Poetry Literature
Reading & Celebration
Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Diane di Prima: Presented by her Family
Sun, Aug 6, 2023
2:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Symposium
Keats and Shelley on the Move- A Romantic Bicentennials Curran Symposium
Fri, Oct 28, 2022
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Book Launch, Reading & Celebration
The Children of the People Write!
Thu, Sep 15, 2022
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE: On Helene Johnson and the Harlem Renaissance
Tue, Nov 2, 2021
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Book Launch & Reading
Diane di Prima’s Spring and Autumn Annals Release Party
Sat, Oct 30, 2021
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Conversation
Audre Lorde Great Read – “Zami: Talkback & Testimonials”
Mon, May 17, 2021
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Conversation
John Wieners’ Letters for the Voices: A Conversation with Michael Seth Stewart, Ammiel Alcalay & Eileen Myles
Wed, Apr 14, 2021
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Community Gathering & Reading
One Book One Bronx Reading Group: Olio by Tyehimba Jess
Tue, Feb 2, 2021 –
Tue, Feb 23, 2021
Conversation
Reading Audre Lorde in Community with The Audre Lorde Reading Group
Fri, Nov 20, 2020
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Event
CUNY Black~Puerto Rican~Third World Feminist Studies Now with Johanna Fernández, Carmen Kynard, & Vani Kannan
Fri, Nov 13, 2020
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation, Conference & ***Conference and Conversation Series***
Translating the Future Finale: “Democracy and Translation” with Natalie Diaz, Marilyn Nelson, & Ken Liu
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Conference
Translating the Future: “From 1970 to 2020: Translation Transformations” with David Bellos and Karen Emmerich
Tue, May 12, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Harmony Holiday and Fred Moten Reading and Book Celebration
Fri, Nov 1, 2019
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Lecture
Cedar Sigo Presents “Reality Is No Obstacle: A Poetics of Participation”
Thu, Sep 26, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
Poets Simone White and Terrance Hayes in Conversation
Mon, Mar 11, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:30 AM
***seminar*** & Presentation
The Object Seminar: Breaking Boundaries with Frédéric Baitinger
Fri, Mar 8, 2019
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Reading
Turnstyle Reading Series: Mary Ann Caws and Said Sayrafiezadeh
Thu, Apr 18, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Reading
Turnstyle Reading Series: David Groff, Keith Gandal, and Ashna Ali
Tue, Mar 12, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Reading
Turnstyle Reading Series: Ammiel Alcalay & Catherine Barnett
Wed, Feb 20, 2019
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
***seminar*** & Presentation
Seminar Series on Édouard Glissant at the Graduate Center, CUNY
Fri, Nov 9, 2018 –
Fri, Nov 30, 2018
Conversation & Reading
Indo-Caribbean Stories: Sharing, Recording, and Archiving Stories of the West Indies & Movement to the USA
Sat, Oct 27, 2018
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
***galleryTour***
Painting as Translation?: Conversation with the Artist
Thu, Sep 27, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Symposium
Édouard Glissant’s Tout-Monde: Transnational Perspectives
Fri, Nov 16, 2018
12:45 PM – 7:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
Power, Collective Struggle, and the Poetic Imagination
Mon, Oct 1, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Atmospheric Embroidery: Meena Alexander in Conversation with Kimiko Hahn and Patricia Spears Jones
Tue, Nov 13, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Workshop
Writers Lab Workshops at the Academy for Young Writers
Tue, Mar 26, 2019
12:00 AM – 12:00 AM
Reading
Turnstyle Reading Series: Nicole Dennis-Benn, Helen Phillips, Bonnie Harris
Tue, May 15, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conference
2018 AAACS Conference: “Poetry, Protest, and the People in Curriculum Studies” Keynotes and Performance
