Founded and organized by Saraciea J Fennell (WFYP, January 2020) the Bronx Book Festival is a free, public event with an impressive line-up of authors celebrating books. They have exclusive TBIR programming lined up for this year's festival, so RSVP to meet bestselling authors from the Boogie Down and beyond! Colson Whitehead will attend as […]
In this course, led by Angelo D'Amato (Fiction, June 2020), will look at William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury,” Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves,” and excerpts from James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake,” to understand how this technique challenges how we make meaning of the world, and how we can harness it to create a […]
Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Kyoko Mori (Nonfiction, MFA Writing Faculty) and John Rozum (Graphic Novel & Comics).
Join the Lesley MFA community for the All Lesley Reads event with actor, director, playwright, and screenwriter Bernardo Cubria. Bernardo's accomplishments are vast and wide in both stage and screen. He has worked as actor, writer, and editor in film, TV and stage. Bernardo’s plays have been nominated for and won major theater awards, including […]
Join visiting writer Jasmine Warga (WFYP, June 2013), author of Other Words for Home, The Shape of Thunder, A Rover’s Story, and My Heart and Other Black Holes, which has been translated into twenty languages.
PANELISTS: Jasmine Warga (WFYP, June 2013), Chris Lynch (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty), Sara Farizan (WFYP, January 2012), and Jason Reynolds (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty). Moderator: Sara Zarr (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty)
Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Joan Houlihan (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty) and Sara Zarr (WFYP, MFA Writing Faculty).
Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Rachel Manley (Nonfiction, MFA Writing Faculty) and Kevin Prufer (Poetry, MFA Writing Faculty).
Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Bonita Lee Penn (Poetry, January 2015) and Tyler Woodsmall (Fiction, June 2020).
Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Ana Guigui (WSS), McKensi Pascall (WSS), William Galvani (Nonfiction), Graham Jones (WFYP), and Tyler Pruett (Poetry).
Join the Lesley MFA community for this evening reading with Hope Villanueva (WSS), Abigail Campbell (WFYP), Tony Pina (Nonfiction), and Grace Deitrich Purda, (WFYP).
Books aren't just blocks of text. They're also physical objects, and in some cases they become art themselves. Hand-sewn chapbooks (from "cheap-book") are a simple and timeless way to preserve words and even art. Join Frances Donovan (Poetry, June 2019) and peruse a collection of chapbooks that show the various techniques used to make them. […]
