NY Events
The Poetry Society of America hosts a reading at the day-long festival, featuring Martin Espada, Dorthea Lasky, John Murillo, and Jean Valentine, with Robert N. Casper.
Main Stage
Admission is free.
For more information about other poetry events at the Brooklyn Book Festival visit www.brooklynbookfestival.org
Welcoming the arrival of Fall, with poets reading classic favorites as well as their own work at the largest botanical garden in the United States.
Co-sponsored by the New York Botanical Garden.
Admission is free with general admission to the Botanical Garden.
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road
For directions see www.nybg.org
Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry: American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002), The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006), selected by Tony Hoagland as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and Come on All You Ghosts, published by Copper Canyon in Fall of 2010.
Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing, New York University.
Admission is free.
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
New York University, 58 West 10th Street
Mónica de la Torre is the author of the poetry books Talk Shows (Switchback Books, 2007) and Public Domain (Roof, 2008). She is co-editor of the anthology Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2002) with Michael Wiegers.
Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing, New York University.
Admission is free.
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
New York, University, 58 West 10th Street
Marilyn Hacker is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Names (W. W. Norton, 2009); Desperanto: Poems, 1999-2002 (2003); Selected Poems, 1965-1990 (1994), which won the Poet's Prize; and Winter Numbers (1994), which won both the Lenore Marshall Prize and a Lambda Poetry Literary Award.
Co-sponsored by Queens College, CUNY, MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
Admission is free.
Rosenthal Library, 230
Queens College
For directions to campus, visit www.qc.edu.
A reading and roundtable discussion with the famed Russian avant-garde poet, in English.
Admission is free.
Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts, The Columbia Department of English and Comparative Literature, Ugly Duckling Presse, and Dalkey Archive Press.
Dodge Hall, Room 501
Columbia University
2960 Broadway
A creative and scholarly symposium which will highlight three different legacies of diaspora in the United States: Haiti, The Philippines, and Puerto Rico.
Co-sponsored by Fordam University in conjunction with The Academy of American Poets, The Acentos Foundation, The Asian American Writers' Workshop, Caribbean Cultural Center, Cave Canem, CENTRO de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Kundiman, The Latin American and Latino Studies Institute at Fordham, New York Metro American Studies Association, Poets and Writers, Poets for Ayiti, Poets Out Loud, and Puerto Rican Studies Association.
Admission is free.
McNally Auditorium
Fordham University
Lincoln Center
For schedule of events and more information visit http://turningtides.squarespace.com/
As part of the Literary Writers Conference at the New School, a panel with noteworthy editors and critics on the best way to put together a manuscript of poems.
Co-sponsored by the Council of Literary Magazines and Press, the National Book Foundation, The New School Creative Writing Program, and Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.
For more information on the conference and to register, visit www.lwcnyc.org
Charles Wright is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Sestets: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010); Scar Tissue (2007), which was the international winner for the Griffin Poetry Prize; and Black Zodiac (1997), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is Souder Family Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing, New York University.
Admission is free.
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
New York, University, 58 West 10th Street
Co-sponsored by the New York Botanical Garden.
Admission is free with general admission to the Botanical Garden.
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road
For directions see www.nybg.org
