QC/Italian American Poetry Event in Manhattan:

Writers Read Series: Jonathan Galassi reads from Left-handed: Poems. Thursday, September 20, 6 pm, Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd St. (bet. 5th & 6th Aves.), 17th floor. Information: 212-642-2094 or www.qc.cuny.edu/calandra. AND Documented Italians Film and Video Series: Painting Rules (2012), 30 min. and The Poetry Deal: A Film with Diane di Prima (2011), 27 min. Post-screening discussion with directors led by Fred Gardaphé (QC). Monday, September 24, 6 pm, Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd St. (bet. 5th & 6th Aves.), 17th floor. Information: 212-642-2094 or www.qc.cuny.edu/calandra

Two couples. Two homes. Two evenings. Endless drama.

NYU's Studio Tisch and Graduate Acting Alumni Assocation present a reading of Stay With Us by Jonathan Karpinos Mon 7/9 @ 3pm Walker Theater, 721 Broadway, 5th floor FREE

See You in September (that is, August!)

one of resident lizards on campus ...

Oh, Bernice!

The Oh, Bernice! Writers Collective welcomes you to our final reading of the season. When: 7:30pm June 16th, 2012 Where: Cafe Marlene (cafemarlene.com) 41-11 49th Street, Sunnyside, NY ( Closest to the 52nd Street 7 train.) ... ... Who: John Weir, prose Brian Kim, prose Pete Vanderberg, poetry Richard Schotter, drama With Bernician, John Reid Currie, as your emcee! Please check out our tumblr and twitter pages www.ohbernice.tumblr.com, twitter@ohbernice for information on the readers and excerpts of their work.

New Works by Louis Armstrong/MFA Writers-in-Residence

The MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation Reading Series Spring 2012 New Works by Louis Armstrong/MFA Writers-in-Residence: Deborah Fried-Rubin, Jonathan Karpinos and Jonathan Kravetz Wednesday, May 23rd 6:30 pm, Louis Armstrong House Museum, 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 forth 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. Deborah Fried-Rubin is a third-year graduate student in the Queens College MFA program, pursuing her interest in poetry after many years of practicing law, and is a recipient of Queens College’s Silverstein-Peiser Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in the anthology Why I Am Not A Painter published by Argos Books and online at Broadsided Press, and will appear this spring in WSQ’s VIRAL issue. Her chapbook Language of the Lost and Found is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She lives on Long Island with her husband and three children. Jonathan Karpinos is a playwright, improviser, and teacher based in New York. His plays include Stay With Us (Freeplay/NYU Tisch School of the Arts), Fifty Cents to Touch the Sky (finalist, Barter Theatre’s Shaping of America Series), and Suicide/Joke (FringeNYC). He is also the co-author (with Benji Goldsmith) of The Averageachievers Club, which was featured in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Songwriters Showcase and workshopped by the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts. An experienced improviser, Jonathan is a veteran of Chicago's iO Theater and a regular player in The Scene at the Peoples Improv Theater. He has been a playwriting mentor for Hunter College High School's Brick Prison Playhouse and a Teaching Artist at Acting Manitou, a theater camp in Oakland, ME. He is thrilled to be a writer-in-residence at the Louis Armstrong House Museum, where he has, finally, commenced getting hep to the jive. Jonathan Kravetz is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of DUCTS.org (1999), a biannual literary webzine devoted to publishing engaging personal essays, memoirs, art, fiction, humor and more. His play, Prayer, was recently produced in March, 2012 by Nouveau 47 in Dallas, Texas. It was first produced to sold-out houses at the New York City Fringe Festival, 2008 and was a semi-finalist in the annual Reverie Productions Play competition in New York, 2008. His play, Better Lucky Than Smart was produced last year by Manhattan Theatre Source in New York City. His comedy, The Beast in My Pants, has received two staged readings: one in NYC by Emerging Artists Theater, and the other by Nouveau 47 in Dallas. Violins, a ten-minute play, was one of the winners of the Bite-Sized International Playwriting Competition and was performed at the Brighton And Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, 2008, and was an audience favorite at the 2010 InGenius short play festival in New York City. His play, Jim and Dana, was a 2009 finalist in the Oxford, MS Ten-Minute Play Contest, and several of his short plays, including the award winning, Get Bruised, have been produced in New York. He has several published short stories and has written a dozen science non-fiction books for children. Mr. Kravetz has edited and ghostwritten several essays and and one memoir, The Missing Cub, the story of Chicago Cub lefty Darcy Fast. Mr. Kravetz is one of the founding members of the prestigious Writers Forum at the Manhattan Theatre Source in New York. Mr. Kravetz is also the founder of the monthly reading series, Trumpet Fiction, which is held the second Saturday of every month at KGB Bar in the East Village. Jonathan is currently pursuing his MFA in playwriting at Queens College. He holds a Masters Degree from NYU where he studied cinema and screenwriting, and he teaches fiction and screenwriting in New York City.

