Creative Writing at CUNY

"The Langston Hughes Festival: A Celebration of African-American Writers" (exhibition)

8/30/2010-12/31/2010 (opening reception: 9/15/2010)
City College of New York
Free

Stacy Schiff on Cleopatra

12/10/2010 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Tendencies: Poetics & Practice

12/9/2010 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Colum McCann

12/7/2010 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

Poetry Reading by Paul Muldoon

12/7/2010 — 5:00 p.m.
Queens College
Free

An Evening with John Guare

12/6/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Sonia Sanchez: Reading and Book Signing

12/2/2010 — 7:00 p.m.
Medgar Evers College
Free

The Kitchen and the Quill: Maryse Conde in conversation with Melissa Clark

12/1/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Michael Cunningham (with Leonard Lopate)

11/30/2010 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)

Hunter Distinguished Writers Series: Greg Grandin

11/29/2010 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (reservations required)

Edwidge Danticat (with Leonard Lopate)

11/23/2010 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)

Mario Vargas Llosa (President's Lecture)

11/18/2010 — 5:30 p.m.
City College of New York
Free

Meet the Author Series: Annecy Baez

11/18/2010 — 12:00 p.m.
Bronx Community College
Free

The 15th Annual Irving Howe Memorial Lecture: Anthony Appiah

11/17/2010 — 6:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Translating a Past That Haunts the Present

11/17/2010 — 3:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Red Jade (Book Talk)

11/12/2010 — 6:00 p.m.
AAARI
Free

Meet the Author: Fanoosh Moshiri

11/8/2010 — 2:00 p.m.
Bronx Community College
Free

The Audre Lorde/Essex Hemphill Memorial Lecture: Cheryl Clarke

11/5/2010 — 6:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Cynthia Ozick (with Leonard Lopate)

11/2/2010 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)

The Stanley Burnshaw Lecture: Edward Hirsch

11/2/2010 — 6:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Poet & Translator Marilyn Hacker

10/27/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free

Brooklyn on My Mind: Writing Funny

10/27/2010 — 5:00 p.m.
Brooklyn College
Free

Kay Ryan

10/27/2010 — 2:15 p.m.
LaGuardia Community College
Free (RSVP requested)

Translating Job and Ecclesiastes (Robert Alter)

10/26/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Hunter Distinguished Writers Series: ZZ Packer

10/25/2010 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (reservations required)

Poets for Living Waters

10/22/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Muriel Rukeyser: A Tribute

10/20/2010 — 6:00 p.m.
The Century Club
Free (reservations required)

A Reading and Conversation with Richard Price

10/19/2010 — 5:45 p.m.
Baruch College
Free

Publishing French Women Authors: A Dialogue

10/18/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Diane Di Prima: An Evening of Reading & Conversation

10/15/2010 — 6:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Conference: Ford Madox Ford and America

9/23/2010-9/24/2010
Graduate Center

Tina Chang

9/23/2010 — 1:30 p.m.
College of Staten Island
Free

"The E-Publishing Debate: What Is the Future of the Book" (moderated by Eric Simonoff)

9/20/2010 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free (registrations required)

Junot Diaz

9/20/2010 — 10:00 a.m.
Bronx Community College
Free

Book Launch for Dan Morrison's "The Black Nile"

9/14/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

John Jay Book and Author Series: Jessica Stern

9/1/2010 — 4:00 p.m.
John Jay College
Free

Writers on Writing Summer Radio Broadcasts, WNYE 91.5FM

7/4-8/29/10
Medgar Evers College: Tune into WNYE 91.5FM in New York

Gone in 60 Seconds: The World's First International One-Minute Play Festival

6/11/10
Brooklyn College
$10 admission (benefits an undergrad scholarship)

Jason Koo: Man on Extremely Small Island

5/14/2010 — 6:00 p.m.
Asian American/Asian Research Institute
Free (registration requested).

Spring Poetry Festival (featuring L.S. Asekoff and Kimiko Hahn)

5/14/2010 — all-day event
City College

Distinguished Writers Series: Peter Carey

5/12/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free, but reservations are required.

Turnstyle Reading Series (Richard Schotter, Colum McCann, and others)

5/10/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free.

Book Talk with Jennifer Cody Epstein

5/10/2010 — 6:00 p.m.
City College
Free.

Visions in Brooklyn Verses

5/7/2010 — 7:00 p.m.
Medgar Evers College
Free.

Tendencies: Poetics & Practice (Jack Kimball, CA Conrad, Stacy Szymaszek)

5/06/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free.

Philip Caputo

5/6/2010 — 11:30 a.m.
Kingsborough Community College
Free.

Brooklyn on My Mind: Leonard Lopate with Colm Toibin and Joseph O'Neill

5/5/2010 — 5:00 p.m.
Brooklyn College
Free.

Annual Chapbook Festival

5/3-4/2010
Graduate Center

Poetry Month Celebrations at BMCC

April 2010
Borough of Manhattan Community College

Passage to Manhattan: Publishing an Anthology of Critical Essays on Meena Alexander

3/26/2010 — 4:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free.

The Tenth National Black Writers' Conference

3/25-28/2010
Medgar Evers College

The Art of the Review with David Denby

3/23/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free.

New Visions, New Activism, New American Poetry: Margaret Randall in Conversation with Ammiel Alcalay

3/22/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free.

Queens College Evening Readings (Marie Ponsot)

3/16/2010 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID).

A Reading and Conversation with Major Jackson

3/16/2010 — 5:45 p.m.
Baruch College
Co-sponsored by Poets & Writers and the Weissman School of Arts & Sciences.

Turnstyle Reading Series (Rick Pearse, Emily Raboteau, and others)

3/10/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free.

Tendencies: Poetics & Practice (Erica Kaufman, Douglas Martin, Mina Pam Dick)

3/9/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free.

An Evening with Leon Wieseltier

3/4/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free.

Distinguished Writers Series: Michael Greenberg

3/3/2010 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free, but reservations are required.

Queens College Evening Readings (Margaret Atwood with Leonard Lopate)

3/2/2010 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID).

Poet Samantha Thornhill

2/25/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
College of Staten Island
Free.

Poetry and Spanking: A Conference on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

2/25-26/2010
Graduate Center

Tendencies: Poetics & Practice (Akilah Oliver, Kate Eichhorn, Charles Bernstein)

2/24/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free.

The Mother Symposium

2/24/2010
Graduate Center
Free.

Distinguished Writers Series: Lynne Greenberg and Meena Alexander

2/23/2010 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free.

MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation Series: Mark Doty

2/17/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free.

Turnstyle Reading Series (Jan Heller Levi, John Weir, and others)

2/9/2010 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free.

Distinguished Writers Series: Mary Gaitskill

2/8/2010 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free, but reservations are required.

 

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