Cynthia Cruz workshop POSTPONED

***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED FOR SPRING 2019! PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS AT A LATER DATE***

Join us for a one day workshop with Cynthia Cruz! LIU alum can attend for free. Outside participants welcome, too! Please see the flier for more details...

Undergraduate Courses: Spring 2019

Graduate Courses: Spring 2019

Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award finalist!

Sigrid Nunez, Distinguished Visiting Writer in the Creative Writing MFA program (2015), was announced as one of five finalists for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her novel, The Friend, released earlier this year, has received rave reviews. The New York Times Book Review writes, "Nunez’s prose itself comforts us. Her confident and direct style uplifts—the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence."

The Friend is "[a] moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog."

Nunez joins other finalists Jamel Brinkley, Lauren Groff, Brandon Hobson, and Rebecca Makkai. You can read the full list of finalists for all categories on BuzzFeed Books.

New chapbook from Lisa Rogal + NYC Reading

Lisa Rogal (MFA 2013) has a new chapbook out by Ugly Duckling Presse (where MFA 2014 graduate, Daniel Owen currently works as editor and publicity director) this month! Feed Me Weird Things is described as being "about the importance of the unimportant: the quotidian, the overlooked, the natural world, the pain or beauty of longing, the persistence of uncertainty. With a voice at once irreverent and sincere, the poems enact meaning through attentiveness, ambiguity, and humor."

Karen Weiser writes of the chapbook: "Lisa Rogal’s Feed Me Weird Things is a pleasurable existential crisis. I mean, she asks what is the place of pleasure in the cultural mess we are in, which robs us of (almost) every last bit of possible gratification, or makes pleasure an ominous, dumb thing."

You can read more about the chapbook and buy it from Ugly Duckling Presse.

Lisa will be visiting NYC to give a reading on Thursday October 25th at Greenlight Bookstore (PLG location). You can find more details on UDP or Greenlight Bookstore.

Rosemary Mayer, TEMPORARY MONUMENTS

Long time English department adjunct, Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014), has a posthumous publication out from Soberscove Press. Temporary Monuments: Work By Rosemary Mayer, 1977-1982 "is the first comprehensive presentation of this body of work and includes Mayer’s documentation of these impermanent artworks. Mayer created photographs, writings, artists’ books, and drawings that expand the realm of these projects and reflect her interest in exploring ideas through a variety of media."

You can order the book from the press.

Also, check out a great review on Hyperallergic.