Events
The Wolf x No Smoking Reading Series Presents: The Poems of Sylvia Plath with Amanda Golden
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 W 129 St
New York, NY 10027
News
2022 marks the 53rd annual NAACP Image Awards. Among the nominees are five projects from Columbia alumni. The NAACP is the home of grassroots activism for civil rights and social justice. The organization has more than 2,200 units across the nation, powered by well over 2 million activists.
A Poet's Life is a series where we talk with Columbia poets about everything from living as a poet to making a living as a poet.
Joel Sedano, a current Poetry and Literary Translation student, and JoAnne “Jo-Joe” Lee, a graduate student in the School of Social Work, recently received a 2022 Racial Justice Mini-Grant for their proposed project, a podcast titled Resilience Against Power and Privilege (RAPP).
Palm-Lined With Potience by Alumnus Basie Allen '19 will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse on March 15, 2022. The collection is now available for pre-order.
Refusenik by Assistant Professor Lynn Melnick '97 will be published on February 22, 2022, and is now available for pre-order from YesYes Books.
Mónica de la Torre ’95 (GSAS ‘13 Ph.D), Adjunct Assistant Professor Tan Lin (GSAS ’95) and Cyrus Moussavi CC ’09 are among the recipients of the 2022 Creative Capital Awards.
Madeleine Cravens, a second-year student in the Poetry concentration, was recently awarded first place in Narrative’s annual poetry contest for her submission of five poems.
A new full-length poetry collection by alumnus Brandan Griffin ’19 is ready for pre-order with Chicago University Press.
Equestrian Monuments, a poetry collection by Luis Chaves and co-translated by two alumnae, Julia Guez ‘11 and Assistant Professor Samantha Zighelboim ‘11, will be published by After Hours Editions early 2022.
A Poet’s Life is a series where we talk with Columbia poets about everything from living as a poet to making a living as a poet. Here, we talk with Assistant Professor and alumnus Jay Deshpande '12 about the tools of self-expression, the joys and terrors of letting a poem enter the world, and how descriptive imagery can create a means for connection.
Jackson’s multivocal debut poetry collection features a chorus of Black women’s voices throughout time, including Jackson’s great-grandmother, the church ladies of her Philadelphia youth, Missy Elliott, and Black feminist scholar Hortense Spillers.