Creative Writing at CUNY

Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

Sam Lipsyte and Marjorie Welish

Brooklyn College
Free

Jerome Rothenberg at 80: A Celebration

12/9/2011 — 6:00 p.m.
Graduate Center

Alice Fulton

12/8/2011 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free, but reservations are required

Access and Roadblocks: Gary Giddins in Conversation with Charles J. Shields and Patricia Bosworth

12/7/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free, but reservations are required

Stephen Sondheim (with Frank Rich)

12/6/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)

Nick Flynn

11/23/2011 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free, but reservations are required

Talented Young Writers Panel: Stefan Merrill Block, Alison Espach, Haley Tanner, Benjamin Hale

11/21/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

Writing Jewish Worlds: Mikhal Dekel, Marianne Hirsch, Nancy K. Miller, Lara Vapnyar, Wayne Koestenbaum

11/18/2011 — 4:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Robert Hughes (with Leonard Lopate)

11/15/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)

Randall Robinson Reading and Book Signing

11/15/2011 — 6:00 p.m.
Medgar Evers
Free

Lyn Di Iorio Reading

11/14/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
City College
Free (RSVP)

Francine Prose

11/14/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

Hunter MFA Open House

11/8/2011 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free, but reservations are required

An Evening with Art Spiegelman

11/7/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Baruch College
Free, but reservations are required

Paper and Cinema: Gary Giddins in Conversation with Geoffrey C. Ward

11/7/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free, but reservations are required

A Lecture by Sonia Sanchez

11/3/2011 — 12:30 p.m.
Lehman College
Free

Bel Kaufman on The Humor of Sholem Aleichem

11/1/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

Thomas Glave, "Scenes from a Jamaican Childhood" (Audre Lorde/Essex Hemphill Memorial Lecture)

11/1/2011 — 6:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

An Evening with John Simon

10/27/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

Queens Poet Laureate Paolo Javier Reading

10/26/2011 — 2:00 p.m.
LaGuardia Community College
Free

Meet the Agent: Tina Bennett, David Kuhn, and Eric Simonoff

10/25/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free (RSVP)

Ha Jin (with Leonard Lopate)

10/25/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)

100 Years of the Arab American Novel

10/25/2011 — 6:00 p.m.
Graduate Center (event to be held at the New York Public Library)
Free

"Reading Hip-Hop" with Valerie Joyner"

10/21/2011 — 6:00 p.m.
City College
Free

Carol Muske-Dukes

10/20/2011 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free, but reservations are required

Re-membering Immigrant Women and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

10/20/2011 — 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
College of Staten Island
Free

Philip Levine Reading

10/19/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free

Reading and Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri

10/18/2011 — 5:45 p.m.
Baruch College
Free

Orhan Pamuk: A Conversation with Students

10/17/2011 — 5:00 p.m.
Queens College
Free

Margaret Atwood, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

10/12/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
John Jay College
Free for CUNY faculty, staff, and students with ID

Jonathan Baumbach and Will Eno

Margaret Atwood (with Leonard Lopate)

10/11/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)

Marilyn Chin Reading

10/11/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free

Milk and Honey: Celebrating Jewish Lesbian Poets

10/11/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
City College
Free

Zadie Smith

10/6/2011 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free, but reservations are required

Knopf Doubleday Author Series at Macaulay: Julie Otsuka

9/26/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Macaulay Honors College
Free (RSVP)

Tina Santi Flaherty Irish Voices Literary Series: Pete Hamill

9/22/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

Alexandra Styron

9/21/2011 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free, but reservations are required

Literary Salon with Tananarive Due

9/17/2011 — 4:00 p.m.
Medgar Evers College
Donation

Poetry on the Plaza

9/15/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
New York City College of Technology
Free

9/11: Poetry, Spoken Word & Open Mic

9/13/2011 — 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Bronx Community College
Free

Writer's Conference

6/4/2011 — 9:00 a.m.-4:15 p.m.
Hunter College

38th Annual CCNY Poetry Festival, featuring Cornelius Eady

5/17/2011 — 9:15 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
City College

Distinguished Writers Series: Nicole Krauss

5/16/2011 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

"Book Talk" Lecture Series: Ernesto Quinonez

5/9/2011 — 6:00 p.m.
CCNY Center for Worker Education
Free

Distinguished Writers Series: Darin Strauss

5/9/2011 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

Best-Selling Author Series: Jane Smiley

5/9/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

New Works by Louis Armstrong/MFA Writers-in-Residence: Brian Kim and Melissa Bobe

