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Darcie Dennigan and Tung-Hui Hu Alumni Poetry Reading

Thursday, March 11, 2010, 5:10pm – 6:00pm

University of Michigan Museum of Art
Helmut Stern Auditorium
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354
Darcie Dennigan’s first book, Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, won the Poets Out Loud prize and was published by Fordham University Press in 2008. Her poems and other writing have appeared in 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Atlantic Monthly, The Believer, Gulf Coast, The Nation, POOL, and Tin House. She is an associate editor at H_NGM_N, an online journal of poetry, poetics, etc. and a graduate of the Univerisity of Michigan MFA program. The recipient of recent awards from Coldfront Magazine and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, she lives in Providence, RI.
Tung-Hui Hu is the author of two books of poetry, Mine (Ausable/Copper Canyon, 2007), and The Book of Motion (University of Georgia, 2003). Described as a “contained surreal style that deftly shapes a philosophical argument” (Los Angeles Times), his writing has appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, Gastronomica, and Martha Stewart Living Radio. At the University of Michigan, he teaches courses on time-based art and poetry. His latest project is a sound installation titled The Last Time You Cried.

delightgif Poets Out Loud Reading with Leslie Chang

Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 7:00pm

Fordham University
Lowenstein Building
12th Floor Lounge
113 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023
Join 2008-2009 Poets Out Loud Winner, Leslie Chang for a reading from her new book, Things That No Longer Delight Me.

“These poems move with poise and a painterly precision through the realms of history, elegy inheritance and loss. . . I am arrested again and again by the beauty and devotion coursing through these lines.”–Tracy K. Smith

Join Leslie at a book signing at booth i18 on Friday, April 9 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at this year’s AWP Conference in Denver, CO!

The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Publishing: Experts Offer Best Practices for Getting Your Book Published

Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Pope Auditorium, Lowenstein Hall
Fordham University, Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023
Fordham University Press and Fordham University Faculty of Arts and Sciences present a panel offering the “ins & outs” of book publishing from university press to trade house to textbook publisher.

Moderator
Fredric Nachbaur, Director, Fordham University Press
Panelists
Jennifer Crew, Associate Director and Editorial Director, Columbia University Press
William Germano, Professor of English Literature, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Emily Loose, Senior Editor, Free Press
Alan Most, Textbook Editor, John Wiley & Sons
Niko Pfund, Vice President and Publisher of the Academic and Trade Division, Oxford University Press in New York

fifthave Fifth Avenue Famous Book Launch

Thursday, May 13, 2010, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Fordham University
Lowenstein Building
12th Floor Lounge
New York, NY 10023
Celebrate the launch of Fifth Avenue Famous: The Extraordinary Story of Music at St. Patrick’s Cathedral by Salvatore Basile, Foreword by Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York.

“Basile’s writing style and effortless wit projects New York City’s civic, musical and ecclesiastical spirit as only a New Yorker would view it.”
—Stephen Rapp, Director of Music, St. John’s Lutheran Church