The Creative Writing Program’s Spring 2018 Reading Series continues in March with events featuring Fred Moten (March 1), Carmen Maria Machado (March 23), and Alice Hoffman (March 29), among others.
The New York University Creative Writing Program’s Spring 2018 Reading Series continues in March with events featuring Fred Moten (March 1), Carmen Maria Machado (March 23), and Alice Hoffman (March 29), among others.
All events are held in the program’s Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, located at 58 W. 10th Street (between 5th and 6th Aves.) and are free and open to the public—unless otherwise noted. Seating for free events is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call 212.998.8816 or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu. Subways: F, L, M (14th Street/6th Avenue); 1 (Christopher Street); A, B, C, D, E, F, M (West 4th Street).
Thursday, March 1, 7 p.m.
Poetry Reading: Ana Božičević and Fred Moten
Ana Božičević is a poet, translator, teacher, and occasional singer. She is the author of the brand new “Joy of Missing Out” (Birds, LLC, 2017), the Lambda Award-winning “Rise in the Fall” (Birds, LLC, 2013), and “Stars of the Night Commute” (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009). Fred Moten lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches at the University of California, Riverside. He is author of “Arkansas” (Pressed Wafer), “In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition” (University of Minnesota Press), “I ran from it and was still in it” (Cusp Books), “Hughson's Tavern” (Leon Works), “B Jenkins” (Duke University Press), and “The Feel Trio” (Letter Machine Editions), which is a finalist for the National Book Award.
Friday, March 2, 5 p.m.
The New Salon: Writers in Conversation
Jesse Ball and Catherine Lacey (with Darin Strauss)
Jesse Ball is an American novelist and poet. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short stories, and drawings. Catherine Lacey is the author of “The Answers” and “Nobody is Ever Missing.” She has won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the NYPL’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and was named one of Granta Magazine’s Best Young American Novelists.
Friday, March 2, 7 p.m.
NYU Emerging Writers Reading Series
Hanif Willis-Aburraqib
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow, an interviewer at Union Station Magazine, and a poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine, whose first full-length collection, “The Crown Ain't Worth Much,” was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry and was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize. With Big Lucks, he released a limited-edition chapbook, “Vintage Sadness,” in summer 2017, and his first collection of essays, “They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us,” was released in winter 2017 by Two Dollar Radio.
Note Location: KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street
Thursday, March 22, 7 p.m.
The New Salon: Writers in Conversation
Kaveh Akbar (with Deborah Landau)
Kaveh Akbar's poems have appeared or will be published in the New Yorker, Poetry, the New York Times, the Nation, Tin House, the Guardian, Ploughshares, PBS NewsHour, Harvard Review, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2016, Guernica, Boston Review, and elsewhere. His debut full-length collection, “Calling a Wolf a Wolf,” is just out with Alice James in the US and Penguin in the UK, and his chapbook, “Portrait of the Alcoholic,” was published by Sibling Rivalry Press. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and teaches in Florida.
Friday, March 23, 5 p.m.
Deconstructing Upmarket Fiction: A Discussion with Four Literary Agents
A Discussion with Four Literary Agents: Carol Eisenmann, Allison Hunter, Duvall Osteen, and Renée Zuckerbrot. Moderated by Harriet Shenkman. Co-sponsored with the Women’s National Book Association, NYC Chapter.
Friday, March 23, 7 p.m.
NYU Emerging Writers Reading Series
Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, “Her Body and Other Parties,” was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. She is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, Gulf Coast, NPR, and elsewhere. Her memoir “House in Indiana” is forthcoming in 2019 from Graywolf Press.
Note Location: KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street
Thursday, March 29, 7 p.m.
The New Salon: Writers in Conversation
Alice Hoffman (with Darin Strauss)
Alice Hoffman's most recent novels have received many accolades and are New York Times best sellers. They include “The Museum of Extraordinary Things,” “The Marriage of Opposites,” and “Faithful.” Her newest novel, “The Rules of Magic,” is the prequel to her cult-classic “Practical Magic.” It was selected as a LibraryReads and IndieNext List Pick for October 2017 and was one of the Most Anticipated Books on iTunes.
Friday, March 30, 5 p.m.
Poetry Reading
Adrian Blevins, Cate Marvin, and Tomás Q. Morín
Adrian Blevins’s “The Brass Girl Brouhaha” was published by Ausable Press in 2003 and won the 2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award. Her other books are “Live from the Homesick Jamboree” (Wesleyan, 2009), “Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean” (Ohio University Press, 2017), and “Appalachians Run Amok,” winner of the Wilder Prize, forthcoming from Two Sylvias Press this spring. Cate Marvin’s poetry collections include “World's Tallest Disaster” (2001), which won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, “Fragment of the Head of a Queen” (2007), and “Oracle” (2015). Marvin co-edited, with Michael Dumanis, the anthology “Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century” (2006). Tomás Q. Morín is the author of “Patient Zero” and “A Larger Country,” winner of the APR/Honickman Prize. He translated Pablo Neruda’s “The Heights of Macchu Picchu,” and with Mari L’Esperance, co-edited “Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine.”
Editor’s Note:
The NYU Creative Writing Program, among the most distinguished programs in the country, is a leading national center for the study of writing and literature. The undergraduate and graduate programs provide students with an opportunity to develop their craft while working closely with some of the finest poets and novelists writing today. The Creative Writing Program occupies a townhouse on West 10th Street in the same Greenwich Village neighborhood where so many writers have lived and worked. The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House allows writers—established and emerging—to share their work in an inspiring setting.