Tribute, Celebration, and Cultural Bash Sun, Aug 6, 2023 – Sun, Aug 6, 2023 Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Diane di Prima: Presented by her Family
Symposium Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 09:00 AM – 06:00 PM Keats and Shelley on the Move- A Romantic Bicentennials Curran Symposium
Reading and Book Launch Celebration Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 05:30 PM – 07:00 PM The Children of the People Write!
Reading and Conversation Tue, Nov 2, 2021, 07:00 PM – 08:00 PM ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE: On Helene Johnson and the Harlem Renaissance
Book Celebration Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 04:00 PM – 05:30 PM Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals Release Party
Round Table and Town Hall Discussions Mon, May 17, 2021, 06:00 PM – 07:30 PM Audre Lorde Great Read – "Zami: Talkback & Testimonials"
Conversation Wed, Apr 14, 2021, 03:00 PM – 04:30 PM John Wieners' Letters for the Voices: A Conversation with Michael Seth Stewart, Ammiel Alcalay & Eileen Myles
Reading Group Tue, Feb 2, 2021 – Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 07:00 PM – 08:30 PM One Book One Bronx Reading Group: Olio by Tyehimba Jess
Conversation and Readin Group Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM Reading Audre Lorde in Community with The Audre Lorde Reading Group
Event Fri, Nov 13, 2020, 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM CUNY Black~Puerto Rican~Third World Feminist Studies Now with Johanna Fernández, Carmen Kynard, & Vani Kannan
Conference and Conversation Series Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 07:00 PM – 08:30 PM Translating the Future Finale: "Democracy and Translation" with Natalie Diaz, Marilyn Nelson, & Ken Liu
Conference Tue, May 12, 2020, 01:30 PM – 02:30 PM Translating the Future: "From 1970 to 2020: Translation Transformations" with David Bellos and Karen Emmerich
Opportunity Sat, Oct 5, 2024 – Mon, Feb 10, 2020, 03:04 PM – 11:59 PM 2020 Lost & Found Grants and Fellowships
Reading and Conversation Fri, Nov 1, 2019, 07:00 PM – 08:30 PM Harmony Holiday and Fred Moten Reading and Book Celebration
Lecture Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Cedar Sigo Presents “Reality Is No Obstacle: A Poetics of Participation”
Reading Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Turnstyle Reading Series: Mary Ann Caws and Said Sayrafiezadeh
Reading Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Turnstyle Reading Series: David Groff, Keith Gandal, and Ashna Ali
Discussion Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 06:30 PM – 08:30 AM Poets Simone White and Terrance Hayes in Conversation
Seminar Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 05:00 PM – 07:00 PM The Object Seminar: Breaking Boundaries with Frédéric Baitinger
Reading Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Turnstyle Reading Series: Ammiel Alcalay & Catherine Barnett
Opportunity Sat, Oct 5, 2024 – Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 03:04 PM – 11:59 PM 2019 Lost & Found Grants and Fellowships
Seminar Fri, Nov 9, 2018 – Fri, Nov 30, 2018 Seminar Series on Édouard Glissant at the Graduate Center, CUNY
Symposium Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 12:45 PM – 07:00 PM Édouard Glissant's Tout-Monde: Transnational Perspectives
Reading and Conversation Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Atmospheric Embroidery: Meena Alexander in Conversation with Kimiko Hahn and Patricia Spears Jones
Screening and Conversation Tue, Nov 6, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation
Reading and Conversation Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 02:00 PM – 04:00 PM Indo-Caribbean Stories: Sharing, Recording, and Archiving Stories of the West Indies & Movement to the USA
Reading and Conversation Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM Power, Collective Struggle, and the Poetic Imagination
Gallery Tour Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Painting as Translation?: Conversation with the Artist
Reading and Conversation Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM Publishing American Sign Language Poetry
Reading Tue, May 15, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Turnstyle Reading Series: Nicole Dennis-Benn, Helen Phillips, Bonnie Harris
