah stories, and on the life of the fictional theologian Antinous Bellori)."
Smorgas Chef West Village
283 W. 12th Street
RSVP to Archipelago Books
http://www.archipelagobooks.org/contact.php
Please join The Royal Norwegian Consulate General, Archipelago Books, and the Bay and Paul Foundations for a conversation between Karl O. Knausgaard and Jocelyn Lieu.
Karl O. Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968 and made his debut with the novel Out of This World (Ute av verden). A Time for Everything is his second novel and was nominated for the Nordic Council Prize. It is his first to be translated into English.
**Note from Jocelyn: "Knausgaard's only book now translated into English, A Time for Everything, is intoxicating in that it is a deconstructive high-wire act that also manages to pull off some gripping storytelling (based on the Cain and Abel and Noah stories, and on the life of the fictional theologian Antinous Bellori)."
Monday, April 5, 2010
**Horn**
Tyler Rivenbark's wonderful new play, HORN, based on the life of
Louis Armstrong and taken, in part, from personal tapes Tyler found while serving as a Fellow at the Armstrong archives (LAHM). (Residences set up last year for our MFA Program by Aracelis Girmay.)
The reading will be at the studio of TACT, The Actors Company Theatre, on Tuesday April, 13th at 6:30.
TACT is located at 900 Broadway (20th Street), Ninth floor.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
**Associated Writing Programs**
If you are at the AWP in Denver next week--please come visit us at the City University of New York booth--
***AWP***
If you are at the AWP in Denver next week--come visit us at the City University of New York Booth.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
APRIL TURNSTYLE... {at John Jay}
APRIL 15th, 2010
TURNSTYLE READING SERIES
FEATURING:
Faculty readers: Pamela Laskin, Julie Agoos, Adam Berlin
MFA student readers:
Curtis Jensen, Danielle Davidson, Deonne Kahler,
Stefanie Lipsey, Sunil Yapa, Maria Dilorenzo,
Kevin MacDonald, Mardi Jaskot
***NOTE*** location is different this evening...
LOCATION: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Room 630,
899 Tenth Avenue (at 60th Street).
Readings start at 6:30pm and are free and open to the public.
Turnstyle, a cross-genre MFA reading series, features the faculty and
students of four CUNY graduate creative writing programs. Each
evening, two faculty readers and eight second-year MFA creative
writing students will read a mix of non-fiction, plays, fiction, and
poems.
Co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, MFA in Creative
Writing Affiliation Group and Center for the Humanities.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Kickoff...
for National Poetry Month
Thursday, April 1
Academy of American Poets and McNally Jackson Bookstore
Henri Cole, Kimiko Hahn, and Ed Sanders
Bookstore address: 52 PRINCE St., 7-9 pm
NEAR F, R, etc.
Info: mcnallyjackson.com
Thursday, April 1
Academy of American Poets and McNally Jackson Bookstore
Henri Cole, Kimiko Hahn, and Ed Sanders
Bookstore address: 52 PRINCE St., 7-9 pm
NEAR F, R, etc.
Info: mcnallyjackson.com
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
*** reminder ***
READ IT and REAP: A Benefit Reading for City Harvest
With fiction writers
Chuck Wachtel, author of novels Joe the Engineer,
The Gates, and 3/03
Maaza Mengiste, author of the novel Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
Plus emerging poets and writers from the MFA Program
Thursday, March 25, 6:30 p.m.
Student Art Gallery, 4th Floor, Klapper Hall
Admission by suggested donation of $5
All proceeds to go to City Harvest for hunger relief
BTW...
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.
AND ... Reception to follow. Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
With fiction writers
Chuck Wachtel, author of novels Joe the Engineer,
The Gates, and 3/03
Maaza Mengiste, author of the novel Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
Plus emerging poets and writers from the MFA Program
Thursday, March 25, 6:30 p.m.
Student Art Gallery, 4th Floor, Klapper Hall
Admission by suggested donation of $5
All proceeds to go to City Harvest for hunger relief
BTW...
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.
AND ... Reception to follow. Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
the fine arts at queens college . . .
* An event hosted by the Queens College MFA programs
in Creative Writing and Studio Art *
Readings and Art Work by students in the both graduate programs.
A classy if not edgy celebration of spring!
***Saturday, March 27th; 6-8pm @ The Dorsky Gallery
11-03 45th Avenue Long Island City, NY***
Saturday, March 20, 2010
EARSHOT!
Friday, March 26, 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Special Guest Host: Peter Bogart Johnson
$5 + one free drink
Featuring:
Claire Hero (Sing, Mongrel)
James Guida (Marbles)
Elizabeth Gross (Hunter College)
Rajiv Mohabir (Queens College)
Chris Shortsleeve (NYU)
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.
