Public Readings Series Spring 2005
Creative Writing Program Reading Series
Spring 2005
Creative Writing Program Alumni Reading
Courtney Brkic, Nell Freudenberger, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Allison Lynn, Jason Schneiderman, Emily Raboteau
Former students of the Writing Program read from their new books of poetry and fiction.
Thursday, March 3
Main Hall, Ground Floor, 19 University Place
Beloved Writing Program faculty member, program founder and former program director, Galway Kinnell will retire from NYU in 2005. He will join us tonight to read from his work. Kinnell is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, among many other honors. His books of poetry include: When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone, Imperfect Thirst and A New Selected Poems. He currently holds the Erich Maria Remarque Chair in Creative Writing at NYU.
Thursday, March 24
Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South
Abani's novels include GraceLand and Masters of the Board. He is the recipient of a 2003 Lannan Literary Fellowship and a 2001 Prince Claus Award for Literature and Culture. "Chris Abani's GraceLand is a richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new." (T.C. Boyle) "Abani's language is beautiful and his story is important." (Percival Everett)
Co-sponsored with the Writing Program of The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Africana Studies and the Office of African American, Latino and Asian American Student Services.
Tuesday, March 29
NYU Bronfman Center, 7 East 10th Street
Distinguished Northern Irish poet Michael Longley is the author of many books of poetry including No Continuing City, The Ghost Orchid and The Weather in Japan. He is the recipient of honors including the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the Irish Times Literature Prize as well as the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. "One of the finest lyric poets of our century." (John Burnside) "A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders." (Seamus Heaney)
Co-sponsored with Glucksman Ireland House
Wednesday, April 6
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Edna Longley
Edna Longley, the literary critic, will give a talk entitled Altering the Past: Northern Irish Poetry and Modern Canons, considering how the Northern Irish poetic phenomenon since the 1960s might force a re-evaluation of some of the ways in which Anglo-American criticism has conceived "modern poetry." Professor Longley is one of the most influential critics writing on modern Irish and British poetry, and is one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Irish culture.
Thursday, April 7 at 7 p.m.
NYU's Glucksman Ireland House, One Washington Mews
Africa and The World: The Writer's Role
Wole Soyinka, Breyten Breytenbach, Nuruddin Farah, Uwe Timm, Zakes Mda, Achmat Dangor and others to be confirmed
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka will join writers from Africa and beyond in a reading and discussion about African literature considered in both a local and a global context.
Presented in association with PEN American Center as part of the PEN World Voices International Literary Festival, a week-long festival celebrating writers from every continent. Other literary events will take place at NYU on April 19th. Please see our website for a complete listing.
Tuesday, April 19
Tishman Auditorium, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South
The Goldwater Writing Project Benefit Reading
Jean Valentine and The Golden Writers
Valentine is the recipient of the 2005 Jean Kennedy Smith NYU Creative Writing Award of Distinction. In 2004 she was awarded the National Book Award for Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003. She will read with writers from Goldwater Hospital who participate in an ongoing writing workshop led by students in the graduate writing program. Voluntary donation requested.
Thursday, April 21
NYU Lipton Hall, 108 West 3rd Street
Join us as we celebrate the work of our graduating MFA students who will read from their final thesis manuscripts in poetry and fiction.
Thursday, April 28
Fales Library, Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South
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For more information call the Creative Writing Program at 212-998-8816. |
This year’s reading series is made possible by generous support from the Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund, established in The New York Community Trust by the founders of the Reader’s Digest Association. We offer our special thanks to an anonymous donor whose important contribution suppports both the public reading series and informal craft talks and seminars with the visiting writers and the graduate writing students.