Conference Thu, May 10, 2018 – Fri, May 11, 2018, 10:00 AM – 08:00 PM Visualizing Theory: Anne Carson and Kaja Silverman
Reading Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Book Launch for Celina Su’s Landia featuring Youmna Chlala, Caroline Crumpacker, Paolo Javier, Cindi Katz, & Alissa Quart
Conversation Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Marcel Duchamp, The Blind Man, and New York Dada: Institutional Critique and Editorial Practices
Opportunity Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 10:00 AM – 02:00 PM Saturdays at NYPL: Open House for Archival Encounters
Conference Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM 2018 AAACS Conference: "Poetry, Protest, and the People in Curriculum Studies" Keynotes and Performance
Reading Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 07:00 PM – 08:30 PM New York Chapbook Launch: Layla Benitez-James’ “God Suspected My Heart Was a Geode But He Had to Make Sure”
Reading and Conversation Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Writing and Resistance Today: Abdellah Taïa and Chiké Frankie Edozien in Conversation with Mythili Rao
Conference Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 08:00 AM – 06:00 PM Breaking Through: Textures and Aesthetics of Rupture
Conference Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 01:30 PM – 08:00 PM Art and Literature in Contemporary Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their Diasporas
Opportunity Fri, Dec 15, 2017 – Tue, Jan 30, 2018, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM 2018 Lost & Found Grants and Fellowships
Opportunity Mon, Dec 11, 2017 – Mon, Jan 15, 2018, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM Call for Papers: Breaking Through: Textures & Aesthetics of Rupture
Reading and Conversation Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM Puerto Rico/New York/Morocco: Poet’s Journey—Victor Hernández Cruz in Conversation with Dorothy Wang & Ammiel Alcalay
Lecture Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 04:00 PM – 05:30 PM A Bio/Memoir, or: Seven years (for each) of Working with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir
Reading and Conversation Fri, Sep 22, 2017, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM After Kathy Acker: Chris Kraus in Conversation with Anne Boyer & Ariana Reines
Opportunity Wed, Sep 6, 2017 – Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM Call for Participants: Fall 2017 Collaborative Research Seminar on Archives and Special Collections
Workshop Thu, Sep 14, 2017 – Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 02:00 PM – 08:00 PM LGBTQIA Representations and Italian Media
Opportunity Fri, Sep 8, 2017, 11:59 PM – 11:59 PM Call for Participants: Workshop with Chris Kraus on Writing Biography
Panel Discussion Thu, Sep 7, 2017, 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM The Performance of Blackness in Contemporary Brazil, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic
Opportunity Tue, Aug 15, 2017 – Tue, Aug 15, 2017 Call for Participants: Writing Workshop with Bushra Rehman
Conversation Thu, May 11, 2017, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Letters, Friendship, & Feminism: Hettie Jones & Claudia Moreno Parsons
Performance and Conversation Thu, May 4, 2017, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM Professions for Women: Corina Copp and Diana Hamilton
Lecture Fri, Apr 28, 2017, 04:00 PM – 06:00 PM American Women Writers and the Anesthetics of Empathy: Deborah Nelson
Opportunity Wed, Mar 29, 2017 – Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM Lost & Found 2017 Grants and Fellowships
Reading Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM Turnstyle Reading Series: Nicole Cooley, Pamela Laskin, Said Sayrafiezadeh
Reading Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM Turnstyle Reading Series: Meera Nair, Marc Palmieri, Roger Sedarat
Lecture Mon, Mar 20, 2017, 04:00 PM – 05:30 PM “Something to Offend Everyone”: The Muckraking Life and Times of Jessica Mitford
Performance and Conversation Fri, Feb 17, 2017, 05:00 PM – 09:00 PM Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich and the Feminist Superhero: The Poetics of Women's Political Resistance
Reading and Conversation Fri, Nov 4, 2016, 03:00 PM – 08:00 PM Narrating Life: Afro Colombian Experiences with Marta Quiñónez and Héctor Marino Carabalí
Reading and Conversation Tue, Nov 1, 2016, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics: An Introduction and Reading
