Lewis Warsh (Director, Creative Writing MFA Program) will read as a part of a group reading at the Poetry Project, to celebrate the publication of Bernadette Mayer’s Studying Hunger Journals (Station Hill Press).
February 23, 2011
8:00 pm
About Studying Hunger Journals: In part, the journals explore psyche and were undertaken, in cahoots with a psychiatrist via two running journals, so that while she kept writing in one he could read the other. She wrote in colored pens, intending to “color-code emotions”—-to see if her synaesthetic ability to see letters as colors might act as a bridge to seeing emotions. She had had an idea: “...if a human, a writer, could come up with a workable code, or shorthand, for the transcription of every event, every motion, every transition of his or her own mind, & could perform this process of translation on himself, using the code...he or we or someone could come up with a great piece of language/information.” While an abridged edition appeared in 1975 from Adventures In Poetry/Big Sky, this is the full text of that enterprise.
Bernadette Mayer is the author of more than two dozen volumes of poetry, including Midwinter Day, Sonnets, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, and Poetry State Forest. A former director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery and co-editor of the conceptual magazine 0 to 9 with Vito Acconci, Mayer has been a key figure on the New York poetry scene for decades.
The book will be read by a wide range of luminaries including, Lee Ann Brown, Barbara Epler, Phil Good, Bernadette Mayer, Don Yorty, Michael Ruby, Marie Warsh, Lewis Warsh, Adam Fitzgerald, Peggy Decoursey, Bill Kushner, Bill Denoyelles, Deborah Poe, Peter Baker, Miles Champion, Anne Waldman and CA Conrad.
Click here for more information about this event.
The Summer Writers Lab (Hosted by Creative Writing MFA Program at the Brooklyn Campus)
We are pleased to announce the Summer 2011 Summer Writers Lab, hosted by the English Department's Creative Writing MFA Program.
Fiction Immersion
June 16-18, 2011.
Guest writers will include Gabriel Cohen, Jennifer Egan, Marlon James, Rick Moody, and Wesley Stace).
Applications being accepted starting February 1.
Apply early!
We look forward to having you join us here in Downtown Brooklyn / Fort Greene for this exciting three-day event!
Reading in Celebration of New Book from Barbara Henning
We are pleased to announce the upcoming publication of a new book from Barbara Henning (Professor Emerita, English): Looking Up Harryette Mullen: Interviews on Sleeping With the Dictionary and Other Works.
There will be a reading, "Resistance is Fertile: Harryette Mullen with Barbara Henning," at Poets House (10 River Terrace, Manhattan) on Friday, April 29, 2011, at 7:00 PM.
Congratulations, Barbara!
Harryette Mullen will also be reading at LIU (Friday, April 29, 2011; 12:00 PM, Humanities Building, Room 206). Click here for more information about that event.
Creative-Writing MFA Spring Orientation
When & Where
Friday, January 21, 6-8 PM
Robert Spector Lounge
4th floor, H building
All students in the MFA program in creative writing, guest faculty & English department faculty are welcome -- including family and friends.
A chance to ask questions about the program, compare notes about everything, share winter storm adventures, meet all new arrivals in the program, & drink some wine.
Paumanok Lecture: Ha Jin
This year's English Department's annual Paumanok Lecture on American Literature and Culture will be given by Ha Jin.
Ha Jin, born in China, is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. He was a member of the People's Liberation Army before coming to the United States in 1986. He is the author of such works as A Good Fall (about the Chinese immigrant experience in America), Waiting (winner of the National Book Award and based on his five-year service in the communist Chinese army), and War Trash (winner of the PEN Faulkner Award). He is currently Professor of English at Boston University.
March 10, 2011
6:30 PM
Kumble Theater
Ha Jin, born in China, is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. He was a member of the People's Liberation Army before coming to the United States in 1986. He is the author of such works as A Good Fall (about the Chinese immigrant experience in America), Waiting (winner of the National Book Award and based on his five-year service in the communist Chinese army), and War Trash (winner of the PEN Faulkner Award). He is currently Professor of English at Boston University.
Funding provided by McGrath Fund, The Provost's Office, and Voices of the Rainbow.
For additional information, contact Professor Louis Parascandola at 718-488-1050.
In conjunction with the Lecture, we are offering a one-credit course on Ha Jin's work. Read more here.
Voices of the Rainbow: Spring 2011 Reading Schedule
Post updated February 1, 2011: Room information added
March 3 (Thurs.) noon VALZHANA MORT (cosponsored with Gender Studies)
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Valzhana Mort is a poet from Belarus known for her vibrant poetry readings. She is author of the first bilingual Belarusian-English poetry book ever published in the US, Factory of Tears (2008).
March 10 (Thurs.) 6:30 HA JIN (Annual Paumanok reading/lecture)
Kumble Theater
Ha Jin, a native of China, is the author of fiction, poetry, and prose. His writings include Waiting (a National Book Award Winner in 1999), War Trash (PEN/Faulkner Award 2005), A Free Life, and The Writer as Migrant. His latest work is a collection of short stories, A Good Life.
March 28 (Mon.) 11 SAPPHIRE (cosponsored with Africana Studies)
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Sapphire is a poet and fiction writer. He works include American Dreams, Black Wings & Blind Angels, and the best-selling novel Push, about a brutalized Harlem teenager. Push, winner of many awards, was made into the major motion picture, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire.
April 4 (Mon.) noon GARY SHTEYENGART and SONYA CHUNG
Humanities Building, Room 206
Russian-born author Gary Shteyngart has written the award winning novels The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and Super Sad True Love Story. In 2010, he was named as one of the New Yorker magazine’s 20 best fiction writers under 40.