5/6/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Louis Armstrong House/Queens College
Free

Opportunities in the World of Publishing

5/5/2011 — 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
College of Staten Island
Free

John Sayles: A Moment in the Sun

5/4/2011 — 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
$8 general / $6 members

Brooklyn on My Mind: Jennifer Egan, Darin Strauss

5/4/2011 — 5:00 p.m.
Brooklyn College
Free

Book Launch for Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens

5/3/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free

PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature: Playwright Mike Van Graan

4/28/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Poetry Reading: Paul Muldoon

4/27/2011 — 2:00 p.m.
Lehman College
Free

Christoph Keller and Jan Heller Levi Read New Work

4/27/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free

Queens College Evening Readings: Peter Carey

4/27/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (Free with CUNY Student ID)

Art & Literature: A Conversation with Frederic Tuten and John Baldessari

4/26/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

A Celebration of Poetry Month with Billy Collins & Others

4/14/2011 — 12:30 p.m.
Lehman College
Free

Celebrating Poetry Month with Adrian Matejka

4/12/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Medgar Evers College
Free (RSVP)

2011 Literary Arts Festival-Reading by Sapphire

4/12/2011 — 5:45 p.m.
New York City College of Technology
Free

Distinguished Writers Series: Billy Collins

4/11/2011 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

"Book Talk" Lecture Series: Maria Negroni

4/11/2011 — 6:00 p.m.
CCNY Center for Worker Education
Free

In Celebration of Women's History Month: Caribbean Women Writers Conference

3/31/2011 — 10:00 a.m.
Medgar Evers College
Free

Lawrence Venuti Talk on Translation

3/30/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free

Best-Selling Author Series: Francine Prose

3/28/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

"Book Talk" Lecture Series: Louise DeSalvo

3/28/2011 — 6:00 p.m.
CCNY Center for Worker Education
Free

National Black Writers Conference Biannual Symposium: Honoring the Work and Life of August Wilson

3/26/2011 — 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Medgar Evers College
$10 general donation; $5 for senior citizens, students, and faculty with ID

A Centennial Celebration of the Work of Czeslaw Milosz (moderated by Edward Hirsch)

3/22/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)

A Reading and Conversation with Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

3/22/2011 — 5:45 p.m.
Baruch College
Free

Walter Mosley: Discussion, Reading, & Book Signing

3/20/2011 — 1:30 p.m.
Medgar Evers College (event to be held at the Brooklyn Public Library)

Distinguished Writers Series: Peter Balakian

3/16/2011 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

Gerald Stern Poetry Reading

3/16/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free (co-sponsored with The Poetry Society of America)

Ian McEwan (with Leonard Lopate)

3/15/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)

"Book Talk" Lecture Series: Carmen Boullosa

3/14/2011 — 6:00 p.m.
CCNY Center for Worker Education
Free

Third Annual Conference on Biography: "Compromising Positions: Biography & Ethics"

3/10/2011 — Noon
Graduate Center
Free

Turnstyle Reading Series: Jeffery Allen, Paul Oppenheimer, and MFA students

3/9/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

The Art of the Book Review: Henry Finder, Radhika Jones, Robert Messenger, Sam Tanenhaus

3/8/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free (RSVP)

Best-Selling Author Series: Barbara Taylor Bradford

3/7/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

Cheryl Wills: Reading & Book Signing

3/3/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Medgar Evers College (off-site event)

2011 Chapbook Festival

3/2/2011 - 3/5/2011
Various locations
"The Festival is free and open to the public, though some events require advance registration."

