NIGHT OF NOIR ...

QC MFA Alum, Tejas Desai has organized Queens Noir...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Time
6:00pm until 7:30pm

Join us for a literary celebration featuring noir writers Denis Hamill, Shailly Agnihotri and Ken Wishnia as they discuss their craft and writing about Queens!

Crimes occur every day behind the purview of newspapers in the most diverse county in America and the melting p...ot of the world, and they need writers to bring them to the forefront. What happens behind that riverfront home in Bayside, that bodega in Corona, or that Indian matrimonial service in Jackson Heights? The authors will read from their stories in Queens Noir, a collection published by Akashic Books, and talk about their creative and research processes.

This event is a collaboration between the biweekly Writer's Workshop at the Bayside Community Library and Neighborhood Word, an Asian-American Writers Workshop programming series that brings Asian American writers and artists to Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx—the boroughs most Asian-American New Yorkers call home.

Copies of Queens Noir are available at the library for checkout with QL library card. Refreshments will be served, and admission is free and open to everyone.


Moderator Tejas Desai is an Adult Services Librarian and conducts the Writer's Workshop at the Bayside Community Library in Queens. He holds a MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation from CUNY-Queens College and has won the Wesleyan Fiction Award. He writes novels, short stories and plays and acted in the film version of Tao Lin's surreal novel Eeeee eee eeee. Though he travels frequently, he was born, raised and lives in Queens.

Denis Hamill was born and raised in Brooklyn. He attended public high schools and CUNY. He has written for The Village Voice, NY Newsday, and currently writes a column twice a week for the NY Daily News. He has appeared on Conan O’Brien, The O’Reilly Factor, Good Day New York, Sam Roberts, The Early Show, The History Chanel, and Leonard Lopate. He is the author of ten novels, most recently “Sins of Two Fathers”, “Empty Stockings” and “Ten Spot.” An original screenplay he wrote, “Under New Management”, is currently airing on Showtime. He lives in Queens.

Shailly Agnihotri is an award-winning independent filmmaker living and working in New York. Her feature length documentary examining the suicide rate amongst US soldiers deployed in Iraq, Three Soldiers, was fancast movie of the week and played in festivals throughout the United States. Ms.Agnihotri is a practicing public defense attorney. Her newest project is full length play about her experiences in the criminal justice system entitled American Tune.

Kenneth Wishnia’s novels include 23 Shades of Black, an Edgar Allan Poe Award and Anthony Award finalist; Soft Money, a Library Journal Best Mystery of the Year; Red House, a Washington Post Book World “Rave” Book of the Year; and The Fifth Servant, an Indie Notable selection, winner of a Premio Letterario ADEI-WIZO, and a finalist for the Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Award (Macavity Awards). His short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, Queens Noir, Long Island Noir, Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail, and elsewhere. He teaches writing, literature and other deviant forms of thought at Suffolk Community College on Long Island.See More

Queens Library at Bayside
212-19 Northern Boulevard, Bayside, NY 11361-3341

**PARTY AND LAUNCH**

MFA holiday party/Ozone Park journal launch!
Friday, December 16th
7 pm
Terraza 7 Train Cafe
40-19 Gleane St. Elmhurst, NY 11373



MTA: take the 7 to 82 St or the E/F/M/R to Jackson Hts/Roosevelt Ave.

For the open mic portion, please feel free to bring your own work to read! Also, don't forget to bring a book for the book swap (and to wrap that book!).

**Save these dates for QC Translation Symposium**

Interwoven Worlds:
A Symposium Celebrating the Literature of the Middle East
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

A Queens College Trends in Translation Event

Cosponsored by
The MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation
and Archipelago Books

To celebrate the new collaboration between Queens College and Archipelago Books, the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation presents a one-day symposium on writing and translation. This symposium, which forms part of the Queens College Year of Turkey, will present writers and translators featured in recent Archipelago Books publications as well as others working in the literatures of Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Palestine and Israel.

Archipelago Books, founded in 2004 and based in Brooklyn, is currently one of the foremost publishers of literature in translation. Archipelago books have received prizes including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Academy of American Poets Translation Award, and the French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Translation Prize, and have been selected as an NPR Pick for Best Foreign Fiction of the Year. Archipelago’s list of authors includes prominent writers translated from Turkish, Polish, Bengali, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Norwegian, Afrikaans, Hungarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Basque, French, German, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Icelandic and Arabic.

The MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College is one of only two MFA programs in the country to offer a track in literary translation. Further, students specializing in all branches of creative writing are encouraged to study translation, creating a real community of writers who relish diversity and global connections.

Schedule draft*
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Panel 1: Reading by MFA Students, introduced by Nicole Cooley

12:00 p.m. - l:00 p.m. Lunch break

1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Workshop: Editing Translations, introduced by Susan Bernofsky

Participants
Jill Schoolman (Archipelago Books)
Edwin Frank (New York Review Books Classics)

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Coffee Break

3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Panel 2: The Politics of Translation – On Navigating Cultural (Mis)understandings

Participants
Aron Aji (Turkish)
Sara Khalili (Persian)
Barbara Harshav (Hebrew)
Roger Sedarat, moderator


5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Panel 3: The Writer as Translator – Multilingual Writer/Translators on Cross-Pollinations in Their Work

Participants
Sinan Antoon (Arabic/Iraq - translator of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence [Arabic/Palestinian])
Murat Nemet-Nejat (Turkish)
Ammiel Alcalay (Hebrew/Department of Classical Middle Eastern and Arabic Languages, Queens College)
Susan Bernofsky, moderator


6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. Light Dinner for Participants

8:00 p.m.
Keynote Presentation: Elias Khoury (Arabic/Lebanon): A Writer’s Journey

Followed by a wine reception and book signing.
*NOTE: this is the preliminary schedule. Check closer to date for update.

***Another MFA Theater Event!!***

Play Development Lab, our collaboration with the QC theater department, will be held on campus in King 115 on Thurs Dec 8 at 6:30pm, It will feature readings of scenes by current MFA students Ilaria Papini, Jonathan Karpinos, Nancy Ramos and Panagiota Lilikaki.

Music and Poetry on Campus

Queens College Nota Bene Contemporary Ensemble
&
Poets from the Queens College MFA Program
(Michael Lipsey and Roger Sedarat, co–directors)
FEATURE
**Reactions: Music/Society**
The musical works of George Crumb, Frederic Rzewski, Michael Finnissy and Louis Andriessen

With the poems of Yves Cloarec, Mike D’Alto, Gabriel Cabrera, Liv Mammone, Deborah Fried-Rubin and a special reading/performance by Roger Sedarat & Michael Lipsey

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH AT 12:15
LEFRAK CONCERT HALL
MUSIC BUILDING AT QUEENS COLLEGE

* FREDERIC TUTEN * CCNY Professor Emeritus*

The New Inquiry, BOMB Magazine, and ForYourArt present:
THE MARATHON READING OF
THE ADVENTURES OF MAO ON THE LONG MARCH
BY FREDERIC TUTEN

The grand finale event celebrating the 75th anniversary of New Directions Publishing
Sponsored by Google Places
December 4, 2011, 2:30-8PM
The Jane Hotel, 113 Jane Street, New York, NY 10014
***RSVP (required): MaoMarathon@bombsite.com***
Visit www.MaoMarathon.com for more information

On December 4, 2011, The New Inquiry, BOMB Magazine, and ForYourArt will host a Marathon Reading of Frederic Tuten’s visionary novel, The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, first published in 1971. This five-hour festival, free and open to the public, will bring together hundreds of participants, including some of America’s most notable artists, novelists, poets, musicians, and filmmakers, to read the full text of Tuten’s avant-garde masterwork. The Marathon Reading marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of the novel and the finale of New Directions Publishing’s year-long celebration of their 75th Anniversary.

