Monday, October 17, 2011

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.