"KGB" and Anne ...

Come Enjoy Trumpet Fiction! *Sponsored by Ducts.org KGB BAR 85 East 4th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Ave) Saturday, May 12, 6:45 p.m. FEATURED READERS: ANNE POSTEN Like Michel Foucault, Anne Posten describes herself as a Nietzschean. She also describes herself variously as a translator, a writer, a musician, a mediocre but enthusiastic tennis player, a veteran barista/bartender, and an excellent cook, so it’s hard to know what to believe, really. She most certainly lives in Astoria, while in (hot) pursuit of an MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation from Queens College. Her first book-lengt h translation from the German, This Beautiful Place by Tankred Dorst, was recently published by Hanging Loose Press. DANIEL B. MELTZER Daniel B. Meltzer is a playwright, fiction writer, and journalist. He has won the O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes for his stories and a New York Newspaper Association Award for his columns. His plays have been staged across the U.S. as well as in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. His stories, memoirs, essays and poems have appeared in many journals, magazines, and newspapers here and abroad. Daniel has been a newspaper editor, a TV news writer, a comedy writer, a speechwriter, a college professor, and a community organizer. He lives in Manhattan. The story LES IS MOR is from his new collection, OUTSIDERS, published this year. SARAH ENELOW Sarah Enelow was raised in Central Texas and May 12th is her six-year anniversary of moving to New York, where she currently works at a string instrument shop. Sarah’s writing has been published by Not For Tourists among other travel websites and a couple of very obscure literary magazines. She has an infatuation with travel, which led her to do an i nternship in Moscow, a Fulbright Grant in rural Argentina, and a month-long stint in Beijing. She plans to read a personal essay about a migraine she had during her first summer here. Hope to see you there! Jonathan Kravetz Editor-in-Chief Ducts.org Jon@ducts.org *New York Writers Resources is the parent corporation of New York Writers Workshop, a collective of writers and teachers working in New York City and elsewhere; Ducts, a literary webzine; and Greenpoint Press, an independent publishing house devoted to quality fiction and nonfiction. Contact: New York Writers Workshop, P.O. Box 2062, Lenox Hill Station, New York, N.Y. 10021. newyorkwritersworkshop.com

LOST & FOUND Launch at Grad. Ctr.

May 3, 2012, 5:00pm | Martin E. Segal Theatre Lost & Found Launch with Joanne Kyger and Michael Rumaker Come celebrate the publication of Series III of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, & hear the editors present their projects: Anne Donlon’s work on "Langston Hughes, Nancy Cunard & Louise Thompson: Poetry, Politics & Friendship in the Spanish Civil War" John Harkey’s facsimile edition of Lorine Niedecker’s "Homemade Poems" Seth Stewart's recovery of the John Wieners / Charles Olson Correspondence Ana Božičević’s presentation of a Diane di Prima Lecture on Charles Olson Lindsey Freer’s transcription and annotation of lectures by Ed Dorn Megan Paslawski’s edition of Michael Rumaker’s "Selected Letters" Ammiel Alcalay’s edition of "Letters To & From Joanne Kyger" Join poet Joanne Kyger for a rare East Coast appearance, as she reads with her old friend, prose writer and former Black Mountain College student Michael Rumaker, Ammiel Alcalay and the Lost & Found editors. *Series III will be available for purchase, along with two free broadsides printed especially for the event.* At The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave and 34th St New York, NY 10016 Venue fully accessible http://centerforthehumanities.org/lost-and-found/events/Lost-Found-Launch

Thomas and Beulah

THE POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA announces it's inaugural installment of Poets in the Playhouse on Friday, May 4th, 7pm at Queens College. This year’s program will be a theatrical adaptation, staged by Queens College students, of the Pulitzer-prize winning collection, Thomas & Beulah by Rita Dove. The performance will include music and movement (dance). Ms. Dove will be in attendance and participate in a moderated Q&A with cast and crew after the show.

