Events

Ploughshares/WLP Reading Series: Adam Zagajewski Q&A

11/15/12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Max Mutchnick Campus Center
Multipurpose Room

Ploughshares Literary Magazine and the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing invite you to the Ploughshares/WLP Reading Series on Thursday, November 15th featuring Adam Zagajewski.

Later in the day will be a reading of Zagajewski's own work at 8 p.m. in the Bill Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont St.

Adam Zagajewski is Poland's foremost living poet and a widely-read essayist. He has won many prestigious awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and is a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. His latest book of poems is The Unseen Hand.

"His is the quiet voice at the corner of the immense devastations of an obscene century, more intimate than Auden, yet as cosmopolitan as Milosz, Celan, or Brodsky."--Derek Walcott, The New Republic

Sponsored by Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing with Ploughshares

For more information please contact:
Nicole Martignetti

Bright Lights: SILVERSONIC! Emerson's 1st annual music video showcase

11/15/12
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Paramount Center
Bright Family Screening Room

Sixteen music videos from the Emerson community past and present have been selected for the first annual Silversonic Festival. A free, public screening will be taking place in the Bright Family Screening Room of the Paramount Theater on November 15th at 7PM.

Seating is first come, first serve. We hope to see you there!

There will be a reception afterward in the lobby of the cinema for an opportunity to mingle with some of the musicians and filmmakers!

Final line-up (not in order)
1."Winter Song" Witch Pitch by Connor Buso-Jarnis
2."Let's Go" Lyve City by Dre Edmonds
3."Hunters" The Hollow Sound by Madeline Herec/Justin Poirier
4."Monopoly" Otis Raven and Charlie Stevens by Peter Horgan
5."Where's the Tylenol" Cougar Magnum by Ted Marsden
6."Caught" Macedo by Michelle Macedo/ Jason Perlman
7."MONIKER" Bearstronaut by John Pouliot/ Drew Van Steenbergen
8."Pandemic" Accept by Dave Blass
9."Spliff Lifta ft Retrospek" Catch Wreck by Rene Dongo
10."No Light" Charmingly Ghetto by Evan Mann
11."Time to Revocer" The Sounds by Mark Woit/Dorsey Britton
12."Every Little Thing You Love" The Bynars by Anne Scotina/Jean-Paul DiSciscio
13."Un Corrupto" Chan-Don by Ellie McCagg
14."Home" The Republic of Wolves by R Spencer Fink
15."Feed Me" Electric City Chargers by Sergio Vaccaro
16."Basedexorcism" Keyboard Kid by Shannen Ortale/ Bryan McKay
 

Sponsored by Department of Visual and Media Arts

For more information please contact:
Anna Feder

Ploughshares/WLP Reading Series: Adam Zagajewski Reading

11/15/12
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
216 Tremont
Bill Bordy Theater

Ploughshares Literary Magazine and the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing invite you to the Ploughshares/WLP Reading Series on Thursday, November 15th featuring Adam Zagajewski.

There will also be a Q&A with Zagajewski at 4 p.m. at Emerson College, 150 Boylston St, in the Multipurpose Room.

Adam Zagajewski is Poland's foremost living poet and a widely-read essayist. He has won many prestigious awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and is a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. His latest book of poems is The Unseen Hand.

"His is the quiet voice at the corner of the immense devastations of an obscene century, more intimate than Auden, yet as cosmopolitan as Milosz, Celan, or Brodsky."--Derek Walcott, The New Republic

Sponsored by Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing with Ploughshares

For more information please contact:
Nicole Martignetti