Friday, May 4, 4-6pm

The Graduate Center, CUNY

Dana Ward is the author of This Can’t Be Life (Edge Books), Typing ‘Wild Speech’ (Summer BF Press), The Drought (Open 24hrs), &, with the artist Paul Coors, I Want This Forever (Perfect Lovers Press). He lives in Cincinnati, edits Cy Press, & works as an advocate for adult literacy at the Over-The-Rhine Learning Center.

John Coletti is the author of Physical Kind (Yo-Yo-Labs, 2005), Same Enemy Rainbow (fewer & further, 2008), and Mum Halo (Rust Buckle Books, 2010). He recently finished serving as editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.

Thursday, March 8, 3:30-5pm

The Graduate Center, CUNY, Rm 5409

Poet, essayist, and drawing poem text artist Robert Grenier, a leading figure in the Language Writing movement, attended Harvard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught literature and creative writing at U.C. Berkeley, Tufts, Franconia College, New College of California, and Mills College. He has held an Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship and two NEA Fellowships in Creative Writing.  He recently co-edited The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, Volumes 1-4, for publication by Stanford University Press. An archive of Grenier’s work over the years, the Robert Grenier Papers, is housed in Stanford University’s Green Library.  Many of Grenier’s more recent creative works originate in personal notebooks, where he uses colored ink pens to make word/text-based drawings wherein “letters in some words have been left out or elided with others or take on resemblance to other letters or to natural forms or to personal gestalts.” (Karl Young, publisher, Light & Dust Books)

Ramsey Scott’s essays, poems, and fiction have appeared in various journals, including the Southwest Review, the Seneca Review, The Massachusetts Review, Shampoo, Tarpaulin Sky, Confrontation, Mirage #4/Period(ical), House Organ, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction.  He teaches at Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Friday, November 18, 2011

7:30PM

in The Skylight Lounge @ The CUNY Graduate Center (5th Avenue, b/w 34th & 35th)

This event will feature a talk by the poet, novelist, and National Book Award finalist, Ben Lerner, concerning his recent novel, Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House Press, 2011), followed by a short conversation, moderated by Kyle Waugh.

Thursday, November 3, 2011
6:30PM
@ the CUNY Graduate Center, Rm. 5409
(5th Avenue, b/w 34th & 35th)

Thu Sep 29, 2011, 4:00pm | Martin E. Segal Theatre

Meena Alexander, Kimiko Hahn, Nicole Cooley, Lee Ann Brown, Tina Chang, Marcella Durand, Betsy Fagin, Idra Novey, Tracy K. Smith, Leah Souffrant, Karen Weiser, Rachel Zucker, Cate Marvin, Erica Hunt

How do we theorize a poetics of motherhood?  Attentive to divergent experiences of motherhood and using the maternal as a field that hovers outside neat categorization, this symposium will investigate the poetics of the maternal self and body through the experiences of women of color, adoptive mothers and single mothers.
Panel discussion with poets Meena Alexander, English, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY; Kimiko Hahn, Creative Writing and Translation, Queens College; Erica Hunt, independent scholar. Moderators: Nicole Cooley, Creative Writing and Translation, Queens College; Leah Souffrant, English, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Followed by a poetry reading with Meena Alexander, Lee Ann Brown,Tina Chang, Nicole Cooley, Marcella Durand, Betsy Fagin, Kimiko Hahn, Erica Hunt, Cate Marvin, Idra Novey,Tracy K. Smith, Leah Souffrant, Karen Weiser, and Rachel Zucker.

4:00: Panel Discussion
5:30: Reception
6:00: Poetry Reading

co-sponsored by the Poetics Group. Image (c) Jennifer Wroblewski.

http://centerforthehumanities.org/events/tangled-spaces-poets-writing-motherhood

Grad   Center   Poets

Ana Božičević

Tonya Foster

Tim Peterson

Jason Schneiderman

moderated  by Leah Souffrant

Join us on Tuesday, May 3 at 6:00 pm in room 5414 of the Graduate Center for the upcoming Showcase Showdown.  This event features a panel discussion, interrogation, reading, recitation, celebration of GC student writing, featuring GC writers.

***The Poetics Group asks four Grad Center students with new books to get together, read each other’s work, and talk about it on stage. You get to hear some of the exciting new poetry and prose coming out of our community, and you get to hear it discussed by its authors. We call it the Showcase Showdown. The authors interview each other on stage about selected poems from their new books, and the conversation is interspersed with readings and followed by questions and discussion. The public is welcome.***

This event is sponsored by the GC Poetics group, made possible by support from the DSC.

The GC Poetics Group will meet at 7:00 Wednesday 9/22.
An informal meeting, this gathering serves as an introduction to the
activities of Poetics and as a brainstorming session for future
events.
The meeting will be followed by a gathering at the nearby Ginger Man pub…

This Saturday and Sunday: two days of books and readings from New York’s small press scene, at the 3rd annual Boog City Festival’s Small Press Fair. A number of current and former Grad Center writers will take part, including Ammiel Alcalay, Karen Weiser, Erica Kaufman, Tim Peterson, and Corey Frost.

The schedule is at http://welcometoboogcity.com/bc59.pdf.

September 12th and 13th, 2009, 12-8:30PM at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave. in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.