CUNY-Wide Undergraduate Poetry Awards Deadline

2/28/2011
No entry fee; cash prizes

Distinguished Writers Series: Wesley Stace and Alex Ross

2/23/2011 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

Poet Mahogany Browne

2/17/2011 — 1:00 p.m.
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Free

Jonathan Franzen (with Leonard Lopate)

2/15/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID)

"Book Talk" Lecture Series: Kevin Baker

2/14/2011 — 6:00 p.m.
CCNY Center for Worker Education
Free

John Oliver Killens Reading Series: Literary Activists of the Indignant Generation

2/10/2011 — 6:30 p.m.
Medgar Evers College
Free

Tendencies: Poetics & Practice, with Christopher Schmidt, Sarah Sarai, & Ira Sachs

2/9/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

Best-Selling Author Series: Joseph O'Neill

2/8/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

Jayanti Tamm Memoir Reading

2/7/2011 — 5:00 p.m.
Queens College
Free

Inaugural Writers' Institute Reading (moderator: Jonathan Galassi)

2/4/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center (event to be held off-site at KGB Bar)
Free

CUNY at AWP

2/2/2011 - 2/5/2011
Washington
Please visit the CUNY Booth (#314) at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair

Best-Selling Author Series: Susan Cheever

1/25/2011 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Free (RSVP)

"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.

Annual Chapbook Festival

5/3-4/2010
Graduate Center

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

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.

Anselm Berrigan, Sara Shepard, and Erin Courtney: A Reading of Poetry, Fiction, and Playwriting from Brooklyn College Alumni

12/8/2009 — 9:00 p.m.
Brooklyn College
Free.

A Reading and Conversation with Danzy Senna

12/1/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
Baruch College
Free.

Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series (Jonathan Safran Foer)

11/30/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Reservations required.

Writers of the Aran Islands (with Una Faherty)

11/30/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
Lehman College
Free.

Read it and Reap: A Benefit Reading for City Harvest and an MFA Open House

11/30/2009 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Suggested donation: $5.

E. Ethelbert Miller and asha bandele

11/20/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
Medgar Evers College
Free and open to the public.

Book Talk: Lecture Series (with Lori Carlson)

11/16/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
City College/Center for Worker Education
Free and open to the public.

Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series (Alice Notley & Claudia Rankine)

11/12/2009 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Reservations required.

Queens College Evening Readings (Orhan Pamuk with Leonard Lopate)

11/10/2009 — 7:30 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID).

Elizabeth Nunez Reading

11/4/2009 — 4:00 p.m.
New York City College of Technology

Hunter College MFA Program Open House

11/3/2009 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Please reserve your place per the Web page.

Book Talk: Lecture Series (with Oscar Hijuelos)

11/2/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
City College/Center for Worker Education
Free and open to the public.

Brooklyn on My Mind: Writers Teaching Writers at Brooklyn College (Leonard Lopate with Ernesto Mestre, Joshua Henkin, Meera Nair, and Amy Hempel) <pdf>

10/28/2009 — 5:00 p.m.
Brooklyn College

Queens College Evening Readings (Mary Gaitskill with Leonard Lopate)

10/27/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID).

Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series (Mona Simpson & Patrick McGrath)

10/27/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
Hunter College
Reservations required.

The New Salon in Queens: A Poetry Reading by Yusef Komunyakaa

10/21/2009 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Co-sponsored with The Poetry Society of America.

Leaving Little Italy: Last Words on a Locale

10/21/2009 — 2:30 p.m.
College of Staten Island
Free and open to the public.

Queens College Evening Readings (Robert A. Caro with Leonard Lopate)

10/20/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
Queens College
$20 (free with CUNY student ID).

A Reading and Conversation with Joseph O. Connor, Fall 2009 Harman Writer-in-Residence

10/20/2009 — 5:45 p.m.
Baruch College
Co-sponsored by Poets & Writers.

Lorna Goodison Reading

10/20/2009 — 1:00 p.m.
New York City College of Technology
Free.

York College Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series (Elizabeth Nunez)

10/19/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
York College

Book Talk: Lecture Series (with Billy Collins)

10/19/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
City College/Center for Worker Education
Free and open to the public.

Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series (Carolyn Forche)

10/1/2009 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College
Reservations required.

The 2009 Leon Levy Biography Lecture (with Robert Caro)

9/29/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Book Talk: Lecture Series (with Harriet Alonso)

9/29/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
City College/Center for Worker Education
Free and open to the public.

ASTORIA in Poetry and Images: Exile/People/Places

9/24/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
Queens College
Free and open to the public.

Black Artist as Activist: Writing Workshop (with Aracelis Girmay)

9/22/2009 - 12/15/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
Medgar Evers College
Free and open to the public (ages 16-25).

Jocelyn Lieu Fiction Reading

9/21/2009 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free and open to the public.

Book Talk: Lecture Series (with John Matteson)

9/21/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
City College/Center for Worker Education
Free and open to the public.

