Tracy K. Smith -
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Faculty Dining Room, Hunter College, West Building, 8th floor,
Lexington Ave at 68th St. (southwest corner). Take the 6-train to the 68th St. stop.
RSVP: to spevents@hunter.cuny.edu or 212-772-4007. Reading is free and open to the public but reservations are required.
Tracy K. Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2012 for her poetry collection Life on Mars. She is also the recipient of several other poetry honors, including the Essence Literary Award and the James Laughlin Award for her collection Duende, and the Cave Canem prize for best first book by an African American poet, for her collection The Body's Question.
Dani Shapiro - Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Faculty Dining Room, Hunter College, West Building, 8th floor,
Lexington Ave at 68th St. (southwest corner). Take the 6-train to the 68th St. stop.
RSVP: to spevents@hunter.cuny.edu or 212-772-4007. Reading is free and open to the public but reservations are required.
Dani Shapiro is the author of three memoirs, Slow Motion, Devotion, and Still Writing, all of them best sellers, and five novels, Playing With Fire, Fugitive Blue, Picturing the Wreck, Family History and Black & White. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, n+1, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere and has been widely anthologized.
A. M. Homes - Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Faculty Dining Room, Hunter College, West Building, 8th floor,
Lexington Ave at 68th St. (southwest corner). Take the 6-train to the 68th St. stop.
RSVP: to spevents@hunter.cuny.edu or 212-772-4007. Reading is free and open to the public but reservations are required.
A. M. Homes is the author of seven books of fiction, including, This Book Will Save Your Life, The End of Alice and The Safety of Objects, as well as the best-selling memoir, The Mistress's Daughter. Her work has been translated into twenty-two languages and has appeared in Harpers, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker and The New York Times.
Claire Messud - Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Faculty Dining Room, Hunter College, West Building, 8th floor,
Lexington Ave at 68th St. (southwest corner). Take the 6-train to the 68th St. stop.
RSVP: to spevents@hunter.cuny.edu or 212-772-4007. Reading is free and open to the public but reservations are required.
Claire Messud is the author of the six books of fiction, including The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs, both of them New York Times best sellers, as well as When the World Was Steady, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She is also the recipient of the Addison Metcalf Award and a Strauss Living Award. She currently teaches fiction at the Hunter College MFA program.
Michael Collier - Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Faculty Dining Room, Hunter College, West Building, 8th floor,
Lexington Ave at 68th St. (southwest corner). Take the 6-train to the 68th St. stop.
RSVP: to spevents@hunter.cuny.edu or 212-772-4007. Reading is free and open to the public but reservations are required.
Michael Collier is a poet, educator, editor and also the director of the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, an Academy Award in Literature, a Pushcart Prize, the Thomas Watson Fellowship, and a Discovery/The Nation award.
Professors and teachers: Bring your students to Hunter readings
Hunter professors, you are welcome to bring your students to Hunter readings. Please contact the Special Events Department at spevents@hunter.cuny.edu or 212-772-4007, stating how many people you'd like to bring. Even if your class-time finishes before the end of the reading, it may still be possible to accommodate you, depending on the venue. Contact Special Events, for more details.
Directions
Hunter College: Take the 6-train to the 68th St/Hunter College stop, the F-train to the Lexington Ave/63rd St stop, or the N/R/W-train to the Lexington Ave/59th St stop. Exit on Lexington Ave. Hunter is on Lexington Ave at 68th St.
Faculty Dining Room: Enter the Hunter West Building, on the south-west corner of Lexington Ave & 68th St. Go up two flights of escalators, to the 3rd floor, and take the elevator to the 8th floor. The Faculty Dining Room is right there. To avoid the escalators, ask at the security desk on the ground floor to be directed to the ground-floor elevator.
Lang Recital Hall: Enter the Hunter North Building on 69th St, just
east of Park Ave, and take the elevator to the 4th floor. Turn left out of the elevator, walk to end of the elevator bank and through the double doors, and then turn left again. The Lang is right there.
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