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74 Events • 48 Venues • 5 Boroughs 3 Weeks • 1 Festival LitFest2003:Home October 23—November 13 “Griots! Poets! Balladeers! Karaoke! Rap! Fiction! Memoir! Live stories! Essays! One-page plays! Deep truths! Bald-faced lies! All addressing the notion of “Home.” Fifty-one literary presenters in all five boroughs have teamed up with hun- dreds of artists to create a vibrant literary festival as gritty, witty and sexy as the city in which we live. All the programs, all the venues are here. Visit early, visit often, visit any one of us or visit us all—and find a true home away from home.” —New York Literary Roundtable

October 23 October 25 Poets & Writers co-sponsors this reading New York Poets Read at Home by Bernard from her newest collection, Tishman Auditorium, . 7:30pm. Jhumpa Lahiri Dr. Elizabeth Nunez: Swan Electric. $7, $5 for PSA members and students. Description: Readings by Charles Bernstein, Center for Jewish History. 6:30pm. Booksigning Mistaken Identities Anselm Berrigan, Kimiko Hahn, D. Nurske, $12, $7 members, $5 students. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Storage Art Space. 7pm. Free. Sekou Sundiata, Monica de la Torre. Lahiri (author of Interpreter of Maladies) Culture. 6pm. Free. The Bronx Writers Center and the Literary reads from her revelatory new novel The author signs her book When Rocks Dance. Freedom Project present poets Oscar Bermeo, Home and Exile, Politics and The Namesake: A Novel. Lynne Procope and Patrick Rosal examine Poetry: A Conversation with Writers Come Home Home: Afro-Caribbean Writers the tenuous connections between the native Cornelia Street Café. 6pm. cultures of their parents and their own Eliot Weinberger and Bei Dao Cornelia Street Café. 6pm. $6 (one-drink minimum). American identities. Poets House. 7pm. $7, Free for members. $6 (one drink minimum). Curated by Martine Dominique. Cultural critic Eliot Weinberger and poet Bei Sundry writers from the 26-year history of the Language is the Homeland: Dao discuss the ways in which poetry can Cornelia Street Café return to their roots. Queens is a home Basque Writers and Songs respond to cultural and political disenfran- Curated by Robin Hirsch and Angelo Verga. chisement, and to exile from one’s own home. The Kitchen. 7pm. $10. away from home Bei Dao will also read from his poetry. “Home” as a thing with Forest Hills Branch, Queens Borough Public Radical voices from a culture without a coun- try. With poet Kirmen Uribe, translator feathers that perches in the Library. 2pm. FREE. Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan share their Elizabeth Macklin, musician Mikel Urdangarin, October 31 soul…”—An homage to experiences traveling the world in their own and historian Mark Kurlansky (Salt: A World Emily Dickinson Queens backyard and reflect on an often History, The Basque History of the World ). paradoxical America. A Home for Politics Chez LaRoe. 7pm. $10. Playwrights on the Edge LAMIA INK! presents an evening of Shortwave Independent Co-op Book Shop. Jackson Heights Branch, Queens Borough Performance Flash Fiction, songs, Urban Word NYC 2pm. FREE. Public Library. 2pm. Free. and one page plays. Last Saturday Slam Stephen Elliot hosts Ben Greenman, Paul LaFarge Immigrants Theater Project presents panel and Tsaurah Litsky reading from MacAdam- Bowery Poetry Club. 1–3pm. $5 adults, $3 discussion with Latino writers and playwrights Cage’s new anthology Politically Inspired. Edgar Allan Poe—Great New teens, Free to performers (teens are allowed to whose works address the immigrant experi- York Writers in Great New York enter the contest). First come, first served. ence. In Spanish. November 1 Places Dysfunction at Home Masonic Hall. 6:30pm. $30. October 26 Three Lives Bookstore. 7pm. FREE Readings from the new Library of America Matthew Sharpe reads from “Shelter” volume. Co-sponsored by the City of New York The Sleeping Father. The Asian American Writers’ Workshop. 