Events

Date

Event

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Time: Common Hour 12:30-1:20 p.m.
Location: Hillwood Museum

STANLEY H. BARKAN is the editor/publisher of the Cross-Cultural Review Series of World Literature and Art, that has, to date, produced some 400 titles in 50 different languages. His own work has been published in 15 collections, several of them bilingual (Bulgarian, Italian, Polish, Russian). His latest are, Strange Seasons, a poetry and photoart collaboration with Russian artist, Mark Polyakov, and ABC of Fruits and Vegetables, with complementary drawings by his daughter, Mia Barkan Clarke, (both published in Sofia, Bulgaria, by AngoBoy, 2007, 2012, respectively). He was the 1991 New York City’s Poetry Teacher of the Year (awarded by Poets House and the Board of Education) and the 1996 winner of the Poor Richard’s Award, “The Best of the Small Presses” (awarded by the Small Press Center), for “25 years of high quality publishing.” 

SULTAN CATTO, Ph.D., Yale University (Mathematical Physics), has made important contributions to the development of elementary particle physics particularly in the area of dynamical supersymmetry, and in mathematics in the areas of spectral theory of automorphic forms and octonionic projective geometries with applications to quantum mechanics. He is a professor and Executive Officer for the Ph.D. Program in Physics at the CUNY Graduate School, member of Baruch College's informal algebra/number theory group, Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in Henry Krumb School of Mines, Columbia University, and Visiting Professor at the Rockefeller University.

In addition to his distinguished and internationally respected work in theoretical physics, Sultan Catto is a well-published poet. When he needs a break from the theories of physics, he starts a poem. He has published three books of poetry (the last by Cross Cultural Poetry) and is a contributor to many magazines in a wide range of countries and languages. Catto is a poetic contributor to the Noches de Cornelia, a bilingual anthology of contemporary poets. He can be heard reading his work at the Cornelia Street Café in Manhattan. He is part of a literary group that meets and reads once a month at the Yale Club which publishes his poems in YALE Poets.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Students, faculty and staff are invited to bring their favorite poems or their own poems and short prose for an open reading.

Friday, March 1, 2013

In connection with the Honors Program conference Poetry Center Special Event, open to the public.

BILL WOLAK AND MARIA BENNETT reading from their translations of European and Persian poetry and discussing “The Future of Poetic Translation.”

BILL WOLAK has published six collections of poetry, Pale as an Explosion and Love Emergencies (with Mahmood Karimi-Hakak), and Archaeology of Light, When Dreaming Birds Sings, The Strength of the Spider’s Web Decides, and Perfume in a Sandstorm. He has translated Joyce Mansour, Stuart Merrill, and Francis Viele-Griffin. His most recent translation with Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, Your Lover’s Beloved: 51 Ghazals of Hafez, was published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2009. He is an avid traveler with a passionate interest in arts and cultures.

MARIA BENNETT has recently published her first book of poetry Because You Love with Cross-Cultural Communications.  Her work has appeared in many magazines and. She has translated poems by Nancy Morejon, Ernesto Cardenal, and Cintio Vitier and is currently completing the translation of the works of the Spanish poet Carlos Edmundo de Ory. Ms. Bennett has also published articles and reviews in The Daily News, Utne Reader, Epicurean, and other newspapers and magazines. Her critical work The Unfractioned Idiom: Hart Crane and Modernism was published by Peter Lang Press in 1987.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

HONG AI BAI will be reading from series of booklets devoted to improvisations of  Classical Chinese poetry in collaboration with John Digby (The Feral Press). These include The Sword Dance, an interpretation of Du Fu’s poem, “Watching Gong-sun’s Student Dancing Jian Qi” (2010), Three Neglected Chinese Women; Three Deserted Tang Poets, a political and gender interpretation of poems by Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi (2011); The Horse in Chinese Poetry and Culture (2012); Cold Food Festival Poems (2012); and My Garden with a Bamboo Fence: The Later Poetry of Lu You (2013).  Dr. Bai has her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Fudan University, Shanghai and is Adjunct Professor of English at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University. She is the author of Deviation in Advertising Language: a Functional Analysis (2009), three English textbooks and numerous scholarly articles. Her particular interest in language and gender informs her work on Chinese poetry.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Time: Common Hour 12:00-1:20 p.m.
Location: Hillwood Museum

HASSANAL ABDULLA is a Bangladesh-born poet, novelist, critic, translator, song writer and the editor of the International Bilingual Poetry Journal, Shabdaguchha. He is a sonnet form innovator and has also written an epic on the Universe and how life is connected as a whole, as explored in major scientific theories. He will read with his wife.

NAZNIN SEAMON is an award winning poet and a short story writer. She has been living in New York since 1997. She is currently a High School English teacher, a regular contributor to Shabdaguchha and the Secretary of the Forum for Secular Bangladesh (Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee), New York Chapter. She was interviewed by Voice of America Bangla Radio and Ekushey TV. Naznin Seamon is also the editor of an online news paper, NYnews52.com.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Poetry Award Night
Time: 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Location: Winnick House - Great Hall

MICHAEL HELLER has published over twenty volumes of poetry, essays and memoir. His newest book is This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010. Other recent works include: Eschaton (2009), a book of poems, and Beckmann Variations & Other Poems, a work in prose and poetry (2010). His collection of essays on George Oppen, Speaking the Estranged, was published in 2008. An expanded edition was published in 2012. Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics, appeared in 2006 and was reissued in 2012. Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems appeared in 2003. His memoir, Living Root, was published by the State University of New York Press in the Fall of 2000. Two Novellas: Marble Snows & The Study, a collection of fiction, was published in 2009. His libretto for the opera, "Constellations of Waking," based on the life of the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, has been set to music by the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson and performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. This Art Burning, a multimedia work of poetry, video and music created in collaboration with Ellen Fishman Johnson premiered at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in 2011. He is the winner of many awards. His poetry and criticism have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He will read with his wife.

JANE AUGUSTINE is a poet, critic, fiction writer, VisPo artist and scholar of women in modernism. She has published seven books of poetry, most recently A Woman’s Guide to Mountain Climbing (2008), and has been awarded two Fellowships in Poetry from the New York State Council on the Arts. Her work appears in the anthologies Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry (2006) and Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry (2000). She is editor of The Mystery by H.D. (2009) and The Gift by H.D.: The Complete Text (1998) and has held the H.D. Fellowship in American Literature at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. She is professor emerita of English and Humanities, Pratt Institute and has taught at New York University and The New School University. She and her husband frequently teach in Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program in Boulder, Colorado.