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.
Monday, November 29, 2010
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
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