Follow the EARSHOT twitter feed at http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
Friday, March 19, 2010
ONE CITY, MANY POEMS
"One City, Many Poems" Poetry Discussion
Lead by QC MFA alum, Tejas Desai (senior librarian)
Celebrate National Poetry Month by joining us for a "One City, Many Poems" poetry discussion. "One City, Many Poems" is the first part of a broad initiative of Poets House and the three NYC library systems: Brooklyn, Queens and New York Public. It is made possible by generous funding from the Brooklyn Community Foundation. Please preregister for this program.
April 16, 3 pm
Bayside Library in Queens
Information:
718-229-1834.
queenslibrary.org
Lead by QC MFA alum, Tejas Desai (senior librarian)
Celebrate National Poetry Month by joining us for a "One City, Many Poems" poetry discussion. "One City, Many Poems" is the first part of a broad initiative of Poets House and the three NYC library systems: Brooklyn, Queens and New York Public. It is made possible by generous funding from the Brooklyn Community Foundation. Please preregister for this program.
April 16, 3 pm
Bayside Library in Queens
Information:
718-229-1834.
queenslibrary.org
Monday, March 15, 2010
The 10th National Black Writers' Conference
The 10th National Black Writers Conference titled "And Then We Heard the Thunder: Black Writers Reconstructing Memories and Lighting the Way," offers panels, roundtables, conversations, talkshops, readings, and storytelling. Inspired by the late John O. Killens in 1986, the conference highlights writers and scholars discussing the following topics: ways black writers are reconstructing the master literary narrative; analyzing emerging themes across African and South Asian/Black Diasporic cultures; the Internet's impact on public reading and writing habits; the impact of hip-hop and popular culture on the literature produced by black writers; ways that black writers have responded to environmental crises; and analyzing how black writers have responded to politics. For futher information please call (718) 270-4811.
March 25, 2010 - March 28, 2010
Medgar Evers College
1650 Bedford Avenue , Brooklyn
http://www.mec.cuny.edu/nbwc
March 25, 2010 - March 28, 2010
Medgar Evers College
1650 Bedford Avenue , Brooklyn
http://www.mec.cuny.edu/nbwc
Sunday, March 7, 2010
PLEASE JOIN MFA PLAYWRITES AND TACT ACTORS ...
Tuesday March 9, 6:30,
Scenes by Jonathan Alexandratos and Yvette Heylinger
will be performed by TACT
The Actors Company Theatre
900 Broadway in Manhattan.
Scenes by Jonathan Alexandratos and Yvette Heylinger
will be performed by TACT
The Actors Company Theatre
900 Broadway in Manhattan.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Annual Chapbook Festival
... celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a vehicle for alternative and emerging writers and publishers. Now in its second year, the festival features a two-day bookfair with chapbook publishers from around the country, workshops, marathon poetry readings, and a closing-night reading of prize-winning Chapbook Fellows.
Workshops will include: Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Poets, Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Publishers, Do-It-Yourself Chapbooks: Make and Distribute Your Own, and Chapbooks as Art Objects. ***CUNY students are encouraged to write to Ana Bozicevic at abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu as soon as possible to sign up for workshops!***
For more information and schedule, please visit http://www.chapbookfestival.org.
Co-sponsored by The Office of Academic Affairs, The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center and MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the City University of New York, The Center for Book Arts, Poets House, Poetry Society of America, and Poets & Writers
Thursday, March 4, 2010
A Benefit Reading for City Harvest
READ IT and REAP: A Benefit Reading for City Harvest
With fiction writers
Chuck Wachtel, author of novels Joe the Engineer,
The Gates, and 3/03
Maaza Mengiste, author of the novel Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
Plus emerging poets and writers from the MFA Program
Thursday, March 25, 6:30 p.m.
Student Art Gallery, 4th Floor, Klapper Hall
Admission by suggested donation of $5
All proceeds to go to City Harvest for hunger relief
BTW...
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.
AND ... Reception to follow. Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
With fiction writers
Chuck Wachtel, author of novels Joe the Engineer,
The Gates, and 3/03
Maaza Mengiste, author of the novel Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
Plus emerging poets and writers from the MFA Program
Thursday, March 25, 6:30 p.m.
Student Art Gallery, 4th Floor, Klapper Hall
Admission by suggested donation of $5
All proceeds to go to City Harvest for hunger relief
BTW...
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.