The Adventures of Mao on the Long March is the first novel to use methods of appropriation. It is a radical, original work made up of a linear narrative of Mao Zedong's legendary Long March, interspersed with passages quoted from a variety of novels and essays used as dialogue and exposition. It has been praised by a variety of writers ranging from Susan Sontag and Iris Murdoch to John Updike and Raymond Queneau.

Readers will include Walter Mosley, Amy Hempel, Lydia Davis, Jon Robin Baitz, Kurt Andersen, Laurie Anderson, Ross Bleckner, Deborah Eisenberg, Francine du Plessix Gray, A.M. Homes, Edmund White, Oscar Hijuelos, Patricia Marx, Hans Ulrich Obrist, David Salle, and Cecily Brown. More readers will be announced in the coming weeks. Please check for updates at www.MaoMarathon.com.

The Adventures of Mao on the Long March Reading Marathon is sponsored by Google Places, a personalized local recommendation engine powered by the reviews of users and their friends. As part of their sponsorship, Google Places will be offering attendees the opportunity to win a package of prizes [see website].

"Poet-Bashing Police" by Robert Hass, former poet laureate of the U.S.

"Beat Poets, not beat poets" ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/at-occupy-berkeley-beat-poets-has-new-meaning.html?pagewanted=all

MFA Plays Performed on QC Campus ...

The MFA Program is thrilled to announce the first in our series Queens College Play Development Lab, a collaboration between our MFA program and the Department of Drama, Theater and Dance on campus. Student actors will read scenes from new plays by MFA students April Smallwood and Jonathan Kravetz Thursday November 10, 6:30pm, in King Hall 115.

Looking into the Mirror of Race

For the Queens College community ...
"Looking into the Mirror of Race: Reflections on Seeing the Present through the Past" presented by Gregory Fried, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department, Suffolk University

Monday, November 7th, 12:15-1:30pm
Rosenthal Library President's Conference Room 2 (5th floor)

In this talk, Fried will discuss the Mirror of Race Project, a multi-disciplinary, multi-media undertaking to explore the meaning of race in America. The project focuses on early American photography as a way to take a new look at the history of race in America, and as a way to confront our present by reviewing the past and envisioning the future. Fried will discuss the genesis of the project, its scope, and some of the work that has been done with these images from 150 years in the past.

Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Writing at Queens

Faculty and Students: rsvp to Dominique Zino at dfzino@gmail.com

QC Cooks Up Some Amazing Events and Projects--

*****StoryCorps*****
Record Your Stories and Memories of the Borough with StoryCorps During Queens Week: October 28 - November 2, 2011

StoryCorps, a national nonprofit oral history project, is partnering with Queens College (http://queensmemory.org/) and the Queens Public Library (http://www.queenslibrary.org/) to record the stories and experiences of everyday people who live and work in the borough. Through storytelling, StoryCorps will honor the rich history of Queens and its residents.

Go to http://storycorps.org/record-your-story/ to learn more about the process of recording your story.

Queens Week recordings will take place at the following locations:
October 28 - 30
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library at Queens College
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing, NY 11367
October 31 - November 2
The Flushing Branch of the Queens Public Library
41-17 Main Street
Flushing, NY 11355

Make a reservation today by emailing nyc+queensweek@storycorps.org or calling 646-723-7020 ext 27.


*****Kupferberg Center for the Arts announces its new season!*****
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of our Classical Concert Series, enjoy the family-friendly Nutcracker, and join us for the New York premiere of Tear Jar, The Blues Musical and the Queens exclusive performance of Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway. Tickets on sale now. Discounts available with QCID. Go to www.kupferbergcenter.org or call 718-793-8080.

(Silence) - a play in one act by Tyler Rivenbark

Congrats Tyler--QC MFA alum!

Time
Friday, November 11 · 9:00pm - 10:30pm
Location
The Lounge at Dixon Place
161A Christie Street
New York, NY
Created By
Tyler Rivenbark
More Info
Dixon Place Presents

(Silence) - a play in one act by Tyler Rivenbark

Directed by Cindy Kawasaki
Featuring Helyn Messenger and Sarah Burkhalter

*Poster design by John Rice

Please join us for one night only on Friday November 11 for a new play by Tyler Rivenbark. Box office opens at 9pm. Show starts promptly at 9:30pm. Only $5 at the door. Come early and enjoy a drink at the bar.


Please help us spread the word!

(Silence) follows You and Me through their relationships, past and present, as they seek comfort in the abuses of the love they've shared.

Reading by Poet Laureate Philip Levine

After a great many awards for his numerous collections,
Philip Levine has been inducted as the new Poet Laureate of the United States. It is our great honor to host a reading by a man especially known for poems on growing up in Detroit to immigrant family as well as poems that champion the lives of working men and women.


Read an essay by MFA director Nicole Cooley
http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/blog/why_we_ve_invited_philip_levine/

Wednesday October 19, 6:30pm,
Rosenthal 230, Queens College.

This reading is part of The New Salon in Queens, a reading series co-sponsored by the Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation and the Poetry Society of America. For any questions relating to the event, please contact Nicole Cooley, MFA Director, at ncooley@qc.cuny.edu.

NO DINOSAURS IN HEAVEN ...

Film Screening: No Dinosaurs in Heaven. Film essay examines the hijacking of science education by religious fundamentalists, threatening the separation of church and state and dangerously undermining scientific literacy. Includes discussion and Q&A with Eugenie Scott (Executive Director, National Center for Science Education) and director/producer Greta Schiller.
Monday, October 24, 7 pm (doors open at 6:30),
Rosenthal Library 230.
Free and open to the public.
Information: john.dennehy@qc.cuny.edu or http://www.nodinos.com/.

Hunter's FALL 2011 DISTINGUISHED WRITERS SERIES - CAROL MUSKE-DUKES

Carol Muske-Dukes is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Sparrow and most recently Twin Cities, as well as four novels, the most recent of which, Channeling Mark Twain, was a National Book Award finalist in 2007. She is the founder of the doctoral Program in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California and currently teaches there. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Ploughshares, Antaeus, The New Yorker and Paris Review. RSVP to spevents@hunter.cuny.edu or 212-772-4007. Reading is free and open to the public but RSVPs are required.
Hunter College, CUNY
695 Park Ave. "West Bldg"
October 20, 7:30-9:30

SCENES THROUGH THE CINEMA LENS PART 1: THE HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL BEGINS: THE FIRST TALKIE-MUSICALS

In 1927, Al Jolson redefined American cinema when he looked at the camera and asserted, "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" He was right. Hollywood was soon producing "all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganzas featuring Maurice Chevalier, Ginger Rogers, James Cagney, and long lines of chorus girls, not to mention Jolson himself. We'll also look at the first musicals that starred African American performers such as Paul Robeson and Josephine Baker.
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
199 Chambers St.
7:30

