July 23: Poets & Writers presents Word for Word at Bryant Park: Joseph O. Legaspi, Tyehimba Jess, Patricia Spears Jones, and Samantha Thornhill

Join Poets & Writers in Bryant Park's historic outdoor Reading Room for a free poetry reading featuring

Joseph O. Legaspi, Tyehimba Jess, Patricia Spears Jones, and Samantha Thornhill.

Bryant Park Reading Room
42nd Street and Sixth Avenue
New York, NY

For details, visit:  http://www.bryantpark.org/plan-your-visit/wordforword.html or http://www.pw.org/content/poets_writers_at_bryant_park
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July 28: Kundiman and Cave Canem at the New York Poetry Festival

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July 28, 2013 3:10pm
Kundiman & Cave Canem at the New York Poetry Festival

Kundiman poets Tarfia Faizullah and Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai team up with Cave Canem fellows Angel Nafis and Laura Yes Yes for a reading at the New York Poetry Festival, the Poetry Society of New York's annual, two-day celebration of New York City's vibrant poetry community. The event will feature over 50 poetry organizations and 200 poets on its three stages; local booksellers, artists and craftmakers; food and drink; and poetry-inspired installation art. For a full schedule and line-up, visit poetrysocietyny.org.

Governors Island
Colonel's Row
New York, NY

R.A. Villanueva wins the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in poetry for his manuscript Reliquaria

Congrats, dear Ron! 

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The winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in poetry is R.A. Villanueva for his manuscript Reliquaria. His writing has appeared in AGNI, Gulf Coast, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Bellevue Literary Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, his honors include the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry, fellowships from Kundiman and The Asian American Literary Review, and scholarships from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He is currently a Language Lecturer at New York University and lives in Brooklyn. 

The winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in fiction is Amina Gautier for her manuscript Now We Will Be Happy. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of the short story collection At-Risk (U of Georgia P), which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. More than seventy-five of her stories have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as Antioch Review, Callaloo, Chattahoochee Review, Crazyhorse, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, and Southern Review, among others. Her work has received scholarships and fellowships from the Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Callaloo Writer’s Conference, Hurston/Wright Foundation, Sewanee Writer’s Conference, and others, as well as artist grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from Stanford University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. 

Both will receive a $3,000 prize and publication by the University of Nebraska Press. Their books will be available in September 2014. 

http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=book-prize/current-winners 

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July 17: Writing Race & Belonging, A Protest Poem for Trayvon Martin

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To stand in solidarity with Trayvon Martin and his family and to speak on the national debate on civil rights and racial profiling, Kundiman will be writing a protest poem both virtually and as part of our Writing Race & Belonging presentation at the  Gramsci Monument sponsored by Dia Art Foundation.  Poets of color from around the country will participate in this poetic vigil for Trayvon Martin.  You'll be able to view the virtual poem as it unfolds in real time on this webpage below.  Hit the refresh button on your browser to view the updated content.

Wednesday, July 17
11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Gramsci Monument is located on the grounds of Forest Houses, off Tinton Avenue between 163rd and 165th Streets.

Directions:

  • Subway: 2, 5 at Prospect Avenue
  • Head north on Prospect Avenue
  • Turn left onto 163rd Street
  • Pass Union Avenue
  • Turn right onto Tinton Avenue
  • Take first left onto pedestrian pathway leading into Forest Houses