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Many of the books of poems coming out this year are sad, but also powerful; full of poets processing their lives, looking into pains both personal and political through the cracked glass of poetry.

(via How Fetishizing ‘Craft' Can Get in the Way of a Good Poem)

Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize Reading

Poetry reading with Reginald Flood, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, and Laura Swearingen-Steadwell Reginald Flood is a poet and author of Coffle (Aquarius, 2012), and has been published in The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Massachusetts Review, and Mythium, among others. Jacqueline Jones LaMon’s collections include Last Seen (University of Wisconsin, 2011), Gravity USA, and In the Arms of One Who Loves Me. Laura Swearingen-Steadwell is the author of the poetry collections How to Seduce a White Boy in Ten Easy Steps and All Blue So Late, forthcoming in December 2017 from Northwestern University Press.

THE SOAPBOX SERIES

Wedsneday, Nov. 8 @ Alumni House 4-5:30pm The Soapbox Series presents "Narrative of Climate Change: Science and Fiction in Conversation" Come out to see MFA second-year Matt Massaia moderate a conversation between Adelphi Science professors Ivan Dempsey Hyatt and Beth Christensen and Ken Kalfus, author of "Equilateral."

I want to write this story because I love my parents, because they love me, because that has never been enough.

Another Way to Say

Join Another Way to Say translators' reading series and A Public Space editors for a special Brooklyn Book Festival event! Translators/authors Martha Cooley, Antonio Romani, Alicia Maria Meier and Kate Lynch will present works in translation, discuss their relationships with the work, visa versa, from the Italian, Catalan and Spanish.

Congrats to our alumni on having their panels accepted to #AWP18. Jordan Rindenow -"Tuesdays I’m the Teacher, Wednesdays the Student: The Shift from Grad Student to Professor and Back Again", Chris Eder - "The Shadow of the Mouse: How Florida Fiction Can Escape Theme Park Culture" and MJ Mcginn -"Shooters Gotta Shoot: Voice in Sports".

Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Stories of 2017.

Congrats to our MFA-er, Mj Mcginn, on having his story included in Top 50 Very Short Stories of 2017.

Author Roxane Gay talks teaching political fiction, putting black gay women into the comic sphere, and using Twitter strategically.

Literary Awakenings: Personal Essays from the Hudson Review with Igor Webb, former UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, and Susan Balee

Thursday, May 11 at 6:00 PM | New York Society Library | Members' Room

This panel celebrates the publication of Literary Awakenings: Personal Essays from the Hudson Review, edited by Ronald Koury, the magazine’s Managing Editor since 1985. During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review observed a trend among the best literary essayists and reviewers to couch their criticism in a highly personal manner as opposed to the theoretical, technocratic work being produced in other venues. This anthology, introduced by William H. Pritchard, collects 18 such essay/memoirs. These diverse contributions unite in the joy of appreciation, the pleasures of engaging with literature.

For information and registration visit: nysoclib.org/literary-awakenings

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A happy crowd after the poetry reading of the MFA Class of 2018!

At the end of the Fiction class!

Join us for an afternoon of poetry reading!

The four writers after their wonderful thesis readings!

Join us for the launch of Martha Cooley's newest book, Guesswork: A Reckoning with Loss. Following a reading from this enchanting memoir-in-essays, the author will discuss her new work and the art of memoir-writing with author and memoirist, Benjamin Taylor. ABOUT GUESSWORK: Having lost eight friends in ten years, Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband to recover from la strage, or “the massacre.” There, in this sundrenched paradise where bumblebees nest in the ancient cemetery and stray cats curl up on her bed, she examines what we all must confront one day, mortality. How do we grieve? How do we go on drinking our morning coffee, loving our life partners, stumbling though a world of such confusing, exquisite beauty? Part memoir, part loving goodbye to an unconventional parent, Guesswork transforms a year in a pastoral hill town into a fierce examination of life, love, death, and, ultimately, release.

Please join the MFA in Creative Writing Program and the English Department to celebrate the work of our graduating students with fiction and creative nonfiction readings from our newest MFA’s. Garden City Campus, the PAC - Room 215 Rachel Bergman’s "Big Comfortable Mommy" Chris Eder’s "no no no no no no no no no" MJ McGinn’s "You Deserve Everything" Jordan Rindenow’s "Beneath the Wreckage" And a special reading of Aaron Bleich’s "I Can't Save Everyone" Followed by a reception and refreshments.

Today marks five years since the death of Adrienne Rich, the incredible poet, essayist and feminist activist. I’ve been thinking about Rich a lot lately; so much of what she has written feels…

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