ORHAN PAMUK: A CONVERSATION WITH STUDENTS

Pamuk is celebrated for his ability to convey the realities of life in Turkey to readers who would otherwise find them hard to imagine. In this conversation, he will reflect on the ways that he writes his novels for audiences all over the world as he also discusses the challenges of translating his work from the original Turkish into English. Immediately following, Pamuk will take questions from Queens College students�some of whom are enrolled in the school�s MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation�and the audience. This free, public event will take place in the Campbell Dome, adjacent to Powdermaker Hall. No tickets are required.
Oct. 17, 5-6:30
Campbell Dome, QC campus
admission free

Poet Laureate, Philip Levine Reading at QC

THE NEW SALON IN QUEENS
Philip Levine, with Nicole Cooley
Wednesday, Oct 19, 6:30 pm
Library auditorium, Room 230
... read Professor Cooley's comments about
being in Levine's undergraduate poetry workshop
on the Poetry Society of America website:
http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/blog/

QC Archives on Civil Rights Is Recognized by NYT

ARTICLE:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/far-north-of-selma-an-allotment-of-civil-rights-history/

The Center for Book Arts—Chapbook Reading

Please join us for The Center for Book Arts Letterpress Chapbook Book Party and Reading with judges Kimiko Hahn and Sharon Dolin, plus winner Nehassaiu deGannes and honorable mentions Sue Burton and Mark McKain on Wed., Oct. 5th at 6:30pm. Chapbooks and broadsides will be available for purchase. Refreshments: Come raise a glass to our poets!

The Center for Book Arts
28 W. 27th St. (bet. Broadway and 6th Ave.)
3rd floor
212-481-0295
$10/$5 CBA Members and Students

Tangled Spaces: Poets Writing Motherhood

THURSDAY Sep 29, 2011, 4:00pm | Martin E. Segal Theatre
Tangled Spaces: Poets Writing Motherhood
Meena Alexander, Kimiko Hahn, Nicole Cooley, Lee Ann Brown, Tina Chang, Marcella Durand, Betsy Fagin, Idra Novey, Tracy K. Smith, Leah Souffrant, Karen Weiser, Rachel Zucker, Cate Marvin, Erica Hunt

How do we theorize a poetics of motherhood? Attentive to divergent experiences of motherhood and using the maternal as a field that hovers outside neat categorization, this symposium will investigate the poetics of the maternal self and body through the experiences of women of color, adoptive mothers and single mothers.

Panel discussion with poets Meena Alexander, English, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY; Kimiko Hahn, Creative Writing and Translation, Queens College;Erica Hunt, independent scholar. Moderators: Nicole Cooley, Creative Writing and Translation, Queens College; Leah Souffrant, English, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Followed by a poetry reading with Meena Alexander, Lee Ann Brown,Tina Chang, Nicole Cooley, Marcella Durand, Betsy Fagin, Kimiko Hahn, Erica Hunt, Cate Marvin, Idra Novey,Tracy K. Smith, Leah Souffrant, Karen Weiser, andRachel Zucker.
4:00: Panel Discussion
5:30: Reception
6:00: Poetry Reading

co-sponsored by the Poetics Group. Image (c) Jennifer Wroblewski.

Free and open to the public. All events take place at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave btwn 34th & 35th. The building and the venues are fully accessible. For more information please visit http://centerforthehumanities.org/ or call 212.817.2005 or e-mail ch@gc.cuny.edu

QC MFA Fall Events ...

Here is our fall lineup. Some of the readings are in classrooms
with limited space. If interested, please contact the MFA Program
at 718-997-4600 or the director, Nicole Cooley, 718-619-4671.

Poet Joshua Mehigan
Monday, September 26, 6:30 pm
For info, contact MFA Program

Poet, Fiction Writer, and Translator
Marilyn Chin Reads and Talks about her Work
Tuesday, October 11, 6:30 pm
Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room 2
Open to public

US Poet Laureate Philip Levine
Reads and Talks about his Work
in our series The New Salon in Queens
co-sponsored with The Poetry Society of America
Wednesday, October 19, 6:30 pm
Rosenthal Library 230
Open to public

Translator and Poet Christian Hawkey
Tuesday, October 25, 6:30 pm
For info, contact MFA Program

Poet and Fiction Writer David Mills
Thursday, October 27, 6:30 pm
For info, contact MFA Program

Poet John Murillo
Monday, November 14, 5 pm
For info, contact MFA Program

CUNY GRAD CENTER IS YOUR GRAD CENTER ...

There are dozens of mindblowing events at the CUNY Grad Center and many are sponsored by the Center for the Humanities,
The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave btwn 34th & 35th
in Manhattan. Plus the events are free of charge.
The building and the venues are fully accessible.
For more information please call 212/817.2005 or e-mail ch@gc.cuny.edu. www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

UPCOMING...
Art, Again
Tue Sep 20, 2011, 6:30pm | The James Gallery
Conversation: Bernard Stiegler, Kyoo Lee
How does time relate to the production, collection, and circulation of aesthetic objects, especially in this era of global techno-capitalism? Join Bernard Steigler, renowned French philosopher and Director of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI) at the Centre Georges-Pompidou for a conversation about the material ontology of art and why it matters. He will be joined by discussant Kyoo Lee (Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice).
They will explore inquiries such as, if “technics is unthought,” as Bernard Stiegler argued in his field-defining trilogy,Technics and Time (La technique et le temps, I-III, 1994-2001), how are we to rethink that technical “thing” along with its oddly self-destructive logic of industry? And why do we continue to produce “stuff,” no matter what?

Back & Forth / Poetry & Jazz
Fri Sep 23, 2011, 4:00pm | The Skylight Room (9100)
Conversation & Performance: David Meltzer, Marty Ehrlich, Ammiel Alcalay
Join the one and only David Meltzer (then youngest poet included in Donald Allen's groundbreaking New American Poetry) in a rare New York appearance as he trades vocal/musical riffs with renowned saxophonist/clarinetist Marty Ehrlich. After performing, they will be joined by poet, CUNY professor, and Lost & Found editor Ammiel Alcalay in conversation followed by open discussion with the audience. David Meltzer's recent When I Was A Poet, Number Sixty in the legendary Pocket Poets Series from City Lights will be available.

Tangled Spaces: Poets Writing Motherhood
Thu Sep 29, 2011, 4:00pm | Martin E. Segal Theatre
Panel & Poetry Reading
How do we theorize a poetics of motherhood? Attentive to divergent experiences of motherhood and using the maternal as a field that hovers outside neat categorization, this symposium will investigate the poetics of the maternal self and body through the experiences of women of color, adoptive mothers and single mothers.
Panel discussion with poets Meena Alexander, English, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY; Kimiko Hahn, Creative Writing and Translation, Queens College; Erica Hunt, independent scholar. Moderators: Nicole Cooley, Creative Writing and Translation, Queens College; Leah Souffrant, English, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Followed by a poetry reading with Meena Alexander, Lee Ann Brown,Tina Chang, Nicole Cooley, Marcella Durand, Betsy Fagin, Kimiko Hahn, Erica Hunt, Cate Marvin, Idra Novey,Tracy K. Smith, Leah Souffrant, Karen Weiser, and Rachel Zucker.
4:00: Panel Discussion
5:30: Reception
6:00: Poetry Reading
co-sponsored by the Poetics Group

ANNE WALDMAN!

... poetry in performance ... words, cello, keyboard...
Wed., Sept. 12, 7 pm
The Rubin Art Museum
150 West 17th Street in Manhattan
$15/$5 students with student i.d.