Thomas and Beulah tells the semi-fictionalized chronological story of Rita Dove’s maternal grandparents in the form of a two-part book of narrative poems set during the period of the Great Migration - the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the south from 1910 to 1970. Her grandfather Thomas is featured in “Mandolin,” the book’s first part, and his wife, Beulah is the focus of “Canary in Bloom,” the second part. The two sections are meant to offer the male and female perspectives on some seventy years of American history. “This isn’t simply a reading of Rita Dove’s poems, but our attempt to invent a new form,” explains playwright and QC professor Richard Schotter. “Tyler Rivenbark, an MFA student, has shaped the poems through the use of music, movement, slides, etc. A director/choreographer will further dramatize the material. As far as I know, this is a first for Thomas and Beulah.” Friday, May 4, 7 pm Free and open to the public Queens College—The Little Theater, King Hall, Room 115 Map/directions: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/ABOUT/DIRECTIONS/Pages/default.aspx Rita Dove’s Thomas and Beulah Adapted for the stage by Tyler Rivenbark Directed and choreographed by Nicco Annan Music by Barry Mitterhoff

MFA Student Plays at THE FLEA

Four rehearsed readings of MFA student plays at The Flea Theater in May. Note that readings take place during the day at the following times below: Tuesday May 8: Plays by Nancy Ramos and Sean O'Connor 11:30am and 2pm Wednesday May 9: Plays by Jonathan Kravetz and Brian Blader, 11:30am and 2pm The Flea is at 41 White Street in Tribeca: http://www.theflea.org/

STILLSPOTTING in Queens ...

The series, put on by the Guggenheim, is like any other day walking around Jackson Heights or sitting with friends in their apartment, except, well... you don’t know these people and at each location there’s an author or actor waiting with a story in mind to tell you. Stillspotting NYC is a two-year-long project that takes museum-goers with a map in hand to city streets. They will hear stories from writers including poets, professors, a chaplain and a pair of rappers. For this edition of Stillspotting NYC: Queens, called Transhistoria, the architects at New York-based Solid Objectives–Idenburg Liu — that found locations and writers for the event — bring visitors to Jackson Heights. Ticket holders take two-hour self-guided tours starting from the Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Ave. transit hub on 75th Street and Broadway. Guests choose four of six locations to visit on their tour. A family program will be offered May 5 from 12 to 3p.m. with a story written for the little ones and adults alike. Visit the project’s website for more information. Stillspotting participant Roger Sedarat said writers were prompted by the questions: “How do New Yorkers escape the intensity of the city? We are interested in a story about transition and making a place in one’s home through language,” and “What connection does this story have to the ideas of stillness and quiet?” A “stillspot” was different for each author, but in his or her own way it’s a place in which each felt calm with a sense of belonging. And it’s not always easy to find moments of still in a neighborhood with a lack of green space, pointed out poet and participant Maria Terrone. Jackson Heights is also one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in city, according to the Guggenheim. “A place where ‘peace and quiet’ is elusive and ever more precious when it’s found,” as excerpted from Terrone’s piece. Three of the Stillspotting authors — Sedarat, Terrone and Premilla Nadasen — work at Queens College and in some way or another speak about food as an example of culture or a unifier in this diverse neighborhood. ... Stillspotting’ When: April 28–29, and May 5–6, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Where: Walking tours start at Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Ave. transit hub Tickets: $10, cash only stillspotting.guggenheim.org

LAST TURNSTYLE OF THE YEAR

Please come and hear outstanding graduating MFA students from the four CUNY MFA Programs (Brookyn, City, Hunter & Queens) and two faculty members ...
April 16th: Skylight Theater (which is on the 9th floor)

6:30-8:30 @ the CUNY Graduate Center @ 365 5th Avenue, 34th Street
Skylight theater
MFA Candidate Readers:
Keisha-Gaye Anderson, Jordan Schauer, Jess Lacher, Kaci Hamilton, Mark Sitko, Halimah Marcus, Brian Blader, Sachiko Clayton

With:
Jan Heller Levi, Lyn Di Iorio

Free and open to the public!

