This Week's Events

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23rd 

DING DONG LOUNGE

8:00pm

929 Columbus Ave, at 106th St

Gordy Sauer (nonfiction)

Heather Monley (fiction)

Marina Blitshteyn (poetry)

Justin Way (fiction)

Julie Kantor (poetry)

Plus special Columbia MFA faculty guest SARAH MANGUSO, who will be reading a cross-genre selection of her writings.  Sarah is the author of two books of poetry, most recently Siste Viator (Four Way Books, 2006).  Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Boston Review, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares, among others.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 24th

BEST AMERICAN POEMS 2009 BOOK LAUNCH

7:00pm - 9:00pm

The New School Tishman Auditorium 

66 West 12th Street (near 6th Ave)

This year's gala launch reading for The Best American Poetry 2009 will be better than ever and it's free so we hope everyone will come. Among the contributors to BAP 2009 who have agreed to take part are: John Ashbery, Mark Bibbins,Suzanne Cleary, Billy Collins, Jim Cummins, Mark Doty, Margaret Gibson, Douglas Goetsch, Michael Grabell, Dolores Hayden, Jennifer Michael Hecht reading the late Sarah Hannah's "The Safe House,"Richard Howard, Tina Kelley, Philip Levine, Phillis Levin, Susan Blackwell Ramsay, James Richardson, Martha Silano, Mitch Sisskind, Tom Sleigh, Craig Morgan Teicher, Matthew Zapruder.

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CREATIVE WRITING LECTURE SERIES

Aimee Bender

"The Danger and Power of Exposition or How We Do Spacetime Travel on the Page"

7:00pm

Columbia University, Dodge Hall, Room 501

(Broadway & 116th St.)

Aimee Bender is the author of 3 books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, and Willful Creatures. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, Harper's, the Paris Review, McSweeney's, Tin House, GQ, Best American Non-Required Reading, the Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, the Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction, and many more, as well as heard on PRI's "This American Life".

FRIDAY, SEPT. 25th

EARSHOT

7:30 PM
@ Rose Live Music, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!

Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Featuring: 
Sarah Sarai (The Future Is Happy)
Andrew Zornoza (Where I Stay)
Paul Hlava (New York University)
Nicole Feldman (Sarah Lawrence College)
Justin Boening (Columbia University)
    
ROSE LIVE MUSIC is located at 345 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Havemeyer and Marcy. Visit their website for directions: http://roselivemusic.com.