7pm. Parks & Recreation and the Merchant’s House Cultural Circle Conference $7 suggested donation. Museum. 2003–Caribbean Literature: Phillip Lopate On the Town “Shelter” features commissioned works from two photographers, seven poets and musicians Celebrating The Sweetness Teachers & Writers Collaborative. 7:30pm. FREE Maggie Estep, Amanda Stern, who will present their interpretations of the Phillip Lopate will read selected essays about of Home meaning of shelter. Closing event in a three- and Nelly Reifler New York from his new book Getting Personal: Schomburg Center. 12:00–5pm. $40. day national festival of Asian American Poetry. Housing Works Used Book Café. 7 pm. Free. Selected Writings and from his forthcoming African Voices hosts this conference on career The city as Home: Fiction by Maggie Estep, history of the New York waterfront. opportunities for writers and artists, and the Amanda Stern, and Nelly Reifler. Presented by Poetry Reading: Longing for influence Caribbean writers have made to Soft Skull Press. American literature. Karaoke + Poetry = Fun: The Home KPF All-Star Show China Institute. 2-4pm. FREE Ben Wang will read and lecture in Mandarin October 24 You Can’t Go Home Again Bowery Poetry Club. 9:30pm, $6 selected classical Chinese poems. Barbes. 6pm. Free Daniel Nester’s singing school series offers the Readings by Nelly Reifler, Beth Bosworth, Lisa best singer-poets from its past 13 installments: Feature Film and Discussion: Shea and Abigail Thomas. Todd Colby, Regie Cabico, Jennifer Knox, and Ziryab New York: others attempt at verse and vibrato. Presented Arab-American Writers Strangers by Unpleasant Event Schedule. Asia Society, 7pm. $10, $7 members, $5 students. October 27 Cornelia Street Café. 6pm. Dir. Ramin Bahrani. 2000. 83 mins. Fresh out of $6 (one-drink minimum). college in the U.S., Kaveh’s first trip to Iran October 29 Curated by Nada Taib & Ramzi Moufarez. uncovers startling family secrets. The Rail presents: Home Galapagos Art Space. 7pm. $10. Harlem Lost and Found: Ned Rorem 100th Birthday In conjunction with Poets & Writers, the Fence Magazine & Books Author Lectures Celebration Brooklyn Rail presents poets Frances Richard Benefit Play-Reading Museum of the City of New York (see times and Monica de la Torre and novelist Donald below). FREE w/ suggested admission $7, $4 Miller Theatre. 8pm. $20. Breckinridge reading about ‘home.’ Dactyl Foundation. 7–10pm. $35. The New York Festival of Song performs A benefit reading of Joyelle McSweeney’s members, seniors and students. 12:30pm—Harlem: Lost and Found with Rorem’s “Evidence of Things Not Seen ,” African Voices present Long verse play The Commandrine. a setting of 36 poems by 24 poets, including Michael Henry Adams. Baudelaire, Frost, Hughes, Whitman and Journey Home The Happy Ending Reading 2pm—The Queen of Harlem with Wordsworth. Langston Hughes Library. 6pm. Free. Brian Keith Jackson. Spoken word artists Layding Kaliba, Sydnee Series 3pm—Hunting in Harlem with Mat Johnson. Family Stories: Belgrade Stewart, Danny Simmons and Mariahadessa Happy Ending. 8pm. FREE Topic: Home on the edge. Host Amanda Stern DB Leonard: Bring It On Home The Point CDC Theater. 8pm. $10. Ekere Tallie reflect on home from the African- welcomes authors Brock Clarke, Hannah Tinti A production of a four-character play by American experience. Co-sponsored by Poets House Children’s Room. 11am-1pm. FREE. and Alix Ohlin, and the band Unpleasant Event Biljiana Srbljanovic about children who play Poets & Writers. Poet and songwriter DB Leonard plays guitar, Schedule. at being adults. while poems are read invoking the meaning of home. For ages 4-10. October 28 Getting Home October 30 Meet Author Al-Cheng Liu Shortwave Independent Co-op Book Shop. Flushing Library. 