Lecture Wed, Oct 26, 2016, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM Flux-Homes for America: Architecture, Publication, Intermedia
Reading and Conversation Fri, Oct 21, 2016 – Fri, Oct 21, 2016 Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016), A Celebration
Panel Discussion Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM In.On.Or About the Premises: A Celebration of the Work of Paul Blackburn
Opportunity Tue, Jun 28, 2016 – Fri, Jul 15, 2016, 11:30 AM – 11:30 PM Call for Papers, Proposals, and Participation: Jane Marcus Feminist University
Performance Thu, Jun 23, 2016 – Sun, Jun 26, 2016, 08:00 PM – 08:00 PM Western: A play starring Antigone and her brothers
Reading and Conversation Tue, Jun 7, 2016, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Beat & Beyond: "Lost & Found" at Bowery Poetry Club
Event Thu, May 5, 2016 – Fri, May 6, 2016, 09:00 AM – 08:30 PM Translation Theory Today: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Critical Theory
Seminar Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 04:00 PM – 06:00 PM Translation Seminar with Esther Allen: The Perils of Polyglossia
Event Fri, Apr 8, 2016, 09:00 AM – 06:00 PM Through Their Words: Poetics, Aesthetics and Literary Theory in the Graeco-Roman World
Event Tue, Apr 5, 2016, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM Person Place Thing: Margo Jefferson in Conversation with Randy Cohen
Reading Fri, Apr 1, 2016, 06:00 PM – 09:00 PM An Evening with Argos and Lost & Found in Los Angeles, CA
Event Wed, Mar 30, 2016, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM Children of the Holocaust: Writers of the Next Generation
Event Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM Translating Morocco: Fouad Laroui, Emma Ramadan and Adam Shatz
Opportunity Thu, Feb 11, 2016 – Tue, Mar 15, 2016, 12:00 AM – 12:00 AM Lost & Found 2016 Archival Research Grant & Diane di Prima Fellowship
Performance and Conversation Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM Palestine: Nothing Makes Sense Why Should I?: A Performance by Suad Amiry
Event Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 06:30 AM – 10:00 PM Translation Lab: Authors and Translators Discuss Their Collaborations
Conference Thu, Nov 5, 2015 – Fri, Nov 6, 2015, 09:00 AM – 07:00 PM Reading Terror: Representations and Resistance
Screening and Conversation Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM The Hand That Feeds: Migrant Workers' Poetry Performance and Film
Reading and Conversation Mon, Oct 26, 2015, 07:00 PM – 07:00 PM Reimagining the Mainstream: A Celebration of 2015 Pulitzer Prize-Winner Gregory Pardlo
Reading and Conversation Thu, Oct 22, 2015, 07:00 PM – 07:00 PM John Wieners Celebration at Poets House
Performance Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 08:00 PM – 08:00 PM Experiments In Opera: The Travel Agency Is On Fire
Conversation Thu, Oct 8, 2015, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM Haydée Santamaría Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression
Conversation Wed, Oct 7, 2015, 07:00 PM – 07:00 PM Re-Discovering Harper Lee: Jonathan Burnham in Conversation with Joan Acocella and Tuzyline Allan
Event Tue, Sep 29, 2015, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM Fear of Dying: A Conversation with Erica Jong and Parul Sehgal
Event Thu, Sep 24, 2015, 07:00 PM – 07:00 PM Blue Laws: poetry music and improvisation with Kevin Young
Performance and Conversation Fri, Sep 18, 2015, 04:30 PM – 04:30 PM Katrina AfterMaps—10 Years On: A Discussion of Unnatural Disaster
Event Wed, Jun 10, 2015 – Tue, Sep 1, 2015, 01:30 PM – 01:30 PM Lost & Found Series V: Kathy Acker William S. Burroughs Langston Hughes & Jean Sénac
Event Wed, May 20, 2015, 07:00 PM – 07:00 PM "Derelict Air": A Celebration of Edward Dorn’s Uncollected Poems
Event Tue, May 19, 2015, 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM In Search of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: The Man Who Brought Proust to the English-Speaking World
Event Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM The Shapes of Sense: A Conversation with Molly Nesbit and Joan Richardson
Event Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 06:00 PM – 06:00 PM Lost & Found Series V Launch and Opening Reception: Seeking the Glyph
