Events — Comments Off on Muriel Rukeyser Event TONIGHT
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Dec 13

Muriel Rukeyser Event TONIGHT

http://centerforthehumanities.org/events/Muriel-Rukeyser-at-One-Hundred

Dec 13, 2013, 6:00pm

THE GRAD CENTER: 365 5th AvENUE AT 34TH STREET

The Skylight Room (9100)

Muriel Rukeyser at One Hundred

Ammiel Alcalay, Nicole Cooley, Jan Heller Levi, Eric Keenaghan, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Jan Freeman

Muriel Rukeyser is a formidable figure in American poetry, a profoundly influential innovator, theorist, activist and writer whose work, one hundred years after her birth, continues to illuminate the problems of our own time. Join poets and Rukeyser scholars Anne Herzog (Springfield College), Eric Keenaghan (SUNY Albany), Nicole Cooley (CUNY), Jan Heller Levi (CUNY), Ammiel Alcalay (CUNY) and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein (CUNY) for an in-depth conversation about the challenges and revelations found in working on this notoriously difficult author. As a prelude to the Muriel Rukeyeser Centennial, the panel will explore how and why so much of her writing was unpublished or lost, and how new scholarship and recovery of Rukeyser’s work is essential to our own moment.

Cosponsored by Poet’s House, the American Academy of Poets, The PhD program in English, the Feminist Press, and the Center for the Study of Women & Society, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Readings — Comments Off on Carl Phillips (poet) at Queens College November 4th
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Oct 13

Carl Phillips (poet) at Queens College November 4th

Monday, November 4th, Queens College’s New Salon Series will feature poet Carl Phillips in conversation with Charif Shanahan. It’s 6:30pm at the Campbell Dome and is free and open to the public. The reading is co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America.

See this link for more details.

Informative — Comments Off on Remembering Oscar Hijuelos
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Oct 13

Remembering Oscar Hijuelos

The Center for Fiction published a tribute to CCNY graduate Oscar Hijuelos, who recently passed away.

Remembering Oscar Hijuelos

Frederic Tuten recalls the artist as a young man

In the early 1970s, Oscar came to my graduate fiction writing class at City College, equipped only with himself; no airs literary or personal. He had confidence, in a nervous way, and addressed the writing of his fellow students with kindness and directness, without intellectual bullshit. Oscar had come from an immigrant family; he may have been the first to go to college. My other students came from high-toned private colleges and felt they belonged. He had come from City College’s undergraduate program, which, in its grand days, had been called the Proletarian Harvard.

– See more at: http://centerforfiction.org/for-readers/remembering-oscar-hijuelos

Readings — Comments Off on Turnstyle Dates: Spring 2014
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Oct 13

Turnstyle Dates: Spring 2014

We have the dates for TURNSTYLE Reading Series, 2014! Turnstyle is a cross-campus reading series and mixer, featuring student and faculty readers from each of the four CUNY MFA programs: Brooklyn, City College, Hunter, and Queens. Here are the dates for this coming Spring. Mark your calendars!

All readings are held at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue @ 34th Street, NYC.

2/10/14                Skylight Room    6:30pm-9pm

3/11/14                Skylight Room    6:30pm-9pm

4/9/14                  Skylight Room    6:30pm-9pm

5/8/14                  Skylight Room    6:30pm-9pm

Informative — Comments Off on Hello!
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Sep 13

Hello!

This is a new blog that we (the Creative Writing Affiliation Group) have created for event news across all the four CUNY campuses with MFA programs in Creative Writing. That includes Brooklyn, City College, Hunter, and Queens). Soon, this home page will be filled with exciting events. Stay tuned!

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