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!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
**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.
Friday, January 28, 2011
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
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
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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.
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.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
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
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
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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
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
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