He will introduce readers Cathy Linh Che, Cynthia Cruz, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, and Jayson P. Smith.
Find more information on the Facebook event page!
Jacob Matkov: Broken Bells Reading Series
Jacob Matkov (MFA Program Advisor) curates a new event for the Broken Bells reading series taking place on September 9th, 2018, at Local 61 (61 Bergen St in Brooklyn) from 7-9pm.
He will introduce readers Cathy Linh Che, Cynthia Cruz, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, and Jayson P. Smith.
Find more information on the Facebook event page!
He will introduce readers Cathy Linh Che, Cynthia Cruz, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, and Jayson P. Smith.
Find more information on the Facebook event page!
Mark Dow: Plain Talk Rising
Former LIU adjunct faculty member and past Downtown Brooklyn contributor Mark Dow has self-published a collection of poems titled Plain Talk Rising, which is available for purchase here. If you would like to request a review copy, please email mdow@igc.org
Congratulations, Mark!
"Mark Dow's Plain Talk Rising hovers above poetry and prose. It also transmutes one into the other, poetry into prose, and then back again, like an alchemist let loose in a writing workshop that may set alight our era of MFA's for good. 'The past, alight, hovers nearby with open eyes.' You will simply have to find your seat in the dark theater without flashlight or usher. Once seated, you will begin to identify with the author seated at his desk, dropping down the words toward the white landing area below. 'Oh and another thing.' (He is talking to you). The words stay there, falling into place when you have closed this unforgettable book, funny and wise."
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"Mark Dow's Plain Talk Rising hovers above poetry and prose. It also transmutes one into the other, poetry into prose, and then back again, like an alchemist let loose in a writing workshop that may set alight our era of MFA's for good. 'The past, alight, hovers nearby with open eyes.' You will simply have to find your seat in the dark theater without flashlight or usher. Once seated, you will begin to identify with the author seated at his desk, dropping down the words toward the white landing area below. 'Oh and another thing.' (He is talking to you). The words stay there, falling into place when you have closed this unforgettable book, funny and wise."
--David Rosenberg, author of A Literary Bible and co-author (with Harold Bloom) of The Book of J
"A truly remarkable and challenging book."
--Laurence Lieberman, author of The Creole Mephistopheles and Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American Poets
Mark Dow's Plain Talk Rising, before being "self-published," was a finalist in the Colorado Prize, New Issues, and Yale Series competitions (selected by Donald Revell, Linda Gregerson, and W.S. Merwin, respectively). It was also a semi-finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press.
Dow's poems and nonfiction have appeared in Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, Boston Review, Caribbean Review of Books, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Drunken Boat, Fascicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Paris Review, PN Review, SLAM! Wrestling, Southern Review, Threepenny Review, and Word for/Word, among many others. His e-chapbook "Feedback" and Other Conversation Poems(2015) is at Mudlark: An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics.
Dow is also author of American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons (California, 2004) and co-editor of Machinery of Death: The Reality of America's Death Penalty Regime (Routledge, 2002).
New publication & reading event from Professor Gary Racz
Professor Gary Racz of the Department of English, Philosophy and Languages has work in the new issue of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas “Nuevísimos: New Spanish American Writing” (no. 96, June 2018).
He will participate in the issue launch on Tuesday, October 2, 2018, from 5:00-8:00 p.m, reading his translations!
The event will take place at The City College of New York in the Faculty Dining Room, North Academic Center, 3rd floor. 160 Convent Avenue (@138th Street)
Please send your RSVP to either dshapiro@ccny.cuny.edu or rmartinez@ccny.cuny.edu
You will find more details on the attached flier.
He will participate in the issue launch on Tuesday, October 2, 2018, from 5:00-8:00 p.m, reading his translations!
The event will take place at The City College of New York in the Faculty Dining Room, North Academic Center, 3rd floor. 160 Convent Avenue (@138th Street)
Please send your RSVP to either dshapiro@ccny.cuny.edu or rmartinez@ccny.cuny.edu
You will find more details on the attached flier.
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