AND ... Reception to follow. Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
TURNSTYLE READING SERIES
Turnstyle, a cross-genre MFA reading series, features the faculty and students of four CUNY graduate creative writing programs. Each evening, two faculty readers and eight second-year MFA creative writing students will read a mix of non-fiction, plays, fiction, poems.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10
Faculty readers: Rick Pearse & Emily Raboteau
MFA readers: Sarah Feeley, Frank Boudreaux, Jenna Telesca, Ann Podracky, Sangamithra Iyer, Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Rebecca Watkins, Anne Saidman
@
Segal Auditorium. CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (btw 34th & 35th streets) in Manhattan. Readings start at 6:30pm.
Co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, MFA in Creative Writing Affiliation Group and Center for the Humanities.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10
Faculty readers: Rick Pearse & Emily Raboteau
MFA readers: Sarah Feeley, Frank Boudreaux, Jenna Telesca, Ann Podracky, Sangamithra Iyer, Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Rebecca Watkins, Anne Saidman
@
Segal Auditorium. CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (btw 34th & 35th streets) in Manhattan. Readings start at 6:30pm.
Co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, MFA in Creative Writing Affiliation Group and Center for the Humanities.
MARIE PONSOT's extraordinary new work...
THE EVENING READING SERIES
Marie Ponsot is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of the volumes of poetry "Admit Impediment," "The Bird Catcher," "Springing," and, most recently, "Easy." The American Academy of Arts and Letters, in awarding Ms. Ponsot the Academy Award in Literature, has said: ". . .Marie Ponsot invented her own forms and gave us a poetry like no other. A writer of powerful feelings and razor-sharp wit, she is that totally American phenomenon, the self-invented genius. . . A writer of tough, available, elegant poetry, she has created over the decades her own school of New York poetry." Time Out New York has described Ms. Ponsot as "one of America's strongest poets."
This is an especially lovely moment for our campus community to honor Ms. Ponsot, a beloved former member of our English Dept.
March 16, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Queens College, Music Building
http://www.qc.edu/readings
$20 admission. Free with CUNY student ID. Open to
Marie Ponsot is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of the volumes of poetry "Admit Impediment," "The Bird Catcher," "Springing," and, most recently, "Easy." The American Academy of Arts and Letters, in awarding Ms. Ponsot the Academy Award in Literature, has said: ". . .Marie Ponsot invented her own forms and gave us a poetry like no other. A writer of powerful feelings and razor-sharp wit, she is that totally American phenomenon, the self-invented genius. . . A writer of tough, available, elegant poetry, she has created over the decades her own school of New York poetry." Time Out New York has described Ms. Ponsot as "one of America's strongest poets."
This is an especially lovely moment for our campus community to honor Ms. Ponsot, a beloved former member of our English Dept.
March 16, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Queens College, Music Building
http://www.qc.edu/readings
$20 admission. Free with CUNY student ID. Open to
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice
Akilah Oliver, Kate Eichhorn, & Charles Bernstein
This series of talks by poets, titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between contemporary poetic manifesto, practice, queer theory and pedagogy. The first event this Spring features talks by Akilah Oliver, Kate Eichhorn, & Charles Bernstein, followed by a discussion/Q&A session. TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice is curated by Tim Peterson (Trace). For additional information, visit the Tendencies blog at http://tendenciespoetics.blogspot.com/.
Wednesday, February 24, 6:30 pm
The Martin E. Segal Theatre
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
**next in TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice:
erica kaufman, Douglas Martin, and Mina Pam Dick
on Tuesday, March 9 at 6:30 PM
Martin E. Segal Theatre at The Graduate Center, CUNY**
This series of talks by poets, titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between contemporary poetic manifesto, practice, queer theory and pedagogy. The first event this Spring features talks by Akilah Oliver, Kate Eichhorn, & Charles Bernstein, followed by a discussion/Q&A session. TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice is curated by Tim Peterson (Trace). For additional information, visit the Tendencies blog at http://tendenciespoetics.blogspot.com/.
Wednesday, February 24, 6:30 pm
The Martin E. Segal Theatre
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005
www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
**next in TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice:
erica kaufman, Douglas Martin, and Mina Pam Dick
on Tuesday, March 9 at 6:30 PM
Martin E. Segal Theatre at The Graduate Center, CUNY**
Friday, February 19, 2010
"The Sins We Commit"
MFA student, Tyler Rivenbark:
"I am having a staged reading of the first act of my three act play, "The Sins We Commit," Thursday, March 4th, which I am also directing. First Foot Theatre Productions will be putting it on in their series, Workshops and Whisky. For a suggested donation of 5 dollars you will get to see the play and have yourself a delicious shot of FREE WHISKY (there will also be other drinks)!!! What's better? There will also be a Q and A afterward."
