Events / Readings — 2 comments
01
May 14

Writerly Events in May?

Hello all, I wanted to send something on here, since it’s mainly been posts by Anne, who wants others to post – so here I am, posting! Figured I’d post with something to offer. I happen to be featuring, presenting, or attending some events this month and wondered if folks of the Creative Writing Community of CUNY would be interested in attending.

Tonight & Tomorrow: Come to WOW Cafe Theater 
May 1st : WOW! Wow Cabaret
I’ll be reading a piece of fiction accompanied by slideshow
There will also be burlesque acts, girls on guitars, and some theater.
It’s a queer event. More info on that here:

May 2nd: Birthing Warriors Rivers of Honey Cabaret
I co-produce this monthly cabaret with my wife and she is awesome.
This month we have an amazing line-up.
Here’s the info on our website and the facebook page.

May 3rd: SkillShare at the Brooklyn Public Library
I‘ll be doing an Oral History workshop with Elizabeth Zeeuw & Erik Bobilin, but there will also be a creative writing & self-publishing workshop in the morning by Nicola McDonald.

May 17th: Louis Armstrong Archives Residency Reading
at the Historic Armstrong House in Corona, Queens. I will be reading the work created from the Archives!

May 22nd: In The Life: Outing Lorraine
At the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, I’ll be moderating a panel on the choice for scholars and activists to utilize the lesbian life  of Lorraine Hansberry or other public figures – Is this an imposition?

I’m sure there are loads of things happening in May…
What are you all up to?

Shawn

 

Events / Readings — Comments Off on May 8th TURNSTYLE
20
Apr 14

May 8th TURNSTYLE

Hello again,

Time flies, and it is already time to get excited for the FINAL Turnstyle reading of the 2014 series! Please come and invite your friends to come to this gathering of CUNY MFA creative writing extravaganza on May 8th. Here are the details, below.

Details:
CUNY Grad Center, 365 5th Avenue, at 34th Street
Starts at 6:30pm SHARP
Readings are free and open to the public.

Readers:

Diane Keeney
Abigail Welhouse
Yves Cloarec
Jane Lindsay Breakell
Anita Diggs
Cara Scarmack
Jessica Almasy
Mariette Kalinowski

With:
Helen Phillips
Anne Hays

Readings — Comments Off on April 9th TURNSTYLE reading!
31
Mar 14

April 9th TURNSTYLE reading!

Details:

Date: April 9th

Location: CUNY Grad Center, 365 5th Avenue, at 34th Street

Theater: Skylight Theater, 9th Floor

Starts: at 6:30pm SHARP

Readings are free and open to the public.

Faculty Readers:

Pamela Laskin
John Weir

Student Readers:

Andrea Simon
Michele Menzies-Abrash
Olivia Mammone
Jamie Hittman
Keayr Braxton
Matt Petronzio
Sho Sugita
Laura Horley

 

Events / Festivals / Readings — Comments Off on Events at the Grad Center
23
Mar 14

Events at the Grad Center

The first week of April is an exciting week for literary events at the CUNY Grad Center!

First, on March 24th (that’s tomorrow), there’s this event:

Mar 24, 2014, 6:00pm
The Skylight Room (9100)

Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters

Claudia Moreno Parsons

From the end of the 1950s through the middle of the 1960s, the poet and activist Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) and the poet Edward Dorn (1929–99), fostered an intense friendship. The early 1960s found both poets just beginning to publish and becoming public figures. The friendship, as developed through their correspondence was artistic, but the range of subjects in the correspondence shows an incredible intersection between the personal and the public, providing a schematic map of what was so vital in postwar American culture to those living through it. Join Claudia Moreno Parsons for a discussion and presentation of this newly published collection of letters, which began as part of Series I in the Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiativechapbook series.

Then, April 1st, 2nd, and 3rd is the Annual Chapbook festival, which is free and open to the public. Details are below…

Tue Apr 1, 10:00am  |  Poets House & Center for Book Arts

NYC/CUNY Chapbook Festival: Workshops & Exhibition

Festival

Visit the NYC/CUNY Chapbook Festival website for the full schedule, updates, list of publishers, and more information:http://chapbookfestival.org/ 

Now in its sixth year, the Chapbook Festival celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a medium for alternative and emerging writers and publishers. Located at venues throughout the city, the festival features a book fair with over 60 publishers from around the country, and includes exhibitions, workshops, installations, demonstrations, chapbook releases, and readings by prize-winning Chapbook Fellows.

