Faculty Reading with Jonathan Baumbach and Marie Ponsot
Tuesday, April 26
Room 510
66 West 12th Street
6:30 p.m.
Please join us for a special evening of prose and poetry as two of our distinguished faculty, Jonathan Baumbach and Marie Ponsot, will read from their work. Both are beloved teachers and acclaimed writers. Wine reception to follow.
Marie Ponsot has been chosen by the Poetry Society of America as the 2005 Frost Medal Recipeint. Her first book of poems was True Minds (1956); later books are Admit Impediment (1981) and The Green Dark (1988). She is a native New Yorker who has enjoyed teaching at Queens College, Beijing United University, the Poetry Center of the YMHA, New York University, and Columbia University. Among her other awards are an NEA Creative Writing grant, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, and the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association. One of Ponsot's recent collections, The Bird Catcher, won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her most recent book is Springing (2002).
Jonathan Baumbach, known mainly for his novels, came to the short story later than many of his contemporaries for whom the shorter form was an apprenticeship to the more imposing task of making a novel. Baumbach's short fiction has appeared in such places as American Review, TriQuarterly, Iowa Review, Esquire, Boulevard, Partisan Review, Fiction International, Antaeus, and Mississippi Review among others. His novels include Reruns, Babble, Chez Charlotte and Emily, Seven Wives, D-Tours, and B. He has taught fiction writing at Princeton, NYU, Brown, Columbia, The University of Washington, The Ohio State University, Tufts, The New School, and Brooklyn College where he directed the MFA in fiction writing for almost 30 years. He has written extensively about film and is a former chairman of the National Society of Film Critics.
Room 510
66 West 12th Street
6:30 p.m.
Please join us for a special evening of prose and poetry as two of our distinguished faculty, Jonathan Baumbach and Marie Ponsot, will read from their work. Both are beloved teachers and acclaimed writers. Wine reception to follow.
Marie Ponsot has been chosen by the Poetry Society of America as the 2005 Frost Medal Recipeint. Her first book of poems was True Minds (1956); later books are Admit Impediment (1981) and The Green Dark (1988). She is a native New Yorker who has enjoyed teaching at Queens College, Beijing United University, the Poetry Center of the YMHA, New York University, and Columbia University. Among her other awards are an NEA Creative Writing grant, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, and the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association. One of Ponsot's recent collections, The Bird Catcher, won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her most recent book is Springing (2002).
Jonathan Baumbach, known mainly for his novels, came to the short story later than many of his contemporaries for whom the shorter form was an apprenticeship to the more imposing task of making a novel. Baumbach's short fiction has appeared in such places as American Review, TriQuarterly, Iowa Review, Esquire, Boulevard, Partisan Review, Fiction International, Antaeus, and Mississippi Review among others. His novels include Reruns, Babble, Chez Charlotte and Emily, Seven Wives, D-Tours, and B. He has taught fiction writing at Princeton, NYU, Brown, Columbia, The University of Washington, The Ohio State University, Tufts, The New School, and Brooklyn College where he directed the MFA in fiction writing for almost 30 years. He has written extensively about film and is a former chairman of the National Society of Film Critics.
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