All posts tagged: Events

Enclave Reading Series

Event Date: 
Saturday, April 28, 2012 – 4:00pm
Location: 
Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow Street, New York, NY

Jennifer Acker hosts Martha Cooley, contributor to Issue 02, and Gabriel Brownstein, contributor to Issue 03, for the Enclave Reading Series.

Saturday, April 28, 4:00pm.

Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow Street, New York, New York.

Enclave Reading Series
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Issue 03 Launch Party at Amherst College

Event Date: 
Friday, April 27, 2012 – 7:00pm
Location: 
Alumni House, Amherst College

Come celebrate the release of Issue 03! Join us at Amherst College’s Alumni House on April 27 for drinks and music. Featuring readers Susan Stinson and Brad Leithauser. The event, which is free and open to the public, starts at 7:00 p.m. Click here for a map of the Amherst College campus.

Issue 03 Launch Party at Amherst College
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12th Annual Juniper Literary Festival

Event Date: 
Friday, April 13, 2012 (All day)Saturday, April 14, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Once again, The Common will keep a table at this year’s Juniper festival. Enjoy the journal and press fair, and a keynote reading by James Tate.

12th Annual Juniper Literary Festival
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“Periodical Wisdom: Advising Student-Run Lit Mags”

Event Date: 
Thursday, March 1, 2012 – 3:00pm4:15pm
Location: 
Lake Michigan, Hilton Chicago, 8th floor

Jen Acker–along with Jay Baron Nicorvo and Don Lee–will take part in this panel discussion at the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Literary Publishers Conference at Association of Writers and Poets, Lake Michigan, Hilton Chicago, 8th Floor. The Common will also exhibit our wares at AWP’s Bookfair, Space M22.

“Periodical Wisdom: Advising Student-Run Lit Mags”
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Bennington Roadshow in Brooklyn

Event Date: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 – 7:30pm9:30pm
Location: 
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201

Issue 02 contributor Phillip Lopate and nine grads of Bennington College’s MFA program in Creative Writing (including Dispatches contributor Julia Lichtblau and editor Jennifer Acker) will read at Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center, an exhibition/performance space in Cobble Hill, on Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 7:30-9:30 pm. Wine and book sales will follow. The event is one of an evolving roadshow of readings by established and emerging writers from the Bennington program.

“Commons” at Bennington College

Bennington Roadshow in Brooklyn
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Discovering Houghton: Views of Newton’s Secret Garden

Event Date: 
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 – 7:00pm8:30pm
Location: 
Newton Free Library, Newton Center, MA

An event at Newton Free Library, in Newton Center, MA, at Houghton Garden, the subject of contributions to Issue 02 from Daniel Jackson and Sarah Luria. 

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Issue 02 Launch Party

Event Date: 
Friday, October 28, 2011 – 7:00pm10:00pm
Location: 
Brookline Booksmith

Join us at Brookline Booksmith for readings by three contributors — Daniel Tobin, Katia Kapovich, and Philip Nikolayev — conversations about the works, and a party to celebrate the release of Issue 02.

Issue 02 Launch Party
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