6pm. FREE 2pm. Free. Poems of Place: A Reading and Craig Clevenger reads from The Contortionists The Poetry Society of America Author Al-Cheng Liu presents her views on Conversation with April Bernard how one Chinese writer reflects the culture Handbook and Wendy Dale avoids prison at Presents: Shortwave. Baruch College, The Newman Conference and social situation of the US through her Center, 7th Fl. 5:45pm. Free. work. In Mandarin. November 2 We Have Always Lived in a From Griot to Rapper: Bringing November 12 Castle Our Poetic Roots Home Hebrew Jam—Poetry and Jazz Cornelia Street Café. 6-8pm. Bowery Poetry Club7-9pm, $15. Hoppla! Such is Life—the from Israel $6 (one-drink minimum). Lit Noire presents a poetry concert featuring Roaring Twenties in Berlin Center for Jewish History. 6pm. FREE. Writers Room members Lawrence Block, poetic all-stars Abiodun Oyewole (The Last Center for Jewish History. 7pm. Presented by the American Sephardi Federation. Lori Fischer and Coleman Hough read Poets), Rha Goddess, Willie Perdomo and others. $20, $15 members. from their works. Presented by the Leo Baeck. Meet the Author: Patrick Jazzoetry Joins In Celebrating Poets in Residence Home: Russian-American Lemoine HOME Florence Gould Hall, French Institute/Alliance Writers Central Library, Queens Borough Public Sistas’ Place. 4–7pm. $5 suggested donation, Française. 7pm. $10-15. Cornelia Street Café. 6pm. Library. 2pm. FREE. $15 includes dinner. The Academy of American Poets presents a $6 (one-drink minimum). Haitian writer Patrick Lemoine tells of his Louis Reyes Rivera & The Jazzoets, along with reading by its Chancellors: Frank Bidart, Lucille Curated by Andrey Gritsman. years spent in a prison in Haiti under dictator- special guests and open mic, will feature a spe- Clifton, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, Heather ship of Duvalier. In French. cial tribute to the African Diaspora, and how the McHugh, James Tate, and Rosanna Warren. Colson Whitehead interviewed longing for home has impacted upon African, by Dean Olsher Caribbean and African American cultures. November 9 Celeste Bartos Forum, , November 6 Humanities and Social Sciences Library. 6:30pm. Poe As Parlor Music $10, $7 Library Friends and Conservators. New-York Historical Society. 2pm. $15. Amos Oz—Readings and Author and MacArthur Fellow Colson Poe’s poems from the Library of America’s Fourteen Female Voices Reflections Whitehead talks to Dean Olsher, host of Public Edgar Allan Poe–Poems and Poetics, ed. From Brazil Radio International’s “The Next Big Thing,” Center for Jewish History. 7pm. Richard Wilbur, are recited and sung by The Americas Society. 6pm. FREE. about The Colossus of New York, a newly $25, $15 members. Metropolitan Opera sopranos Charlotte Philley Editor Elzbieta Szoka presents Myriam published collection of essays. Presented by the YIVO Institute for Jewish and Deborah Saverance. Campello, Helena Parente Cunha and Research. Frequency with David Trinidad Conceicao Evaristo. With Host Publications. Home’s Lights: Poetry Reading Center Pieces Dongan Hills Branch Library, Staten Island and Jeffrey Conway Public Library. 3:30pm. FREE. Writing Home: A Special Strivers Lounge and Café. 3pm. Shortwave Independent Co-op Book Shop. Poets & Writers sponsors a poetry reading Presentation of Selected Shorts $5 suggested donation. 2-3pm. FREE. based on the theme of home. Poets and guests Great Hall of the . 6:30pm. $20, Readings from new work by Frederick Douglass A reading from David Trinidad’s Plasticville include Jim Tolan, Marguerite Rivas, Allan $15 seniors and students. Creative Arts Center writers. and Jeffrey Conway’s Douglas Colman, and Ellen Aug Lytle. Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse. Actors Kate Burton, Stephen Colbert and Keir Dullea read stories about home from the works of Sherman Alexie, Ray Bradbury, and Dorothy November 10 Norman Manea with Leonard November 3 Thomas. Produced by Symphony Space. Lopate Queens College Music Building. 