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Mary Kennan Herbert's Poems the Subject of an Academic Conference Presentation
Writing Center Event -- The Spring Write-In: A Long Night Against Procrastination
As finals
week approaches, the Writing Center and the Center for Learning and Academic
Success are co-hosting The Spring Write-In: A Long Night Against
Procrastination.
Come and work on remaining papers or assignments. Bring your own
computer or use one of ours. Tutors and a Reference Librarian will be available
to assist you.
We’ll provide coffee, snacks, and camaraderie to fuel your
productivity.
Thursday, April 28
5-10 PM
Writing Center
Humanities Building, Room 218
and/or
Center for Learning and Academic Success (CLAS),
LLC, 4th floor (access via elevator)
Barbara Henning: Workshop at Poets House
Professor Barbara Henning (English) will be teaching a six-week workshop called "Poetic Prose & the Prose Poem" at Poets House starting April 23.Registration info.
Book Review: Lisa Rogal's Morning Ritual
Angus McLinn: Reading
On Friday, April 8, 2016, Angus McLinn, Creative Writing MFA candidate at LIU Brooklyn, will be reading at the launch party for the book Songs of My Selfie: An Anthology of Millennial Stories.
Jessica Hagedorn in Discussion with R. Zamora Linmark & Paul Beatty
On Tuesday, April 5, 2016, Jessica Hagedorn (the Parsons Family University Professor of Creative Writing at LIU Brooklyn) will moderate a discussion at NYU, between the novelists R. Zamora Linmark and Paul Beatty.
See flyer for details.
New Poems by Barbara Henning, Chia-Lun Chang, and Tony Iantosca
Barbara Henning (Professor Emerita of English), Chia-Lun Chang (Creative Writing MFA alum, 2014), and Tony Iantosca (Adjunct Professor of English and Creative Writing MFA alum, 2012) all have poems in The Portable Boog Reader 9. Read the issue here.
Even more info here.
Tina Barry: News
Two poems by Tina Barry (MFA, Creative Writing, 2014), from her first book of poems and short fiction, Mall Flower (Big Table Publishing), have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and one prose piece has been selected to appear in The Best Short Fiction 2016 (Queens Ferry Press).
Jonathan Haynes: Update, Spring 2016
We are pleased to pass along several announcements about the upcoming professional activities of Professor Jonathan Haynes (English).
Haynes and two of his students, Ernest Agyeman and Adjovi Simpini, were recently interviewed by Sandy Kenyon, the film critic and entertainment reporter for WABC-TV Eyewitness News. The topic was the Nigerian film industry. Kenyon filmed the interview in the Spector Lounge and in Haynes' office, both on the fourth floor of the Humanities Building. Professor Michael Bokor (English) was also included in the interview, but it is unclear at this time whether and footage from his portion of the interview will be is also included in the short (less than 2 minute) segment that will be aired Monday, March 28, 2016, at 4:15 PM. Video should be up on WABC's website a few hours after that.
Watch the video here.
Here's a different version made for play in NYC taxis starting on April 8, 2016.
On April 6, 2016, Haynes will give a seminar presentation at Northwestern University's Program of African Studies, called "Hostile Takeover? Corporate interventions in Nollywood."
Haynes will be a respondent at a Columbia University conference, "New Directions in Nollywood and Nigerian Cinema," on April 21-22, 2016.
Finally, Haynes will present a paper entitled "Lagos, Nollywood, and Neoliberal Transformations," at "Lagos - From the Pepperfarm to the Megacity (and Beyond): A Conference on Space, Society, and the Imagination of an African Crossroad," a conference to be held at Barnard College on May 6, 2016.
Watch the video here.
Here's a different version made for play in NYC taxis starting on April 8, 2016.
On April 6, 2016, Haynes will give a seminar presentation at Northwestern University's Program of African Studies, called "Hostile Takeover? Corporate interventions in Nollywood."
Haynes will be a respondent at a Columbia University conference, "New Directions in Nollywood and Nigerian Cinema," on April 21-22, 2016.
Finally, Haynes will present a paper entitled "Lagos, Nollywood, and Neoliberal Transformations," at "Lagos - From the Pepperfarm to the Megacity (and Beyond): A Conference on Space, Society, and the Imagination of an African Crossroad," a conference to be held at Barnard College on May 6, 2016.
Uche Nduka Interviews John High
Uche Nduka (Creative Writing MFA, 2012) recently interviewed John High (Professor of English, Director of Creative Writing MFA Program) for the Poetry Foundation.
Read the full interview here.
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