Past Readings and Podcasts
Reading Series
New Photo Galleries and Podcasts
Visit our photo galleries for a look at our recent readings, including A Tribute to Jack Gilbert, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Jorie Graham. Go to Flickr, or scroll down here to find slideshows. We also invite you to listen to selected podcasts from past events.
About the Reading Series
Since its inception, the vibrant Reading Series has strengthened the Creative Writing Program by exposing students to a wide array of writers, translators, editors and poets, and by connecting our program to the local literary community.
Beginning in spring 2007, the new director of the Creative Writing Program launched a series of intimate salons at the newly dedicated Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House. Students responded with enthusiasm, especially to the informal atmosphere that encouraged dialogues with writers whose work they admired. The expansion of the Reading Series for 2008-09 has been a continuation of this new tradition. In addition to readings by today's most prominent writers and poets, events include faculty and alumni readings, New Salons, readings from newly published literary anthologies, as well as craft talks and professional panel discussions. Read more...
Visit our photo galleries for a look at our recent readings, including A Tribute to Jack Gilbert, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Jorie Graham. Go to Flickr, or scroll down here to find slideshows. We also invite you to listen to selected podcasts from past events.
About the Reading Series
Since its inception, the vibrant Reading Series has strengthened the Creative Writing Program by exposing students to a wide array of writers, translators, editors and poets, and by connecting our program to the local literary community.
Beginning in spring 2007, the new director of the Creative Writing Program launched a series of intimate salons at the newly dedicated Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House. Students responded with enthusiasm, especially to the informal atmosphere that encouraged dialogues with writers whose work they admired. The expansion of the Reading Series for 2008-09 has been a continuation of this new tradition. In addition to readings by today's most prominent writers and poets, events include faculty and alumni readings, New Salons, readings from newly published literary anthologies, as well as craft talks and professional panel discussions. Read more...
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New Salon: Poets in Conversation
Charles Simic, the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States (2007-2008), has most recently published "That Little Something." His new book of essays, "Renegade," is forthcoming in winter 2009. In conversation with Alice Quinn.
Location:
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
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Emerging Writers, with Guest Author Rivka Galchen
Rivka Galchen is the author of the acclaimed novel, "Atmospheric Disturbances," which has been translated into over a dozen languages. Her essays and stories have appeared in Zoetrope, The Believer, The New Yorker, Scientific American, and The New York Times.
Location:
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street
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The Paris Review Salon
Featuring recent contributors to THE PARIS REVIEW, James Lasdun, Karl Taro Greenfeld, and Danielle Evans, in a reading and conversation moderated by Senior Editors Christopher Cox & Nathaniel Rich
Location:
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
