Events

In this talk, writing faculty member Vijay Seshadri will elucidate sonic principles and ideas by means of both an analysis of texts and a brief historical summary of how we got to where we are now in our understanding of rhythm and melody in writing.

Durga Chew-Bose '09 is a Montreal-born writer and teh author of Too Much and Not the Mood.

At the fall open house, Writing Institute teachers will be on hand to chat with guests individually and discuss their classes.

Ted Chiang's fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus awards, and has been featured in The Best American Short Stories.

Nicholas Muellner is an artist who operates at the intersection of photography and writing. Through books, exhibitions, and slide lectures, his projects investigate the limits of photography as a documentary pursuit and as an interface to literary, political, and personal narratives.

Nicholas Muellner is an artist who operates at the intersection of photography and writing. Through books, exhibitions, and slide lectures, his projects investigate the limits of photography as a documentary pursuit and as an interface to literary, political, and personal narratives.

Mary Armentrout '85 is an experimental choreographer whose works employ a philosophical mode of questioning and listening.

Award-winning author and Sarah Lawrence alumnus Richard Morais '81 will return to campus to share his third novel, The Man With No Borders.

Mary Ruefle is a poet, essayist, and erasure artist. Michael Burkard is the author of lucky coat anywhere, Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990, and Unsleeping.

Join Mary Armentrout '85 in discussing the interweaving of dance, philosophy, and embodied thinking in her site specific performance installation works.

The Japan Foundation, New York organizes an annual film series during which Japanese films are screened at educational and cultural institutions across the United States.

A discussion led by Dr. Jesica Raingo, professor of biology, Instituto Multidisciplinario de BiologÍa Celular, La Plata, Argentina.

Joan Silber is the author of eight books of fiction. Her last novel Improvement won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and she recently received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She teaches in the Sarah Lawrence MFA Program.

Artist Ann Toebbe has been the recipient of numerous grants including a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2005 and 2015, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant in 2015, and a Chicago Dcase and IL Council for The Arts Grant in 2017.

Nadie/Nobody (Cuba, 2017) is a documentary on the Cuban poet Rafael Alcides. Screening will be followed by a Q&A with director/producer Miguel Coyula and actor/producer Lynn Cruz.

Sponsored by Latin American and Latino/a Studies (LALS), Film History, Filmmaking and Moving Image Arts, the Office of Global Education and the Sarah Lawrence College program in Cuba.

Donna Stonecipher is the author of five books of poetry: The Reservoir (winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series competition, 2002); Souvenir de Constantinople (2007); The Cosmopolitan (winner of the National Poetry Series, 2008); Model City (2015); and Transaction Histories (2018, cited by The New York Times as one of the 10 best poetry books of 2018).