THURSDAY!

This series seeks to reinstate Griffith’s essential role as a founder, and honor Griffith’s stewardship of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s archive. Please join us! centerforthehumanities.org/event/lost-f... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

We are excited to announce a partnership w/ the Chicago Review! These pieces introduce the significance of understudied poets for New American Poetry through fellows’ archival objects. We are thrilled to share our first collaboration by @julysses000.bsky.social www.chicagoreview.org/cuny-lost-an...

"If I were to answer, I might say this: my relationship with Theresa is different from my relationship with kimchi. And yet, both are layered, complicated, and impossible to disentangle from who I am." Read @julysses000.bsky.social on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

Coming up soon! An event co-organized by @cunypoetics.bsky.social fellow Lucien Baskin. www.eventbrite.com/e/antiracist...

This is just a fragment of letters between writers Kevin Killian & Samuel Delany. They are taken up here as part of an archival research project by L&F fellow Rebecca Teich, from which she offers proliferations, detours, and provocations. Read more: centerforthehumanities.org/samuel-r-del...

Next, we have the video from the post-screening Q&A after TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, chronicling the incendiary life of one of CUNY’s most beloved teachers. centerforthehumanities.org/event/toni-c... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

We are excited to share photos and video from some of our latest events. First, the @cunypoetics.bsky.social Fellows Showcase, where they were able to share their in-progress archival projects. centerforthehumanities.org/event/lost-a... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

TOMORROW! Excited to share this project that came out of L&F Fellowship research by Cortnie Belser! @manifoldscholar.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Poetry at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ! centerforthehumanities.org/event/mother...

A celebration of new and ongoing work, together, we will think through the newest surge of attacks on the arts, capitulation of art institutions to conservative demands, and the tensions between art as liberatory cultural front and as liberal assimilation. centerforthehumanities.org/event/poetic...

TOMORROW! Presentations on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa’s unpublished poetry and “Tongues of Fire” manuscript; Stuart Hall, Richard Pryor, Free Jazz and the Black Arts Movement, and Gwendolyn Bennett, Claudia Jones, and Mae Mallory! centerforthehumanities.org/event/lost-a...

Apply for a fellowship and then come see the amazing work our past fellows have done!

Deadline is FRIDAY! We are so excited to see your proposals! See some examples of past projects at this link, but please do not feel limited by them! We want to see *your* passion, *your* project. centerforthehumanities.org/2025-lost-fo... @cunyenglish.bsky.social @complitgccuny.bsky.social

Two on Toni! First a workshop on how to ignite learning spaces with inspiration from Bambara’s own teaching practices. Then a new film that highlights how we can learn from Bambara in a time of renewed questions. centerforthehumanities.org/event/toni-c... centerforthehumanities.org/event/toni-c...

Featuring presentations on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa’s unpublished poetry and “Tongues of Fire” manuscript; Stuart Hall, Richard Pryor, Free Jazz and the Black Arts Movement, and Gwendolyn Bennett, Claudia Jones, and Mae Mallory! centerforthehumanities.org/event/lost-a...

A huge congratulations to our Director on her AWARD WINNING poetry collection! “My book draws from my experiences getting to know the New York City archipelago from the perspective of its many rivers, creeks, and tidal kills."  www.gc.cuny.edu/news/directo... @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social

Please join us also for @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Shorts: An Evening of Films and Discussion! A program showcasing the talent of GC film artists, whose creative work reflects their groundbreaking research and distinctive viewpoints. centerforthehumanities.org/event/gradua...

Ronaldo will also be hosting a creative workshop for @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social students. Inspired by brief in-class readings, conversation, and related exercises, we will create new works. Space is limited so please register here to attend. centerforthehumanities.org/event/instan...

Join us for a performance lecture by poet, artist, and CUNY Graduate Center alum Ronaldo V. Wilson embodying form and place through language, dance, song, and video. Introduced by poet and artist @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/still-cand... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

“Candy” first debuted in 1982, yet “Candy” still lingers, often flourishing in Wilson’s art, recently in improvised dialogues, drawings and site-specific urban and land art performance videos. Join for this form-fluid event: centerforthehumanities.org/event/still-... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Youtube link to the Cascadia Poetics Lab interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1u...

@samohana.com looks at Allen Ginsberg’s tax returns to understand how Ginsberg supported himself, and the point at which he finally started getting paid for the poetry he created. Read his findings, or listen to him on @cascadiapoeticslab.bsky.social. centerforthehumanities.org/dear-future-...

