Post updated February 1, 2011: Room information added
March 3 (Thurs.) noon VALZHANA MORT (cosponsored with Gender Studies)
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Valzhana Mort is a poet from Belarus known for her vibrant poetry readings. She is author of the first bilingual Belarusian-English poetry book ever published in the US, Factory of Tears (2008).
March 10 (Thurs.) 6:30 HA JIN (Annual Paumanok reading/lecture)
Kumble Theater
Ha Jin, a native of China, is the author of fiction, poetry, and prose. His writings include Waiting (a National Book Award Winner in 1999), War Trash (PEN/Faulkner Award 2005), A Free Life, and The Writer as Migrant. His latest work is a collection of short stories, A Good Life.
March 28 (Mon.) 11 SAPPHIRE (cosponsored with Africana Studies)
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Sapphire is a poet and fiction writer. He works include American Dreams, Black Wings & Blind Angels, and the best-selling novel Push, about a brutalized Harlem teenager. Push, winner of many awards, was made into the major motion picture, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire.
April 4 (Mon.) noon GARY SHTEYENGART and SONYA CHUNG
Humanities Building, Room 206
Russian-born author Gary Shteyngart has written the award winning novels The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and Super Sad True Love Story. In 2010, he was named as one of the New Yorker magazine’s 20 best fiction writers under 40.
Korean-American author Sonya Chung has written the critically acclaimed novel, Long for This World. She teaches at Columbia University.
April 13 (Wed.) location/time TBA ANNUAL ADJUNCT, GRADUATE STUDENT READING
Celebrate some of the talent of LIU’s own adjunct faculty and MFA program.
April 29 (Fri.) noon HARRYETTE MULLEN
Humanities Building, Room 206
Harryette Mullen’s poetry is filled with wordplay and allusion as well as being centered in the wider tradition of African American literature. Recyclopedia, which collects three of her earlier volumes, received a PEN Beyond Margins Award in 2006. She is also a recent winner of the Jackson Prize from Poets & Writers and has been nominated for a National Book Award. This reading is being given in conjunction with two other readings in New York the same week, one at Poets House and one at Cave Canem. The Poets-House reading is part of a celebration of the publication of Looking Up Harryette Mullen: Interviews on Sleeping With the Dictionary and Other Works by Barbara Henning (Professor Emerita in the LIU Brooklyn English Department). For more information about the other two readings, click here and scroll down to April 29 and 30.
ALL READINGS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
LOCATIONS ON CAMPUS TO BE ANNOUNCED.
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.