7pm. $10 Home & Exile: A Talk with Wendy Fairey Reads from Full Norman Manea (The Hooligan’s Return) reads Robbie Conal Andre Aciman & Ilan Stavans House from his work followed by an interview Revolution Books. 6pm. FREE. Brooklyn College Student Center. . JCC in Manhattan. 7:30pm. $8 Akashic Books presents a book discussion & 1:40–2:55pm. FREE Two leading contemporary memoirists with signing with guerrilla poster artist, Robbie Wendy Fairey reads from Full House, her new Sephardic-Jewish roots explore their visions Conal, author of Artburn. book of stories. November 13 of “home” in a special reading and discussion. Shirley Hazzard and Jan One Story Houses New (York) Stories Mark Doty: Open House Arlene Grocery. 6:30-8pm. FREE. Morris Teachers & Writers Collaborative. 7pm. FREE. Cocktail hour and reading featuring Martha Reading The Unterberg Poetry Center. 8pm. $16. Local luminaries join NYC high school students Witt and a discounted cocktail of her choice— Teachers & Writers Collaborative. 7:30pm. FREE. Novelist Shirley Hazzard and travel writer Jan and creative writing teachers to read from the Caipiroska. Reading to be followed by a Mark Doty will share the stage with contribu- Morris have made the world their home, and New York Stories, New York Writers and other house of cards building contest. tors to his recent anthology, Open House: make readers at home in the world, in their urban wordings. highly acclaimed work. Writers Redefine Home. A book party and HOME: Poets from other reception follow. November 7 November 5 countries living in NYC “Fragile Dwellings” Cornelia Street Café. 6pm. Great Hall of the Cooper Union. 6pm. FREE. $6 (one-drink minimum). Belladonna*: Veronica Corpuz, Photographs by Margaret Morton. Little Gray Book Lecture No. Rattapallax and Cornelia Street Café present Michelle Naka Pierce & Anne this reading by poets from other countries 23: BROOKLINE—The Town Tardos traveling or living in the US. Robert Minhinnick, Pascale Petit, Isabelle Balot, and That Has Everything (and at Bluestockings Bookstore. 7pm. Flavia Rocha will read. Co-sponsored by |$10 suggested donation. the Same Time Has Nothing) Poets & Writers. Galapagos Art Space. 8pm, $5. In epistolary-bridged distance, the radical of quotidian Pierce, Corpuz and Tardos enter John Hodgman welcomes Patrick Borelli, Reading Between A & B Danzy Senna, Sarah Vowell, and others in a language in a tense and supportive home. presents an Evening with Soft discussion of one American hometown which, Home: Pink Pony Poetry like all home towns, is simultaneously the most Skull Press Cornelia Street Café. 6pm. interesting and the most boring place on earth. 11th Street Bar. 8pm. FREE. $6 (one-drink minimum). Presenting their special brand of established Curated by Jackie Sheeler. Jonathan Lethem in conversation and emerging poetry, in conjunction with Soft with Phillip Lopate Little Houses at Home Skull Press. Celeste Bartos Forum, New York Public Library, Pratt Center for Continuing and Professional Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Studies. 7-9pm. FREE November 11 6:30pm. $10, $7 Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Library friends and conservator’s Award- presents small press editors reading on home. winning author Jonathan Lethem talks to Home: Storytelling essayist and fellow Brooklynite Phillip Lopate Cornelia Street Café. 6pm. about his new novel, The Fortress of Solitude. November 8 $6 (one-drink minimum). Tom Sleigh: The Dreamhouse Curated by Barbara Aliprantis. Teachers & Writers Collaborative. 7:30pm. FREE. Home: Italian-American HomoText Tom Sleigh will read selected essays from a Writers Association Bluestockings. 7pm. $5 or TDF. work-in-progress which traces his family Cornelia Street Café. 6pm. Dixon Place’s monthly series of lesbian and history through the lens of 20th and 21st $6 (one-drink minimum). gay literature, curated by Kevin Wolfe. century architecture. Curated by Gil Fagiani & Maria Lisella. Featuring Alexander Chee (Edinburgh) and T. Cole Rachel (Surviving the Moment of Impact). LitFest2003:Locations