For students in all disciplines who interested in archival research in or around 20th century poetry, poetics or other art forms (see link for more), and will range from $500 to $3,000. Due Feb. 13th! Learn more! centerforthehumanities.org/2026-lost-fo... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

@onuraayaz.bsky.social visited the Charles Olson Research Collection at @uconn.bsky.social in search of poetry and teachings, but unexpectedly discovered Olson’s trip to Key West where his poetic genius was born. Below are Ayaz’s experiences and findings: centerforthehumanities.org/discovering-...

TOMORROW! Please join us for a bilingual dialogue and reading put together by L&F Fellow Natasha Tiniacos, alongside poets, scholars, and translators to discuss the phenomenon of literary exophony: the experience of existing outside one’s mother tongue. centerforthehumanities.org/event/exopho...

A thank you to everyone who came out to this fantastic wide-ranging and brilliant discussion with legendary poet and activist Margaret Randall! It was such a privilege to witness life-long commitment to activism, friendship, poetry, and all @[email protected]

TONIGHT! Join us to hear about the incredible life of Randall and other "outrider" artists. www.eventbrite.com/e/letters-fr... @newvillagepress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

And WEDNESDAY: Margaret Randall on artists, writers, and activists who risk everything to confront censorship, injustice, and the constraints of convention. @newvillagepress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Next week!

Join legendary poet, activist, oral historian, and translator Margaret Randall for a reading and conversation based on her newest books chronicling her correspondences with fellow “outrider” artists. www.eventbrite.com/e/letters-fr... @newvillagepress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

TONIGHT!

SUNDAY!

TOMORROW!

We hope you can come say hi! We're tabling with our friends at Birds, LLC. We'll have books of archival work and poetry for sale, and lots to chat about! brooklynbookfestival.org/event_type/f... #brooklynbookfestival

Next Week!

Next week!

CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books combines three of Ammiel Alcalay’s previously published poetic texts—Scrapmetal (2007), the cairo notebooks (1993), and from the warring factions (2002)—with a new work. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/controlled...

Celebrate new poetry! Two extraordinary book-length poems confronting violent colonial histories. The poets will read from their new books, followed by a conversation. www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-rea... @cunypoetics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @futurepoem.bsky.social

We were thrilled to host two packed events on Tuesday to start the Fall 2025 Friday Forum schedule, featuring visiting scholar Caleb Ward! Thank you to @humanitiescuny.bsky.social and @cunypoetics.bsky.social for co-sponsoring the events, and to Ph.D. in English candidate Ju Ly Ban for organizing 🎉

"...a voice that speaks, in the absence of memory about the unbearable weight of memory, and another that has to bear the weight of language, of signification, of the impossible task of making memory, the ineffable, effable." read more centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

"Even now, our thoughts and tomorrow’s to-do lists might be worlds apart. Yet, there’s this moment. a connection I call “click.” For me, that click began with Theresa’s work." Read more: centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

When Ju Ly Ban first arrived at the @bampfa.bsky.social, Theresa’s letters spoke to her most. Her correspondences seemed to breathe, their voices rippling across time. The letters that follow continue this conversation. centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

Amongst other things, Distributaries will highlight @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social student projects and work, @cunypoetics.bsky.social archival research projects and journeys, @cunygcps2.bsky.social Research Fellows, and CUNY student fellows work and projects for the NYC Climate Justice Hub!

DISTRIBUTARIES IS BACK! The @humanitiescuny.bsky.social blog returns with a new series highlighting what our Fellows find in the archive, and the feelings, artistry, and scholarship that arises from that work. First up is Ju Ly Ban on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

ALSO WEDNESDAY!

WEDNESDAY!

Preceding the event Tonya M. Foster will facilitate a free related writing workshop, and participants will be invited to briefly share their writings at the start this event. Map the array of influences that shape your intellectual and creative practices. centerforthehumanities.org/event/influe...

Three poets will read from their work and consider their own lineages, influences, inspiration, and show how they extend their work to writing communities and beyond. centerforthehumanities.org/event/influe... @scryptkeeper.substack.com @mdurandpoet.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social

To mother is to inhabit a form of acute sociality, one of deep dependence and need, attachment and love—a vulnerability to all the ways the system continues to fail us. Join these two poets for their writing on the affective and social bonds of childraising centerforthehumanities.org/event/kendra...