Sigma Tau Delta Annual Induction Ceremony

The Omicron Zeta Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honors society, will hold its annual induction ceremony and dinner on April 18, 2014.

This year's inductees are as follows:

Aram Bagramyan

Kathryn Blaise Dure

Samantha Melissa Edwards

Stacy D'Cunha

Kristin Heim

Navil Infante

Christopher Iverson

Haralambos Kasapidis

Wilson Lam

Arnaldo Lazo

Matthew Mummert

Kimarlee Nguyen

Warline Norzeus

Aaron Raines

Desiree Rucker.

Note: Several chapter members have graduated or will graduate this academic year, as follows:

Justin Gioia

Joanna Gonzalez

Keeley Ibrahim

Joshua Lamore

Jacob Matkov

Evan Thomas.

Congratulations to all!

LIU Brooklyn, Creative Writing MFA, Reading Series Event at KGB Bar

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Barbara Henning Reading in Detroit

Ugly Duckling Presse: Detroit

Christopher Stackhouse
Francine Harris
Barbara Henning
Christine Hume

Saturday, April 19, 2014
7 PM
Salt & Cedar Letterpress
2448 Riopelle Street
Detroit

Ugly Duckling Presse
&
Salt & Cedar Letterpress



FRANCINE J. HARRIS’s first collection, *allegiance*, reached the number one spot on the national poetry bestseller's list and was a finalist for the 2013 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Originally from Detroit, she is a Cave Canem fellow and is the Front Street Writers Writer-in-Residence in Traverse City, Michigan for the 2013/14 school year. 

CHRISTINE HUME is the author of three books, most recently *Shot* (Counterpath, 2010), and three chapbooks, *Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense* (UDP, 2008), *Ventifacts* (Omnidawn, 2012), and *Hum* (Dikembe, 2014). She teaches in the interdisciplinary creative writing program at Eastern Michigan University. Detroit native 

CHRISTOPHER STACKHOUSE is author of a chapbook *Slip* (Corollary); co-author of image/text collaboration with John Keene, *Seismosis* (1913); and most recently, a volume of poems, *Plural* (Counterpath). He is contributing editor at FENCE, BOMB, and VANITAS magazines. Stackhouse is a founding member of the roving artists-in-residence project This Red Door. He teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art. 

 BARBARA HENNING is the author of three novels and seven books of poetry. Her most recent are two collections of poetry and prose, A Swift Passage from Quale Press (2013) and Cities and Memory from Chax Press (2010). A former Detroiter, she has lived in New York City since 1983.

Our Condolences to the Family and Friends of Michael Hassan

We are saddened by the news of the death of our friend and colleague Michael Hassan, who passed away on March 21. Michael was an adjunct professor of English at LIU Brooklyn for many years, and his presence will be missed.

There will be an open-house memorial on Thursday, March 27, starting at 12 PM at the Hassan family's home.  For details, contact Melissa Antinori.

UPDATE (March 27, 2014): Some friends of Michael and Lynn have set up a memorial fund. If you know of anyone who might be interested in helping Lynn at this difficult time, please pass along the link.

Voices of the Rainbow: Marilyn Boutwell & E. H. Dalton

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Ann Larson in Discussion with Karen Pitt & Brian Thill

Ann Larson, alumna of the English Department's graduate program, and former Assistant Director of the LIU Brooklyn Writing Center; will be participating in a panel discussion entitled "Comp/Rhet, Academic Labor, and the Future of English Studies." Also on the panel will be Karen Pitt, who is an alumna of our graduate program and currently a grad student in English at CUNY. This event is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center's PhD Program in English, the Graduate Center Composition and Rhetoric Community, and the Adjunct Project. The inspiration for the panel is Larson's 2012 blog post, "Rhetoric and Composition: Academic Capitalism and Cheap Teachers," which you can read here.

When & Where

Thursday, April 3, 2014

3-5 PM

365 Fifth Avenue, Room 8301/8304.
Manhattan

Tribute to Amiri Baraka

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Congratulations to Professor Louis Parascandola!

We've just received word that Professor Louis Parascandola (English Department) is a 2014 recipient of the Abraham Krasnoff Memorial Award for Single Scholarly Achievement.

LIU will present the Krasnoff Awards -- and the David Newton Awards for Excellence in Teaching -- in a ceremony to be held on...

Wednesday, April 2, 2014.

4-5:30 PM

Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts

Humanities Building, LIU Brooklyn

There will also be a panel discussion, “Creativity in Teaching,” with 2014 Newton Award recipients (moderated by Dr. Sealy Gilles of the LIU Brooklyn English Department). The Awards Ceremony and panel discussion will be followed by a reception in the Kumble Theater lobby.

RSVP by March 27, and contact Gail Luksch at 516-299-2822 or gail.luksch@liu.edu. Please advise if you request transportation from LIU Post to LIU Brooklyn.

Congratulations from the LIU Brooklyn English Department to all the 2014 Krasnoff and Newton Award recipients!

2014 Abraham Krasnoff Memorial Awards for Single Scholarly Achievement

James Bednarz, Professor of English, LIU Post
Steven Liebling, Professor of Physics, LIU Post
Louis J. Parascandola, Professor of English, LIU Brooklyn
Mark Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Music, LIU Post

2014 David Newton Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Charles A. Barragato, Professor of Accountancy, LIU Post

Thomas Fahy, Associate Professor of English, LIU Post

Helisse Levine, Associate Professor of Public Administration, LIU Brooklyn

Hilary Lorenz, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, LIU Brooklyn

Heather Parrott, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, LIU Post

Roda Plakogiannis, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, LIU Brooklyn

African American Short Fiction (Graduate Course) in Summer Session Two with Professor Louis Parascandola

Lewis Warsh & Rachel Levitsky at the Zinc Bar

The Lungfull! Reading Series presents Rachel Levitsky & Lewis Warsh.

Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street, Manhattan.Sunday, March 30, 2014
5 PM

Rachel Levitsky's hybrid poetries and prose utilize politics, humor and abstraction to map the structural reality of everyday life. She is also playing with, and pushing the limits of, extending the possible form of the English language sentence. In 1999, Rachel started Belladonna Series in order to investigate and promote feminist avant-garde poetics. Belladonna Series is now Belladonna* Collaborative and Rachel is a participating member. At Pratt Institute, Rachel is faculty in the new MFA in Writing/Activism. In 2010, along with  Christian Hawkey, she opened the Office of Recuperative Strategies. Her recent books are NEIGHBOR (UDP),The Story of My Accident is Ours (Futurepoem) and the chapbook Renoemos (Delete)

Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including A Place in the Sun (Spuyten Duyvil), Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (Granary), Touch of the Whip (Singing Horse) and The Origin of the World (Creative Arts). One Foot Out the Door: Collected Stories is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil in 2014 and Alien Abduction, a book of poems, from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2015. He is editor and publisher of United Artists Books and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University (Brooklyn).

The Lungfull! Reading Series and Lungfull! Magazine are supported in part by grants from the New York State Council for the Arts.