Anna Moschovakis

Anna Moschovakis Reads from You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake 
(Feb. 2011, Coffee House Press)

Pete's Candy Store

March 20, 2009, 7 p.m. Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY

Please join Multifarious Array for a reading featuring three stellar poets, hosted by Sommer Browning. Tony Mancus' poems have appeared or will be appearing in Cream City Review, H_ngm_n, Forklift, Ohio, Handsome and elsewhere. He is co-founder of Flying Guillotine Press. Myronn Hardy is the author of two volumes of poetry, Approaching the Center, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and The Headless Saints both published by New Issues Press. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, FIELD, Versal (Amsterdam), Third Coast, and elsewhere. Jess Mynes is the author of several published works, including Birds for Example (CARVE Editions),In(ex)teriors (Anchorite Press), and If and When (Katalanche Press). His Sky Brightly Picked (Skysill Press) and Recently Clouds (Petrichord Books), a collaboration with poet Aaron Tieger, are to be published in 2009. He is the editor of Fewer & Further Press and he co-curates a reading series in Western, MA, All Small Caps.

Colson Whitehead @ Pianos, NYC

Here is a dark photo from the Pianos/One Story event.

Colson Whitehead

I went to Pianos last night and heard Colson Whitehead read some of his literature at a party hosted by One Story. Here is a small video of the event. The view isn't that good, but you can still hear his voice loud and clear. Enjoy!

Word Fest

WORD FEST COMETH!
7 PM, SAT. MAY 5

THE FORUM THEATRE
http://members.aol.com/raconteurbooks/Festival.doc

Books on sale at the event.

Authors will sign in the upstairs foyer during the two ten minute intermissions.
$20 General Public; $15 Student/Senior (with ID)
To purchase tickets in advance please visit
The Raconteur at 431 Main Street, Metuchen.
Tickets available at The Forum night of event only.

Please direct all queries to
The Raconteur at 732-906-0009
or raconteurbooks@aol.com

Symphony Space

Peter Norton Symphony Space

Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (PJST)

Leonard Nimoy Thalia (LNT)

2537 Broadway at 95th Street

New York, NY 10025-6990

Tel: 212.864.5400

Fax: 212.932.3228
http://www.symphonyspace.org/



Reading the World: An Evening of Fiction in Translation
A part of the series Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story
A part of the series Upper West Fest An evening celebrating literature in translation from around the world, with readings of stories by Primo Levi, Hanna Krall and Can Xue introduced by translator Ann Goldstein, New Yorker Fiction Editor Deborah Treisman and Alane Salierno Mason, a senior editor at W. W. Norton & Company as well as Founding Editor of Words Without Borders, The Online Magazine for International Literature.
Showtime: May 9, 2007, 6:30 pm

Laure-Anne Bosselaar

May 13, 2007

NEW YORK, NY
LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR

will read with

Donna Mitchell and Martha Rhodes

at 6:00 p.m.

Cornelia Street Cafe

29 Cornelia Street (Greenwich Village)

Information: www.corneliastreetcafe.com

About Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of two previous collections: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (1997) and Small Gods of Grief (2001) which won the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize. She grew up in Belgium, where she worked for Belgian radio and television. Fluent in four languages, she moved to the U.S. in 1986. She lives in New York City and is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, and of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College. http://www.ausablepress.org/

Elegy
The past lies in the swath I left

crossing a summer meadow in Belgium.
I longed to see my old house one

last time, and crossed the field at dawn.
Some grasses lifted their heads

after my passage — wild chamomile and chervil —
but the touch-me-not lay crushed.

I found nothing there I wanted to bring back
and no one was left to see me turn away.

William Olsen & Maurice Manning

William Olsen & Maurice Manning

Thursday, April 26, 2007, 7 p.m.
Regina Peruggi Room,

Marymount Manhattan College,

221 East 71st Street,

New York, NY

Grace Schulman & Tom Sleigh

Grace Schulman & Tom Sleigh

Thursday, April 19

Peruggi Room,

Marymount Manhattan College

221 East 71st Street,

New York City

7:00 p.m.

FREE

Grace Schulman's fifth collection, The Broken String (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), calls back to virtuoso violinist Itzhak Perlman’s resolution to perform despite a missing string. Schulman is the recipient of numerous awards including the Aiken-Taylor Award, the Delmore Schwartz Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the poetry editor of the Nation and a former director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y. She teaches at Baruch College in New York City.Tom Sleigh is the author of Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), Far Side of the Earth (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), four other books of poetry and a collection of essays, Interview With A Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2006). Robert Pinsky, writing in The Washington Post, recently called Sleigh's poem "The Hole" an "extraordinary" example of how poetry "can crystallize and hold up for inspection forces that govern life in general." Sleigh teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Hunter College.
Co-sponsored by Houghton Mifflin and Marymount Manhattan College.

