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Spring 2012
February 6
Poets Out Loud
Local Talent: Fordham poets read
7 pm, 12 floor Lounge
February 15
Prose Reading
7 pm, 12 floor Lounge
The award-winning online magazine Guernica has interviewed Arundhati Roy, Joan Didion, John Updike and featured writing by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Richard Howard, Rivka Galchen, and Jesse Ball. Guernica was started by two writers (one of them a Fordham graduate) who had in mind a magazine of art and politics that could house pieces such as a longform story about politics in Africa and poetry and fiction in translation. Guernica will be conducting a reading with one of its writers followed by a Q&A. You talk to our writer or ask our editors how you can start a magazine. Or more importantly, how to keep one going over many years.
March 7
Colloquia: Advice on Publication & Careers for Creative Writers
7 pm, South Lounge
Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collections Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and The Heaven-Sent Leaf (BOA Editions, 2008), as well as the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003, Amazon included on its list of Best Memoirs of 2003, and Esquire Magazine named one of its eight Best Books of the Year 2003. Her honors and awards include fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Discover Great New Writers citation from Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Program. A former VP at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan, Katy currently lives in Brooklyn, where she writes, reads, runs a small business from her home.
Wendy S. Walters is the author of Longer I Wait, More You Love Me (2009) and a chapbook, Birds of Los Angeles (2005), both published by Palm Press (Long Beach, CA). Walters’ poetry has been recognized with residency fellowships from Breadloaf, MacDowell, Cave Canem and Yaddo, and her poems have recently appeared in Callaloo, HOW2, Natural Bridge, Seneca Review and the Yalobusha Review, among several others. She has been a nominee for the Essay Prize and her essays have beenpublished in Bookforum, Seneca Review, Seattle Review, and Harper’s Magazine. After finishing her formal studies, including a M.F.A. in creative writing (poetry) and Ph.D. in English Language and Literature with an emphasis in cultural and performance studies from Cornell University, Walters spent several years teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI). At present she is Assistant Professor of Poetry in the Department of Literary Studies at the Eugene Lang College of the New School University (New York, NY). She lives in New York City.
March 21
Undergraduate Student Creative Writing Reading
7 pm, 12 Floor Lounge
March 28
Poets Out Loud
Launch of POL Prize books: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (POL Prize judge), Julie Choffel (winner of 2011 POL Prize), Michelle Naka Pierce (winner of 2011 POL Editor’s Prize) read
7 pm, 12 floor Lounge
April 11
The Reid Family Writers of Color Series
Featuring Terrance Hayes and Patricia Smith
11:00 am - 12:30 pm, 12 floor Lounge
Lincoln Center Panel Reading and Discussion, Student Q & A and Book-signing
Co-Sponsored by Cave Canem
April 12
The Reid Family Writers of Color Series
Featuring Terrance Hayes and Patricia Smith
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Keating 1st
Rose Hill Reading, Student Q &A, and Book-signing
April 18
Poets Out Loud
Tom Sleigh reads with selected poets from POL’s high school outreach program
7 pm, 12 floor Lounge
April 27
Creative Writing Awards
6 pm, South Lounge
May 1
The Art of the Memoir
7 pm, 12 floor Lounge
moderated by Susan Kamil, publisher of Random House and Dial Press imprints
Speakers include Mary Bly (Eloisa James), Richard Giannone, Eve Keller, Kim Dana Kupperman, and Elizabeth Stone
There will be short readings by each author, a panel discussion and Q & A, followed by a reception and booksigning.
Mary Bly is a Shakespeare professor at Fordham University and (as Eloisa James), a New York Times bestselling author of historical romance novels. Paris in Love (Random House, 2012) is a memoir of her sabbatical year in Paris. It received a starred review from Publishers' Weekly and has been described as "beautiful and delightful" by memoirist Elizabeth Gilbert. While many authors write memoirs, Bly is in the particularly interesting position of having created a pseudonym and then written a memoir for that persona.
Richard Giannone, Professor Emeritus at Fordham, is the author of five books, including Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist. His work and gay partnership of thirty-one years evolved alongside the AIDS crisis and within and against Italian American culture that reflected the Catholic Church's discountenancing homosexual love. Hidden: Reflections on Gay Life, AIDS, and Spiritual Desire (Fordham, 2012) records Giannone's transformation from a solitary gay academic to a dedicated caregiver of his dying mother and sister as well as a sexually and spiritually committed man.
Eve Keller, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the English department, publishes on the literature, science, and medicine of early modern England. Two Rings: A Story of Love and War (PublicAffairs, March 2012) is Eve's first venture into memoir. Two Rings tells the story of co-author Millie Werber, now 85, as she rediscovers the world of the teenage girl she had been during the Holocaust. At the heart of her experience lies something utterly unexpected: a love that blazed briefly in one of the darkest corners of occupied Poland. Kirkus calls Two Rings "wholly engrossing, written with exceptional immediacy and attention to detail." It will be published in six foreign countries, from Australia to Italy and the Czech Republic.
Kim Dana Kupperman teaches nonfiction at Fordham as a visiting writer-in-residence, and is a faculty member at Fairfield University’s low-residency MFA program. She is the founder of Welcome Table Press, devoted to publishing and celebrating the essay, in all its forms. I Just Lately Started Buying Wings. Missives from the Other Side of Silence (Graywolf, 2010), is a collection of autobiographical, personal, and lyric essays; it received the 2009 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize in nonfiction.
Elizabeth Stone has written four books— two of them memoirs—and many personal essays, most recently for the Gettysburg Review. In one memoir, Silent Partner (Hyperion, 2010), she helped Dina Matos McGreevey tell the story of her marriage to former NJ governor James McGreevey. The second, A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student, (Algonquin, 2002) came about when a student named Vincent died of AIDS, left her his diaries, and asked her to write about him.
May 4
CURA Personalis: A Reading Gala
7 pm, Plaza Level Atrium
Sponsored by Fordham's CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art and Action to benefit Covenant House.
Readings followed by a heavy hors d'oeuvre reception
Suggested donation as follows:
$5 admission
$10 admission + copy of CURA or DogTag
$20 admission + copy of CURA + DogTag
Space is limited.
To purchase tickets, click here
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago, a poetry collection, from CavanKerry Press. Born in the Philippines, he was raised there and in Los Angeles where he immigrated with his family when he was twelve. He holds degrees from Loyola Marymount University and the Creative Writing Program at New York University. Currently, he lives in Manhattan and works at Columbia University. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including North American Review, Gulf Coast, Crab Orchard Review, Bloomsbury Review, Puerto Del Sol, Seneca Review, The Literary Review, Gay & Lesbian Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bamboo Ridge, and the anthologies Contemporary Voices of the Eastern World, PinoyPoetics, and Titling the Continent. A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets.
Evie Shockley is the author of two books of poetry—the new black (Wesleyan UP, 2011) and a half-red sea (Carolina Wren P, 2006)—and the critical study Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2011). Her poetry has been published internationally in journals and anthologies and supported with residencies and scholarships from the Millay Colony for the Arts, Cave Canem, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and Hedgebrook. She is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where she teaches African American literature and creative writing.
May 11
KGB Bar Reading: Fordham Students
7 pm, 85 E. 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
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