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
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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 Panel & Opening Reception for The New American Poetry and Beyond: A Pop-Up Chapbook Exhibition 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
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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 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 PSA Chapbook Fellowship Award Ceremony 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
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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 A Tale of Two Museums: An Ethnographic Exhibition Poetry Project Presents: The Best of Public Access Poetry Screenings CLMP Advice Dispensary with Julie Buntin and Trisha Low Chapbooks and Pedagogy 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 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 Featuring: Shanna Compton, MC Hyland, Adam Robinson, andBianca Stone with Melissa Faliveno as moderator. Lost & Found Release Featuring work by: Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan & Pauline Kael, Vincent Ferrini, Helene Johnson, and Adrienne Rich. |