QC Campus and 9/11 Anniversary

From QC President James L. Muyskens:

As we approach the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, the Queens College community is preparing several events to commemorate that tragic time.

On Wednesday, September 7 during free hour (12:15-1:30 pm), the college will hold a memorial service on the Quad near Klapper Circle. The service will include several speakers and a performance by the Aaron Copland School of Music Brass Ensemble. The Quad will be decorated with over 3000 American flags provided by the Student Association. In case of rain, the service will be held on the fourth floor of the Student Union.

On Wednesday, September 21 during free hour, the Asian/American Center will sponsor a forum featuring the Asian Literary Journal's special issue on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. This event will be held in the Campbell Dome.

Finally, during September the Queens College Media Center will have several films about 9/11 available for viewing, including Caught in the Crossfire: Arab Americans in Wartime, Fahrenheit 9/11, House of Saud, and Meeting Osama Bin Laden. For more information on these and other films, go to http://qcpages.qc.edu/library/information/news.php#911.

I hope you will take advantage of these events and resources as our nation reflects on a tragic time in our recent history.

NEW POET LAUREATE: PHILIP LEVINE, INTERVIEWED

PEN.org Kimiko Hahn » PEN.org
In today's PEN podcast, Levine talks with Kimiko Hahn
[QC Prof] at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival about poetry
as a species of magic, the merits of fistfights, ...
www.pen.org/blog/

Watch for info on his Oct. 19 reading
on Queens College campus.

**Free 2 Days of Poetry on Governors Island**

THE FIRST ANNUAL N.Y. POETRY FESTIVAL
July 30 & 31 from noon to 5 pm: readings from 100+ poets
INFO:
http://www.tpsny.org/

*QC Prof Receives Prestigious Translation Grant*

Announcing the 2011 PEN Translation Fund Grant Recipients
The PEN Translation Fund, now celebrating its eighth year, is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s competition. From a field of more than 130 applicants, the Fund’s Advisory Board—David Bellos, Susan Bernofsky, Edwin Frank, Michael Reynolds, Natasha Wimmer, and Jeffrey Yang, and chaired by Michael F. Moore—has selected 11 projects for funding. Read descriptions and excerpts from the projects at www.pen.org/blog
Among this year's recipients is our colleague:
Annmarie S. Drury for a collection of poems by Tanzanian poet Euphrase Kezilahabi, an acclaimed Swahili writer whose work is only now becoming more widely available to other readers. Saturated with vivid imagery, Kezilahabi’s poems reinvigorate traditional forms by introducing everyday language and free verse. An active promoter of accessibility, Kezilahabi’s work also offers a subtle social critique of the way language is used by those in power. (Available for publication.)
***
Introduction

If anyone asks me
why, as for rhymes and meter,
I don’t use them and why, as for lines
and stanzas, they don’t add up,
I’ll say to him: friend
there are many ways of going
to the garden.
But if that same person
keeps on nagging and telling me
my way is a bad one,
I’ll say:
friend, let’s go to my house
on foot, and at my house—
when we arrive—try then to teach me
walking.

MFA Program and Social Change ... One Example

Write the Power: Poetry & Social Justice Master Class & Performance Series:
This year's afternoon Master Classes include lectures and writing workshops from well-known poets and writers who have used their art as an agent of change. URBAN WORD students will have the rare opportunity to work with accomplished poets and MCs to explore the ways that these poets have infused their writings and world view to address and resist oppression and conservatism. Each night, these poets will give a performance and lecture that includes young poets from their class and illuminates the role of poetry in creating change.
*DATE: WEDNESDAYS July 13th-August 17th, 2011
*TIME & LOCATION: 3-5pm (@ Urban Word NYC + 6-7:30 @ Bowery Poetry Club)

*Mentors: Alexis Devaux, *
Kimiko Hahn, 
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, *
Roger Sedarat,
Roger Bonair-Agard, **
Aracelis Girmay

Founded on the belief that teenagers can and must speak for themselves, Urban Word NYC™ (UW) has been at the forefront of the youth spoken word, poetry and hip-hop movements in New York City since 1999. ... We promote active literacy, critical thought, and positive social dialogue across boundaries of age, race, class, gender, culture, and sexuality. Our many workshops are designed to enhance critical thinking skills, leadership, and to ignite a personal commitment to growth and learning which leads to heightened in-school performance, and greater interest in pursuing higher education.

*QC MFA Prof. **QC MFA former visiting prof

FOR INFORMATION:
www.urbanwordnyc.org/uwnyc/

Free Seminar at Center for Book Arts ...

Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar
For Emerging Writers
The Center for Book Arts invites applications for Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar For Emerging Writers. The next section of this seminar is scheduled for Wednesday through Sunday, September 14-18, 2011. The seminar is tuition free for participants and includes the cost of materials. Those selected must attend the entire five-day workshop. Deadline July 15, 2011

Also Interships and Work/Study.
Info: www.centerforbookarts.org/opportunities/

ENJOY THE "SUMER WITH SATCHMO": FOURTH OF JULY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

Two days before he passed away, he celebrated his final birthday right at home in his garden. To honor his legacy, LAHM celebrates Armstrong's birthday each year on the Fourth of July. LAHM will be open for guided tours and special birthday events from Noon - 5:00 pm with a special 2-for-1 admission price. Admission includes a celebratory performance by the renowned jazz trombonist Art Baron in the Armstrong Garden at 1:00 pm followed by complimentary birthday cake. Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors over 65, students and children. Group rate for 8 or more is $6. Children under 4 years old are free.
July 4, 2011, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM

LOCATION:
Louis Armstrong House Museum
34-56 107 Street, Queens
(718) 478-8274
http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org
Admission:
2 for 1 price

More QC MFA Playwriting ...

MFA playwriting student Panagiota Lilikaki and MFA playwriting alum Jonathan Alexandratos will be reading from monologues on Monday June 27th as part of a radio program in the series Queens College: *Queens Stories*
The show will be live and listeners can tune in at www.wqmcradio.com or come to the event live on campus:
Aaron Copeland Building Room 270 at 6 pm

Jonathan will be reading " a letter to God," and Panagiota will be reading two monologues part of her work "Bed Monologues."

THE FLEA

Celebrate the start of summer with an MFA program theater event!
Come on out to the Flea Theater
on Tuesday, June 21st at 6:30 pm

Actors will be reading scenes from plays by MFA students
Brian Blader, Jonathan Alexandratos, Nancy Ramos and
Ilaria Papini

The Flea is at 41 White Street in TriBeCa. Subway, Canal Street. www.theflea.org

A Night of Poetry

Join us in "A Night of Poetry," hosted by Program Director Renee Flagler. The first in our new Monday Night Workshop productions, A Night of Poetry features works by emerging QC poets as well as an opening night reception with light fare and beverages.