Are There Not Still Fireflies

Lawrence Ferlinghetti performed last night at the 92 Street Y in NYC. I was in total awe of the man! He looked great for his age (88) and was really physically fit. I think I expected a frail old man with hippie hair and grimy clothes. I remember being in college and hearing about the "beats" and how they dressed and he did not fit the image. I was in the eighth row, so I got a real good look at him and he was neat and clean.

He read from one of his first poetry books

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems and one of his last Americus, Book I. I loved that he shared some of his upcoming prose (that will be released in the next few months), as well as a reading of a few poems accompanied by background music. I would have stayed around for the book signing, but the line was crazy long and I had a good drive home. Overall, it was an amazing night!

One of the new poems he read:

ARE THERE NOT STILL FIREFLIES

Are there not still fireflies

Are there not still four-leaf clovers

Is not our land still beautiful

Our fields not full of armed enemies

Our cities never bombed to oblivion

in their huddled masses

(What is that sound that fills the ear

drumming drumming?)

Is not Rome still Rome

Is not Los Angeles still Los Angeles

Are these really the last days of the Roman Empire

Is not beauty still beauty

And truth still truth

Are there not still poets

Are there not still lovers

Are there not still mothers

sisters and brothers

Is there not still a full moon

once a month

Are there not still fireflies

Are there not still stars at night

Can we not still see them

in bowl of night

signalling to us

our so-called manifest destinies?

92nd Street Y

Nathan Englander and Jonathan Lethem
Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 8:00pm

where:

92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
212.415.5500

websites:

http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0499/englander/
http://www.jonathanlethem.com/

interviews:
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=340
http://www.powells.com/authors/lethem.html

Poem In Your Pocket Day

Poem In Your Pocket Day

when: Friday, April 27, 2007, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

where: Bryant Park Reading Room,

Between 40th / 42nd Street & Fifth/Sixth Avenue,

New York, NY

Calling All Poetry Lovers:

Celebrate New York City's 5th Annual Poem in Your Pocket Day at the Bryant Park Reading Room. Bring a favorite poem to Bryant Park and receive a free book of poetry; one book per person while the supply lasts. An open mic forum will be available in the afternoon to NYC students who wish to read their poems. Students age 18 and under may register for the open mic. In addition to NYC student poets, you'll have an opportunity to hear our guest poets from NY Scores, Academy of American Poets, Cornell, CUNY and Urban Word NYC.

This Bryant Park poetry program is co-hosted by the Academy of American Poets, Bryant Park Reading Room, and the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Education and the Mayor's Office.
Sponsored by Academy of American Poets, Bryant Park Restoration Corporation and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
Info: 212.274.0343 academy@poets.orghttp://bryantpark.org/

Reading Catalan Poetry

Reading Catalan Poetry

March 24 at 8:30PM

Downtown luminaries Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, and Patti Smith bring to the American spotlight some of Catalonia's greatest poetry of the 20th century.

All performances begin at 8:30pm.
Admission is free.Reservations are required. Seating is limited.
Phone Ticket Central Box Office at 212-279-4200.
On-line: http://www.ticketcentral.com/

The Baryshnikov Dance Foundation presents Made in CataluNYa, Catalan Culture in New York, a festival organized by the Barcelona-based Institut Ramon Llull and featuring some of today's most innovative and celebrated Catalan artists in dance, theater, music and poetry.

*all above information taken from:
http://www.baryshnikovdancefoundation.org/

Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon

Date & Time: Tue, May 1, 2007, 8:00pm
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Venue: Kaufmann Center Hall
Price: $18.00 / $10.00 Age 35 and Under

Michael Chabon's new novel is The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Called a "prose magician" and "gentle-spirited writer of boundless ambition" by the Village Voice, he is also the author of the short-story collections A Model World and Werewolves in Their Youth; the novels Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the Pulitzer Prize; and most recently, The Final Solution: A Story of Detection.

taken from: http://www.92y.org

other books by/with Chabon:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths

by Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, and Michael Chabon
The Best American Short Stories 2005 (The Best American Series)

by Michael Chabon and Katrina Kenison
Mysteries of Pittsburgh: A Novel (P.S.)
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.)
Wonder Boys
Summerland
A Model World and Other Stories
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
Michael Chabon Presents. . .The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, Volume 1
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories
My California: Journeys By Great Writers
The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh
Casting the Runes: And Other Ghost Stories (Oxford World's Classics)

by M. R. James and Michael Chabon

Daniel Alarcon

Lost City Radio
and
War by Candlelight: Stories (P.S.)

by Daniel Alarcón

Suggestion:
I am adding Alacon to the list of people I need to check out. Look below at the About the Author and the readings website, he may be doing a reading near you.