Support your classmate at:
March 4, 7pm
City Lights
630 9th Ave, Suite 1411
"I am having a staged reading of the first act of my three act play, "The Sins We Commit," Thursday, March 4th, which I am also directing. First Foot Theatre Productions will be putting it on in their series, Workshops and Whisky. For a suggested donation of 5 dollars you will get to see the play and have yourself a delicious shot of FREE WHISKY (there will also be other drinks)!!! What's better? There will also be a Q and A afterward."
Support your classmate at:
March 4, 7pm
City Lights
630 9th Ave, Suite 1411
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Congratulations to Jeff Allen!
Jeffery Renard Allen is the recipient of the 2010 Ernest J Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, an award sponsored by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. It is designed to inspire and recognize African-American writers of excellence as they work to achieve the literary heights for which Ernest J. Gaines is known. Allen was selected for *Holding Pattern*, a recent story collection. Among his other works are *Rails Under My Back*, a novel, and two collections of poetry, *Stellar Places* and *Harbors and Spirits*.
Do You Have a Mind of Winter?
WALLACE STEVENS, NEW YORK, AND MODERNISM
Thu-Sat, Mar 4-6
New York, NY
From the Poetry of Society of America website: Two readings as part of the NYU conference, to celebrate Wallace Stevens' poetry and poetics as well as highlight the years he spent in New York and their particular mark on his work. (For more details on the conference, visit http://www.nyu.edu/gallatin/)
Co-sponsored by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the Humanities Initiative, the Creative Writing Progam, and the Comparative Literature and English Departments at New York University.
Admission is free.
Thu-Sat, Mar 4-6
New York, NY
From the Poetry of Society of America website: Two readings as part of the NYU conference, to celebrate Wallace Stevens' poetry and poetics as well as highlight the years he spent in New York and their particular mark on his work. (For more details on the conference, visit http://www.nyu.edu/gallatin/)
Co-sponsored by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the Humanities Initiative, the Creative Writing Progam, and the Comparative Literature and English Departments at New York University.
Admission is free.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
READING BY AWARD-WINNING POET AND MEMOIRIST MARK DOTY ...
--Considered to be One of the Most Accomplished Poets of His Generation--
Hailed by the New York Times as “a poet of glow, compassion and humanity,” Mark Doty will read from his work on Wednesday, February 17 at 6:30 pm in the Benjamin Rosenthal Library auditorium, Room 230 at Queens College. This free and open-to-public reading is part of the successful New Salon in Queens established last February, a partnership between the Poetry Society of America (PSA)—the nation’s oldest poetry organization—and Queens College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
Information:
www.qc.cuny.edu/communications/news_services/releases/Pages/welcome.aspx?ItemID=1292
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Weekends?
"Was it Olson who said, there are no weekends for poets?
That I know."
Ed Sanders in an interview, NEW LETTERS, vol. 76, no 1.
That I know."
Ed Sanders in an interview, NEW LETTERS, vol. 76, no 1.
Friday, February 5, 2010
*DEADLINE EXTENDED*
QC Admins have asked us to extend the deadline for MFA applications and we have. All applications to the MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation must be postmarked by March 1, 2010.
See our website:
qcpages.qc.edu/Creative_Writing/
Questions can be answered by director, Nicole Cooley.
nicole.cooley@qc.cuny.edu
See our website:
qcpages.qc.edu/Creative_Writing/
Questions can be answered by director, Nicole Cooley.
nicole.cooley@qc.cuny.edu
*TURNSTYLE* RETURNS w/ JOHN WEIR and --
FEBRUARY 9th
Faculty:
Jan Heller Levi , John Weir
CUNY MFA readers...
Brooklyn: Christine Rath , Ken Walker
City: Amy Veach , Karen Clark
Hunter : Simone Kearney, Kaitlin Greenridge
Queens: Kevin Mullany, Robert Wargas
**CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Street, Manhattan.
Readings start at 6:30pm. **
Each Turnstyle reading features 8 student readers and 2 faculty readers drawn from the four spectacular CUNY MFA Programs. Conceived as a kind of mixer for the students/faculty to mingle and hear one another's voices, it is free and open to the public. Receptions follow.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Celebrate MFA Grad. Student's Publication--
na bad-eye me
by Rajiv Mohabir
February 20th signing
at Stonewall, 53 Christopher St. in Manhattan, 5-8pm.
Winner of Puddinghouse Chapbook Contest
[For GENERAL information on upcoming CHAPBOOK CONTESTS:
www.poetryresourcepage.com/contests/ccontests.html]
CONGRATULATIONS!
by Rajiv Mohabir
February 20th signing
at Stonewall, 53 Christopher St. in Manhattan, 5-8pm.
