2013 Archive
Poetry Reading: Alessandro de Francesco with Translator Belle Cushing
9/6/2013 — 5:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Poetry Outreach in the Schools
6/8/2013 — all-day event
City College
Free; RSVP
Best-Selling Author Series: Steve Berry
5/20/2013 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free; RSVP
Playwrights Writing for Television: Success or Compromise?
5/20/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Distinguished Writers Series: Chris Adrian
5/14/2013 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free; reservations required
Peter Cole, "Translating the Kaballah"
5/13/2013 — 4:00 p.m.
Baruch College
Free
How Children's Book Authors Help Shape Our World View
5/9/2013 — 3:00 p.m.
Medgar Evers College
Free
Best-Selling Author Series: Steve Berry
5/6/2013 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free; reservations required
Exiles: Aleksandar Hemon and Andre Aciman in Conversation
5/6/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free; RSVP
Turnstyle Reading Series (CUNY MFA faculty and students)
5/2/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics
5/2/2013 — 4:00 p.m.
Baruch College
Free
Finding Joseph Tusiani: The Poet of Two Lands
5/2/2013 — 11:30 a.m.
Lehman College
Free
Eduardo Halfon on Writing, Bilingualism and Translation
5/2/2013 — 11:15 a.m.
Baruch College
Free
2013 Chapbook Festival
5/2 - 5/3/2013 — all day
Graduate Center
Free
Extraordinary Lives Series: Marilynne Robinson in Conversation with Bill Kelly
5/1/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
$12/$10 members
Distinguished Writers Series: Cheryl Strayed
4/30/2013 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free; reservations required
Triangulations: Baraka and Cesaire
4/29/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
The New Salon in Queens: A Reading by Poet Marie Howe
4/24/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free
In Conversation: Marisa Silver and Deborah Treisman
4/24/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free; reservation requested
Essay Is Both Noun and Verb (Phillip Lopate, Margo Jefferson, Shifra Sharlin)
4/23/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
George Guida: Creativity, Language, and Life
4/22/2013 — 5:00 p.m.
New York City College of Technology
Free
A Celebration of Edward Dorn's Collected Poems
4/18/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Queens College Evening Readings: Tom Wolfe (with Leonard Lopate)
4/16/2013 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20; free with CUNY student ID
Distinguished Writers Series: Les Murray
4/16/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free; reservations required
Interpreting Lorca
4/16/2013 — 6:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Best-Selling Author Series: Yiyun Li
4/15/2013 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free; RSVP
A Reading and Conversation with Don Mee Choi
4/15/2013 — 3:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Turnstyle Reading Series (CUNY MFA faculty and students)
4/10/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Queens College Evening Readings: Junot Diaz (with Leonard Lopate)
4/9/2013 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20; free with CUNY student ID
A Reading by Siri Hustvedt
4/9/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free
A Conversation with Maggie O'Sullivan
4/4/2013 — 6:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
"L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir": Annie Rachel Lanzillotto
4/3/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free; reservations requested
National Black Writers Conference Symposium: A Tribute to the Life and Works of Toni Cade Bambara
3/30/2013 — 10:00 a.m.
Medgar Evers College
General Donation $10; Students/Faculty/Seniors $5
Distinguished Writers Series: Ian McEwan
3/22/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free; reservations required
"I accrue hordes": A Reading and Conversation with Simon Pettet
3/21/2013 — 6:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
"The Blurred Line Between Fiction and Reality: Creating Drama Within the Confines of History": Terrence Cheng
3/20/2013 — 12:30 p.m.
Lehman College
Free
A Reading & Conversation with Hilton Als, Spring 2013 Harman Writer-in-Residence
3/19/2013 — 5:45 p.m.
Baruch College
Free
Junot Diaz
3/18/2013 — 6:00 p.m.
City College
Free
Writing Writers' Lives: 5th Annual Leon Levy Biography Conference
3/18/2013 — 1:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity
3/14/2013 — 4:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Queens College Evening Readings: Jamaica Kincaid (with Leonard Lopate)
3/12/2013 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20; free with CUNY student ID
Ethnicity and Literature: A Discussion with Nancy Kricorian and Aris Janigian
3/11/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Turnstyle Reading Series (CUNY MFA faculty and students)
3/11/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Best-Selling Author Series: Lee Child
3/6/2013 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free; RSVP
Making Trouble, Making History: Jewish Women in Art & Entertainment (with Joyce Antler, Jennifer Gilmore, Gail Levin, and Suzanne Wasserman)
3/5/2013 — 6:00 p.m.
Baruch College
Free; see announcement for reservations
Trends in Translation Series: Willis and Aliki Barnstone
3/4/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free
The Future of Longform Journalism (with David Grann, Max Linsky, Alana Newhouse, Evan Ratliff, and David Samuels)
3/4/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Distinguished Writers Series: Dana Spiotta
2/26/2013 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free; reservations required
Blessing the Boats: A Tribute to Lucille Clifton
2/21/2013 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Editors at Work (Lorin Stein, Dorothy Wickenden, Adam Moss, and Lucas Wittmann)
2/20/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Distinguished Writers Series: Rosanna Warren
2/5/2013 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free; reservations required
Turnstyle Reading Series (CUNY MFA faculty and students)
2/5/2013 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free
Best-Selling Author Series: A.M. Homes
1/14/2013 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free; RSVP