Poetry Events at The New School

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.