Please find more details on the flier below!
Need a class? Try ENG 175!
Still looking for a class to round out your Spring 2020 schedule? Consider taking Professor Michael Bokor's ENG 175!
Please find more details on the flier below!
Please find more details on the flier below!
Voice of Lefferts Reading
On January 7, English Professor Deborah Mutnick hosted an event for her Voice of Lefferts project at Greenlight Bookstore.
The event received publicity in Gothamist, stating "This ongoing community writing and documentary project celebrates the working-class, multiracial community in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens through writing, poetry, and art."
Neighborhood authors such as Dianna Sapp, Marcia Lloyd, Bernie Jones, Bob Marvin, and more were featured.
Professor Mutnick is the series editor and director for Voices of Lefferts. You can like and follow the Facebook page and share it widely!
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| Photo: Liz Dory |
The event received publicity in Gothamist, stating "This ongoing community writing and documentary project celebrates the working-class, multiracial community in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens through writing, poetry, and art."
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| Photo: Liz Dory |
Neighborhood authors such as Dianna Sapp, Marcia Lloyd, Bernie Jones, Bob Marvin, and more were featured.
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| Photo: Liz Dory |
Professor Mutnick is the series editor and director for Voices of Lefferts. You can like and follow the Facebook page and share it widely!
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| Photo: Liz Dory |
Lewis Warsh & Bernadette Mayer at Poetry Project
Faculty member Lewis Warsh and frequent guest Bernadette Mayer will be reading from their newly published collaborative collection of prose poems, entitled Piece of Cake at the Poetry Project on Friday December 6 at 8 PM. You can find more details and purchase tickets here.
Please see below for information on the book. Congratulations, Lewis and Bernadette!
Please see below for information on the book. Congratulations, Lewis and Bernadette!
From Station Hill Press: "Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh wrote PIECE OF CAKE as a work of collaborative prose poetry, based on a process of each writing on alternate days in the course of August of 1976. It recounts the quotidian nuances of young, married-with-child life, the artistic path and citizenship in the town of Lenox, Massachusetts. It has the 'I did this, I did that; of a New York School poetry text, as characterized by the poetry of Frank O'Hara, and is somewhat reminiscent of Mayer's work STUDYING HUNGER JOURNALS, written not long before taking up PIECE OF CAKE. As Mayer writes on August 24th, 'I will go just one step further and take the liberty of saying that writing this book is different, for me, so completely different from any other experience I have ever had with writing. Now, when I sit down to write I tremble with fear before the page, and from the reactions of my body I can tell that the possibility of finally telling everything, and telling it as if it were all a series of plain household events, is at last coming closer.' This work is also distinguished as arguably the first significant male-female collaboration in 20th-century American poetry. Regarding the possible derivation of the work's title, and also exemplary of the work's tenor, is the start of Warsh's entry of August 29: 'I also recall getting up and eating a piece of left-over cake (a very sweet store-bought cake with green or possibly pinkish icing) and drinking a glass of milk at the kitchen window. Empty streets, no moon. Michael and Twinkie asleep on the floor of Bernadette's room, Guy and Karen in mine, Bill on the couch in the living room. Marie in her crib. Everyone "dead to the world," a phrase I dislike, what a full house.' This book also includes a section of photographs taken within the family from the period of PIECE OF CAKE’s composition."
Africa Forum on Friday Nov 15 at LIU!
The English, Philosophy, and Languages Department, along with the Department of Social Sciences presents Africa Forum. The topic The Chinese in Africa: A 21st Century Phenomenon. Students can take this course for 1 credit.
English Professor Michael Bokor will be presenting along with Professor Yusuf M. Juwayeyi. All pertinent details can be found on the flier. If you have any questions, please contact Professor Juwayeyi at yusuf.juwayeyi@liu.edu or 718-488-1168.
Jake Matkov reading for Same Page
Jake Matkov, current Academic Advisor for the English, Philosophy, and Modern Languages department, will be reading poetry at the Same Page Reading Series on November 13 at KGB Bar.
Please see the flier below for more information!
Screening of new Esther Hyneman Documentary
Professor Emerita Barbara Henning will be hosting an on-campus screening of Professor Emerita Esther Hyneman's documentary From the Afghan People for Americans. The screening will take place on campus in HC-222 (located in the Media Arts department) on November 13 at 3 PM.
Both Professors Emerita Henning and Hyneman were long time faculty members in the English department.
Please see the flier for more information and bring friends!
English Majors & Minors Mixer on October 10!
Join us on Thursday October 10 for a department mixer! If you are an English major or minor, or interested in majoring / minoring in English, please come attend! You will have the opportunity to snack on light refreshments, meet faculty, and mingle with your classmates.
All information is on the flier below. Please contact Jacob Matkov (jacob.matkov@liu.edu) if you have any questions.
Flier by: Patrina Gourdet
New book from Professor Schweizer!
Former faculty member, Bernard Schweizer, is pleased to announce the publication of his newest book, Christianity and the Triumph of Humor: From Dante to David Javerbaum.
You will find more information about Professor Schweizer's new book both on the flier below and by clicking on this link to the book's official page on the Routledge website.
Congratulations, Professor Schweizer!
You will find more information about Professor Schweizer's new book both on the flier below and by clicking on this link to the book's official page on the Routledge website.
Congratulations, Professor Schweizer!
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