The following are readings scheduled for the Spring 2012 semester. Please plan to join us! Click image to see larger version of flyer.
TERRANCE HAYES
Thursday, February 16, 12:00 pm
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Terrance Hayes is the author of four books of poetry, including Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award in poetry. Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase, very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man.
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Terrance Hayes is the author of four books of poetry, including Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award in poetry. Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase, very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man.
ALISON BECHDEL
Thursday, February 23, 6:30 pm
Kumble Theater
Annual Paumanok Reading/Discussion (Co-sponsored by the McGrath Fund, the English Dept, and Voices of the Rainbow).
Thursday, February 23, 6:30 pm
Kumble Theater
Annual Paumanok Reading/Discussion (Co-sponsored by the McGrath Fund, the English Dept, and Voices of the Rainbow).
Alison Bechdel wrote the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period” (Ms.). She also is the author of the best-selling Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, named Time’s Best Book of 2006.
JAYNE CORTEZ & BERNICE MCFADDEN
Monday, February 27, 11:00 am
Health Sciences Building, Room 121
Jayne Cortez has published ten books of poetry and released several CDs of her work. She is known for her vibrant performances. Her work is celebrated for its political and surrealistic qualities and its dynamic sound.
Health Sciences Building, Room 121
Jayne Cortez has published ten books of poetry and released several CDs of her work. She is known for her vibrant performances. Her work is celebrated for its political and surrealistic qualities and its dynamic sound.
Bernice McFadden, a native of Brooklyn, has written over ten novels including Sugar, The Warmest December, and Nowhere is a Place. Her most recent novel, Glorious, is about a fictional character who briefly becomes a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
PATRICIA SMITH & DAVID MILLS
Wednesday, March 28, 12:00 pm
Health Sciences Building, Room 121
Wednesday, March 28, 12:00 pm
Health Sciences Building, Room 121
Patricia Smith is an acclaimed performance poet and author of five well-received collections of poetry, including Blood Dazzler, a national Book Award finalist, and Teahouse of the Almighty, winner of a Hurston/Wright Award in poetry.
David Mills, poet and playwright, has created and performed a one-man play on Langston Hughes. His collection of poetry, Dream Detective, is a small-press bestseller.
A’LELIA BUNDLES
Thursday, March 29, 1:30 pm
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
(co-sponsored with Africana Studies)
Thursday, March 29, 1:30 pm
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
(co-sponsored with Africana Studies)
A’Lelia Bundles has been an Emmy Award winning producer with NBC News and ABC News. She is the author of the biography of her great-great-grandmother Madam C.J. Walker. The biography, On Her Own Ground, was a New York Times Notable Book.
ALL READINGS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
For more information contact Louis Parascandola or Maria McGarrity at 718 488-1050.