Category: Microworkshops
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Duriel E. Harris Workshop
On October 31, 2023, Duriel E. Harris attended Dawn Lundy Martin’s Studio in African American Poetry and Poetics course to talk about her book, No Dictionary of a Living Tongue, which students had read. She also gave a talk on poetry in relation to transformative justice, moral witnessing, and ethical responsibility.…
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C. Díaz Film Screening and Workshop
On October 24, 2023, filmmaker and archivist C. Díaz visited Christopher Pérez’s class Writing from/for Inheritance at the Bard Microcollege for Just Community Leadership in Harlem. Díaz’s visit was themed around “unsatiated ancestral desires” and asked students to consider how their creative endeavors and writing work toward fulfilling their dreams,…
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JJJJJerome Ellis Workshop
Photo by Annie Forrest Arist, writer, musician, performer JJJJJerome Ellis will visit erica kaufman’s class, The Act(s) of Poetry, on Wednesday, October 18th to share his work and discuss The Clearing, which is a required book for this course. This session will help the class continue conversations rooted in how poetry…
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Poetry of Wit(h)ness & Subversion: A Reading & Ghazal Workshop with Sahar Muradi
On Thursday, October 26 at 10 am in Weis Cinema, Sahar Muradi will read from her debut poetry collection OCTOBERS (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023). The book touches on experiences of migration, empire, and loss, and looks at language as anchor, home, suspect, and, ultimately, a source of wild wonder. Reading and short…
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A Reading with Adam Shatz
On Monday, October 23, at 6 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Adam Shatz will read from his work. He will be introduced by Dinaw Mengestu, director of the Written Arts Program and the Center for Ethics and Writing. Adam Shatz, a visiting professor at Bard College…
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A Reading and Workshop with Isabella Hammad
On Monday, October 2 at 6pm, Isabella Hammad will read from her work at Bard College. She will be introduced by Middle Eastern Studies director, Ziad Dallal. The reading will be followed by a dicussion moderated by Dinaw Mengestu, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of the Humanities and director…
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A Workshop with Justin Phillip Reed
Photo by Nicholas A. C. Nichols Justin Phillip Reed visited Dawn Lundy Martin’s Studio in African American Poetry and Poetics class on September 25th. In class Justin read poems from and talked about his first book of poems, Indecency, which won the National Book Award. He read recent poems and talked about…
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A Conversation with Yasmin El-Rifae
A Conversation & Workshop with Yasmin El-Rifae, Author of Radius with Pınar Kemerli, Assistant Professor of Politics Conversation—Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Microworkshop—Thursday, April 20, 2023