Date:
Monday, June 13, 6:00 PM
QC campus, Rathaus Hall, Performance Space M11

KUNDIMAN READING: HAHN, PINEDA AND LEE

Friday, June 17 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Fordham University@ Lincoln Center, 12th Floor Lounge
113 W. 60th Street (at Columbus Avenue)
New York, NY
"If you can make just one Kundiman reading this year, this one is it! Please join us and hear the 2011 Kundiman Retreat Faculty Kimiko Hahn, Jon Pineda & Karen An-Hwei Lee as they read their luminous poems along with current Kundiman fellows. This'll be our only public event, so please come and celebrate with us. Feel free to bring friends and loved ones, and help us spread the word!"
Reception to follow.
Directions:
Take A, B, C, D & 1 trains to Columbus Circle.
Exit at 60th Street & Broadway. Go west of Columbus Avenue.
Upon entering the glass doors inform the security desk that you are attending the Asian American Poetry event. Take escalators up 1 floor to Plaza level. Take elevator up to the 11th floor. Take stairs 1 flight up to the 12th Floor. Enter 12th Floor Lounge.
INFO:
www.kundiman.org/retreat/

NEWS FLASH

THIS SATURDAY!
Playsmiths Presents: FlashFest
Starring the Great Short-Shorts
(sudden, flash, micro, postcard ...)
from the Queens College MFA Program and the Playwrights of Playsmiths
WHERE: Manhattan Theatre Club
311 West 43rd Street, 8th Floor
WHEN: Saturday, May 28th, 2011 @ 7:30pm
Suggested Donation of $15 at the Door
Free for All Writers Involved
Contact Jonathan Alexandratos re questions
(jsalexan@gmail.com or 917-443-1961)

*** EARSHOT

EARSHOT!

Join us at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

Friday, May 27 at 7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!

Guest Host: Gregory Crosby

Featuring:
THERESA SENATO EDWARDS (Voices Through Skin)
TONY GLOEGGLER (The Last Lie)
Brian Kim (Queens College)***
Diana Khoi Nguyen (Columbia University)
Richard Moy (The New School)

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.

--
EARSHOT!
http://www.earshotnyc.com
http://twitter.com/earshotnyc

UGLY DUCKLING

Sun Jun 19 at 5:30PM
Susan Bernofsky, Jeannine Marie Pitas, Laura Solomon
at Zinc Bar, 82 W. 3rd St., NYC
INFO: www.uglyducklingpresse.org

CONGRATULATIONS--

to our new MFA grads in poetry, prose, playwriting, and literary translation. Each one of you has completed a thesis--creative work plus a process paper and bibliography--and each has passed their MFA Orals with an advisor and second reader. All of us professors take your work seriously and wish you wild (or quiet) success in what will be new stages of your creative development!
Nicole Cooley, Jayanti Tamm (visiting prof), Susan Bernofsky (visiting prof), Jeffrey Renard Allen, Kimiko Hahn, Richard Schotter, Roger Sedarat, John Weir.

Graduation and reception on Thursday, June 2.
Information:
Professor Nicole Cooley, MFA Director
nicole.cooley@qc.cuny.edu

CUNY's TERRIFIC PROGRAMMING--

Dont' forget to check on what is happening on our campus, apart from the MFA events, and also the other CUNY campuses. Google "This Week at CUNY" and subscribe. Here are several upcoming:


*A Reading, by Ernesto Quinonez*
Spring 2011 Book Talk Lecture Series: Writers on Writing - Ernesto Quinonez is from the Spanish Harlem section of New York City. He received his BA and MA from the City College of New York. His debut novel, Bodega Dreams, was chosen as a Los Angeles Times and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and has been proclaimed a New Immigrant Classic. His second critically acclaimed novel, Chango's Fire, was also well received and his work has appeared in Newsweek, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, El Pais, The Kenyon Review, CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Epoch, and other publications. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Cornell University's MFA program in Creative Writing.

May 9, 2011 6:00 PM
College:
The City College of New York
Address:
CCNY Center for Worker Education
25 Broadway, Manhattan
Building: 7th Floor Auditorium
Phone:
212-925-6625 x 241
Website:
http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/cwe2/Spring-2011-Book-Talk.cfm
Admission:
Free

*Working in Theater & TV*
Between them, Rachel Axler and Steve Bodow have worked for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TV), Elevator Repair Service (Theater), Parks and Recreation (TV), Bored to Death (TV), and had plays produced at the Women's Project, the NY Public Theater, and The Kitchen Theatre. Join us for a conversation about the work that they do, with insight into what it takes to build a career in theater, or TV, or both. Co-presented by the Drama, Theatre and Dance Department and the Media Studies Department. Free of charge For more information contact Professor Katherine Profeta, at 718-997-3088 or katherine.profeta@qc.cuny.edu
May 12, 2011 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
College:
Queens College
Address:
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing, Queens
Building: King 115
Room: The Little Theatre
Admission:
Free


*Second-Wave Situationism: Art Activism and Artists' Participation in Social Movements, 1964-1977*
The notion of activist art has long been both popular and widely diffused. This has become particularly vexing in relation to current debates on "social" and "participatory" art. Join Gavin Grindon as he examines groups active in the 1960s and 1970s that developed practices and identities which eschewed the identity of "artist" and the institutions of the art world for new forms of cultural production within social movements. These practices cohere around the use of detournement and other situationist ideas and practices of performance and participation. Gavin Grindon is postdoctoral research fellow in Visual and Material Culture at Kingston University of London, where he is writing a history of art and activism, and has previously taught at Manchester, Goldsmiths and Birkbeck Universities in the United Kingdom. He has published articles in the Oxford Art Journal; Third Text; and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest; and is a participant in the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.
May 10, 2011 6:30 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
Room: The James Gallery
Website:
http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Admission:
Free

REMINDER OF ONE OF OUR SPECIAL EVENTS --

New Works by Louis Armstrong/MFA Writers-in-Residence:
Brian Kim and Melissa Bobe
Friday, May 6th
6:30 pm
Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM)
34-56 107th Street, Corona, NY 11368
www.louisarmstronghouse.org, 718-478-8274

Join us for a wonderful evening of readings by our program’s third Louis Armstrong/ Queens College MFA Writers-in-Residence in the beautiful garden of the Louis Armstrong House Museum. In case of rain, reading will be moved inside. Writers will be reading from new works that were created in response to the Armstrong House Museum & Archives, which houses Armstrong’s recordings, films, letters, photographs, and collages in a world renowned collection.

Lewis Hyde: Cultural Commons

Friday May 6, 4:00pm
Join Lewis Hyde for a discussion of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have both inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is “intellectual property,” Hyde, in his newest book, Common as Air, turns to America’s founding fathers—Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and more—in search of other ways to value the fruits of human wit and imagination. Shedding fresh light on everything from the Human Genome Project to Bob Dylan’s musical roots, Hyde discovers a rich tradition in which knowledge was assumed to be a commonwealth, not a private preserve. Lewis Hyde is the author of The Gift (1983), This Error Is the Sign of Love (1988), and Trickster Makes This World (1998). A MacArthur Fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College and a faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

The James Gallery
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
212-817-2005

www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

Brooklyn on My Mind: Writing Fiction and Nonfiction

Leonard Lopate of WNYC Radio's The Leonard Lopate Show will talk with Jennifer Egan (Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, A Visit from the Goon Squad, the NY Times Magazine cover story on Lori Berenson), Darin Strauss (Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, Half a Life), and Phillip Lopate (Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays, Two Marriages) about writing both fiction and nonfiction. Egan won this year's National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad; Strauss won this year's National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography for Autobiography with Half a Life.
Date:
May 4, 2011
Time:
5:00 PM
College:
Brooklyn College
Address:
2900 Bedford Avenue & Avenue H
Brooklyn
Building:
Brooklyn College Library
Room:
Woody Tanger Auditorium
Phone:
718.951.5847
Website:
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/departments/wolfe/
Admission:
Free

Opportunities in the World of Publishing

Book publishing isn't just for English majors anymore. It is filled with possibilities for Finance, Marketing, Sales, Publicity, Design, Editorial, Legal, Production, and many more.