Hands-on Workshops with Susan Mills and Karen Randall
10AM – 1PM & 2PM – 5PM, Center for Book Arts

Panel & Opening Reception for The New American Poetry and Beyond: A Pop-Up Chapbook Exhibition
6PM – 9PM, Poets House (Kray Hall)

With Steve Clay, Meira Levinson, and Kyle Wuagh

Cosponsored by the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem Foundation, the Center for Book Arts, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, CUNY MFA Affiliation Group, CUNY Office of Academic Affairs, the Poetry Project, the Poetry Society of America, Poets House, and Poets & Writers.

 

NYC/CUNY Chapbook Festival: Readings

Festival

Visit the NYC/CUNY Chapbook Festival website for the full schedule, updates, list of publishers, and more information:http://chapbookfestival.org/

Now in its sixth year, the Chapbook Festival celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a medium for alternative and emerging writers and publishers. Located at venues throughout the city, the festival features a book fair with over 60 publishers from around the country, and includes exhibitions, workshops, installations, demonstrations, chapbook releases, and readings by prize-winning Chapbook Fellows. Festival details coming soon.

Rapid Fire: City Wide Fellows Reading
5PM, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Elebash Recital Hall

Poets House: Mahogany Browne, Rosamond King, Elsbeth Pancrazi, Montana Ray, Xeňa Stanislavovna Semjonová

Cave Canem: Simone White, Rickey Laurentiis

Poetry Project: Guillermo Felice Castro, Krystal Languell, Rangi McNeil

Reception
6PM – 7PM, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Elebash Recital Hall

PSA Chapbook Fellowship Award Ceremony
7PM, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Elebash Recital Hall

This year’s readers include: Thomas Sayers Ellis, John Yau, andNick Flynn will read along with the chapbook winners: MRB Chelko,Tyler Flynn Dorholt, Alicia Salvadeo, and Xavier Cavazos.

Cosponsored by the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem Foundation, the Center for Book Arts, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, CUNY MFA Affiliation Group, CUNY Office of Academic Affairs, the Poetry Project, the Poetry Society of America, Poets House, and Poets & Writers.

Thu Apr 3, 10:00am  |  The Graduate Center, CUNY (C-Level)

NYC/CUNY Chapbook Festival: Book Fair & Events

Festival

Visit the NYC/CUNY Chapbook Festival website for the full schedule, updates, list of publishers, and more information:http://chapbookfestival.org/

Now in its sixth year, the Chapbook Festival celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a medium for alternative and emerging writers and publishers. Located at venues throughout the city, the festival features a book fair with over 60 publishers from around the country, and includes exhibitions, workshops, installations, demonstrations, chapbook releases, and readings by prize-winning Chapbook Fellows.

Book Fair
10AM-8PM, The Graduate Center, CUNY (C-Level)

A Tale of Two Museums: An Ethnographic Exhibition
12AM – 7PM, The Graduate Center, CUNY (The James Gallery)

Poetry Project Presents: The Best of Public Access Poetry Screenings
12PM – 6PM, The Graduate Center, CUNY (C-Level)

CLMP Advice Dispensary with Julie Buntin and Trisha Low
10AM-6PM, The Graduate Center, CUNY (C-Level)

Chapbooks and Pedagogy
10:30AM, The Graduate Center, CUNY (C-Level)

Featuring: Alex Cuff, Amanda Deutch, Kari Henry, Dorothea Lasky,Elizabeth Rosario, Lnette Smith and Tianna Wells.

“What Is the Name of the Pamphlet?”: Chapbooks in Contexts
12PM, The Graduate Center, CUNY (C-Level)

Featuring: Dan Remein, Kurt Thometz, Nancy Kuhl, and Danny Snelson with David Abel as moderator.

Nuts, Bolts, & Beyond: How to Get Your Work into Print 
1:30PM, The Graduate Center, CUNY (C-Level)

Featuring: Shanna Compton, MC Hyland, Adam Robinson, andBianca Stone with Melissa Faliveno as moderator.

Lost & Found Release
4PM, The Graduate Center, CUNY (C-Level)

Featuring work by: Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan & Pauline Kael, Vincent Ferrini, Helene Johnson, and Adrienne Rich.
Events / Readings — Comments Off on March 11th TURNSTYLE Reading!
03
Mar 14

March 11th TURNSTYLE Reading!