Thu, Apr 12, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Writing and Resistance Today: Abdellah Taïa and Chiké Frankie Edozien in Conversation with Mythili Rao
Mon, Apr 9, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Reading
Book Launch for Celina Su’s Landia featuring Youmna Chlala, Caroline Crumpacker, Paolo Javier, Cindi Katz, & Alissa Quart
Thu, Apr 26, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation
Marcel Duchamp, The Blind Man, and New York Dada: Institutional Critique and Editorial Practices
Tue, Apr 24, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Reading
New York Chapbook Launch: Layla Benitez-James’ “God Suspected My Heart Was a Geode But He Had to Make Sure”
Wed, Apr 11, 2018
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Conference
Art and Literature in Contemporary Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas
Thu, Mar 15, 2018
1:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Lecture
A Bio/Memoir, or: Seven years (for each) of Working with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir
Mon, Oct 16, 2017
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Puerto Rico/New York/Morocco: Poet’s Journey—Victor Hernández Cruz in Conversation with Dorothy Wang & Ammiel Alcalay
Tue, Oct 31, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
After Kathy Acker: Chris Kraus in Conversation with Anne Boyer & Ariana Reines
Fri, Sep 22, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Panel Discussion
The Performance of Blackness in Contemporary Brazil, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic
Thu, Sep 7, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Performance
Professions for Women: Corina Copp and Diana Hamilton
Thu, May 4, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Lecture
American Women Writers and the Anesthetics of Empathy: Deborah Nelson
Fri, Apr 28, 2017
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Lecture
“Something to Offend Everyone”: The Muckraking Life and Times of Jessica Mitford
Mon, Mar 20, 2017
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Conversation
Letters, Friendship, & Feminism: Hettie Jones & Claudia Moreno Parsons
Thu, May 11, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Reading
Turnstyle Reading Series: Nicole Cooley, Pamela Laskin, Said Sayrafiezadeh
Mon, Apr 24, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Reading
Turnstyle Reading Series: Meera Nair, Marc Palmieri, Roger Sedarat
Tue, Mar 21, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Performance
Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich and the Feminist Superhero: The Poetics of Women’s Political Resistance
Fri, Feb 17, 2017
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
Narrating Life: Afro Colombian Experiences with Marta Quiñónez and Héctor Marino Carabalí
Fri, Nov 4, 2016
3:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics: An Introduction and Reading
Tue, Nov 1, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Panel Discussion
In.On.Or About the Premises: A Celebration of the Work of Paul Blackburn
Mon, Sep 26, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Conversation & Reading
Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016), A Celebration
Fri, Oct 21, 2016
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Performance
Western: A play starring Antigone and her brothers
Thu, Jun 23, 2016 –
Sun, Jun 26, 2016
Conversation & Reading
Beat & Beyond: “Lost & Found” at Bowery Poetry Club
Tue, Jun 7, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Reading
An Evening with Argos and Lost & Found in Los Angeles, CA
Fri, Apr 1, 2016
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
***seminar*** & Presentation
Translation Seminar with Esther Allen: The Perils of Polyglossia
Wed, Apr 13, 2016
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Event
Translation Theory Today: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Critical Theory
Thu, May 5, 2016 –
Fri, May 6, 2016
Event
Person Place Thing: Margo Jefferson in Conversation with Randy Cohen
Tue, Apr 5, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Conversation & Performance
Palestine: Nothing Makes Sense Why Should I?: A Performance by Suad Amiry
Thu, Feb 18, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Event
