MFA Director Lewis Warsh will read at the poetry project in February

From the Poetry Project's Website:

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Studying Hunger Journals

February 23, 2011

8:00 pm

Come celebrate the release of  Bernadette Mayer’s STUDYING HUNGER JOURNALS (Station Hill Press). In part, the journals explore psyche and were undertaken, in cahoots with a psychiatrist via two running journals, so that while she kept writing in one he could read the other. She wrote in colored pens, intending to “color-code emotions”—to see if her synaesthetic ability to see letters as colors might act as a bridge to seeing emotions. She had had an idea: “…if a human, a writer, could come up with a workable code, or shorthand, for the transcription of every event, every motion, every transition of his or her own mind, & could perform this process of translation on himself, using the code… he or we or someone could come up with a great piece of language/information.” While an abridged edition appeared in 1975 with Adventures In Poetry/Big Sky, this is the full text of that enterprise. Bernadette Mayer is the author of more than two dozen volumes of poetry, including Midwinter Day, Sonnets, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, and Poetry State Forest. A former director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery and co-editor of the conceptual magazine 0 to 9 with Vito Acconci, Mayer has been a key figure on the New York poetry scene for decades. The book will be read by a wide range of luminaries including, Lee Ann Brown, Barbara Epler, Phil Good, Bernadette Mayer, Don Yorty, Michael Ruby, Marie Warsh, Lewis Warsh, Adam Fitzgerald, Peggy Decoursey, Bill Kushner, Bill Denoyelles, Deborah Poe, Peter Baker, Miles Champion, Anne Waldman and CA Conrad.

Posted Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 in Program Calendar, Readings

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From the Fall 2010 semester: Anne Waldman reading at LIU, Lewis Warsh reading at Old American Can Factory

Anne Waldman was the visiting professor for the fall 2010 semester. She taught a workshop, and gave a reading at LIU in November.


And in October 2010, the head of the MFA program, Lewis Warsh, read at the Brooklyn Rail's 10th anniversary reading at the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

 

New Blog, New Publications, New Semester, New Year

Hello, Internet

This is the first post on what I hope will become a vibrant and informative blog for the MFA program at Long Island University in Brooklyn. I would like for this to become an accurate reflection of all the literary action going on in and around the LIU community. I'll post poems and excerpts from stories by LIU students, videos of readings, information about upcoming events and readings, links to various independent publishing endeavors by MFA students, among other useful information. In keeping with these goals, I'll just start here and now:

Three literary journals have cropped up since the Fall 2010 semester. MFA students Joe Infante, Gulay Isik, Micah Sivaglio, and Kyle De Ocera have started a journal of art, fiction, and poetry called By The Overpass. Their first issue will be out in March. By The Overpass will also host a reading series at Rhythm and Booze in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Another student, Tony Iantosca, has collaborated with some poet-friends he made while he was living in Vermont. This journal focuses exclusively on publishing poetry, and it's called Sun's Skeleton. Their second issue will be out in February.
  
The third journal that has emerged recently is called Brooklyn Paramount. It will also be out quite soon, and it focuses on publishing writers associated with the MFA program at LIU (professors, students and alumni).  

Stay tuned for postings of videos of readings by MFA students and faculty.