To register, contact the Career and Scholarship Center.
May 5, 2011, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
College:
College of Staten Island
Address:
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island
Building: 5N, Room 112
Phone:
718.982.2300
Website:
http://www.csi.cuny.edu/career
Admission: Free

REVISIONS OF GENDER

REVISIONS OF GENDER in Contemporary Mexican Film
*presented by QC Women's Studies Program*
Monday, May 9, 2011
QC, Powdermaker Hall, room 302
12:15–2 pm
Complimentary lunch will be served.
Iliana Alcantar is in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Specializing in Mexican literary and cultural studies, she works in gender, film, and trauma studies. Her current research deals with revisions of gender and representation in contemporary Mexican literature, film, and performance art.

On the LAHM ...

New Works by Louis Armstrong/MFA Writers-in-Residence:
Brian Kim and Melissa Bobe
Friday, May 6th
6:30 pm
Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM)
34-56 107th Street, Corona, NY 11368
www.louisarmstronghouse.org, 718-478-8274

Join us for a wonderful evening of readings by our program’s third Louis Armstrong/ Queens College MFA Writers-in-Residence in the beautiful garden of the Louis Armstrong House Museum. In case of rain, reading will be moved inside. Writers will be reading from new works that were created in response to the Armstrong House Museum & Archives, which houses Armstrong’s recordings, films, letters, photographs, and collages in a world renowned collection.

The PEN World Voices Festival // SLAM

Join current MFA student, Jolie Hale, at the Translation Slam on Friday, April 29th: the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery) from 7-8:30 pm.

Here's how the slam works: PEN invites two writers from foreign languages, and they submit short texts to be translated. This year the languages are French and Urdu. Two translators are assigned to each text. The translators work independently of each other to produce the best translation they can. On the night of the slam, the translators compare their work and discuss their choices. Audience participation is essential, so if you can make it, feel free to jump into the debate!

This is a ticketed event ($5 for PEN members and those with a student ID, $10 for everybody else), and you can get tickets online ahead of time or simply pay at the door. There's a cocktail hour reading at Bowery Poetry Club before the slam; you can attend both events for $10/$15. The Best Translated Book Awards, which is free, will follow the slam.
Pre-paid tickets here: http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5720/prmID/2126
Full Festival schedule here: http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/2108

Revolutionaries in the Arab World
When: Wednesday, April 27
Where: 92nd Street Y, Unterberg Poetry Center, 1395 Lexington Ave., New York City
What time: 7:30 p.m.

China in Two Acts
When: Thursday, April 28
Where: The Cooper Union, Great Hall, 7 E. 7th St. , New York City
What time: 7 p.m.

WikiLeaks
When: Thursday, April 28
Where: The Cooper Union, Great Hall, 7 E. 7th St. , New York City
What time: 9:15 p.m.

Poetry: The Second Skin
When: Friday, April 29
Where: 92nd Street Y, Unterberg Poetry Center, 1395 Lexington Ave., New York City
What time: 7:30 p.m.

Get Super Lit: Comic Books Come Alive on Stage
When: Saturday, April 30
Where: The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Sq., New York City
What time: 12–1:30 p.m.

American Exile: The Prison Industry
When: Saturday, April 30
Where: The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Sq., New York City
What time: 2–3:30 p.m.

In Conversation: Vladimir Sorokin and Keith Gessen
When: Saturday, April 30
Where: The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Sq., New York City
What time: 4:30–6 p.m.


Vladimir Sorokin: Ice Trilogy (Play Reading)
When: Saturday, April 30
Where: Old Gym, 268 Mulberry St., New York City
What time: 7 p.m.

**Celebrate the Borough of Queens**

Tuesday May 3, 6:30pm, Godwin-Ternbach Museum: A Reading --and Book Launch-- from the just published anthology Forgotten Borough, writers come to terms with Queens. (Readers include past and present MFA faculty too.)

**Double-Reading**

Christoph Keller and Jan Heller Levi
Wednesday April 27, 6:30pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, 4th Floor, Klapper Hall
Queens College campus ...
Christoph Keller is a Swiss-born, NYC-based novelist, memoirist, playwright and essayist. His memoir Der beste Tänzer (The Best Dancer) spent six weeks on the Swiss bestseller list and was translated into English in 2008. Thrice, he has been awarded the Pro Helvetia grant, the Swiss equivalent of an NEA grant. In the US, Keller’s work in multiple genres has appeared in The Paris Review, Gobshite Quarterly, Two Lines, The Means, Failbetter Absinthe, New European Writing and Threepenny Review, among others. He is currently working on his first novel in English, River Madness. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, the poet Jan Heller Levi.

Jan Heller Levi is the author of two books of poetry, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, (winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets) and Skyspeak. She is also the editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, consulting editor on the 2005 re-issue of The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, and co-editor, with Sara Miles, of Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan. Levi is married to the Swiss-born novelist and playwright Christoph Keller; and makes her home in New York City, where she is a member of the faculty of the MFA Program at Hunter College.

A Celebration of National Poetry Month

A Celebration of Poetry Month with Billy Collins and --
four other CUNY poets, Kimiko Hahn of Queens College, L.S. Asekoff of Brooklyn College, Tom Sleigh of Hunter College and another of Lehman’s own, George Green.

At the Lovinger Theater on April 14th at 12:30 p.m.
Introductions by Salita Bryant, Department of English, Lehman College.
Address
Lehman College, The City University of New York
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West
Bronx, NY

2011 Literary Arts Festival Reading by Sapphire

Sapphire's novel Push (1996) won the Book-of-the-Month Club's Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's First Novelist Award, and in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award. Precious received the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress, in addition to the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Awards in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance. Her long-awaited second novel, The Kid, will be published by Penguin in April. Sapphire is also the author of two collections of poetry.... Plus she is an alum from Brooklyn College's MFA Program in Creative Writing.
April 12, 2011
5:45 PM – 8:00 PM
@
New York City College of Technology
Klitgord Center, 285 Jay St., Brooklyn
718.260.5394
Admission: Free

Christoph Keller and Jan Heller Levi Read New Work

The MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation
Reading Series Spring 2011
Christoph Keller and Jan Heller Levi Read New Work
Wednesday April 27, 6:30 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, 4th Floor, Klapper Hall

Christoph Keller is a Swiss-born, New York City-based novelist, memoirist, playwright and essayist. His memoir Der beste Tänzer (The Best Dancer) spent six weeks on the Swiss bestseller list and was translated into English in 2008. Thrice, he has been awarded the Pro Helvetia grant, the Swiss equivalent of an NEA grant. In the US, Keller’s work in multiple genres has appeared in The Paris Review, Gobshite Quarterly, Two Lines, The Means, Failbetter Absinthe, New European Writing and Threepenny Review, among others. He is currently working on his first novel in English, River Madness. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, the poet Jan Heller Levi.

Jan Heller Levi is the author of two books of poetry, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, (winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets) and Skyspeak. She is also the editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, consulting editor on the 2005 re-issue of The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, and co-editor, with Sara Miles, of Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan. Levi is married to the Swiss-born novelist and playwright Christoph Keller; and makes her home in New York City, where she is a member of the faculty of the MFA Program at Hunter College.

