the New School PUblic Programs: Literary events

April-June 2009 Update

NEW YORK, March 13, 2009—This spring, The New School and its Writing Program present a wide range of literary events, including Oulipo in New York: A Workshop in Experimental Literature (April 1), featuring a group of French-speaking writers and mathematicians who are searching for new structures and patterns in language and having fun at the same time; Considering Forgiveness, A Book Celebration (May 11), the first Vera List Center book and one that focuses on the political currency of forgiveness and all its implications; and Craig Claiborne and the Invention of Food Journalism (June 11) with former New York Times columnist Molly O’Neill and other notable food writers.

The New School will also host events in conjunction with literary awards ceremonies. The Poetry Society of America Chapbook Prize Reading (April 28) will include readings by recent winners John Estes, C.J. Evans, Jean Hartig, and Christopher Nelson. The Publishing Triangle Awards (May 7) will honor the year’s best gay and lesbian writing with a ceremony and public reception.

Several writers of note will give readings as part of the school’s fiction, non-fiction, and poetry forums, including Ian Buruma (April 7), Michael Dumanis (April 14), Robert Polito and Guy Maddin (April 20), Matthew Sharpe and Scott Heim (April 15), Kyoko Mori (April 29), and Leonard S. Marcus (May 5).

The New School will also host Girls Write Now Spring Reading (June 14), New York City’s premier mentoring and creative writing organization for teen girls, with Amanda Diva and Girls Write Now mentees who will read from their new anthology Becoming Women.

About the New School Writing Program

The New School has been a vital center for writing and its instruction since 1931, when Gorham Munson, a Manhattan editor and influential partisan of the Alfred Stieglitz circle, introduced his now-legendary workshop in creative writing. Since 1996, The New School has offered a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree with concentrations in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and writing for children. Founded by poet and biographer Robert Polito, the MFA program marks the latest transformation in the school’s commitment to creative writing. Over seven decades of steady innovation, The New School’s writing faculty has featured many of America’s most important poets, novelists, literary critics, and editors, including Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, Robert Lowell, and Frank O’Hara. The current faculty includes Francine Prose, Helen Schulman, Stephen Wright, Dale Peck, Vivian Gornick, Susan Cheever, Abigail Thomas, Honor Moore, Suzanna Lessard, and David Lehman. For more information, visit www.writing.newschool.edu.

All public programs are subject to change.

Editor’s Note: Full Calendar of Events Available Here