Event Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM Coming of Age in Midcentury America: Morris Dickstein in Conversation with Gary Giddins
Event Mon, Mar 9, 2015, 04:00 PM – 04:00 PM 'For the Love of Your Sister': Ellen Tucker Emerson Edith Emerson Forbes and the Emerson Legacy
Event Thu, Feb 26, 2015, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM Provost's Annual Distinguished Alumna/us Lecture: Colin Dayan
Panel Discussion Fri, Feb 6, 2015, 04:00 PM – 04:00 PM Teaching CUNY at CUNY: Engaging with CUNY Histories and Archives
Event Tue, Dec 9, 2014, 06:00 PM – 06:00 PM A Question of Africa: Will Alexander—Towards the Primeval Lightning Field
Event Fri, Dec 5, 2014, 04:00 PM – 04:00 PM Editing Archival Materials: Robin Blaser’s Astonishment Tapes
Event Wed, Dec 3, 2014, 06:00 PM – 06:00 PM A Question of Africa: Saidiya Hartman and M. NourbeSe Philip
Event Thu, Nov 13, 2014, 07:00 PM – 07:00 PM The Drowned Blackbird: Paul Muldoon on Translating Gaelic Poetry
Event Fri, May 16, 2014, 07:00 PM – 07:00 PM H.D. and Jean Epstein: Queer Modernism Spectatorship and The Specimen
Event Wed, Mar 19, 2014, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM The Last Hapsburg Poet: Paul Celan's Love Poetry and the Limits of Language
Event Mon, Feb 10, 2014, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM Turnstyle Reading Series: Maaza Mengiste Catherine Barnett
Event Wed, Feb 5, 2014, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM Academics Writing Fiction: Ruth Behar and Paul Stoller in Conversation
Event Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 02:00 PM – 04:00 PM Beneath the American Renaissance at Twenty-Five: David S. Reynolds and American Cultural Studies
Event Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 05:00 PM – 05:00 PM Women in the Pantheon of Illustrious Men: Galleries Books and Political Allegories in Seventeenth-Century France
Event Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 01:00 PM – 07:00 PM Writing Writers’ Lives: 5th Annual Leon Levy Biography Conference
Conversation Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM Narrating Transformation and Transforming through Storytelling
Event Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 04:00 PM – 04:00 PM Poverty and the Humanities: Representation Power and Material Life
Event Thu, Feb 28, 2013 – Fri, Mar 1, 2013, 12:00 AM – 12:00 AM Minding the Body: Dualism and its Discontents
Event Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 04:00 PM – 05:30 PM The Women Writing Women’s Lives Dorothy O. Helly Works-in-Progress Lecture featuring Diane Jacobs
Event Wed, Nov 14, 2012, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM Max Jacob: Mysticism and Radical Poetry The 9th Bi-Annual Stanley Burnshaw Lecture
Event Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 04:30 PM – 04:30 PM Disappearing History: Scenes of Trauma in the Theater of Human Rights
Event Thu, May 10, 2012, 07:00 PM – 10:00 PM An Evening with Poets Ari Banias Tonya Foster Brenda Iijima and Ricardo Maldonado
Event Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM Turnstyle Reading Series: Kimiko Hahn and Patrick McGrath
Event Wed, Feb 29, 2012, 06:00 PM – 06:00 PM Turnstyle Reading Series: Ben Lerner and Michelle Valladares
Event Fri, Feb 24, 2012, 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM Sentimental Geographies: Geography Affect and Contemporary Cultural Practice
Performance and Conversation Fri, Feb 3, 2012, 06:00 PM – 06:00 PM SAFE Shimmy SLAM: An Eruption of Prose Poetry & Performance
Event Mon, Nov 7, 2011, 08:45 PM – 08:45 PM Paper and Cinema: Gary Giddins in Conversation with Geoffrey C. Ward
Event Tue, Oct 25, 2011, 06:30 PM – 06:30 PM Steady Work: The Unmessianic Nature of Jewish Messianism
Event Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 04:00 PM – 04:00 PM WWWL presents Works In Progress: "Sara Bard Field, Poet and Radical Suffragist: Parsing the Heart"
Event Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 07:00 PM – 08:00 PM Prelude.11: A supposedly FUN THING I'll never do again: (after david foster wallace)
Event Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 04:00 PM – 04:00 PM Back & Forth / Poetry & Jazz: A Conversation and Performance with David Meltzer & Marty Ehrlich
Event Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 07:00 PM – 07:00 PM The Fourth Annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture: Hilary Spurling