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.

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

*** 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.

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***

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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