TURNSTYLE with Nicole Cooley & Meera Nair

March 27th: Martin E Segal Theater

6:30-8:30pm
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue, 34th Street
*Martin E Segal Theater*

MFA Candidate Readers:
Nicole Treska, Maria Billini, Krystal Sital, Cecilia Donohue, Jess Grover, Katie Assef, Deborah Fried-Rubin, Jason N Fischedick

Faculty readers:
Nicole Cooley, Meera Nair

FREE and open to the public!

Evening of Witness

The Cathedral is pleased to announce Evening of Witness, March 21, at 7 pm, the culminating event of its art exhibition The Value of Water, on view since September, 2011. Evening of Witness is a recognition of the grand and terrible powers of nature in the era of climate change, and a celebration of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Amy Goodman will host an evening of readings, music, photography and film. First-person narratives from the Voice of Witness book series, founded by Dave Eggers and Lola Vollen, will be read by noted actors and activists, with visual interventions from Magnum Foundation photographers and artists. Together, they offer vivid portrayals of “water” through the experiences of Zimbabwean refugees, undocumented immigrants in the U.S., Burmese migrants forced into the illegal fishing industry, and of men and women who lived through Hurricane Katrina.

The evening will also feature Ali Hobbs’ film The Long Walk, the Cathedral’s Poet in Residence, Marilyn Nelson; poets Nicole Cooley and Patricia Smith, who have both written extensively about Hurricane Katrina; and storyteller Laura Simms. Kent Tritle, Director of Cathedral Music, will lead the Cathedral Choirs and Orchestra. The Peace Poets will join the evening as readers of narratives.

Wednesday, March 21, 7 pm
Doors open at 6 pm so visitors can see the exhibition
The event is free; a contribution of $10.00 will be appreciated. Reservations are not required.

This event is presented in conjunction with The Value of Water: Sustaining a Green Planet, an exhibition with related programming at the Cathedral running through March 25, 2012.

Congratulations to MFA Students --

Jacob Appel, Jonathan Kravetz, April Smallwood, and Sean O'Connor!

Details:
Jacob Appel's play Play "Thirds" is being performed at the Lion Theatre on West 42nd Street

Jonathan Kravetz' play, "Prayer," is currently being produced by Nouveau 47 in Dallas, Texas and is playing in the well known Magnolia Lounge, originally founded by Margo Jones. (If you're going to be in Dallas this week, come on down and meet Jonathan there either Thursday or Friday!)

Sean's O'Connor's new play, "The Knitting Club," recently won second prize in L.A.'s FirstStage Productions' Best New One Act competition and was produced at their festival this past December. In the last few months, five of his earlier full-length plays were published by Next Stage Press, and JAC Publications. His new full-length, "World of Sinatras," scheduled to open next year, will also be published by JAC Publications.

An excerpt from April Smallwood's play "For Elise" was read last Tuesday at Naked Angels located at the Daryl Roth Theatre in the D Lounge. The reading series is called Tuesdays @ 9 where they showcase samples of people's work.

Interwoven Worlds: A Symposium Celebrating the Literature of the Middle East

Wednesday, March 28, 2012
A Queens College Trends in Translation Event
Sponsored by
The MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation,
Archipelago Books, & the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) at the CUNY Graduate Center

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.

Program:

(All panels prior to 6:30pm keynote address located in
President’s Conference Room #2)

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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

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.
The Politics of Translation – On Navigating Cultural (Mis)understandings

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


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

Sinan Antoon (Arabic)
Murat Nemet-Nejat (Turkish)
Ammiel Alcalay (Hebrew)
Susan Bernofsky, moderator

6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Rosenthal Library 230 (2nd floor auditorium)
Keynote Presentation: Elias Khoury (Arabic/Lebanon): A Writer’s Journey

To be followed by light reception and book signing.

SPEAKERS
Aron Aji has translated works by Turkish authors including Bilge Karasu, Murathan Mungan and Elif Shafak. His translation of Karasu’s The Garden of Departed Cats received the 2004 National Translation Award. He just completed the translation of Karasu’s A Long Day’s Evening, supported in part by an NEA Translation Fellowship, and scheduled for publication in Fall 2012, by City Lights. Aji is the Dean of Arts and Sciences at St. Ambrose University-Davenport, Iowa, and teaches as a visiting professor at the University of Iowa’s MFA in Translation program.

