When: April 14, 2010
Where: 899 Tenth Avenue Room 630 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice NYC
What time: 6:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by the CUNY MFA in Creative Writing Affiliation Group and the Office of Academic Affairs, come enjoy another event in the Turnstyle Reading Series at CUNY. Joined by Adam Berlin and MFA students, PEN Members Pamela Laskin and Julie Agoos will participate in the poetry reading series on April 15 at 6:30pm.

Julie Agoos is the author of three collections of poetry including Above the Land (Yale University Press, 1987) and Calendar Year (The Sheep Meadow Press, 1996). She received a BA from Harvard University and an MA from The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University. Agoos taught for eight years as a lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University, and is now an Associate professor at Brooklyn College/CUNY.

Since August 2007, Pamela Laskin has published poems, short stories, and children's stories in journals and magazines. Central Station was her first book of poetry and won the Millenium Poetry Prize (Flesh & Bone Publications).

"Pamela Laskin is equally able to grasp the big picture--"born out of millions of years/ of old thumbs and cortexes" --as well as the small luminous detail. She writes with vivid immediacy about the people and places around her, so that each poem, "Each bead is like the cell of a body/ passing through a busy street/ on a quiet day." It is a pleasure to spend time with and have one's senses sharpened by this book." - Elaine Equi