Korean-American author Sonya Chung has written the critically acclaimed novel, Long for This World. She teaches at Columbia University.
April 13 (Wed.) location/time TBA ANNUAL ADJUNCT, GRADUATE STUDENT READING
Celebrate some of the talent of LIU’s own adjunct faculty and MFA program.
April 29 (Fri.) noon HARRYETTE MULLEN
Humanities Building, Room 206
Harryette Mullen’s poetry is filled with wordplay and allusion as well as being centered in the wider tradition of African American literature. Recyclopedia, which collects three of her earlier volumes, received a PEN Beyond Margins Award in 2006. She is also a recent winner of the Jackson Prize from Poets & Writers and has been nominated for a National Book Award. This reading is being given in conjunction with two other readings in New York the same week, one at Poets House and one at Cave Canem. The Poets-House reading is part of a celebration of the publication of Looking Up Harryette Mullen: Interviews on Sleeping With the Dictionary and Other Works by Barbara Henning (Professor Emerita in the LIU Brooklyn English Department). For more information about the other two readings, click here and scroll down to April 29 and 30.
ALL READINGS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
LOCATIONS ON CAMPUS TO BE ANNOUNCED.
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.
MFA Reading Series Event: Enter the Rhizome
We are pleased to announce a late entry in this semester's MFA Reading Series.
See here for info on past events from this semester.
The New Event is a Poetry Reading Featuring:
Eric Alter
Alicia Berbenick
John Casquarelli
Kyle De Ocera
Yani Gonzalez
Aimee Herman
Tony Iantosca
Joe Infante
Rachel Jackson
Jamey Jones
Uche Nduka
Sarah Wallen
Mary Walker
&
Anne Waldman
When & Where
Tuesday, December 14
6:30-8:50 PM
Spector Lounge
Fourth Floor, Humanities Building
Refreshments following the reading.
See here for info on past events from this semester.
The New Event is a Poetry Reading Featuring:
Eric Alter
Alicia Berbenick
John Casquarelli
Kyle De Ocera
Yani Gonzalez
Aimee Herman
Tony Iantosca
Joe Infante
Rachel Jackson
Jamey Jones
Uche Nduka
Sarah Wallen
Mary Walker
&
Anne Waldman
When & Where
Tuesday, December 14
6:30-8:50 PM
Spector Lounge
Fourth Floor, Humanities Building
Refreshments following the reading.
Our First Video: The English Major at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University
We are pleased to unveil our first promotional video! Enjoy!
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Keeley Ibrahim (English Major) Among Contributors to Art Exhibition on Women's History
Brooklyn-Campus English major Keeley Ibrahim and fourteen other Honor's-Program students are collaborating on an art installation entitled "Still Partying: A Collective Response to Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party."
From the Brookln-Campus press release:
This exhibition will be up for four days only (December 13-16). Don't miss it!
Other participating students are Ariana Calderon, Phoebe Cha, Susanna Galvez, VeronicaHanna, Isabel Sierra, Michelle Lawton, Angely Martinez, Sabina Mazur, Athena Moustakas, Angel Ng, Amanda Romhin, Orasetin Samson, Jacqueline Simonian and Gianna Spinoso.
Congratulations, Keeley, et al.!
From the Brookln-Campus press release:
Setting their own place at the table, students at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus will honor Judy Chicago’s iconic work, “The Dinner Party,” at an exhibition that celebrates important women in history, Dec. 13-16.Read the full press release.
Styled after Chicago’s feminist masterpiece, the exhibition features artwork by 15 honors students who took the interdisciplinary course “Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party: Feminist Art, History and Philosophy,” taught by Brooklyn Campus associate professor of philosophy Margaret Cuonzo and professor of art Liz Rudey. The course ends with its own “Dinner Party” in which the ceramics, needlework and written components of the course are all shared.
This exhibition will be up for four days only (December 13-16). Don't miss it!
Other participating students are Ariana Calderon, Phoebe Cha, Susanna Galvez, VeronicaHanna, Isabel Sierra, Michelle Lawton, Angely Martinez, Sabina Mazur, Athena Moustakas, Angel Ng, Amanda Romhin, Orasetin Samson, Jacqueline Simonian and Gianna Spinoso.
Congratulations, Keeley, et al.!
New Course for Spring 2011: ENG 203 Starting from Paumanok: Ha Jin 2011
In connection with the English Department's annual Paumanok Lecture on American Literature and Culture, which will be given on March 10 by Ha Jin, we are offering this one-credit course on Ha Jin's work.
Ha Jin, born in China, is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. He was a member of the People's Liberation Army before coming to the United States in 1986. He is the author of such works as A Good Fall (about the Chinese immigrant experience in America), Waiting (winner of the National Book Award and based on his five-year service in the communist Chinese army), and War Trash (winner of the PEN Faulkner Award). He is currently Professor of English at Boston University.
English 203 will meet four times:
February 24: Discussion of stories from A Good Fall
March 3: Discussion of novel Waiting
March 10: Lecture/Reading by Ha Jin
March 24: Wrap-up session.
Course Requirements: Students will be required to come to all four classes, do the assigned readings, and to write a 2-page report on Ha Jin's March-10 talk and a 6-8 page paper on his writings.
Instructor: Dr. Louis Parascandola (English Department). Professor Parascandola has numerous publications including an article on Ha Jin's novel Waiting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Louis Parascandola via email at louis.parascandola@liu.edu or by phone at 718-488-1050.
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