Creative Reading Series
Maureen McLane Reads
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Maureen N. McLane is a Professor in the NYU Department of English. She has published seven books of poetry: Same Life (FSG, 2008), Finalist for the Audre Lorde/Publishing Triangle Award; World Enough (FSG, 2010); This Blue (FSG, 2014), Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry; Mz N: the serial (FSG, 2016); Some Say (FSG, 2017, Finalist for the Audre Lorde/Publishing Triangle Award and for The Believer Award in Poetry; What I’m Looking For: Selected Poems (Penguin UK, 2019); and More Anon: Selected Poems (FSG, 2021).
Her book My Poets (FSG, 2012), an experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism, was a New York Times Notable Book and Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. Her poems have appeared in e.g. Bomb, Granta, London Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and PN Review; her work has been translated into Czech, French, Greek, Italian, and Spanish. McLane has also published two critical monographs on British romantic poetics and numerous essays on Anglophone poetics, balladry, and mediality. Her writing on contemporary literature and culture has appeared in (among other venues) Boston Review, The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and Public Books. In 2003 she was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing. She has, as of yet, no tattoos.
Terrance Hayes Reads
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Please join us on November 17th to hear Terrance Hayes read Yusef Komunyakaa’s “My Father’s Love Letters” and Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays.” Hayes will lead the audience in a short creative exercise, so come prepared to write!
Terrance Hayes’s poetry collections include American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (2018), finalist for the National Book Award; How to Be Drawn (2015), finalist for the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award; Lighthead (2010), winner of the National Book Award and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award; Wind in a Box (2006), finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award; Hip Logic (2002), chosen for the National Poetry Series and finalist for an LA Times Book Award and an Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award; and Muscular Music (1999), winner of a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His poems have also been featured in several editions of Best American Poetry and have won multiple Pushcart Prizes. He is also the author of a prose book based on his Bagley Wright lectures: To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight (Wave Books, 2018), which was winner of the Poetry Foundation's 2019 Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism.
Hayes’s additional honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Pittsburgh. Hayes is currently professor of English at New York University
Joseph Osmundson Reads
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Join us on Wednesday, February 23rd, at 12:30 pm to hear Joseph Osmundson read the COVID-19 Virus.
Joseph Osmundson is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology at NYU, co-host of the podcast Food 4 Thot, and author of Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between (Norton, 2022). His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Gawker, The Kenyon Review, and The Rumpus.
Robert J.C. Young Listens
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Please join us on Tuesday, March 22nd, for the next installment of the Creative Readings Series: "Robert J. C. Young listens to Robert Johnson."
Robert J. C. Young is Silver Professor of English at NYU and the author of many books, including White Mythologies (1990), Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race (1995), The Idea of English Ethnicity (2007), and Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (2021).
Claudia Rankine Reads
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Please join us on Wednesday, April 27th, for the next installment of the Creative Readings Series: "Claudia Rankine reads Haryette Mullen."
Claudia Rankine is Professor of Creative Writing at NYU, hancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and the author of many works, including Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), The White Card: A Play (2019),and Just Us (2020).