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**

"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

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.

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

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.

*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

*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.

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!