NY Events

Wednesday, Feb 8, 8:00pm

New York, NY

POETRY AS SURVIVAL:
AN EVENING WITH GREGORY ORR

"Poetry is a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive." — Gregory Orr

A conversation exploring the intersection between creative expression and mental health—Gregory Orr will present and converse with Arts in Mind curator Joshua Wolf Shenk and Donald Rosen, the CEO and Medical Director of the Austen Riggs Center.

Gregory Orr is the author of 10 collections of poetry, a Guggenheim and NEA fellow, and a long-time professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia. Orr has given his career to showing the healing power of poetry and explaining the complex matters of craft, aesthetics, and psychology that make this possible.

Admission is free. 

Co-sponsored by Arts in Mind, the Sandor Ferenzci Center at the New School in New York City, and the Erikson Institute for Education and Research at the Austen Riggs Center.

The New School's Arnold Hall
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor

Friday, Feb 10, 5:00pm

New York, NY

LITERARY LEGACY: TWO WRITERS IN CONVERSATION ON CRAFT & PROCESS
Mark Doty and Tracy K. Smith

Literary Legacy invites you to engage with Mark Doty and Tracy K. Smith as they converse on topics of craft and their process. Moderated by Darrel Alejandro Holnes. 

Mark Doty is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (2008), which received the National Book Award; School of the Arts (2005); Source (2002); and Sweet Machine (1998). 

Tracy K. Smith's first collection, The Body's Question (2003), won the Cave Canem Prize in 2002. Her second book, Duende ( 2007), won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her third collection, Life on Mars, was published by Graywolf Press in 2011. 

Co-sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free.

Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
New York University
58 West 10th Street

Thursday, Mar 8, 7:00pm

New York, NY

THE NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Meghan O'Rourke with Deborah Landau

New Salon welcomes poet Meghan O'Rourke to read her newest poems, followed by a discussion and Q & A moderated by Deborah Landau.

Meghan O'Rourke is the author of two collections of poetry, Once (2011) and Halflife (2008). She is also the author of the memoir The Long Goodbye (2011), a chronicle of mourning written after the death of her mother. From 2005-2010 O'Rourke was poetry co-editor for the Paris Review, and in 2000 she was a fiction editor for the New Yorker.  Since 2001 she has been a contributing writer for the online magazine Slate.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free.

Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
New York University
58 West 10th Street

Saturday, Mar 10, 4:00pm

Bronx, NY

A SEASON IN POETRY:
Star Black, Dave Lucas, and Patrick Phillips

A Season in Poetry welcomes the spring with poets Star Black, Dave Lucas, and Patrick Phillips, who will read classic poems and poems of their own to celebrate the season.

Co-sponsored by The New York Botanical Garden.

Admission is free with All Garden Pass admission to the Botanical Garden.

For directions see www.nybg.org

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road

Thu-Fri, Mar 29-30

New York, NY

A CELEBRATION OF THE CHAPBOOK

Now in its fourth year, the festival features a two-day bookfair with chapbook publishers from around the country, workshops, and the  reading of the 2011 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellows.

Free and open to the public.
 
PSA Chapbook Fellows Reading
Friday, March 30th, 7:00 PM

2011 PSA Chapbook Winners:  EJ Garcia, Angela Veronica Wong, Alison Roh Park, Marni Ludwig.
Introduced by Alice Quinn 

Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, corner of 34th Street
Please visit chapbookfestival.org for further details.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Book Arts; the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY; and Queens College, CUNY, MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation;  Poets House; and Poets & Writers.

Thursday, Mar 29, 7:00pm

New York, NY

THE NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Glyn Maxwell with Alice Quinn and Belinda McKeon

New Salon welcomes poet Glyn Maxwell to read his newest poems, followed by a discussion and Q & A moderated by Belinda McKeon. Introduced by Alice Quinn.

Glyn Maxwell is the author of several collections of poetry, including Out of the Rain (1992), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and The Nerve (2002), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poem (2011). He has taught at Amherst College, Columbia University, and The New School, and was poetry editor of the New Republic from 2001 to 2007.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free.

Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
New York University
58 West 10th Street

Monday, Apr 2, 7:00pm

New York, NY

RED, WHITE, & BLUE: POETS ON POLITICS
C. A. Conrad, Filip Marinovich, and Patricia Smith

As part of the national series Red, White, and Blue: Poets on Politics, presented by the Poetry Society of America and its partners this election year, poets C. A. Conrad, Filip Marinovich, and Patricia Smith will read and discuss their poems and the role of politics in the literary landscape today.

Co-sponsored by the New School Writing Program

Admission is free.

Wollmann Hall
The New School
65 West 11th Street

Thursday, Apr 12, 7:00pm

New York, NY

THE NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS
Linda Gregerson with Darrel Alejandro Holnes

New Salon welcomes poet Linda Gregerson to read her newest poems, followed by a discussion and Q & A moderated by Darrel Alejandro Holnes.

Linda Gregerson is the author of four volumes of poetry including Magnetic North (2007), Waterborne (2002), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996), a finalist for both The Poet's Prize and the Lenore Marshall Award. She is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Admission is free.

Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
New York University
58 West 10th Street

Friday, May 4, 7:00pm

Queens, NY

POETS IN THE PLAYHOUSE:
Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah

Poets in the Playhouse, brings  poetry from page to stage, beginning with a theatrical staging by students of Thomas and Beulah, the Pulitzer prize-winning collection by Rita Dove at Queens College with a theatrical staging by students. Introduced by Darrel Alejandro Holnes.

Co-sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College CUNY. 

Tuesday, May 8, 7:00pm

New York, NY

102nd Annual Awards Ceremony

The evening will celebrate the winners of our Annual awards and honor our 2012 Frost Medalist Marilyn Nelson, who will deliver the annual Frost lecture.

Admission is free.

The Grand Ballroom, The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South

Saturday, May 12, 4:00pm

Bronx, NY

A SEASON IN POETRY:
Erika Meitner, Benjamin Paloff, and Thomas Sleigh

A Season in Poetry welcomes the summer with poets Erika Meitner, Benjamin Paloff, and Thomas Sleigh, who will read work classic poems and poems of their own to celebrate the season.

Co-sponsored by The New York Botanical Garden.

Admission is free with All Garden Pass admission to the Botanical Garden.

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road

For directions see www.nybg.org