Come to the William street lounge at 10pm and check out the screening of an unedited interview of artist, rapper, poet Tupac Shakur at 17yrs old discussing issues on poverty, race and politics. There will be refreshments, see you there!!
Julie Mehretu is giving a talk tomorrow night at Parson 6pm 2west 13th...
I would definitely say this is not to be missed... The talk is open to the public
through a class Im taking with Coco Fusco called Afrofuturism.
ciao
Sable
| Poetry Forum: Deborah Landau and Brenda Shaughnessy |
| Wednesday, September 21, 6:30 p.m. Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510 Admission:$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID Deborah Landauis the author of The Last Usable Hour and of Orchidelirium, winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. She co-hosts the video interview program Open Book on Slate.com and is the director of NYU's Creative Writing Program. Brenda Shaughnessy's most recent book, Human Dark with Sugar (2008), won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Shaughnessy teaches at Princeton, NYU, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. Moderated by Helen Schulman, fiction coordinator at the School of Writing. |
| The Best American Poetry Reading 2011 |
| Thursday, September 22, 7:00 p.m. Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required David Lehman, series editor of The Best American Poetry and poetry coordinator of The New School's MFA Program, joins Kevin Young, guest editor of the 2011 volume, to present poets and poems from the 24th edition of the acclaimed annual anthology. The contributors reading include John Ashbery, Cara Benson, Michael Cirelli, Michael Dickman, Farrah Field, Major Jackson, Jennifer Knox, Katha Pollitt, James Richardson, Patricia Smith, Gerald Stern, Bianca Stone, Mark Strand, and Lee Upton. Sponsored by the New School of Writing. |
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