2007 Archive
The Intercollegiate Poetry Slam
12/15/2007 — 5:45 PM
The Bowery Poetry Club.
Oliver Sacks (with Leonard Lopate)
Queens College Evening Readings12/13/2007 — 7:00 PM
Tuesdays. $15. Free with CUNY ID.
Elise Harris and Leah Paulos
12/07/2007 — 1:00 PM
BMCC. Room S757.
Harris most recently published travel writing based on her journeys in Pakistan. She has written for The New York Times and The Nation, is a former editor at Out magazine, and interned at The Village Voice. Click here to read Harris's travel writing. Paulos is a former editor at Lucky magazine and has written for InStyle, Marie Claire, Seventeen and many others. Today she is a writing and media consultant. See http://leahpaulos.com.
Hotel Books: Wayne Koestenbaum & Edmund White
12/07/2007 — 4:00 PM
Graduate Center. Room: 4406
Lynn Emanuel
Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series12/06/2007 — 7:30 PM
Faculty Dining Room, West Building, 8th Floor
City College MFA Reading
11/27/2007 — 7:30 PM
365 5th Ave. Park Slope
The Perch Cafe
Poets: Elise Buchman, Gregory Crosby, Sean O'Hanlon, Danny Rivera, and Alyssa Yankwitt.
Short Takes on Literature: Short Story & Film - "The Swimmer"
11/26/2007 — 12:15-2:00 PM
E-Building. Library Conference Room
LaGuardia Community College
"Women's Literature Today in Mexico and Nicaragua"
11/17/2007 — 1:00-4:00 PM
York College
Borough of Manhattan Community College Night at the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe
11/14/2007 — 7:00PM
236 East 3rd between Aves B & C
Professor Bil Wright of the BMCC Writing and Literature Degree Program will present an evening of student one-act plays.
There is a $7 admission to the event.
Michael Cunningham
Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series11/13/2007 — 7:30 PM
Faculty Dining Room, West Building, 8th Floor
Francisco Goldman on his latest book "The Art of Political Murder, Who Killed the Bishop?"
11/13/2007 — 9:30 AM
William & Anita Newman Vertical Campus
ROOM NO. 750 Conference Room
Baruch College
8th International Conference on Women Writers of the Spanish Caribbean
11/13/2007 — 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Hostos Cafeteria
Hostos Community College
An Evening with an Author- Lawrence Hill
11/12/2007 — 6:30 PM
Medgar Evers College
Student Services ('S' building)
Room #S 122 - 1637 Bedford AVE @ Crown ST
The Literary Writers Conference in New York City
11/08/2007 - 11/10/2007
The New School
CLMP is offering CUNY students a registration fee of $300. (A $75 discount off the price of $375 registration.) The price includes two lunch sessions -- informal get-togethers -- one with Myla Goldberg, one with Mark Doty.
Celebration of Student Poets English Club
11/07/2007 — 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Savoy. SM Multi-Room
Hostos Community College
Louis de Paor, A Twenty-First Century Irish Poet
11/07/2007 — 7:00 PM
Graduate Center
Room #C-205
"Making it Personal: Katha Pollitt and Anna Quindlen in Conversation"
11/05/2007 — 6:30-8:00 PM
Proshansky Auditorium
Center for the Humanities (Graduate Center)
Alison Smith Names All the Animals
11/05/2007 — 5:30-7:00 PM
City College
Convent Avenue & 138th Street, Manhattan
"Translating Brazilian Literature"
11/02/2007 — 6:30 PM
Room 4116
The University and Graduate Center
"Writing Musical Lives"
11/01/2007 — 6:30-8:00 PM
The Skylight Room (9100)
Center for the Humanities (Graduate Center)
Cohen Library Exhibit
"The Creative Writing Program at CCNY"An exhibition saluting the achievements of past and present faculty, students and graduates of CCNY’s Graduate English programs.
Open Until 10/31/2007
Library Archives Gallery
Langston Hughes Festival
10/26/2007
City College. The Langston Hughes Festival's Third Symposium: Lift Every Voice. Music, Song, and Lyricism. Special dinner and live performance of Langston Hughes’s Tambourines to Glory by The Harlem Repertory Theatre. Refreshments and a poetry slam.
Robert Pinsky
Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series10/25/2007 — 7:30 PM
Faculty Dining Room, West Building, 8th Floor
"A Reading and Conversation with Sigrid Nunez"
10/23/2007 — 5:45 PM
Tuesday. Free and Open to the Public
Newman Conference Center, Baruch College
(co-sponsored by Poets & Writers)
Seymour Hersh (with Leonard Lopate)
Queens College Evening Readings10/23/2007 — 7:00 PM
Tuesdays. $15. Free with CUNY ID.
"Brooklyn On My Mind"
10/22/2007 — Monday Evening
Whitman Auditorium. $5 Tickets Available.
718-951-4500
"Writing Other Lives: Janet Malcolm and Wendy Lesser in Conversation"
10/18/2007 — 6:00-8:00 PM
Proshansky Auditorium
Center for the Humanities (Graduate Center)
"Lehman goes 'Noir'"
10/18/2007 — 12:30 PM
Carman Hall, room B-04.
2007 Latino Heritage Celebration
10/17/2007 — 1:00-8:30 PM
LaGuardia Community College, E Building-E-242
Free Admission
Mario Vargas Llosa (with Leonard Lopate)
Queens College Evening Readings10/16/2007 — 7:00 PM
Tuesdays. $15. Free with CUNY ID.
"Lincoln Kirstein Centennial Reading"
10/12/2007 — 6:00-8:00 PM
Elebash Recital Hall
Center for the Humanities (Graduate Center)
Annie Proulx
Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series10/05/2007 — 6:00 PM
Faculty Dining Room, West Building, 8th Floor
"Pop Art and Poetry"
10/02/2007 — 6:30-8:00 PM
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Center for the Humanities (Graduate Center)
Kathryn Harrison
Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series9/20/2007 — 7:30 PM
Faculty Dining Room, West Building, 8th Floor
"A Memorial Tribute to Tillie Olsen"
9/11/2007 — 6:30-8:30 PM
Elebash Recital Hall
Center for the Humanities (Graduate Center)
Library Exhibits: The Creative Writing Process at CCNY
Closing 08/17/2007
Convent Avenue at 138th Street, New York, NY 10031
The New Criterion at 25: Counterpoints on the Arts & Culture
5/15/2007 — 6:30 PM
With Judge Robert H. Bork, author, Slouching Towards Gomorrah; Anthony Daniels, author, Romancing Opiates; Roger Kimball, The New Criterion and author, Rape of the Masters; and Eric Ormsby, author, Facsimiles of Time. (Center for the Humanities) »
Best-Selling Author Series: Bruce Jay Friedman
5/16/2007 — 7:00 PM
Enjoy a fascinating glimpse into the life of an American writer at this lively and informal talk by humorist Bruce Jay Friedman. Friedman launched his career in the 1950s writing short stories and editing men's "adventure magazines." »
25 Most Influential Science Books of All Time
5/12/2007 - 5/18/2007 — 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM
The 25 Most Influential Science Books of All Time as selected by the editors of Discover Magazine (December 2006 issue) are presented by the City College Libraries with commentary by City College faculty members. »