On Thursday March 29th FIT Words had a fellow FIT professor from the English department speak to our club. Our club met at Binsky's II on the 6th floor in the A building.
Michael Hyde read one of his short stories from his short story collection "What Are You Afraid Of?" to get a sense of what a short story is composed of. Afterwards we asked questions pertaining to writing and then did a writing exercise on how to compose a fictionalized character. This helped us because the short story Michael Hyde read to us was from the narrative of a young girl which is a fictionalized character with certain traits to explore within the short story the character is part of.
The exercise got our minds working on as to compose a fictionalized character. We also brainstormed as a group on each others characters. Our characters we even further developed by thinking in a psychological sense.
We were given a picture each at the end for us to use in any way we wanted alongside our new fictionalized character.
Bio:Michael Hyde’s debut short story collection What Are You Afraid Of? won the 2005 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and M.F.A. in Writing from Columbia University, where he was a Teaching and Writing Fellow. His stories have appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories, Bloom, Ontario Review, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Recipient of a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in fiction from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a Fundación Valparaíso artist grant, he currently lives in New York City. Access his website at
http://www.michaelhyde.org/
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
National Poetry Month!!!
Hey Poetry Affionados!!!
Remember when we created "Random Word" poems.....well if you would like to display them in a display case that will be celebrating National Poetry Month and FIT Words and want to contribute your poem by all means do so.
In addition you can also contribute your Visual Poetry written on bias tape with the theme of Bias that we created when Denise Duhamel spoke about how Visual Poetry was used and some of her visual poetry works.
Please send all queries to either me or Prof. Lemmon.
Thanks.
Pres.
Remember when we created "Random Word" poems.....well if you would like to display them in a display case that will be celebrating National Poetry Month and FIT Words and want to contribute your poem by all means do so.
In addition you can also contribute your Visual Poetry written on bias tape with the theme of Bias that we created when Denise Duhamel spoke about how Visual Poetry was used and some of her visual poetry works.
Please send all queries to either me or Prof. Lemmon.
Thanks.
Pres.
Reading
Michael Hyde
Thursday March 29th
1-2pm
Binsky's II
He will be doing a reading of his works in Binsky's II on the 6th floor. Located near the elevators and on the same floor as the internship center in A building.
Hope to see you there.
Pres.
Thursday March 29th
1-2pm
Binsky's II
He will be doing a reading of his works in Binsky's II on the 6th floor. Located near the elevators and on the same floor as the internship center in A building.
Hope to see you there.
Pres.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
readings at union square
Hey!!!
Just to let you know....not only can you pick up schedules of readings at local bookstores but you can also find them on the web.
see the following links:
Barnes and Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writers_cds2.asp?z=y&PID=12211&z=y&cds2Pid=1302&linkid=726995
**Upstairs at the square events at barnes and noble in union square
Borders
http://www.bordersstores.com/mystores/mystores.jsp
click my stores, put in a zip code and then the events show up and you can even select "see more events" on any location that shows up.
I think the web is more utilized than going to the book stores themselves and picking up a monthly calendar event schedule. But now you see there are an abundance of events.
Just to let you know....not only can you pick up schedules of readings at local bookstores but you can also find them on the web.
see the following links:
Barnes and Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writers_cds2.asp?z=y&PID=12211&z=y&cds2Pid=1302&linkid=726995
**Upstairs at the square events at barnes and noble in union square
Borders
http://www.bordersstores.com/mystores/mystores.jsp
click my stores, put in a zip code and then the events show up and you can even select "see more events" on any location that shows up.
I think the web is more utilized than going to the book stores themselves and picking up a monthly calendar event schedule. But now you see there are an abundance of events.
Visual Poetry
Hey Everyone!!!
Denise Duhamel spoke to our club today about some of her own poetry but this time with a focus on "visual poetry". She showed us some rather creative approaches to presenting poetry on objects such as a window blind and type writer, among other interesting objects that it seems almost like art in way. Something that could be displayed in an art gallery. But Denise Duhamel said that she had to think about bridging both the visual poetry and art aspect.
All of the people present at the event were able to create their own visual poetry. We made a list of ten items that we thought were "Bias" and then wrote them on...bias tape....hmmm.....only our school would sell such a thing to which conversely use for a medium to create visual poetry and not the standard use that most of us would consider as fashion students. It was quite creative.
