On Thursday, February 9, at 7 p.m., the New York University Undergraduate Creative Writing Program will host a reading by its faculty of poets, novelists, and nonfiction writers. This special event will take place at 19 University Place, 1st floor, Great Lounge. It is free and open to the public; for further information, call 212.998.8816.
The faculty readers represent an array of genres and styles in the contemporary aesthetic spectrum — Elaine Equi, author of The Cloud of Knowable Things; Mark Rudman, author of Sundays on the Phone; Rachel De Woskin, who wrote Foreign Babes in Beijing; Rob Fitterman, George Foy, Sophie Powell, Bonnie Friedman, and Tom McGonigle.
For more information about the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program and its faculty, visit cwp.fas.nyu.edu/page/undergrad_faculty; or email Christina Davis, assistant director of the Creative Writing Program, at csd2@nyu.edu.
Located in the heart of literary Greenwich Village, the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at NYU offers students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the writing life with workshops, readings, internships, and events designed to cultivate and inspire. Its distinguished faculty of poets, prose writers, and playwrights represents a wide array of contemporary aesthetics, from the experimental to the traditional. In recent years, NYU’s creative writing instructors have been the recipients of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, the Pushcart Prize, and the Whiting Writer’s Award.