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5K Walk for Water for Sudan
Saturday, October 1, 2011
9:30 AM
PAC Center
Billy Collins as Poet-in-Residence
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
12:00-12:50 PM
MCC Theater
On stage conversation/interview on Writing craft with Tony Leuzzi and a book signing to follow
Open to MCC community only
7:-8:15 PM
MCC Theater
50 minute reading with Q&A
Book signing to follow presentation
Open to MCC and Rochester Community
Billy Collins is an American phenomenon. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar, he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library “Literary Lion.” His last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. His readings are usually standing room only, and his audience – enhanced tremendously by his appearances on National Public Radio – includes people of all backgrounds and age groups. The poems themselves best explain this phenomenon. The typical Collins poem opens on a clear and hospitable note but soon takes an unexpected turn; poems that begin in irony may end in a moment of lyric surprise. No wonder Collins sees his poetry as “a form of travel writing” and considers humor “a door into the serious.” It is a door that many thousands of readers have opened with amazement and delight.
Billy Collins has published eight collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, Picnic, Lightning, Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New & Selected Poems, Nine Horses,The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems,andBallistics. A collection of his haiku, titled She Was Just Seventeen, was published by Modern Haiku Press in fall 2006. He also edited two anthologies of contemporary poetry: Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, was the guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2006, and edited Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds, with paintings by David Allen Sibley (November 2009). His newest book, a collection of poems entitled Horoscopes for the Dead, will be published in spring 2011.
Included among the honors Billy Collins has received are fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has also been awarded the Oscar Blumenthal Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize, and the Levinson Prize — all awarded by Poetry magazine. In October 2004, Collins was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Mark Twain Prize for Humor in Poetry.
In June 2001, Billy Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003. In January 2004, he was named New York State Poet Laureate 2004-06. Billy Collins is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York, as well as a Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College.
What Happened on the Way to War Author: Rye Barcott
Friday, October 14, 2011
9:00 AM
Monroe A & B
SUNY Partnership Presentation
Survival in Auschwitz Book Panel/Discussion
Tuesday, October 8, 2011
3:30 PM
Brighton Room 3-217
Featuring Provost Michael McDonough, Professor Emeritus Barbara Lovenheim, and Special Collections Librarian Lori Annesi
Contemporary Women Playwrights with an Emphasis on Paula Vogel: An Academic Workshop
Thursday, October 20, 2011
4:00-5:30 PM
Black Box Theater
Free and Open to the Public
This workshop will look at the current dialogue surrounding women playwrights in the United States, will survey some of the more important and exciting work being done by contemporary women playwrights, and then will focus on the work of Paula Vogel. As usual, light refreshments will be served.
A Film Unfinished
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
6:00 PM
Campus Center Forum 3-130
Film and Discussion. Facilitated by Professor Michael Boester.
The Power of Prapaganda: A Faculty Panel and Discussion
Thursday, November 3, 2011
3:30 PM
Campus Center Forum 3-130
Featuring Professor Charles Clarke, Dr. William Drumright, Professor Regina Fabbro, and Professor Matthew Hachee
20th Kristallnacht Commemoration: Ann Millin, PhD.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
7:00 PM
MCC Theater
Fiction Writer: Matthew Trafford
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Location TBA
Reading
Shoah Film and Discussion
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 (Part I)
Thursday, December 8, 2011 (Part II)
6:00 PM
Empire Room 3-209
Facilitated by Professor Matthew Hachee
Visiting Playwright: Paula Vogel
Thursday, March 1, 2012
7:00 PM
MCC Theater
Reading/Book-Signing
Free and Open to the Public
Friday, March 2, 2012
12:00 PM
Black Box Theater
Playwriting Workshop
Free and Open to the MCC Community
Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Her other plays include the Obie-award winning The Baltimore Waltz, as well as Hot N Throbbing, Desdemona, The Mineola Twins, The Long Christmas Ride Home, And Baby Makes Seven, and The Oldest Profession. Her plays are published as The Mammary Plays and The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays. Vogel currently teaches playwriting at Brown University.
This event is co-sponsored by Creative Arts, Liberal Arts, English/Philosophy, and VaPA.
6th Voices of Vigilance Program: Rose Mapendo
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
12:00 PM Damon City Campus Rm 4151
7:00 PM Brighton Campus Theater
If All of Rochester Read the Same Book
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
12:00 PM
Forum 3-130
Free and Open to the Public
Discussion on Leningrad as it pertains to "If All of Rochester Read the Same Book..." selection The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean: author visit Friday, March 30.
Visiting Author: Debra Dean
Friday, March 30, 2011
12:00 PM
Monroe A & B
Free and Open to the Public
Author Debra Dean visits to discuss her book The Madonnas of Leningrad - the "If All of Rochester Read the Same Book"... selection.
Water for Sudan Concert
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
7:00 PM
Monroe A & B
22nd Yom HaShoah Commemoration
Thursday, April 26, 2012
9:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Campus Center Atrium and Forum
Scholars' Day
Saturday, April 28, 2012
9:30 AM
MCC Theater
Fifth Annual Student Playwriting Competition
Thursday, May 3, 2012
7:00 PM
Black Box Theater
Staged Reading and Awards Ceremony
Free and Open to the Public, Reservations Required
This competition encourages MCC students to write plays for an audience, to provide MCC students a competitive venue for their scripts, and to offer winning playwrights the opportunity to see their scripts performed and to receive constructive feedback for future play development. Scripts will be accepted for consideration beginning in September.
Attendance at any of these events earns Honors points
For more information,
visit www.monroecc.edu/go/honors
email honorstudies@monroecc.edu
or call 585-292-3351 |
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