Ammiel Alcalay’s books include Islanders (City Lights), neither wit nor gold: from then (Ugly Duckling), Scrapmetal (Factory School), Memories of Our Future (City Lights), After Jews and Arabs(University of Minnesota Press), and the cairo noteboooks (Singing Horse Press). A Little History and a second edition of from the warring factions are due from re:public/UpSet in 2012. He has translated widely from Bosnian and Hebrew and is the initiator and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative.

Sinan Antoon has published two collections of poetry in Arabic and two novels: I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (City Lights, 2006) translated to Norwegian, German, Portuguese, and Italian. His second novel, The Pomegranate Alone, was published in 2010 in Beirut. His translations include Mahmoud Darwish’s last prose book In the Presence of Absence (Archipelago Books) and a selection of Saadi Youssef's late poetry (forthcoming from Graywolf in 2012). He is an assistant professor at New York University and co-founder and co-editor of the cultural page of Jadaliyya.
Translator and author Susan Bernofsky, Chair of the PEN Translation Committee, has translated 18 books, including six by the great Swiss-German modernist writer Robert Walser, as well as novels by Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada, Hermann Hesse, Gregor von Rezzori and others. She received the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize and the 2012 Hermann Hesse Translation Prize as well as awards and fellowships from the NEH, the NEA, the PEN Translation Fund, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Lannan Foundation. She teaches in the MFA program at Queens College (CUNY) and blogs about translation at www.translationista.org.

Nicole Cooley is the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College.

Edwin Frank is the editor of the New York Review Books Classics series.

Barbara Harshav started her professional life as an historian, and fell into translating about thirty years ago. She has published more than 50 books of translations (from Hebrew, French, German, and Yiddish). She has translated such Israeli authors as the Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon, the playwright Hanoch Levin, the poet Yehuda Amichai, and the novelist Meir Shalev. For the last ten years, she has taught a seminar-workshop in translation in the department of Comparative Literature at Yale University and a seminar-workshop in Yiddish translation at the YIVO-Bard College Institute in January 2012. She lives in her library-study in North Haven, Connecticut.

Sara Khalili is an editor and translator of contemporary Iranian literature. Her translations include Shahriar Mandanipour’s Censoring an Iranian Love Story and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Prison Memoir. Her short story translations have appeared in The Literary Review, The Kenyon Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Words without Borders, and PEN America. Her translations of poetry include The Sorrow of Solitude, Poems of Forough Farrokhzad; and My Country, I Shall Build You Again, Poems of Simin Behbahani. Sara was a contributing translator to Strange Times My Dear: A PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature.

Elias Khoury, born in Beirut in 1948, is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and critic. He was awarded the Palestine Prize for Gate of the Sun, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Le Monde Diplomatique, The Christian Science Monitor, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and a Notable Book by The New York Times and The Kansas City Star. Khoury’s Yalo (a L.A. Times Notable Book), White Masks, Little Mountain, The Journey of Little Gandhi, and City Gates have also been translated into English. Khoury is a public intellectual and a cultural activist who plays a major role in contemporary Arabic culture and in the defense of freedom of expression and human rights. His forthcoming As Though She Were Sleeping received France's inaugural Arabic Novel Prize.

Murat Nemet-Nejat Murat Nemet-Nejat has translated the work of a number of modern and contemporary Turkish poets. His book of translations of the poet Orhan Veli, called I, Orhan Veli, was published by Hanging Loose Press. Sun and Moon Press has just published his translation of Ece Ayhan's books, A Blind, Black Cat, and Orthodoxies. Issue #14 of Talisman magazine featured his versions of the work of a number of modern Turkish poets including, among others, Ece Ayhan, Cemal Sureya, Ilhan Berk, Behcet Necatigil, and Melisa Gurpinar.

Jill Schoolman in the founder of Archipelago Books. www.archipelagobooks.org

Roger Sedarat is the author of two poetry collections, Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, which won Ohio UP’s 2007 Hollis Summers’ Open Book Competition, and Ghazal Games (Ohio UP, 2011). His translations of modern and classical Persian poetry have recently appeared in World Literature Today, Drunken Boat, Asymptote, and Words in the Dust (a novel published by Arthur A. Levine, 2011). He teaches poetry and translation in the MFA program at Queens College, CUNY.

