Harry McEwan: New Work in Your Impossible Voice

The latest issue (#9) of the online literary magazine Your Impossible Voice features "Trashed," by Harry McEwan (MFA, Creative Writing, 2015). You may recall that Harry read this piece at the 2015 MFA graduation reading in May 2015. 

Read the issue here.

Barbara Henning, Chia-Lun Chang, and Tony Iantosca: Reading at St. Mark's Bookshop

Professor Barbara Henning (Professor of English), Chia-Lun Chang (Creative Writing MFA, 2014), and Tony Iantosca (Adjunct Professor of English and Creative Writing MFA, 2012) will be reading together at St. Mark's Bookshop, on 28 September 2015. 

This is the fourth event in a new series called Heart Star Salon, which is being run by two alums of the Creative Writing MFA program: Sarah Anne Wallen (2013) and Lisa Rogal (2013).

More info about the series and this event.

Jessica Hagedorn in T Magazine Group Photo of NYC Cultural Icons

T (the New York Times style magazine) included Professor Jessica Hagedorn (Director of the Creative Writing MFA program) in a group photo of 28 artists, writers, musicians, and others who defined the cultural scene of NYC in the late 1970s and early 1980s. See article ("They Made New York") here.

Jessica Hagedorn, front and center.

Katrinka Moore: Reading from New Book

Katrinka Moore, an alumna (MA, Teaching of Writing) and a former adjunct professor in English, will be reading at Cornelia Street Cafe, on September 24, 2015, at 6PM, along with Sarah Stern, Elizabeth Poreba, and Guillermo Filice Castro.

Poetry by Daniel Soto to Appear in The Border Crossed Us: An Anthology to End Apartheid (Vagabond Press)

Work by Daniel Soto, Creative Writing MFA candidate, has been accepted for publication in the anthology The Border Crossed Us: An Anthology to End Apartheid (Vagabond Press), selection by Mark Lipman, with a forward by Luis J. Rodriguez. 

The book is set for publication on October 12, 2015 (Indigenous Peoples' Day / Columbus Day), and there will be a national reading tour, which will include NYC, over the course of this fall and next spring. More updates will follow.

Congratulations, Daniel!

Proposals Now Being Accepted for Fifth Annual LIU Brooklyn Teaching Narratives Conference / Keynote Speaker: James Paul Gee

Creative Writing MFA Program -- Fall 2015 Orientation

Please save the date for the fall MFA orientation on Friday September 11th from 6pm-8pm in the English Department Spector Lounge (4th floor, Humanities Building).

All students in the MFA program are expected to attend orientation, as it is a time to welcome new and returning students and to kick off the fall semester.

Since refreshments will be served, your RSVP is much appreciated. Please confirm your attendance with Lindsay Infantino at lindsayinfantino@gmail.com

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Downtown Brooklyn #24

The "cover" of Issue #24:
"La Disparition #2" by Lewis Warsh.

For 24 years, Downtown Brooklyn: A Journal of Writing has been the literary magazine of the English Department. We are happy to announce the online publication of our 24th annual issue. We are sad to report, however, that this will be the last issue for the foreseeable future. Please read Wayne Berninger's "From the Editor" note at our main page.


Click here to download Issue #24.

New Book of Poems by Tejan Green & Jeremy Beauregard

Jeremy Beauregard and Tejan Green, both graduates of the English Department's Creative Writing MFA program have published a collection of poetry entitled We Were Us.

The book is "an examination of what is—and what was—through a reflexive lens focused on future, and past, relationships. All roses have died, and, ultimately, the love here is inaccessible. We Were Us is just as unapologetic as it is empathetic."

The book is available in print and Kindle online and is also available directly from the authors. 

Charles Matz: New Book, Columbus, the Moor

In his new "Atlantic World epic" from House of Nehisi Publishers, Professor Charles Matz (English) "opens the music of Earth's breast, from Arawakan illusions to cynical jests of a Eurocentric logic of burden." (Jay Haviser) and mercilessly sets us up for the day of "encounter" when Christopher Columbus and "a termite crew" arrive in what would come to be called the New World.

From the publisher's website: "The literary works of Charles Matz are extremely complex...What distinguishes his work is his plunging into the bottomless pit of lasting orality, the long and varied history of poetry-song-ritual."
– Andrea Zanzotto, Italy

Click the book cover above to order.