11th Street Bar Chez LaRoe Miller Theatre Flushing Library 510 E 11th St between Ave A and 303 Park Ave South at 23rd St 2960 Broadway at 116th St 41-17 Main St between 41st Rd Ave B (917-214-2551) (212-978-4413) (on the Columbia campus) and 41st Ave, Flushing, Queens (212-854-7799) (718-661-1223) 92nd St Y, The Utenberg Poetry The Cooper Union, Great Hall Center 7 E 7th St between Second and Museum of the City of New York Forest Hills Branch 1395 Lexington Ave at 92nd St Third Aves (212-279-4200) 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St 108–19 71st Ave at Queens Blvd, (212-415-5500) (212-534-1672) Forrest Hills,Queens Cornelia Street Café (718-268-7934) Arlene Grocery 29 Cornelia St between Bleecker The New School, 95 Stanton St between Ludlow and and W 4th Sts (212-989-9319) Tishman Auditorium Jackson Heights Orchard Sts (212-358-1633) 66 W 12 St between Fifth and Sixth 35-51 81st St between 35th and Dactyl Foundation Aves (212-254-9628) 37th Aves, Jackson Heights, Queens Asia Society and Museum 64 Grand St between West (718-899-2500) 725 Park Ave at 70th St Broadway and Wooster St New York Public Library (212-517-ASIA) (212-674-0199) Humanities and Social Langston Hughes Library Sciences Library 100-01 Northern Blvd at 100th St, The Asian American Writers’ Florence Gould Hall, French Corona, Queens (718-651-1100) Workshop Institute/Alliance Francaise Fifth Ave at 42nd St 16 W 32nd St between Fifth Ave 55 E 59th St (212-355-6160) (212-930-0571) Queens College Music Building and Broadway, Suite 10A Schomburg Center for 65-30 Kissena Blvd at Jewel Ave, (212-494-0061) Galapagos Art and Performance Flushing, Queens (718-997-4646) Space Research in Black Culture Barbes 70 North 6th St, Williamsburg, 515 Malcolm X Blvd Revolution Books 376 9th St at Sixth Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn (718-384-4586) (Lenox Ave) at 135th St 9 W 19th St between Fifth and Brooklyn (718-643-1599) (212-865-2982) Sixth Aves (212-691-3345) Granta Books Bluestockings Bookstore 85 E 4th St between Second and The Point CDC Theater Soft Skull Shortwave Bookstore 172 Allen St between Stanton and Third Aves 2nd floor 940 Garrison Ave, Hunts Point, 71 Bond St at State St, Boerum Rivington Sts (212-777-6028) (212-505-3360) Bronx (718-542-4139) Hill, Brooklyn (718-643-1599) Bowery Poetry Club Happy Ending Poets House and Poets House Sistas’ Place 308 Bowery at Bleecker St 302 Broome St at Forsyth St Children Room 456 Nostrand Ave at Jefferson Ave (212-614-0505) (212-254-9628) 72 Spring St between Crosby and (718-398-1766) Lafayette Sts, 2nd floor Bronx Writers’ Center Housing Works (212-431-7920) Staten Island Public Library, 261 E 134th St, Westchester 126 Crosby St between Houston and Dongan Hills Branch Square, Bronx (718-409-1265) Prince Sts (212-334-3324) Pratt Center for Continuing and 1617 Richmond Rd between Liberty Professional Studies and Seaview Aves, Staten Island Brooklyn College Student Jewish Community Center in 144 W 14th St between Sixth and (718-351-1444) Center Campus Rd and E 27th St, Manhattan Seventh Aves, Room 213 Flatbush, Brooklyn (718-951-5847) 334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th St (212-741-9110) Strivers Lounge and Café (646-505-5708) 2611 Frederick Douglass Blvd at Center for Jewish History Queens Borough Public Library 140th St (212-491-4422) 16 W 15th St between Fifth and The Kitchen Sixth Aves (917-606-8200) 512 W 19th St at 10th Ave (212- Central Library Teachers & Writers Collaborative 255-5793 x11) 89-11 Merrick Blvd between 89th 5 Union Sq West between 14th and China Institute and 90th Aves, Jamaica, Queens 15th Sts, 7th floor (212-691-6590) 125 E 65th St between Lexington Masonic Hall (718-990-0896) and Park Aves (212-744-8181 x145) 71 W 23rd St between Fifth and Three Lives Bookstore Sixth Aves (212-360-1378) 154 W 10th St at Waverly Pl (212-741-2069)