*Oh, Bernice!*

The Oh, Bernice! Writers Collective welcomes you back to your favorite new reading series.

When: 7:30pm March 24, 2012

Where: Cafe Marlene (cafemarlene.com), 41-11 49th Street, Sunnyside, NY (Closest to the 52nd Street 7 train. )

Who:
John Rice, poetry
Carolyn Silveira, prose
Sachiko Clayton, poetry, translation
Anne Posten, prose, translation
Jason Fischedick, prose

The prose writer and Bernician Brian Kim will emcee. The night will surely be full of bad puns.

Please check out our tumblr and twitter pages www.ohbernice.tumblr.com, twitter@ohbernice for information on the readers and excerpts of their work.

TURNSTYLE with Patrick McGrath & Kimiko Hahn

March 15th:
6:30-8:30
@ CUNY Graduate Center @ 365 5th Avenue, 34th Street

MFA Candidate Readers:
Coriel O’Shea Gaffney, Katie Lutzner, Meghan Daniels, Chris Slaughter, Katie Blakely, David Applegate, Sarah Stetson

With:
Kimiko Hahn, Patrick McGrath

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TURNSTYLE is co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, MFA in Creative Writing Affiliation Group and Center for the Humanities… All a part of The City University of New York.

AWP

PLEASE JOIN US AT THE ASSOCIATION FOR WRITERS AND WRITING PROGRAMS (AWP) annual conference IN CHICAGO! WE ARE AT THE CITY OF NEW YORK booth AS WELL AS ON NUMEROUS PANELS AND READINGS.
Wed. February 29-March 3

TURNSTYLE READING SERIES

6:30-8:30 @ the CUNY Graduate Center
@ 365 5th Avenue, 34th Street
All readings are FREE and open to the public
MFA Candidate Readers:
Masha Udensiva-Brenner, Nathan Schiller, Katie Byrum, Kim Davies, Charles Logan, Sean Hembrick

With:
Ben Lerner, Michelle Valladares

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We hope to see you there!
Feel free to spread this invitation widely.

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TURNSTYLE is co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, MFA in Creative Writing Affiliation Group and Center for the Humanities… All a part of The City University of New York.

CORNELIA ST. CAFE GRADUATE POETS SERIES

6:00PM GRADUATE POETS SERIES
Seth Graves and Emily Brandt, hosts
Zakia Henderson-Brown, Queens College; Alissa Fleck, The New School; Gabriel J. Kruis , Hunter; Brian Trimboli, NYU

Join us for this month's installment of The Graduate Poets Series. What is The Graduate Poets Series? Over the course of the season, hosts Seth Graves and Emily Brandt welcome the diverse talent of New York City's MFA community. Once each month, you'll have the chance to see and hear four of the city's most stunning young poets before they start racking up six-figure advances. Hundreds of poets have made their stage debut in this supportive peer environment, discovering their toilers in the field and forming collegial relationships.
Zakia Henderson-Brown was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where she currently lives with her love-bitten cat, Onyx. She is a North Country Institute for Writers of Color fellow; recipient of the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker full-tuition residency scholarship at the Fine Arts Work Center; co-founder of the Write On! Black Writers Collective; and student of two Cave Canem regional workshops. She has been published in Torch, Reverie, Burner Magazine and the anthologies Why I am Not a Painter and Hair Power/Skin Revolution. A starfruit ripening up in poetry, Zakia is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College and teaching undergraduate English.
Alissa Fleck is a poet from Minneapolis, currently pursuing her MFA at The New School. She has been published in the Argos Books anthology, Why I am Not a Painter, the FutureCycle Press anthology American Society: What Poets See, online at Failbetter.com (forthcoming in February) and Thoughtsmith literary magazines, and elsewhere online and in print.
Currently studying poetry at Hunter College, Gabriel J. Kruis lives in New York City, but calls New Mexico home. His poetry attempts to seat the lyric in the cosmic & illustrate the numinous attributes of science.
Brian Trimboli completed his MFA at New York University and has been awarded fellowships to Bucknell’s Seminar for Younger Poets, and the Catskill Poetry workshop. He also received a fellowship to help lead NYU’s Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Writers Workshop, and has poems most recently published in The Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, and Third Coast.
$7.00 includes a drink