York College Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series (Edwidge Danticat)

9/14/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
York College
Free and open to the public.

J Journal: New Writing on Justice Fall Issue Submission Deadline

9/1/2009
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Book Talk: Lecture Series (with Gregory H. Williams)

8/31/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
City College/Center for Worker Education
Free and open to the public.

2009 PEN Literary Awards

5/19/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free

37th Annual Spring Poetry Festival

5/15/2009
City College

Tom Sleigh, Marilyn Hacker, and MFA Students

5/12/2009 — 6:30 p.m.
The Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Kamila Shamsie

5/6/2009 — 7:30 p.m.
RSVP required

Graduate Thesis Readings

5/4/2009 — 7:30 p.m.
Hunter College (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)

Brooklyn on My Mind: Asian and Asian American Writers in the Literary Market <pdf>

5/4/2009 — 7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
Brooklyn College
Tickets for this event are $5

Hettie Jones (with Alice Quinn)

5/4/2009 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free.

Conversation: Peter Nadas with Daniel Mendelsohn

5/2/2009 — 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

East-West Storytelling

5/2/2009 — 1:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa

5/2/2009 — 1:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Tribute to Harold Pinter

5/2/2009 — 10:00 a.m.
Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Armin Petras: We Are Camera

5/1/2009 — 8:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

The Language of Fear: A PEN Journal Event

5/1/2009 — 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Dialogos Islenos: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Reinaldo Arenas and Blai Bonet

4/30/2009 — 8:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Colin Harrison

4/30/2009 — 7:30 p.m.
Kingsborough Community College
Free (reservations required).

Collaborations/Elaborations: The Music of Daniel Felsenfeld

4/30/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Writers-in-Residence Reflect on Satchmo's Life and Times: Queens College MFA Candidates to Read New Works Inspired by Collections of the Louis Armstrong House Museum

4/30/2009 — 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Queens College
Free and open to the public.

Language in New Forms: The Work of Andrey Platonov

4/30/2009 — 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Literary Arts Festival (headliner: Colson Whitehead)

4/30/2009 — 5:00 p.m.
New York City College of Technology
Free and open to the public.

Orange Groves, Olives, and The Last Fish Tale

4/30/2009 — 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

A 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Work of Philip Roth: Norman Manea, Greil Marcus, Joyce Carol Oates, and Norman Rush

4/28/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
$20. Free with CUNY student ID.

Resonances: Writers on the Great Works

4/28/2009 — 1:00 p.m.
Baruch College
Free and open to the public.

Sigrid Nunez

4/27/2009 — 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
College of Staten Island
Free and open to the public.

A Celebration of the Chapbook

4/23/2009 - 4/25/2009
The Graduate Center (and elsewhere)
Most events are free.

Denise Duhamel

4/22/2009 — 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
College of Staten Island
Free and open to the public.

Mark Strand

4/20/2009 — 7:30 p.m.
RSVP required

John Sayles

4/15/2009 — 6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.
The Graduate Center
Free; reservations required

Writing Poetry: Moving Passions to Verse (online course with Donna Masini)

4/13/2009 - 6/5/2009
School of Professional Studies

"My Happiness Bears No Resemblance to Happiness": A celebration of the Yale University Press' publication of Adina Hoffman's biography of poet Taha Muhammad Ali

4/7/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
The Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey Robinson

4/3/2009 — 2:00 p.m.
The Graduate Center

Mac Wellman, Mark Mirsky, and MFA Students

4/1/2009 — 6:30 p.m.
The Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Creative Writing Read-a-Thon

4/1/2009 — 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
LaGuardia Community College
Free

Phillip Lopate (with Leonard Lopate)

3/31/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
$15. Free with CUNY student ID.

From Ghazal to Zuihitsu: A Conference on Translating Asian Languages and Culture

3/26/2009-3/28/2009
Queens College
Free and open to the public.

First Annual Conference on Biography: New Forms-Biography for the 21st Century

3/26/2009 — 1:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
The Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Darcey Steinke

3/26/2009 — 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Baruch College
Free.

Kent Haruf

3/25/2009 — 7:30 p.m.
RSVP required

George Packer

3/24/2009 — 5:45 p.m.
Baruch College
Free and open to the public; co-sponsored by Poets & Writers.

