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.”
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.
The LIU-Brooklyn Creative Writing MFA Program and Greenlight Bookstore present Jonathan Lethem reading from his work and in conversation with Jessica Hagedorn (English Department).
