New School October Events:
Monday, October 03, 2011 6:30 p.m.
The celebrated English poet James Fenton has worked as a political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent, and columnist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1994 to 1999. In 2007, Fenton was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Fenton’s Selected Poems was published by Penguin and by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is also the editor of The New Faber Book of Love Poems and D. H. Lawrence’s Selected Poems. Moderated by David Lehman, poetry coordinator at the School of Writing.
Poetry Reading: Latin-American Voices in New York City
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
The Janey Program in Latin American Studies presents: Latin American Voices in New York City: A Poetry Reading in Celebration of the VII Festival of New Poetry “Poetas En Nueva York,” a night of poetry and creativity with various poets from El Salvador, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico and Nicaragua. Readings will be in spanish and english.
Fiction Forum: Jason Karlawish
Monday, October 10, 2011 6:30 p.m.
Jason Karlawish, the author of Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont, is a professor of medicine and medical ethics and a senior fellow of the Center for Bioethics and of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Moderated by Jackson Taylor, associate director of the School of Writing.
Writing for Children Forum: Getting Published Panel Fall 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:30 p.m.
Featuring Erin Murphy, agent, Erin Murphy Literary Agency, Inc. and Phoebe W. Yeh, editorial director, HarperCollins Children’s Books. Moderated by Patty McCormick, 2007 finalist National Book Awards, author of four critically acclaimed books, and graduate of The New School MFA Program.
AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Leigh Ledare
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 6:15 p.m.
Leigh Ledare uses photography, archival material, texts, and social taboos to interrogate human subjectivity, desire, and the photographic image in turn. His book, Pretend You’re Actually Alive, explores his relationship with his mother, who made tactical use of an explicit sexuality toward her multiple economic, personal, and psychological ends…
Nonfiction Forum: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Monday, October 17, 2011 6:30 p.m.
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is the author of Harlem Is Nowhere. Her work has appeared in Transition, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe. She has received awards from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Originally from Houston, she graduated in 2000 from Harvard University and was a Fulbright scholar in the United Kingdom. Rhodes-Pitts is now writing a trilogy on African-Americans and utopia.Moderated by Jeffery Renard Allen, faculty member at, the School of Writing.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 6:30 p.m.
Star Black is the author of four books of poems, Velleity’s Shade, Waterworn, Balefire, and Ghostwood; a series of double sestinas, Double Time; and a book of collaged texts, October for Idas. She has taught at The New School and has been a writer-in-residence at Stony Brook University. Black’s handmade books of collages were shown at the Center for Book Arts, and her photographs were recently featured in Site Specific, an exhibition at Turtle Point Press Gallery. Black co-founded the KGB Bar Poetry Series in l997 with David Lehman. Moderated by David Lehman, poetry coordinator at the School of Writing.
Fridays @ One – The Story of Your Life: Fiction or Memoir?
Friday, October 21, 2011 1:00 p.m.
Alix Kates Shulman is the prize-winning author of 13 books, including her best-selling debut novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (recently reissued as a feminist classic) and her latest memoir, To Love What Is. She explores the advantages and disadvantages of the two genres, revealing her own reasons for choosing one form, sometimes the other.
Academy of American Poets Award Ceremony 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011 7:00 p.m.
Join us for an evening of readings celebrating contemporary poetry as the Academy of American Poets honors this year’s recipients of the most prestigious poetry awards in the United States.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:30 p.m.
Lynne Tillman is the author of, most recently, the short story collection Someday This Will Be Funny. Her novels include American Genius, A Comedy; No Lease on Life, a 1998 New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Cast in Doubt; Motion Sickness; and Haunted Houses…
AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Otolith Group
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 6:15 p.m.
The Otolith Group is an artists collective founded by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun in 2002. Its activities integrate film and video, writing and publishing, workshops, curting exhibitions, and developing public platforms for close readings of the image in contemporary society…
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 6:30 p.m.
Robert Hershon is the author of 12 books of poetry, the editor of several others, and the executive director of the Print Center. He is also co-editor of an acclaimed small press and an innovative literary journal, both called Hanging Loose. Hershon’s most recent collection of poems is Calls from the Outside World. Earlier volumes include The German Lunatic and Into a Punchline: Poems 1986–1996…
Women Writers of the Diaspora: Jacqueline Bishop
Thursday, October 27, 2011 6:30 p.m.
This ongoing series celebrates literature written by women from across the African Diaspora. The series is moderated by Celesti Colds Fechter, associate dean for academic services in The New School for Public Engagement.
MFA Chapbook Reading: 2010 Winners
Thursday, October 27, 2011 6:30 p.m.
Winners of the class of 2010 New School Chapbook Contest read their own poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and writing for children: Katie Naoum, selected by Matthew Rohrer; Nina Glickman, selected by Benjamin Percy; Suzanne Reisman, selected by Maggie Nelson; and Kathryn Holmes, selected by Hilma Wolitzer. Sponsored by the School of Writing.
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