Tribute, Celebration, and Cultural Bash
Sun, Aug 6, 2023 –
Sun, Aug 6, 2023
Programming
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
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
Sun, Dec 14, 2025 –
Mon, Feb 10, 2020,
09:29 PM – 11:59 PM
09:29 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
Sun, Dec 14, 2025 –
Fri, Feb 8, 2019,
09:29 PM – 11:59 PM
09:29 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
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
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
12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Call for Papers: Breaking Through: Textures & Aesthetics of Rupture
Reading and Conversation
Tue, Nov 7, 2017,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Passwords: Cedar Sigo on Joanne Kyger
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
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
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
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
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
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
09:00 AM – 08:30 PM
Translation Theory Today: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Critical Theory
Event
Fri, Apr 15, 2016,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Living Room: A Gathering on June Jordan’s Life and Work
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
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
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
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
Wed, Apr 1, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Five Years of Lost & Found: New American Poetry & Beyond
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
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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
12:00 AM – 12:00 AM
Minding the Body: Dualism and its Discontents
Event
Tue, Feb 5, 2013,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Turnstyle Reading Series: Roger Sedarat and Keith Gandal
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
Mon, Apr 16, 2012,
06:00 PM –
06:00 PM
Turnstyle Reading Series: Jan Heller Levi Linsey Abrams
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
Public Seminars
Translation
We investigate how translation can be a process of transformation.
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