Voices of the Rainbow: Spring 2013 Schedule

TRACY K. SMITH
Feb. 5 (Tue.) 6:30 pm
Kumble Theater
Tracy K. Smith is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her collection, Life on Mars. Smith, a professor at Princeton University, is also the author of the poetry collections Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award, and The Body’s Question, winner of the Cave Canum prize. She lives in Brooklyn. Annual Paumanok Reading on American Literature. Co-funded by the John McGrath Fund, the Mellon Fund, LIU Brooklyn’s English Department, Voices of the Rainbow, Gender Studies Program, and the Africana Studies Program.

EDWIN TORRES & JASON SCHNEIDERMAN
Feb. 6 (Wed.) 11 am
Health Sciences Building, Room 121

Edwin Torres is well known for his dynamic poetry performances at the Nuyorican Poets Café, the Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Hall and other venues. He is author of In the Function of External Circumstances. Jason Schneiderman is the author of the prize-winning poetry collections Striking Surface and Sublimation Point.  He is the Writing Center Director at Manhattan CC.

WENDY LEE & JOSEPH LENNON
April 2 (Tue.) noon
Library Learning Center, Room 124

Wendy Lee is author of the novel, Happy Family, which deals with the intersection of three worlds: New York’s West Village, Chinatown, and China. Library Journal states that Lee “carefully and insightfully handles the adoption of Chinese children.” Joseph Lennon is author of the poetry collection Fell Hunger. His “poems are alive with sharp-eyed, often elegiac, epiphanies.” Lennon is Director of Irish Studies at Villanova.

RAYMOND LUCZAK
April 16 (Tue.) 1:30 pm
Humanities Building, Room 2LG

Raymond Luczak is known for his poems, fiction, prose, films, and plays. He lost much of his hearing as a child.  He edited Eyes of Desire: A Deaf and Gay and Lesbian Reader, nominated for two Lambda Awards. His creative work has been widely published. This reading will be signed.

LES MURRAY
April 17 (Wed.) noon
Health Sciences Building, Room 121

Les Murray is often considered Australia’s best known poet of his generation. Author of almost 30 volumes of poetry, 2 verse novels, and several prose works, Murray is widely regarded as “Australia’s Bush-bard.”

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ALL READINGS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 

Long Island University: Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues in Brooklyn.

For more information contact Louis Parascandola or Maria McGarrity at 718 488-1050.

Funding provided by the Provost’s Office.