Through Their Words: Poetics, Aesthetics and Literary Theory in the Graeco-Roman World
Fri, Apr 8, 2016
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Event
Translating Morocco: Fouad Laroui, Emma Ramadan and Adam Shatz
Mon, Mar 21, 2016
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Event
Translation Lab: Authors and Translators Discuss Their Collaborations
Thu, Nov 12, 2015
6:30 AM – 10:00 PM
***seminar*** & Presentation
Translation Seminar: Susan Bernofsky
Wed, Feb 10, 2016
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Conversation & Screening
The Hand That Feeds: Migrant Workers’ Poetry Performance and Film
Fri, Oct 30, 2015
6:30 PM
Conversation & Reading
Reimagining the Mainstream: A Celebration of 2015 Pulitzer Prize-Winner Gregory Pardlo
Mon, Oct 26, 2015
7:00 PM
Conversation
Haydée Santamaría Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression
Thu, Oct 8, 2015
6:30 PM
Conversation
Re-Discovering Harper Lee: Jonathan Burnham in Conversation with Joan Acocella and Tuzyline Allan
Wed, Oct 7, 2015
7:00 PM
Conversation & Performance
Katrina AfterMaps—10 Years On: A Discussion of Unnatural Disaster
Fri, Sep 18, 2015
4:30 PM
Event
Lost & Found Series V: Kathy Acker William S. Burroughs Langston Hughes & Jean Sénac
Wed, Jun 10, 2015 –
Tue, Sep 1, 2015
Event
In Search of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: The Man Who Brought Proust to the English-Speaking World
Tue, May 19, 2015
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Event
The Shapes of Sense: A Conversation with Molly Nesbit and Joan Richardson
Tue, Apr 28, 2015
6:30 PM
Event
Lost & Found Series V Launch and Opening Reception: Seeking the Glyph
Tue, Mar 31, 2015
6:00 PM
Event
Coming of Age in Midcentury America: Morris Dickstein in Conversation with Gary Giddins
Wed, Mar 18, 2015
6:30 PM
Event
‘For the Love of Your Sister’: Ellen Tucker Emerson Edith Emerson Forbes and the Emerson Legacy
Mon, Mar 9, 2015
4:00 PM
Panel Discussion
Teaching CUNY at CUNY: Engaging with CUNY Histories and Archives
Fri, Feb 6, 2015
4:00 PM
Event
A Question of Africa: Will Alexander—Towards the Primeval Lightning Field
Tue, Dec 9, 2014
6:00 PM
Event
H.D. and Jean Epstein: Queer Modernism Spectatorship and The Specimen
Fri, May 16, 2014
7:00 PM
Event
The Last Hapsburg Poet: Paul Celan’s Love Poetry and the Limits of Language
Wed, Mar 19, 2014
6:30 PM
Event
Academics Writing Fiction: Ruth Behar and Paul Stoller in Conversation
Wed, Feb 5, 2014
6:30 PM
Event
Beneath the American Renaissance at Twenty-Five: David S. Reynolds and American Cultural Studies
Fri, Oct 18, 2013
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Event
Women in the Pantheon of Illustrious Men: Galleries Books and Political Allegories in Seventeenth-Century France
Fri, Apr 19, 2013
5:00 PM
Event
Writing Writers’ Lives: 5th Annual Leon Levy Biography Conference
Mon, Mar 18, 2013
1:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Conversation
Narrating Transformation and Transforming through Storytelling
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
6:30 PM
Event
The Women Writing Women’s Lives Dorothy O. Helly Works-in-Progress Lecture featuring Diane Jacobs
Mon, Nov 26, 2012
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Event
Max Jacob: Mysticism and Radical Poetry The 9th Bi-Annual Stanley Burnshaw Lecture
Wed, Nov 14, 2012
6:30 PM
Event
Disappearing History: Scenes of Trauma in the Theater of Human Rights
Fri, Oct 26, 2012
4:30 PM
Event
An Evening with Poets Ari Banias Tonya Foster Brenda Iijima and Ricardo Maldonado
Thu, May 10, 2012
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Event
Sentimental Geographies: Geography Affect and Contemporary Cultural Practice
Fri, Feb 24, 2012
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Conversation & Performance
SAFE Shimmy SLAM: An Eruption of Prose Poetry & Performance
Fri, Feb 3, 2012
6:00 PM
Event
WWWL presents Works In Progress: “Sara Bard Field, Poet and Radical Suffragist: Parsing the Heart”
Mon, Oct 17, 2011
4:00 PM
Event
Prelude.11: A supposedly FUN THING I’ll never do again: (after david foster wallace)
Wed, Oct 12, 2011
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Event
Back & Forth / Poetry & Jazz: A Conversation and Performance with David Meltzer & Marty Ehrlich
Fri, Sep 23, 2011
4:00 PM
