Events

Since 2003, the Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival has presented emerging and established poets from across the country alongside current Sarah Lawrence undergraduate and graduate student readers. The weekend includes craft talks, panels, book signings, receptions, open mics, and more. All events are free and open to the public.

How does humanity manufacture its own destruction? Our piece examines how the normalization of violence introduced with the Cold War continues to dominate the classroom and the household. We ultimately beg the question: is the Cold War over, or have weapons of mass destruction merely become more obtainable?

Join us for Graduate Visit Day: Children, Childhood, and Education to learn more about the MA program in Child Development, the MS Ed program in the Art of Teaching and the special resources that both programs enjoy on campus.

How does humanity manufacture its own destruction? Our piece examines how the normalization of violence introduced with the Cold War continues to dominate the classroom and the household. We ultimately beg the question: is the Cold War over, or have weapons of mass destruction merely become more obtainable?

How does humanity manufacture its own destruction? Our piece examines how the normalization of violence introduced with the Cold War continues to dominate the classroom and the household. We ultimately beg the question: is the Cold War over, or have weapons of mass destruction merely become more obtainable?

Rogério Boccato Quartet will play music from their newest album, No Old Rain.

How often have you heard another writer sneer at the concept of literary writing as cathartic or, God forbid, therapeutic? How often have you agreed? Too often we take for granted the false binary between the personal and the intellectual. A literary work's aesthetic or intellectual merit does not preclude catharsis, nor concerns of domestic, corporeal, or "confessional" nature. Why shouldn't a literary examination of the navel approach profound universalities, be intellectually astute, politically relevant, and aesthetically great? During this talk we will take a long hard look into our own navels, interrogate our own inherited biases and consider why "personal" writing might be exactly what we need right now.

Melissa Febos MFA '08 is the author of the memoir Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press 2010), the essay collection Abandon Me (Bloomsbury 2017), and a forthcoming second essay collection, Girlhood (Bloomsbury 2020). The inaugural winner of the Jean Córdova Nonfiction Award from LAMBDA Literary, her work has recently appeared in Tin House, Granta, The New York Times, Vogue, and The Believer. She is an Associate Professor and MFA Director at Monmouth University and lives in Brooklyn.

Join Samuel Stein ’05 for a discussion about the state and future of our cities at a time of global concentration of capital into urban real estate. Stein will present some of the ideas that animate his new book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.

Join Ariel Dougherty ’69, co-founder of Women Make Movies, for a screening of her 1973 film Sweet Bananas. The evening will also feature a discussion of women in film and media justice politics.

Melissa Febos MFA '08 is the author of the memoir Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press 2010), the essay collection Abandon Me (Bloomsbury 2017), and a forthcoming second essay collection, Girlhood (Bloomsbury 2020).

Join The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College's community of writers for a student reading and celebration of recently published works.

Directed by Wayne Sanders; starring Alisa Deen and Thomas Hernandez.

A day of family fun hosted by and benefiting the Students for Students Scholarship Fund.

Join The Writing Institute and its community of writers for a celebration of The Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College, where the 2019 Fellows will be announced.

Women's Naked Shakspeare presents Henriad.

A screening of Mary Harron’s newest film Charlie Says, featuring a screenplay by alumna and former faculty member Guinevere Turner ’90.

Featuring Sarah Lawrence College Pyshics faculty member Alejandro Satz.

Take a break from your day and revel in an hour of engaging literary entertainment as a mixture of faculty, undergraduates, and grad students present the work of dead poets in a theatrical context.