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!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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!
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!
Monday, March 19, 2012
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
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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We hope to see you there! Feel free to spread this invitation widely.
Check out our Facebook Page
Check out our Wordpress Site
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.
Monday, February 27, 2012
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
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.
Check out our Facebook Page
Check out our Wordpress Site
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.
@ 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
+++
We hope to see you there!
Feel free to spread this invitation widely.
Check out our Facebook Page
Check out our Wordpress Site
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.
Friday, February 24, 2012
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
Page! http://www.facebook.com/events/257219631021811
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
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
Page! http://www.facebook.com/events/257219631021811
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
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