Lisa Robertson and Sina Queyras

3/20/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
The Graduate Center

A Reading and Presentation by David Grubbs and Amy Hempel

3/18/2009 — 6:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.
Brooklyn College

Kathryn Harrison, Nicole Cooley, and MFA Students

3/12/2009 — 6:30 p.m.
The Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Paul Auster: "City of Words" (Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism)

3/12/2009 — 6:00 p.m.
City College
Free and open to the public.

Cynthia Ozick (with Leonard Lopate)

3/10/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
$15. Free with CUNY student ID.

Jericho Brown (with Robert Casper)

3/9/2009 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free.

Aoibheann Sweeney: MFA Program in Creative Writing at Queens College and Literary Translation Spring 2009 Reading Series

3/4/2009 — 6:30 p.m.
Queens College
Free and open to the public.

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

2/27/2009 — 4:00 p.m.
The Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Paul Muldoon

2/26/2009 — 7:30 p.m.
RSVP required

Showcase Showdown: New Books by Students

2/26/2009 — 6:30 p.m.
The Graduate Center

Writing Workshops for Writers of Color

2/26/2009-3/1/2009
Medgar Evers College
Applications required.

A Roundtable on How Fiction Works: Peter Carey, E.L. Doctorow, and James Wood (with Leonard Lopate)

2/24/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
$20. Free with CUNY student ID.

Richard Reeves

2/11/2009 — 7:30 p.m.
Kingsborough Community College
Free (reservations required).

Louis Asekoff, Kimiko Hahn, and MFA Students

2/9/2009 — 6:30 p.m.
The Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

A Conversation with Maryse Conde & Elizabeth Nunez

1/28/2009 — 7:00 p.m.
The Graduate Center
Free and open to the public.

Mark Doty

11/20/2008 — 7:00 PM
Graduate Center
Free

Distinguished Writers Series: Edward Hirsch

11/13/2008 — 7:30 PM
Hunter College
RSVP

Who Reads Poetry? (lecture by Robert Pinsky)

11/12/2008 — 6:30 PM
Graduate Center
Free

Derek Walcott

11/11/2008 — 7:00 PM
$15. Free with CUNY student ID.

MFA Open House/Ozone Park Launch

11/10/2008 — 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Queens College
Free

First Annual Lecture on Biography (with Stacy Schiff)

11/05/2008 — 7:00 PM
Graduate Center
Free

State of the Union: a Poetry Reading

10/30/2008 &8212; 6:30 PM
Graduate Center
Free

Reading and Conversation with Mary Gordon

10/30/2008 — 6:30 PM-8:15 PM
City College
Free

Knowing Me, Knowing You: Asian, American Voices (reading of contemporary fiction by four award-winning New York writers)

10/30/2008 — 12:15 PM-1:30 PM
Queens College

Open House 2008 for Prospective MFA Students

10/28/2008 — 7:30 PM
Hunter College

Jamaica Kincaid (with Leonard Lopate)

10/28/2008 — 7:00 PM
$15. Free with CUNY student ID.

Laugh Lines: Humor and the Art of Writing Poetry

10/13/2008 - 10/26/2008
School of Professional Studies (online course)
See Distinguished Professor Kimiko Hahn introduce the course here.

Book Launch Party for About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look in the Mirror

10/23/2008 — 7:30 PM
Hunter College
RSVP

A Reading and Conversation with Francine Prose

10/21/2008 — 5:45 PM
Baruch College/Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program (co-sponsored by Poets & Writers)

Distinguished Writers Series: Darin Strauss and Jeff Talarigo

10/20/2008 — 7:30 PM
Hunter College
RSVP

Distinguished Writers Series: Michael Thomas and Yusef Komunyakaa

10/7/2008 — 7:30 PM
Hunter College
RSVP

Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, An Exile's Journey (reading by BMCC Associate English Professor Joyce Zonana)

9/25/2008 — 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Borough of Manhattan Community College

Distinguished Writers Series: Edmund White

9/23/2008 — 7:00 PM
Hunter College
RSVP

Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World

9/17/2008 — 6:30 PM-8:30 PM
Graduate Center
Free

North Country Institute Writers Retreat

7/10/2008-7/13/2008
Medgar Evers College

Ultimate Voyages: Jules Verne's Futuristic Visions

5/29/2008 — 5:30 PM
Graduate Center

36th Annual Spring Poetry Festival

5/16/2008
City College

An Evening with Pablo Neruda

5/15/2008 — 6:00 PM
New York City College of Technology
Free

Cristina Garcia

5/7/2008 — 6:30 PM
City College
Free

PEN World Voices Festival

4/29/2008-5/4/2008
Check the schedule for events taking place at CUNY

Distinguished Writers Series: Russell Banks

4/17/2008 — 7:30 PM
RSVP to spevents@hunter.cuny.edu or 212-772-4007
Hunter College

