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.

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.

just for fun...

... plus it's free!

**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