Faculty Forum (Works in Progress) Event: Louis Parascandola

Professor Louis Parascandola will speak about his project, "A Coney Island of the Mind: Literary and Cultural Readings of Coney Island.”

All students and faculty are welcome!

Refreshments will be served.

Friday, January 27
3:30 to 4:30 PM (immediately after the English-Department faculty meeting)
Spector Lounge
Humanities Building, Fourth Floor

English Professors to Present Writing Workshops for Brooklyn-Campus Employees

As part of the Provost's Professional & Personal Development Academy, professors from the English Department have been leading workshops for Brooklyn-Campus employees.

Two were held in Fall 2011, and the other two will be held in Spring 2012, as follows:


Grant Writing
with Professor John Killoran
Part 1: Thursday, February 9, 2012
Part 2: Thursday, February 16, 2012

Digital Storytelling
with Professor Deborah Mutnick (Director of the First-Year Writing Program)
Part 1: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Part 2: Tuesday, April 3, 2012


All workshops are 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, in Library Learning Center, Room 515.


Seating is limited.

Please register by calling 718 488 3406 or emailing pppda@brooklyn.liu.edu.

Refreshments will be served.

Paumanok Lecture / Voices of the Rainbow Event: Alison Bechdel

Thursday, February 23, 2012
6:30 PM, Kumble Theater

Alison Bechdel, internationally-acclaimed lesbian cartoonist, will deliver this year’s Starting from Paumanok Lecture.  This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing and reception.

For twenty-five years Bechdel wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a chronicle considered “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period” (Ms.).  She is also the author of the best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which won an Eisner Award and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.  Time Magazine named Fun Home the number one Best Book of 2006, declaring, "The unlikeliest literary success of 2006 is a stunning memoir about a girl growing up in a small town with her cryptic, perfectionist dad and slowly realizing that a) she is gay and b) he is too….This is a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other."

Fun Home and Dykes to Watch Out For have been translated into many languages, and Bechdel, who lives in Vermont, has an ardent international following.  She has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney’s, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, and Granta, and her work is widely anthologized.

This year’s event is funded by the John McGrath Fund and the Mellon Fund and is co-sponsored by the LIU Brooklyn English Department’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, the Voices of the Rainbow reading series (English Department), the LIU Brooklyn Gender Studies program, and Greenlight Bookstore. 

MFA Reading Series Event: Martha Southgate

Please join us in welcoming Martha Southgate, visiting writer to the MFA program for the Spring 2012 semester, for a reading and a reception.


Martha Southgate is the author of Third Girl From the Left, The Fall of Rome and Another Way to Dance. Her most recent novel, The Taste of Salt, will be available on the night of the reading.FRIDAY  

When & Where

January 27, 2012  
6-8 PM
Health Sciences Building, Room 119


We will also take this occasion to re-introduce ourselves to one another, meet our new comrades in the program, and discuss upcoming  classes with faculty. It's one of the rare chances for all of us to be in the same place at the same time, so let's be there!  Copies of Brooklyn Paramount #2 will also be available. There are numerous  special MFA events this semester--this is just the beginning. Students in the MA tracks--literature, writing and rhetoric, professional writing--everyone welcome.

Writing Center Event: A Reading of MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

In commemoration of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the Writing Center invites the entire LIU-Brooklyn community to a group reading of "Letter from Birmingham Jail." 

Copies of Dr. King’s powerful essay will be distributed. 

Light refreshments will be served.

When

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

4-6 PM

Where

Writing Center

H-218

For more information call the Writing Center at 718-488-1095, or e-mail the Writing Center at wcenter@brooklyn.liu.edu.

VOICES OF THE RAINBOW: SPRING 2012

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.

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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).

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.

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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.

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.

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PATRICIA SMITH & DAVID MILLS 
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.

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A’LELIA  BUNDLES
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.

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ALL READINGS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

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

Jon L. Peacock's Work Appears in New Book About Occupy Wall Street

Jon L. Peacock (alumnus of the English Department's Creative-Writing MFA Program) is a contributor (interviewer/writer/editor), in collaboration with roughly 60 others, to a new book is entitled OCCUPYING WALL STREET: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America.

It is an interview/description based book looking at the first two months of the Occupy movement. It is diverse, in-depth, and extremely informative. It was written to understand the movement, and to hopefully squelch some of the stereotypes and misconceptions that surround Occupy Wall Street, especially in mass media.

More information can be found at http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/ows/.

Barbara Henning at the Walking Fish (Philadelphia)

Professor Barbara Henning (English Department) reads at the Jubilant Thicket Literary Series with Frank Sherlock at The Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia.

December 11, 2011.
7 pm.

Overpass Books Event

Overpass Books presents On Equilibrium of Song
a reading at Long Island University.

Friday, December 16, 2011
6:00 p.m.
Humanities (H) Building 
2th Floor Media Arts lounge


Come out and celebrate the upcoming book releases of "On Equilibrium of Song" by John Casquarelli with art by Lynn Hassan, and the forthcoming "Ijele" by Uche Nduka.

Featured Readers:

Tony Iantosca
Gulay Isik
Willie Perdomo
Giuseppe Infante
Aimee Herman
Uche Nduka
John Casquarelli

Master of Ceremonies John High
w/ an introduction and closing words from Lewis Warsh

There will be food and beverages served.

Africana-Studies Event: I Know What I Saw

A screening of documentary films on the Civil Rights Movement.

When & Where
December 6, 2011
Spector Lounge
Fourth Floor, Humanities Building
6-8 PM

Sponsored by Africana Studies at the Brooklyn Campus of LIU.

As always, the event is free and open to the public. Free pizza! Bring your own beverage.