A reception will follow the reading, and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more

ALUM, John Reid Currie, READING & OPEN MIC

Come out to Queens this Sunday afternoon for a reading by John Currie: open mic, John (around 3 pm) then more open mic.

John Reid Currie was writer in residence at the Louis Armstrong Museum and Archives in 2009 and has performed at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Earshot, The Nuyorican Poets Café, the Turnstyle Reading Series and Smalls Jazz Club. He has taught hand papermaking at the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Public Library and other venues throughout New York City. Mr. Currie’s poetry is featured in “Greenwich Village,” published by St. Martin’s Griffen and a profile of his educational work can be found in “Green At Work” published by Island Press.

All welcome to participate in this free open mic poetry event.
Sunday, April 10 2:00 p.m. Central Library Auditorium
89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, QUEENS
718-990-0700
Train: Take F train to the 169th Street station. Bus: Numerous buses go to the 165th Street Bus Terminal.

{{{LAST TURNSTYLE OF THE SEASON}}}

FINAL reading of the Spring 2011 Turnstyle Reading Series. The reading will take place on Thursday, April 7th in the Segal Theater at the Center for Humanities, located at 365 5th Avenue at 34th Street in Manhattan. The readings start at 6:30pm sharp, and tend to be very well attended. We welcome you to come and to invite all of your friends.

Turnstyle is a Mixer designed to bring together the talented MFA students from CUNY’s four creative writing MFA programs: Queens, City, Hunter, and Brooklyn. Each night, two students from each campus read alongside two members of the faculty. The series is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Affiliation Group, The Center for the Humanities, and the Office of Academic Affairs. Turnstyle is now in its third year.

The readers will be:

Victoria Brown,
Jessie Male,
Sonia Valdiviezo,
Jessie Chaffee,
Gracie Leavitt,
Dana Collins
Jolie Hale,
Lysette Simmons

Robert Viscusi,
Kathryn Harrison

We hope to see you there!

Creative Writing & the Fine Arts: 2 QC MFA Programs

Come! On Saturday, April 2nd, at 4:00pm
To the NY Studio Gallery located at:
154 Stanton Street (in Manhattan)
Walking distance from the F, J, M, Z, and V trains
The reading will start promptly at 4pm.
See! Queens College MFA/Creative Writing students read a
sample of their work in a gallery showcasing art created
by Queens College MFA/Fine Art candidates.
Don’t Pay a Dime! Because this event is FREE FOR ALL!
Questions? No problem! Email Jonathan Alexandratos at
jsalexan@gmail.com with anything further.
Fine Art & Creative Writing! Together At Last!

Turnstyle Turnstyle Turnstyle

The final reading in this year's Turnstyle series:
April 7th at 6:30 pm sharp
CUNY Grad Center (365 5th Ave at 34th street) in the Segal Theater

This reading will feature:
*student readers*
Victoria Brown,
Jessie Male,
Sonia Valdiviezo,
Jessie Chaffee,
Gracie Leavitt,
Dana Collins
Jolie Hale,
Lysette Simmons
*faculty readers*
Robert Viscusi,
Kathryn Harrison

Reminder: MFA Community Event (for current grad. students & alum.)

For those in Kimiko's grad. workshop, we will begin our class early (6:00). From 7:30-8:30, John Murillo will join us in Klapper 708. He will read from UP JUMP THE BOOGIE and discuss the mysterious process of publishing a first collection. Reception to follow.

**Gertrude Stein**

Exhibition Histories: The Moderns
The legendary modernist Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was famous not only for her writing but also for her art collection, acquired as an American expatriate in Paris during the interwar period with her brother Leo Stein. Gertrude Stein's Salon de Fleurus is featured in The Making of Americans exhibition as a formative precursor for collections including the Museum of Modern Art. This lecture will focus on how Gertrude Stein's embrace of these international artists prompted a new American modernist narrative.
Date:
March 21, 2011
Time:
2:00 PM
College:
CUNY Graduate Center
Address:
365 Fifth Avenue
Building:
--
Room:
The James Gallery
Phone:
212-817-2005
Website:
http://www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
Admission:
Free

THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER EVENTS

Please note that the CUNY-related events posted here are not necessarily in chronological order. And of course all the events at the Grad Ctr are not listed. If you are interested in following any or all of the events across the CUNY system, go to
/www.cuny.edu
and "Subscribe to Newswire." Arts, science, philosophy, free concerts, poetics, ... it's all there on our many campuses. And the Grad. Ctr. is in the middle of it all.

**Turnstyle Reading Series**

Monday, March 21st
SKYLIGHT Theater
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue at 34th Street in Manhattan.
6:30pm sharp
We welcome you to come and to invite all of your friends.

Turnstyle is a Mixer designed to bring together the talented MFA students from CUNY’s four creative writing MFA programs: Queens, City, Hunter, and Brooklyn. Each night, two students from each campus read alongside two members of the faculty. The series is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Affiliation Group, The Center for the Humanities, and the Office of Academic Affairs. Turnstyle is now in its third year.

*grad student readers*
Heidi Diehl
Phil Klay
Brendan Kiely
Camille Wanliss Ortiz
Lysette Simmons
Rosemary Misdary
Tatiana Alvarado
Melissa Bobe

*faculty readers*
Donna Masini
Joshua Henkin

Facebook: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=51504897100
Wordpress: turnstylereadings.wordpress.com

Trends in Translation Series

The MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation presents:
Lawrence Venuti – “Translation, Intertextuality, Interpretation”
Wednesday, March 30, 6:30 pm
Godwin-Ternbach Museum
4th floor Klapper Hall, QC campus
Lawrence Venuti, professor of English at Temple University, is a translation theorist and historian as well as a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan. He is the author of The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation (2nd ed., 2008) and The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference (1998) and the editor of The Translation Studies Reader (2nd ed., 2004). His translations include the anthology, Italy: A Traveler’s Literary Companion (2003), Massimo Carlotto’s crime novel, The Goodbye Kiss (2006), and Ernest Farrés’s Edward Hopper: Poems (2009), which won the Robert Fagles Translation Prize.
A reception will follow and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.

Spot Light on Our Students: Two Staged Readings

Members of "The Bats," the company of young actors at The Flea Theatre, will be reading sections of plays by Jonathan Karpinos and Brian Blader on Thursday, March 24th at 6:30. The Flea Theatre is located at 41 White Street in Tribeca (2 blocks below Canal). Telephone: 212.226.0051. This will be our debut session The Flea! Show your support and have fun at the same time. It promises to be a splendid reading!

**QC Play Development Lab** invite ...

Queens College Play Development Lab, the MFA collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Dance, presents MFA student work. This Thursday, March 10th at 6:30 in the Little Theatre in King Hall, first floor.
info: nicole.cooley@qc.cuny.edu

**Turnstyle Reading Series**

Please join us for the second reading of the Spring 2011 Turnstyle Reading Series. Wednesday, March 9th in the Segal Theater at the Center for Humanities
365 5th Avenue at 34th Street in Manhattan.
The readings start at 6:30pm sharp, and tend to be very well attended, a standing room only situation. We welcome you to come and to invite all of your friends.

Turnstyle is a Mixer designed to bring together the talented MFA students from CUNY’s four creative writing MFA programs: Queens, City, Hunter, and Brooklyn. Each night, two students from each campus read alongside two members of the faculty. The series is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Affiliation Group, The Center for the Humanities, and the Office of Academic Affairs. Turnstyle is now in its third year.

