February 6th | 7:30pm
Black Spring Books
672 Driggs Ave.

This Friday is the official Brooklyn launch of The Cavalier, which was translated by our own alum, Jonathan Larson. To celebrate, the author, Natalie Quintane, will be here from France to read in both English and French–that’s a recipe for a book launch that’s not to be missed!

The Cavalier revisits an education scandal from 1968 in a small French town, where a high school philosophy teacher is fired for “corrupting the youth.” Quintane excavates this moment for reexamination, not just as an award-winning poet and writer, but also as a current high school teacher living in that same town.

Feb 25 | 7:30 PM
Buttenwieser Hall at The Arnhold Center
92NY
$30 in-person/$25 streaming

Muldoon’s Picnic is back with another lively evening of words, music, and inspired literary mischief, hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon.

This edition brings us readings from Harold Schechter — the acclaimed true crime writer behind 50 States of Murder: An Atlas of American Crime and Killer Colt — and Kimiko Hahn, one of America’s most inventive and influential poets, reading from her acclaimed collection The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems. The evening features music from Liz Queler and Seth Farber of The Edna Project, whose genre-defying songs move fluidly between folk and poetry, setting the lyric genius of Edna St. Vincent Millay to transcendent melodies.

As always, Muldoon’s Picnic thrives on the pleasure of unexpected combinations: music beside murder mysteries, lyricism alongside laughter, and artists meeting one another — and the audience — in real time. Join us for a festive evening of poetry, music, ideas and much more. Don’t miss out.

Friday, January 30 | 7:00pm
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer St.
Brooklyn, NY

Get over the weather and join us for an evening of literary translation this month! We’ve got a killer lineup of translators to warm up your love of language:

• Annmarie Drury
• Francesca Hyatt
• Richard Prins
• Rebecca Suzuki

Plus an open mic afterwards, so that you can put off walking to the subway afterwards. See you there!

BRAINSTORM is a reading series organized by grad students from the
Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation.
Come hear writers you know, meet writers you might like to know, and
perhaps be introduced to your future favorite author!

Friday, January 30 | 7pm
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY

Brainstorm, the brainchild reading series by MFA students here at QC, is hosting a special translators’ reading on Friday, January 30 at the legendary Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn. Translation is one of things that makes our MFA program truly unique–other graduate programs might offer a single elective class in it, but Queens College is one of the only MFAs with a dedicated translation track of study–so you know we have some incredible translators to bring to the stage!

Come through and see this lineup:

• Annmarie Drury
• Francesca Hyatt
• Richard Prins
• Rebecca Suzuki

Plus, we always have open mic time after our headliners, so if you want to try out your own work or ask these translators questions, the floor is yours!

Friday, Dec. 19 | 8 pm
Molasses Books
770 Hart St. | Brooklyn, NY

Join translator Sean Manning at this book launch for one the most celebrated poets writing in Spanish today, for the English language publication of Ida Vitale’s On Plants and Animals from Point Zero Press, which was co-founded by MFA student David Iaconangelo.

Manning will read from Vitale’s work and talk about his work on the book. Afterward, artist Mónica Palma will perform a piece inspired by Vitale’s latest collection.

Come listen, watch, and linger by the bar, or frolick among the shelves at Molasses Books!

About the Book:

On Plants and Animals mingles personal and literary anecdotes over sixty short essays, arranging them like compartments in her own herbarium-bestiary-library. Nothing escapes the gaze of Ida Vitale–this compendium includes entries such as a dancing bean (sliced open by a contentious surrealist) and the variations of toad songs to the loss of a pet dog during Vitale’s years in exile.