Winner of Puddinghouse Chapbook Contest
[For GENERAL information on upcoming CHAPBOOK CONTESTS:
www.poetryresourcepage.com/contests/ccontests.html]
CONGRATULATIONS!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
BENEFIT for "STAND WITH HAITI"-- a POETRY READING
January 27, 2010 / 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Co-sponsored by Cave Canem & Drew University’s MFA Program in Poetry
& Poetry in Translation
Linda Baldanzi Mahogany Browne
Ama Codjoe DéLana R. A. Dameron
Sharon Dennis Wyeth Gina Dorcely
Kathy Engel Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Monica A. Hand Yesenia Montilla
Kimberley Ann Rogers Patrick Rosal
Christopher Stackhouse Ella Turenne
Jean Valentine Lisa Wujnovich
@ Cave Canem
20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A
Brooklyn, New York / 718.858.0000
NEAR ALL TRAINS (Atlantic/Pacific)
Doors close at 8 pm.
Admission $5 - $10
All proceeds go to Partners in Health’s
Stand with Haiti
www.standwithhaiti.org
Co-sponsored by Cave Canem & Drew University’s MFA Program in Poetry
& Poetry in Translation
Linda Baldanzi Mahogany Browne
Ama Codjoe DéLana R. A. Dameron
Sharon Dennis Wyeth Gina Dorcely
Kathy Engel Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Monica A. Hand Yesenia Montilla
Kimberley Ann Rogers Patrick Rosal
Christopher Stackhouse Ella Turenne
Jean Valentine Lisa Wujnovich
@ Cave Canem
20 Jay Street, Suite 310-A
Brooklyn, New York / 718.858.0000
NEAR ALL TRAINS (Atlantic/Pacific)
Doors close at 8 pm.
Admission $5 - $10
All proceeds go to Partners in Health’s
Stand with Haiti
www.standwithhaiti.org
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Mark Doty ...
... as soon as the semester begins, so our salon series. Don't miss this amazing reading and chat between Alice Quinn and Mark Doty on February 17 on QC campus. More info to follow.
Don't miss: C. K. Williams
C. K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including "The Singing" (2003), which won the National Book Award, and "Repair," winner of a Pulitzer Prize. His new book of poems, "Wait," is due in April 2010.
Location: KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street
Location: KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street
Saturday, January 16, 2010
EARSHOT!
Friday, January 22nd @ 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Special Guest Host: Gregory Crosby
$5 + one free drink
Featuring:
Rachel Levitsky ( Neighbor , Under the Sun )
Andrew Lundwall ( klang , honorable mention )
John James (Columbia University)
Ryan Doyle May (The New School)
Jenna Telesca (Queens College)
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 .
Follow the EARSHOT twitter feed at http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
@ Rose Live Music
Special Guest Host: Gregory Crosby
$5 + one free drink
Featuring:
Rachel Levitsky ( Neighbor , Under the Sun )
Andrew Lundwall ( klang , honorable mention )
John James (Columbia University)
Ryan Doyle May (The New School)
Jenna Telesca (Queens College)
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 .
Follow the EARSHOT twitter feed at http://twitter.com/earshotnyc
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
TURNSTYLE READING SERIES RETURNS ...
FEBRUARY 9th
Faculty:
Jan Heller Levi , John Weir
CUNY MFA readers...
Brooklyn: Christine Rath , Ken Walker
City: Amy Veach , Karen Clark
Hunter : Simone Kearney, Kaitlin Greenridge
Queens: Kevin Mullany, Robert Wargas
**CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Street, Manhattan.
Readings start at 6:30pm. **
Each Turnstyle reading features 8 student readers and 2 faculty readers drawn from the four spectacular CUNY MFA Programs. Conceived as a kind of mixer for the students/faculty to mingle and hear one another's voices, it is free and open to the public. Receptions follow.
Friday, January 1, 2010
MERRY NEW YEAR!
and HAPPY ONE HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY
TO THE POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA
CHECK OUT Centennial Events,
Events with QC MFA Program,
and sites like “Crossroads: Tributes”
http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/tributes/
Novelist Walter Mosley shares insights into cross-genre lessons and introduces poet Nikky Finney …
“I studied poetry for years under the tutelage first of Molly Peacock and then William Matthews—both past presidents of the PSA. I'm a really rotten poet, but I learned a great deal from these two generous souls. I found that understanding the rules and goals of poetry brings one very close to knowing all there is to know about writing fiction. I also realized a few things that have nothing to do with my chosen profession. …”
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