About the Author:
taken from: http://www.danielalarcon.com/index.html
Daniel Alarcón’s fiction and nonfiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, Salon, Eyeshot and elsewhere. He is Associate Editor of Etiqueta Negra, an award-winning monthly magazine based in his native Lima, Peru. His story collection, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, and the British journal Granta recently named him one of the Best Young American Novelists. A former Fulbright Scholar to Peru and the recipient of a Whiting Award for 2004, he lives in Oakland, California, where he is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College. His first novel Lost City Radio was published in February 2007.

readings: http://www.danielalarcon.com/english/readings/
Granta: http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Daniel-Alarcon

Kenneth Koch

John Ashbery & Ron Padgett,

reading Kenneth Koch
March 27 @ 6:30
The Drawing Center Main Gallery

35 Wooster Street

New York, NY

$5 general public, free for Academy and Drawing Center members. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

books:
Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry by Kenneth Koch and Ron Padgett
Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? by Kenneth Koch
MAKING YOUR OWN DAYS: THE PLEASURES OF READING AND WRITING POETRY by Kenneth Koch
Sleeping on the wing: An anthology of modern poetry, with essays on reading and writing by Kenneth Koch
How I wrote certain of my books by Raymond Roussel, Trevor Winkfield, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch

Upstairs at the Square

Barnes & Noble's new event series, Upstairs at the Square, mixes writers and musicians for an evening of reading, music, and conversation hosted by journalist Katherine Lanpher.

Union Square

33 East 17th Street

New York, NY 10003

212-253-0810

Union Square store

THURSDAY, APRIL 12th, 7PM

Scottish scribe Ian Rankin will join us Upstairs at the Square on April 12th to read from and discuss the latest novel in his popular series starring Edinburgh detective John Rebus, The Naming of the Dead. Joining Rankin will be Aidan Moffat & The Best-Ofs, who will perform numbers from the acclaimed new CD, Ballads of the Book -- an ambitious compilation featuring some of Scotland’s finest writers and musicians (including Rankin and Moffat). Meet Ian Rankin See CDs by Aidan Moffat

Author Alert

Frank McCourt's three memoirs are Angela's Ashes, ’Tis and Teacher Man. Calvin Trillin, a contributor to The New Yorker and The Nation, is the author of Travels with Alice, Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme and other books.

Date & Time: Thu, Mar 29, 2007, 1:00pm
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street

Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall
Price: $17.00 / $10.00 Student

http://www.92y.org/

Event

An Evening with DR. MAYA ANGELOU

@ NJPAC http://www.njpac.org/

Thursday, May 17, 2007
7:30 pm
Location : Prudential Hall

*Three-time Grammy Award winner Maya Angelou has been hailed as one of the greatest speakers of our time. A renowned poet, playwright, producer, director, conductor, performer, best-selling author, and social activist, her words and her spirit have been a source of inspiration and comfort for millions of people around the world.
(*NJPAC description)

websites:
http://www.mayaangelou.com/
http://www.mayaangelou.com/AngelouBooks.html
http://www.lordly.com/images/stories/ADOBE/PledgeYouthPoem.pdf

Tribute

A Tribute to W.H. Auden with Shirley Hazzard, J.D. McClatchy, Edward Mendelson, Ned Rorem, Charles Rosen and Oliver Sacks

This event, which celebrates Mr. Auden’s centennial, features recordings from the Poetry Center’s archives.

92nd Street Y
Date & Time: Mon, Mar 5, 2007, 8:00pm
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall

Epitaph on a Tyrant
by W. H. Auden
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

Websites:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19467

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/120

Books:

Collected Poems W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden John Fuller

Voice of the Poet W. H. Auden

Auden W. H. Auden

Drama:
Paid On Both Sides (1928)

The Dance of Death (1933)

The Dog Beneath the Skin: or, Where is Francis? (1935)

The Ascent of F.6 (1936)

On the Frontier (1938)