Events

This craft talk will focus on strategies for collaborating with words as living beings. How do we make ourselves available to their arrival? How do we treat them when we meet? What do they desire? What do they hate? We'll look to possible clues from poets, writers, and critics who knew language before us, as well as theories nabbed from neuroscience and predictive coding. We will not actually answer the question posed in the talk's title, which is borrowed from the Scottish poet W. S. Graham, but we will marvel at the sensations (and writings) it can produce.

Heather Christle is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Paper Crown. She has also published two works of nonfiction: In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf and The Crying Book. Her work has appeared in London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Yorker, and Poetry. She teaches creative writing at Emory University.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Heather Christle is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Paper Crown. She has also published two works of nonfiction: In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf and The Crying Book. Her work has appeared in London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Yorker, and Poetry. She teaches creative writing at Emory University.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Daniel Saldaña París is the author of four novels—Among Strange Victims, Ramifications, The Dance and the Fire, and My Father’s Names—as well as a collection of personal essays, Planes Flying Over a Monster. His work has been translated into multiple languages and earned him a place in Bogotá39, a selection of the best Latin American writers under 40. He has received numerous fellowships and residencies, including from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, Art Omi, MacDowell, and the Jan Michalski Foundation. He was also awarded the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writers Award in the UK and was a finalist for the Herralde Prize in 2021. In 2022, he was a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and he is currently a Fellow at the Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Register here. 

Renowned pianist Mateusz Borowiak makes his second appearance at Sarah Lawrence College. Borowiak will perform works by Karol Szymanowski, Louis Pelosi, and Frédéric Chopin. 

Come join us for coffee and great conversation with professor Carolyn Ferrell in the Library's Rainbow Reading Room! Carolyn is the author of the novel Dear Miss Metropolitan, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Directed by Gianna Morin ’26, The Skriker is a dark, surreal tale of myth and modernity, blending folklore and reality. Following a shape-shifting faerie’s pursuit of two vulnerable young women, the play explores madness, desire, and devastation with lyrical, fragmented language and haunting imagery. It’s a fierce, unsettling journey through love and destruction.

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Directed by Gianna Morin ’26, The Skriker is a dark, surreal tale of myth and modernity, blending folklore and reality. Following a shape-shifting faerie’s pursuit of two vulnerable young women, the play explores madness, desire, and devastation with lyrical, fragmented language and haunting imagery. It’s a fierce, unsettling journey through love and destruction.

REGISTER HERE. 

Directed by Gianna Morin ’26, The Skriker is a dark, surreal tale of myth and modernity, blending folklore and reality. Following a shape-shifting faerie’s pursuit of two vulnerable young women, the play explores madness, desire, and devastation with lyrical, fragmented language and haunting imagery. It’s a fierce, unsettling journey through love and destruction.

REGISTER HERE. 

Music Third Voice Students present a dynamic recital showcasing art songs in Italian, French, and German, alongside selections from Musical Theater, Jazz standards, popular favorites, and original student compositions. Come enjoy an evening of music and see what our voice students have been working on this semester!

The Wrexham Road Reading Series brings together writers from within and beyond the Sarah Lawrence College community. We're looking forward to hosting authors Elaine Sexton MFA '00 and Jocelyn Jane Cox MFA '99. Join us in celebrating both of their newest publications! REGISTER HERE. 

Join us for a full day of conversations and workshops focused on the importance of play in children’s lives and the need for adults to create and sustain crucial play opportunities for children in their homes, schools, and community spaces. Play, in all these contexts, is essential for supporting intellectual, social, and emotional well-being of children and adults. Together we will consider how to advocate for and embrace more time and space for play. REGISTER HERE.

Sarah Lawrence College is an Approved CTLE Sponsor and offers 7 CTLE hours for this program.

Join us for a full day of conversations and workshops focused on the importance of play in children’s lives and the need for adults to create and sustain crucial play opportunities for children in their homes, schools, and community spaces. Play, in all these contexts, is essential for supporting intellectual, social, and emotional well-being of children and adults. Together we will consider how to advocate for and embrace more time and space for play. REGISTER HERE.

Sarah Lawrence College is an Approved CTLE Sponsor and offers 7 CTLE hours for this program.

This concert will feature new compositions from the June 2025 release of Bob Dee’s Cosmosis latest CD/Vinyl recording entitled New Moon. 

Brian Morton is the author of seven books, including the novel Starting Out in the Evening and the literary guidebook Writing as a Way of Life. He's taught at Sarah Lawrence since 1998.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.

Join us for a live recorded podcast with author and professor Joseph Earl Thomas. We'll be discussing Joseph's award winning memoir SINK. 

Please join us for a special conversation between Ron Egatz (author of a forthcoming biography of longtime SLC faculty member and former MFA Writing Director Thomas Lux) and James McWilliams (The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford, University of Arkansas Press, 2025) on their work as biographers and authors. Audience Q&A, book sales and signings to follow.

Register here for the Zoom livestream.