Baruch Biographers Talk About Their Art

4/17/2008 — 12:15 PM-2:15 PM
Baruch College
Free

Free Best-Selling Author Series: Debby Applegate

4/16/2008 — 7:00 PM
Kingsborough Community College
Reservations required

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Nationally Recognized Poet Afaa Michael Weaver

4/16/2008 — 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
York College
Free

Literature and Law Conference

4/11/2008 — 8:15 AM-5:15 PM
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Distinguished Writers Series: Frank Bidart

4/09/2008 — 7:30 PM
RSVP to spevents@hunter.cuny.edu or 212-772-4007
Hunter College

Writing the World: Literature and the Environment

4/09/2008 — 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Free Admission
Graduate Center

Claire Messud and Caryl Phillips (with Leonard Lopate)

4/08/2008 — 7:00 PM
Tuesdays. $15. Free with CUNY ID

Ninth National Black Writers Conference

3/28/2008 — 3/30/2008
Medgar Evers College

Gotham History Blotter Reading and Book Signing

3/26/2008 — 6:30 PM
Free Admission
Graduate Center

David Grossman (with Leonard Lopate)

3/25/2008 — 7:00 PM
Tuesdays. $15. Free with CUNY ID.

Writing Across Borders: Asian American Women Writers (with Meena Alexander, Jessica Hagedorn, and Kimiko Hahn)

3/20/2008 — 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Free Admission
Graduate Center

Translated Poetry: A New Landscape

3/19/2008 — 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Free Admission
Graduate Center

Reading and Conversation with Charles Simic

3/18/2008 — 5:45 PM
Co-sponsored with Poets & Writers
Free Admission
Baruch College

A Tribute to Marilyn Hacker

3/14/2008 — 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Free Admission
Graduate Center

Distinguished Writers Series: Anne Carson

3/13/2008 — 7:30 PM
Hunter College

Edna O'Brien (with Leonard Lopate)

3/11/2008 — 7:00 PM
Tuesdays. $15. Free with CUNY ID.

John Edgar Wideman: Book Reading and Discussion: Fanon

03/09/2008 — 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Brooklyn Public Library

Distinguished Writers Series: Frank McCourt

2/27/2008 — 7:00 PM
Hunter College

Poetry and Community: All About Poets House

2/25/2008 — 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Free Admission
City College

Tribute to Last Poets: Abiodun Oyewole and Don Babatunde Eaton

2/10/2008 — 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Medgar Evers College

Best-Selling Author Series: A.M. Homes

2/05/2008 — 7:00 PM
Free Admission
Kingsborough Community College

Acentos: A Gathering and Celebration of Latino and Latina Poets

2/01/2008 — 6:30 PM
Free Admission
School of Social Work @ Hunter College

A Multi-Genre, Multicultural Women's Reading

1/31/2008 — 7:00 PM
Macaulay Center. Macaulay Honors College

2008 AWP Conference & Bookfair

New York City
1/30/2008 — 2/2/2008
Featured Readings By: Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharon Olds, E.L. Doctorow, Louise Glück, Galway Kinnell, A.S. Byatt, Mark Strand, James Tate, Robert Pinsky, Natasha Trethewey, Carolyn Forché, Ha Jin, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Billy Collins, Frank McCourt, Sonia Sanchez, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Lopate, Amy Hempel, Peter Cameron, Charles Simic, and many more.

The Intercollegiate Poetry Slam

12/15/2007 — 5:45 PM
The Bowery Poetry Club.

Oliver Sacks (with Leonard Lopate)

12/13/2007 — 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

12/06/2007 — 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

11/13/2007 — 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 Multl-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

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

10/25/2007 — 7:30 PM
Faculty Dining Room, West Building, 8th Floor

"A Reading and Converation 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)

10/23/2007 — 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)

10/16/2007 — 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

10/05/2007 — 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

9/20/2007 — 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. »