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| U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will speak at The New School on September 27 |
NEW YORK, August 13, 2012 – Creative Writing at The New School, New York's premiere presenter of readings, lectures and discussions on the cutting edge of literature, announces its public programming for September, 2012. Highlights include a dialogue between influential critics Stanley Crouch and Greil Marcus (Sep. 12), a reading and discussion with current U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (Sep. 27), and an evening celebrating the 2012 edition of The Best American Poetry, with appearances by leading poets including Traci K. Smith, Honor Moore and Mark Doty.
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING: WRITING AND LITERATURE- SEPTEMBER 2012
Fiction Forum: Chuck Wachtel
Wednesday, September 5, 6:30 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID at the door or at the Box Office.
Chuck Wachtel is the author of the novels Joe The Engineer, winner of the Pen/Ernest Hemingway Citation; The Gates; and 3/03, winner of the Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work. His other work includes a collection of stories and novellas: Because We Are Here, five collections of poems and short prose including The Coriolis Effect, and What Happens to Me. He has written the screenplay for Joe The Engineer, currently in development as a film. He teaches at NYU. Moderated by Jackson Taylor.
Nonfiction Forum: Cathy N. Davidson
Monday, September 10, 6:30 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID at the door or at the Box Office.
Cathy N. Davidson is the author of the recently published The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age. Her other books include Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America, Reading in America: Literature and Social History, The Book of Love: Writers and Their Love Letters, and Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan. She is general editor of the Oxford University Press Early American Women Writers series and the co-founder of HASTAC, the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory. She is also the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. Moderated by Robert Polito.
Riggio Forum: Stanley Crouch
Wednesday, September 12, 6:30 p.m.
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID at the door or at the Box Office.
Stanley Crouch is a columnist for the New York Daily News. As a jazz critic and a critic of America, his books include Notes of a Hanging Judge, The Artificial White Man, The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race, and the novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome. The first part of his two-volume biography of Charlie Parker will be published later this fall. Moderated by Greil Marcus as a part of his course "Old Weird America: Music as Democratic Speech."
Poetry Forum: Alexis Levitin and Salgado Maranhao
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID at the door or at the Box Office.
Alexis Levitin is author of 32 books of translations, including eleven collections of poems by Portugal's foremost living poet, Eugenio de Andrade. He has published translations in approximately 25 anthologies and 200 literary journals such as Grand Street, Partisan Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner. His numerous prizes, awards, and grants include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Columbia University Translation Center. Levitin is professor of English at SUNY-Platsburgh. Salgado Maranhao is the author of 20 books. His collected poems, The Color of the Word, won Brazil's highest award, the Premio de Poesia da Academia Brasileira de Letras, for the year 2011. An earlier collection, Mural of Winds, won the prestigious Premio Jabuti in 1999. In addition to eight books of poetry, including The Snake's Fists, The Kiss of the Beast, and the recent Tiger's Fur, he has written song lyrics and made recordings with some of Brazil's leading jazz and pop musicians. Moderated by Mark Statman.
The Best American Poetry Reading 2012
Thursday, September 20, 7:00 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street
Free and open to the public
David Lehman, series editor of The Best American Poetry and poetry coordinator of the New School's MFA Writing Program, joins Mark Doty, the guest editor of the 2012 volume, to present poets and poems from the 25th edition of this acclaimed anthology. Contributors scheduled to read include Elaine Equi, Amy Glynn Greacen, Marie Howe, Lawrence Joseph, Noelle Kocot, Joy Katz, Honor Moore, Michael Morse, Carol Muske-Dukes, Angelo Nickolopolous, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Brenda Shaughnessy, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, Susan Wheeler, and David Yezz.
Riggio Forum: Carmen Boulloso
Monday, September 24, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID at the door or at the Box Office.
Carmen Boullosa’s novel set in Cervantes' time, La otra mano de Lepanto, was published in Spain (2005) and in Mexico (2006), and was named by Reforma's distinguished critic Sergio González Rodríguez, the best novel published in Mexico in 2005. Reforma also designated Boullosa's book Salto de mantarraya (y otros dos) as the best book of poems published in Mexico in 2004. Her next book, La novela perfecta was published by Alfaguara in Mexico and selected by Reforma as the best novel published in Mexico in 2006. Her latest novel, El velázquez de París (The Parisian Velázquez) was published in Spain (2007). Moderated by Jeffery Renard Allen.
Cave Canem at The New School Presents: Natasha Trethewey and Metta Sama
September 27, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
Cave Canem, the premier venue for African-American poetry, presents an ongoing series of readings and discussions with their authors.
• Natasha Trethewey is the 2012 U.S. Poet Laureate. She is the author of the forthcoming book Thrall (Houghton Mifflin). Her first poetry collection Domestic Work won the inaugural 1999 Cave Canem poetry prize and she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her 2007 book Native Guard. She is also the author of a book of creative non-fiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Georgia, 2010). She is currently the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University as well as the Poet Laureate of Mississippi.
• Metta Sama is a poet, professor, activist, painter, collage artist, fiction and essay writer. She is the author of South of Here (New Issues Press, published under the name Lydia Melvin), a collection of poems, and her work has appeared several journals. She received her MFA in creative writing from Western Michigan University and her PhD in English with an emphasis in creative writing at SUNY – Binghamton.
Moderated by Cave Canem. Sponsored by The School of Writing at The New School and Cave Canem Foundation.
Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New School: Pankaj Mishra in Conversation with Ian Buruma
Monday, September 24, 7:00 p.m.
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
Free with RSVP at 212-930-0897 or [email protected]
Former New York Public Library Cullman Center fellows Pankaj Mishra and Ian Buruma discuss Mishra's new book, From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia. Through a mix of history and biography, Mishra examines the Asian world's responses, in "the ruins of empire," to western modernity. He begins with Japan's stunning victory in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, and looks at key intellectual figures - in India, China, and the former Ottoman Empire - who led the revolts against the West and aimed to create a post-colonial greater Asia. Mishra writes with equal acuity about East and West, the past and the present, the complexities of globalization and the current emergence of Asian nations. Pankaj Mishra, who lives in London and India, writes frequently for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Bloomberg View. His books include Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India, and Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond. Ian Buruma, the Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, was educated in Holland and Japan. He writes for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Corriere della Sera, and NRC Handelsblad. His recent books include Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents; Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance; and Inventing Japan, 1853-1964.
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