Events
REPEATING EVENTS
Harpur Palate Reading Sessions
The staff of Harpur Palate, Binghamton University's acclaimed literary journal, would like to invite any and all English graduate students to read for the magazine this semester. We are currently hosting "mixed" reading periods -- that is to say, both poetry and prose, and those folks interested can drop by the John Gardner Room (LN 1213; aka, the CW Graduate Lounge) for as long as they would like on any day we have listed. In exchange for your help, you'll receive a free copy of the magazine, and your name will be listed among our staff in our upcoming issue. While we are constantly seeking out new creative artists to include in the journal, we've been honored as of late to publish works from writers like Sherman Alexie, Alex Lemon, Tess Gallagher, Lee K. Abbott, and Patricia Engel. Below are our reading days and hours:
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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at harpur.palate@gmail.com.
FEBRUARY EVENTS
Wednesday, February 16 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. LN 1104 (the Grad Student Lounge at the base of the Library Tower). A conversation on publishing, craft, and the writing life with RAVI SHANKAR of DRUNKEN BOAT an online journal of the arts and literature. An informal Q & A event that is open to all.
MARCH EVENTS
Tuesday, March 1 8:00 pm Engineering Auditorium EB 110. A reading from Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Book Award winner JENNINE CAPÓ CRUCET, who won the award for her debut story collection, How to Leave Hialeah, which also won the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize, the 2010 Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and was named a Best Book of the Year by the Miami Herald, the Miami New Times, and the Latinidad List.
Tuesday, March 15 8:00 pm Engineering Auditorium EB 110. Canadian poet and novelist PRISCILA UPPAL, author most recently of Winter Sport (poems from the Calgary Olympics), Traumatology, and Successful Tragedies: Selected Poetry 1998-2010. Her novels are To Whom It May Concern and The Divine Economy of Salvation. Her works have been published internationally and translated into Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, Korean, Latvian, and Serbo-Croatian.
Tuesday, March 29 8:00 pm Engineering Auditorium EB 110. TAYARI JONES is the author of three novels: Leaving Atlanta (a coming of age story set during the city’s infamous child murders of 1979-81, when Jones was herself a fifth-grader in Atlanta)--winner of the Hurston/Wright Award for Debut Fiction--, The Untelling (recipient of the Lillian C. Smith Award for New Voices), and the forthcoming Silver Sparrow, an excerpt from which Jones debuted as a headline reader at the AWP Conference in Atlanta.
APRIL EVENTS
Tuesday, April 5 8:00 pm Engineering Auditorium EB 110. TINA CHANG is the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn and a 1991graduate of Binghamton University. She is the author of the poetry collection Half-Lit Houses (Four Way Books) and co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008) along with Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar. This event is co-sponsored by the Binghamton University Alumni Relations Office.
Monday, April 11 1:30 - 3:30 LN 1104 (the Grad Student Lounge at the base of the Library Tower) . A conversation on publishing, craft, and the writing life with PETER STITT editor of GETTYSBURG REVIEW a highly respected journal of fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews. An informal Q & A event that is open to all.
Tuesday, April 12 8:00 pm Engineering Auditorium EB 110. ALEX LEMON is the author of three books of poetry: Mosquito (Tin House, 2006), Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed, 2008), and most recently Fancy Beasts (Milkweed, 2010); as well as Happy: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2010).
Questions? Call 777-2713 or e-mail at cwpro@binghamton.edu.