The readers will be:
Elizabeth Gross
Jason Baker
Jon Jensen
Erienne Rojas
Susan Penn
Curtis Jensen
Jonathan Alexandratos
Hoyt Jacobs

with faculty,
Jeffery Allen
Paul Oppenheimer

Facebook: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=51504897100
Wordpress: turnstylereadings.wordpress.com

RARE OPPORTUNITY ...

***Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in Conversation***

Panelists include:

Meena Alexander (English, Hunter College & The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Judith Butler (Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley)
Patricia Clough (Sociology, Queens College & The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Drucilla Cornell (Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers)
Rosalind Morris (Anthropology, Columbia University)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
Robert Young (English, Comparative Literature, New York University)
Moderated by Kyoo Lee (Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY).
Wednesday, March 2nd, 6:30pm

Proshansky Auditorium
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

centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

Opera: Postcard from Morocco

A fully staged production with chamber orchestra, featuring students from the QC Opera Studio; James John, Music Director; David Ronis, Stage Director; and Bruce Norris, Musical Preparation. Please note additional date: Saturday, February 26, 8 pm; Sunday, February 27, 3 pm; and Tuesday, March 1, 10 am. LeFrak Concert Hall. Tickets: $15/$12 QCID, QC alumni, seniors; $25 March 1 performance only. Box office: 718-793-8080.

Spring 2011 Turnstyle Reading Series

Wednesday, March 9th
Segal Theater at the Center for Humanities: CUNY Grad Ctr.
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street in Manhattan
6:30pm sharp
TURNSTYLE is a mixer designed to bring together the talented MFA students from CUNY’s four creative writing MFA programs: Queens, City, Hunter, and Brooklyn. Each night, two students from each campus read alongside two members of the faculty. The series is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Affiliation Group, The Center for the Humanities, and the Office of Academic Affairs. Turnstyle is now in its third year.

The MFA readers:
Elizabeth Gross
Jason Baker
Jon Jensen
Erienne Rojas
Susan Penn
Curtis Jensen
Jonathan Alexandratos
Hoyt Jacobs

Faculty readers:
Jeffery Allen
Paul Oppenheimer

Marginalia meets Caesura

'So-called Marginalia' is a reading series for critical academics and social justice activists who are also creative writers or whose work leads them into the territory of narrative or poetics (broadly conceived). Marginalia meet Caesura showcases scholars who are also visual artists, highlighting that the dual role of scholar and artist finds its expression in other genres. Participants this time include: Naomi Adiv (Geography), Jesse Goldstein (Sociology), Setha Low (Environmental Psychology, Anthropology, Geography), Mona Salim (Anthropology), Manissa McCleave Maharawal (Anthropology), and Daisy Deomampo (Anthropology).


Friday, February 18th 6:30pm

THE JAMES GALLERY

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



centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

opencuny.org/caesurajames/

Thanks to All the Volunteers at AWP Conference!

Anne Hays (left) and Kimiko Hahn (right) extend their thanks to all the CUNY volunteers to peopled the CUNY MFA booth--this was a particularly great run!

(If you have some good conference photos, please forward to one or both of us!)

*The Business of Theater*

Theater Development Fund (TDF) and Baruch Performing Arts Center at CUNY present a free moderated discussion with professional theater producers and managers, including Robert Fried (American Idiot, Billy Elliot, among others), Sue Frost (Memphis, A Chorus Line tour, among others) and Carl Pasjberg (Guys and Dolls, Memphis, among others).

The discussion is moderated by Victoria Bailey, TDF Executive Director & Educator, and is free to all CUNY students and the public.
Date:
February 10, 2011
Time:
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
College:
Baruch College
Address:
55 Lexington Avenue
Manhattan
Building:
Newman Vertical Campus
Room:
BPAC's Engelman Recital Hall, Level B2
Phone:
646-312-5073
Website:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac/calendar/event.php?id=638
Admission:
Free

**LAHM Residencies**

Congratulations to MFA students Brian Kim and Melissa Bobe, who will both hold residencies at the Louis Armstrong Archive House and Museum this spring! We all look forward to hearing them read their work in May in a reading at the Armstrong House!

**Cartwheels in a Sari**

Jayanti Tamm Reads From her New Memoir
Monday February 7, 5pm
Rosenthal Library, President’s Conference Room, 5th Floor

Jayanti Tamm is a visiting professor in the MFA Program and the English Department at Queens College. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at American University in Washington, DC, where she studied fiction and playwriting. Following graduation, she had a number of stories published in literary journals in North America. In 2000, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2005, her one-act play, The Suicide Bomber won the New England Academy of Theatre One Act Play Award. In 2009, Random House published her memoir, Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult, which received glowing reviews. In December, the book was released as a paperback.

A reception will follow the reading, and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.

Turnstyle Reading Series

*Co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs and the CUNY MFA Affiliation Group*

Turnstyle, a cross-genre MFA reading series, features the faculty and students of four CUNY graduate creative writing programs. Two faculty readers and seven second year MFA creative writing students read a mix of non-fiction, plays, fiction, and poems.

MFA Readers
Jill Noel Shreve, Hunter College
Thierry Saintine, City College of New York
A.J. Kandathil, Hunter College
Catherine Tung, Brooklyn College
Julia Jackson, Brooklyn College
Brian Kim, Queens College
Katie Vane, Hunter College


Faculty Readers
Roger Sedart, Queens College, author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic.
Harold Aram Veeser, The City College of New York, author of Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism

Tuesday, February 1st, 6:30pm

Martin E. Segal Theater
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

centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

Maxine Hong Kingston

A rare appearance:
The Asian American Writers' Workshop presents a special event with novelist Maxine Hong Kingston on February 1, 2011.
For details and to buy tickets:
http://aaww.org/#february1.

BENEFIT READING IN HONOR OF DEAN YOUNG

Thursday, January 20th, 7:00 PM

A benefit reading in honor of the prominent poet and teacher, who is facing a heart transplant, featuring poets Matthea Harvey, Edward Hirsch, Mary Karr, Matthew Rohrer, Gerald Stern, Dara Wier, and others. All donations will be used to help Dean Young with his transplant expenses.
Admission is free, but donations are encouraged. To read about Dean and make an online donation, please visit www.transplants.org.
Location:
Grand Gallery, National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park, Manhattan

It's "Spring"--It's TURNSTYLE--

TURNSTYLE READINGS SERIES for the four CUNY MFA Programs begins on Tuesday, February 1
6:30 pm
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER
Fifth Avenue at 34 Street in Manhattan
Eight MFA students will read with two faculty--

Roger Sedarat teaches poetry and translation in the MFA program at Queens College. He is the author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic (winner of Ohio UP's Hollis Summers Prize), and Ghazal Games (forthcoming, Ohio UP). His poems and translations have recently appeared in World Literature Today, Green Mountains Review, and Storyscape.

H. Aram Veeser, Department of English, The City College of New York, co-author, Painting Between the Lines (2001), and editor, The New Historicism (1989), The New Historicism Reader (1994), Confessions of the Critics (1996), and The Stanley Fish Reader (1999). He has written for The Nation Magazine and various academic quarterlies, including The Journal of Armenian Studies, Ararat, and Armenian Forum. His most recent book is Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism (Routledge, 2010). He is at work on another book, a group portrait of eight literary critics who gained notoriety around the time of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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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.
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the CUNY MFA in Creative Writing Affiliation Group