It was so nice to also have Denise Duhamel visit again. She was at the school last spring and that was equally as fun.
Pres.
Denise Duhamel spoke to our club today about some of her own poetry but this time with a focus on "visual poetry". She showed us some rather creative approaches to presenting poetry on objects such as a window blind and type writer, among other interesting objects that it seems almost like art in way. Something that could be displayed in an art gallery. But Denise Duhamel said that she had to think about bridging both the visual poetry and art aspect.
All of the people present at the event were able to create their own visual poetry. We made a list of ten items that we thought were "Bias" and then wrote them on...bias tape....hmmm.....only our school would sell such a thing to which conversely use for a medium to create visual poetry and not the standard use that most of us would consider as fashion students. It was quite creative.
It was so nice to also have Denise Duhamel visit again. She was at the school last spring and that was equally as fun.
Pres.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
If you're interested...
From this week's Village Voice:
Friday 03.16
[Reading]
LADY'S NIGHT
East Village poetry scene still thrives
Bowery Poetry Club has defied the odds of survival (gentrification of the East Village was already well under way) but it's also managed to build a thriving community of poets and performers. Tonight's Bowery Women Salon Reading features some of the 76 contributors to the new anthology Bowery Women, which contains poems by those who have left their makr on the club over the last five years. Fay Chiang, Cynthia Kraman, Amy Ouzoonian, Marjorie Tesser, and others share their work.
At 7, Penington Friends House, 215 East 15th Street, 212-673-1730, free
Friday 03.16
[Reading]
LADY'S NIGHT
East Village poetry scene still thrives
Bowery Poetry Club has defied the odds of survival (gentrification of the East Village was already well under way) but it's also managed to build a thriving community of poets and performers. Tonight's Bowery Women Salon Reading features some of the 76 contributors to the new anthology Bowery Women, which contains poems by those who have left their makr on the club over the last five years. Fay Chiang, Cynthia Kraman, Amy Ouzoonian, Marjorie Tesser, and others share their work.
At 7, Penington Friends House, 215 East 15th Street, 212-673-1730, free
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Quiet getaway
I know I'm up late finding yet more interesting things for the club as Pres. but I don't know, I just find that New York Magazine's latest issue on the Best of practically everything NY-ish came out recently and......
There's this really cool art gallery/ book-like-library place not too faraway from the school that they highlighted. I thought I'd just share the review and post the links.
Best Store to Hear an Author
192 Books
192 Tenth Ave., 212-255-4022
With an atmosphere that’s more home library than bookstore, this airy shop provides a welcome reprieve from the big-box feel of the city’s larger chains, making it an excellent, cozy place to catch a reading by your favorite author-of-the-moment. The readings are free but require reservations because of limited space, so bibliophiles in attendance are assured an experience free of the jostling and neck-craning that accompany most such events. They’re also a great deal, as most of the authors are A-listers (Jane Smiley, Salman Rushdie, John Ashbery, to name a recent few) whom fans pay big money to see at venues like the New York Public Library or the 92nd Street Y—meaning attendees can pick up one of the gorgeous art books the store’s famous for without feeling a bit of spender’s remorse.
http://nymag.com/listings/stores/192_books/index.html
It looks totally interesting and seems to have artsy related books there!
Official Website:
http://www.192books.com/
There's this really cool art gallery/ book-like-library place not too faraway from the school that they highlighted. I thought I'd just share the review and post the links.
Best Store to Hear an Author
192 Books
192 Tenth Ave., 212-255-4022
With an atmosphere that’s more home library than bookstore, this airy shop provides a welcome reprieve from the big-box feel of the city’s larger chains, making it an excellent, cozy place to catch a reading by your favorite author-of-the-moment. The readings are free but require reservations because of limited space, so bibliophiles in attendance are assured an experience free of the jostling and neck-craning that accompany most such events. They’re also a great deal, as most of the authors are A-listers (Jane Smiley, Salman Rushdie, John Ashbery, to name a recent few) whom fans pay big money to see at venues like the New York Public Library or the 92nd Street Y—meaning attendees can pick up one of the gorgeous art books the store’s famous for without feeling a bit of spender’s remorse.
http://nymag.com/listings/stores/192_books/index.html
It looks totally interesting and seems to have artsy related books there!
Official Website:
http://www.192books.com/
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