We are pleased to announce the second Turnstyle Reading of the 2014 series is coming up on March 11th.

Details:
CUNY Grad Center, 365 5th Avenue, at 34th Street
Starts at 6:30pm SHARP
Readings are free and open to the public.

3/11
Faculty Readers:
David Unger
Marjorie Welish

Student Readers:
Austin Givens
Robert Balun
Heather Simon
Stephen Acevedo
Eric J. Conroe
Camilo Roldan

Events — Comments Off on “Art & Craft: Teaching Writing” (with Andre Aciman, Colum McCann & William P. Kelly)
24
Jan 14

“Art & Craft: Teaching Writing” (with Andre Aciman, Colum McCann & William P. Kelly)

Hi, all. Erika Dreifus here again. Just discovered this super event that will be taking place at the Graduate Center on March 4. It’s free, but you need to make a reservation. Details at http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programming/Calendar/Detail?id=22753.

Events / Readings — Comments Off on Feb 5: Terrance Hayes and Lynn Emanuel at Queens College
23
Jan 14

Feb 5: Terrance Hayes and Lynn Emanuel at Queens College

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Readings — Comments Off on TURNSTYLE Reading Series: Feb 10th, 2014
22
Jan 14

TURNSTYLE Reading Series: Feb 10th, 2014

The first reading of the 2014 TURNSTYLE series is upon us! Readings are free and open to the public. Come, and spread the word.

Details:

Date: February 10th (Monday)
Time: 6:30-8:30
Place: the CUNY Graduate Center @ 365 5th Avenue, 34th Street
Theater: Skylight Theater (9th floor)

2/10
Faculty Readers:
Maaza Mengiste
Catherine Barnett

Student Readers:
Breeanne Daniels
Hilary Sortor
Mike Baugh
Gabriel Cabrera
Jesse Baron
Matthue Roth
Matthew Blair

Events / Informative — Comments Off on CUNY Creative Writing Events Calendar
17
Jan 14

CUNY Creative Writing Events Calendar

Erika Dreifus posting this one–I’m on staff in the central Office of Academic Affairs (OAA), and I’m also a writer like the rest of you!

Just want to make sure that you all know about the Creative Writing at CUNY mini-site that was built by the central Office of Academic Affairs way back when. One of its features is an Writing Events Calendar that we in OAA try to keep updated (our main source for this is usually the main CUNY events calendar, where all MFA program coordinators/directors are invited to submit campus-based event info). The OAA mini-site is intended to cover creative writing on all CUNY campuses, at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

We’ve recently updated the calendar with a lot of spring goings-on, including the Turnstyle series. We’ll keep updating throughout the semester. Please visit soon & often!

Events / Readings — Comments Off on TURNSTYLE Reading Series Calendar Spring 2014
16
Jan 14

TURNSTYLE Reading Series Calendar Spring 2014

Hello everyone! We’re pleased to announce the start of our 2014 series. Turnstyle combines the talent of our four CUNY MFA programs: Brooklyn, City College, Hunter, and Queens. Readings are free and open to the public. Please come!

All Readings Are Located Here:
6:30-8:30 @ the CUNY Graduate Center @ 365 5th Avenue, 34th Street
Skylight Theater (9th floor)

2/10
Faculty Readers:
Maaza Mengiste
Catherine Barnett

Student Readers:
Breeanne Daniels
Hilary Sortor
Mike Baugh
Gabriel Cabrera
Jesse Baron
Matthue Roth
Matthew Blair

3/11
Faculty Readers:
David Unger
Marjorie Welish

Student Readers:
Austin Givens
Robert Balun
Heather Simon
Stephen Acevedo
Jeannie Vanasco
Eric J. Conroe
Camila Rolden

4/9
Faculty Readers:
Pamela Laskin
John Weir

Student Readers:
Andrea Simon
Michele Menzies-Abrash
Olivia Mammone
Jamie Hittman
Keayr Braxton
Matt Petronzio
Steven Becraft
Laura Horley

5/8
Faculty Readers:
Helen Phillips
TBD

Student Readers:
Diane Keeney
Abigail Welhouse
Yves Cloarec
Jane Lindsay Breakell
Anita Diggs
Cara Scarmack
Jessica Almasy
Mariette Kalinowski

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