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Link! http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/list.asp?sdate=2/28/2012&from_cal=0

***The Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC 10014, 212-989-9319***
A, C, E, B, D, F, V, 1 & 9 TRAINS

Congrats Susan Bernofsky on Winning Prestigious Award

Fantastic faculty news: Susan Bernofsky has won a major translation prize! Info below:

Awarded every other year, the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis for 2012 goes to Susan Bernofsky. The jury praised not only her translation of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, but also her other prose translations from German, calling her work sensitive, with a sure sense of style.

The Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis alternates biannually between a literary journal and a translator of the Nobel Prize-winning Swiss author. This year's cermemony, to be held in Calw on July 2, Hesse's birthday, comes with a 15,000 Euro purse.

Congratulations to Susan!
http://blog.goethe.de/current-writing/archives/395-Susan-Bernofsky-wins-Calwer-Hermann-Hesse-Preis.html

TURNSTYLE is back with Ben Lerner and Michelle Valladares and...

Please join for the first reading of the 2012 season of Turnstyle reading series. Turnstyle is a mixer showcasing the talent from CUNY's four MFA programs: Queens, City College, Hunter, and Brooklyn. Each night, students from each campus will read alongside two CUNY MFA faculty. The readings are popular, and tend to be packed; it is wise to come before the show starts to get a seat!

Here are the details:

6:30-8:30 @ the CUNY Graduate Center @ 365 5th Avenue, 34th Street
All readings are FREE and open to the public

MFA Candidate Readers:
Masha Udensiva-Brenner, Nathan Schiller, Katie Byrum, Kim Davies, Charles Logan, Sean Hembrick

With:
Ben Lerner, Michelle Valladares

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TURNSTYLE is co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, MFA in Creative Writing Affiliation Group and Center for the Humanities… All a part of The City University of New York.

Poet Matthea Harvey Reads and Talks about Her Work

Wednesday February 15, 6:30pm, Klapper 710

Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000). Her third book of poems, Modern Life (Graywolf, 2007) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. Modern Life also received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She has also written two books for children--The Little General and the Giant Snowflake (illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel) and the forthcoming Cecil the Pet Glacier, illustrated by Giselle Potter. An illustrated erasure, titled Of Lamb, with images by Amy Jean Porter, was published by McSweeney's in 2010. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn.

Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.

Festival Neue Literatur

The festival will take place from Feb. 10 - 12 (check website for venues), and will feature six younger German-language authors along with Chris Adrian, Francisco Goldman and Daniel Kehlmann. Our visiting prof, Susan Bernofsky is serving as the festival's curator this year and will present the work of these outstanding writers, most of whom have never been translated into English before.

More information about the festival, including profiles of the featured authors and sample translations, can be found on the festival website, www.festivalneueliteratur.org

Oh, Bernice!

The *Oh, Bernice! Writers Collective* happily invites you to attend our second reading. The first reading was such a huge success we decided to do it all over again (every month for that matter)!

When: 7:30 pm February 18

Where: Cafe Marlene
(www.cafemarlene.com)
41-11 49th Street
Sunnyside, NY
(Closest to the 52nd Street 7 train. )

Who:
Brian Kim
Deborah Fried-Rubin
Wayne Moreland
Tyler Rivenbark
Sarah Stetson

... Jolie Hale will emcee and be as charming as ever.

POETRY READING: Nicole Cooley and Tatiana Alvarado

Sunday, January 15 @ 2:00 p.m. - QUEENS Central Library (Auditorium)
Nicole Cooley is from New Orleans and is now a Professor of English at Queens College where she directs the new MFA Program in creative writing and literary translation. She has published five books, most recently the poetry collections Breach (Louisiana State University Press) and Milk Dress (Alice James Books).
Tatiana Alvarado grew up in Astoria where she currently resides.
She obtained her BA in both Political Science and English in 2009 and an MFA degree in creative writing--both at Queens College.
FOR POETS
Nicole Cooley
Tatiana Alvarado
OPEN MIC

Location and info:
89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11432
F train to 169th Street;
also check borough bus routes for those going to 165th Street Bus Terminal.
www.queenslibrary.org
(718) 990-0700