When: Thursday, November 17 at 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: The Saint Catherine, 660 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11238
In light of the election results, it is important to stand with institutions that protect lives in this country, because those who have gained power will seek to strip and dismantle them. With that in mind, we hope you will join us for a reading and benefit to support the ACLU.
Amongst the many causes the ACLU champions is immigrants’ rights (you can learn more about that right here: https://www.aclu.org/
This Thursday, we hope to raise funds for them to continue this important work. A $20 raffle ticket includes one drink, and prizes will include a $50 gift certificate donated by The Saint Catherine and a one-year subscription to Archipelago Books.
We have five readers, all of whom came to America from other countries: Rawaan Alkhatib, Mario Kaiser, Uche Nduka, Ana Simo, and Jenny Zhang.
We hope you will join us and the ACLU in amplifying threatened voices and fighting for the rights of immigrants.
Jenny Zhang was born in Shanghai and raised in Queens. She’s the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find, the non-fiction chapbook Hags and the forthcoming short story collection Sour Heart.
Ana Simo is a New York playwright, essayist, and lesbian activist. Born and raised in Cuba, she was forced to leave the island during the political/homophobic witch-hunts of the late 1960s. She went to Paris, where she studied and participated in the women’s and LGBT movements. In New York City, where she has lived since 1973, she has written some dozen plays and collaborated with experimental artists such as choreographer Stephanie Skura and composer Zeena Parkins. She co-founded the lesbian theater Medusa’s Revenge, the direct action group The Lesbian Avengers, Dyke TV, and the groundbreaking The Gully online magazine offering queer views on everything.
Uche Nduka – Poet, Essayist, Melodist, Singer, Philosopher, Dancer, Songwriter, Activist, Traveller, Lecturer – is a Nigerian by birth and a New Yorker by choice. He was awarded the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize for Chiaroscuro in 1997. He lived in Germany and Holland for over a decade, and was the recipient of a Goethe Institut Fellowship and Heinrich Böll Haus Guest Author Fellowship. He taught Contemporary African literature and Creative Writing at the University of Bremen from 1995-2007. His work has been translated into German, Serbo Croatian, Romanian, Spanish and Dutch. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY with his partner the Photographer/Artist, Fiona Gardner, and their daughter, Sula.
Mario Kaiser is a writer of narrative nonfiction whose work seeks to expand the understanding of social justice and human rights. His stories are based on long-term immersion in environments that are difficult to access, illustrating how government policies and social disruptions transform people’s lives. He is a co-author of six books and has written about people smugglers in Albania, accompanied Mexican migrants on their journey to the United States, reported on the war in Iraq, and examined the first suicides at the prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. A former reporter and editor for Die Zeit and Der Spiegel, his work has also appeared in The International New York Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Guernica, andNarratively. His writing has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Kurt Tucholsky Prize for Literary Journalism and the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism. He lives in New York City.
Rawaan Alkhatib is a writer, illustrator and editor who lives in Brooklyn, NY, and was born and raised in Dubai, UAE. She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2011 with an MFA in Poetry. Alkhatib’s writing has appeared in Tin House, Gastronomica, LVNG, and Trunk Books.
October 10, 2019
Ann Snitow May 9, 1943-August 10, 2019 Ann Snitow, a founding faculty member of Lang College and the creator of the Gender Studies Program at the New School, passed away on August 10, 2019. She was a beloved member of the Literary Studies faculty. While indeed her books and essays are crucial texts in feminist studies and in the life of the mind, as Literary Studies colleagues our remembrances here are more personal, testaments not just to her work but to the power of her being.
February 17, 2017
Visit this link for more info on Paul Alexander’s biography of Sylvia Plath, coming out in March: […]
When: Thursday, November 17 at 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: The Saint Catherine, 660 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11238
In light of the election results, it is important to stand with institutions that protect lives in this country, because those who have gained power will seek to strip and dismantle them. With that in mind, we hope you will join us for a reading and benefit to support the ACLU.
Amongst the many causes the ACLU champions is immigrants’ rights (you can learn more about that right here: https://www.aclu.org/
This Thursday, we hope to raise funds for them to continue this important work. A $20 raffle ticket includes one drink, and prizes will include a $50 gift certificate donated by The Saint Catherine and a one-year subscription to Archipelago Books.
We have five readers, all of whom came to America from other countries: Rawaan Alkhatib, Mario Kaiser, Uche Nduka, Ana Simo, and Jenny Zhang.
We hope you will join us and the ACLU in amplifying threatened voices and fighting for the rights of immigrants.
Jenny Zhang was born in Shanghai and raised in Queens. She’s the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find, the non-fiction chapbook Hags and the forthcoming short story collection Sour Heart.
Ana Simo is a New York playwright, essayist, and lesbian activist. Born and raised in Cuba, she was forced to leave the island during the political/homophobic witch-hunts of the late 1960s. She went to Paris, where she studied and participated in the women’s and LGBT movements. In New York City, where she has lived since 1973, she has written some dozen plays and collaborated with experimental artists such as choreographer Stephanie Skura and composer Zeena Parkins. She co-founded the lesbian theater Medusa’s Revenge, the direct action group The Lesbian Avengers, Dyke TV, and the groundbreaking The Gully online magazine offering queer views on everything.
Uche Nduka – Poet, Essayist, Melodist, Singer, Philosopher, Dancer, Songwriter, Activist, Traveller, Lecturer – is a Nigerian by birth and a New Yorker by choice. He was awarded the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize for Chiaroscuro in 1997. He lived in Germany and Holland for over a decade, and was the recipient of a Goethe Institut Fellowship and Heinrich Böll Haus Guest Author Fellowship. He taught Contemporary African literature and Creative Writing at the University of Bremen from 1995-2007. His work has been translated into German, Serbo Croatian, Romanian, Spanish and Dutch. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY with his partner the Photographer/Artist, Fiona Gardner, and their daughter, Sula.
Mario Kaiser is a writer of narrative nonfiction whose work seeks to expand the understanding of social justice and human rights. His stories are based on long-term immersion in environments that are difficult to access, illustrating how government policies and social disruptions transform people’s lives. He is a co-author of six books and has written about people smugglers in Albania, accompanied Mexican migrants on their journey to the United States, reported on the war in Iraq, and examined the first suicides at the prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. A former reporter and editor for Die Zeit and Der Spiegel, his work has also appeared in The International New York Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Guernica, andNarratively. His writing has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Kurt Tucholsky Prize for Literary Journalism and the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism. He lives in New York City.
Rawaan Alkhatib is a writer, illustrator and editor who lives in Brooklyn, NY, and was born and raised in Dubai, UAE. She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2011 with an MFA in Poetry. Alkhatib’s writing has appeared in Tin House, Gastronomica, LVNG, and Trunk Books.
