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April 2009
Literature Workshop
Mosaic workshops present
creative ways for keeping literature and books valuable
sources of knowledge and creativity. Our workshops help
educators incorporate literature into existing curricula to
further explore course work that focuses on social studies
--explorations of history, geography, economics, government,
and civics. The mission is to present new, unique, and
exciting ways educators can inspire young people to read.
The workshop (and a social-network component) will explore
various narratives, characters, and themes in
facilitator-selected books, and how books can connect to New
York City Department of Education secondary school social
studies coursework.
The reading selections will be
diverse and incorporate novels, short stories, or excerpts
written by authors of various ethnicities, genders, or
nationalities. We want to inspire educators to encourage
students to read and explore social studies find ways to
connect reading.
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Location: Bronx, TBD
Mosaic Event Appearances
American Library Association MidWinter, Denver 1/23-26
The Association of Writing Programs,
Chicago 2/11-15 (panelist)
Free Library Book Festival (Philadelphia) 4/18-19
Hudson Book Fair (NY) 5/3
Bronx Arts Festival 6/2209
American Library Association Conference, Chicago
7/11-7/14
Brooklyn Book Festival 9/13
Baltimore Bookfest
9/25-27
Mosaic Literary Festival (formerly ReVerse), Bronx 10/24
Texas Book Festival
10/31-11/1
Wednesday,
December 3, 6:30pm & 7:30pm
Americo Casiano
&
Louis Reyes Rivera
Américo Casiano, Jr. is a New York Foundation for the
Arts Poetry fellow, and the founder and artistic director of
NuyoRican School Original Poetry Jazz Ensemble. He recently
published his first volume of poetry On the Stand: Poems.
His work has also been anthologized in Bum Rush The Page:
Def Poetry Jam (2001), New Rains Volume Nine: Our
Fathers/Ourselves (1999), Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican
Poets' Café (1994), and Nuyorican Poetry (1976).
Considered by many as a necessary bridge
between the African and Latino American
communities, Louis Reyes Rivera is
the recipient of over 20 awards, including a
Lifetime Achievement Award (1995), a
Special Congressional Recognition
award (1986), and CCNY's 125th
Anniversary Medal (1973). He remains
among the more respected underground poets
who has assisted in the publication of over
200 books, including John Oliver Killens'
Great Black Russian, Adal Maldonado's
Portraits of the Puerto Rican Experience, Bum
Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam, and The
Bandana Republic, an anthology of prose
and poetry from current and former gang
members.
Longwood Art Gallery
450 Grand Concourse at 149th St.
Bronx NY 10451
Free event.
Co-presented with the
Bronx Council on the Arts
Saturday,
October 25, 2008
The Re:Verse Literary
Conference
The Re:Verse Literary
Conference revitalizes the importance of books in the lives
of young people.
The conference presents creative ways for keeping literature
and books valuable sources of knowledge and creativity. This
series of professional-development workshops will help
educators incorporate literature into existing curricula to
further explore course work that focuses on cultures,
history, and social studies.
The mission is to bring a love of literature back into the
classroom in new, unique, and exciting ways.
Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse at 149th St.
Bronx, NY
Tuesday, October
14, 7-10pm
Patrick Rosal
Patrick Rosal is the author of two full-length poetry
collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which
won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American
Writers' Workshop, and most recently My American Kundiman,
which won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006
Book Award in Poetry as well as the 2007 Global Filipino
Literary Award.
His poems and essays have been published widely in
journals and anthologies including Harvard Review,
Crab Orchard Review, Pindledyboz, Black Renaissance
Noire, and Columbia: A Journal of Literature
and Art.
Bruckner Bar and Grill
1 Bruckner Blvd.
Bronx NY 10454
Free event.
Contribute $10 and receive a one-year subscription to
Mosaic.
Co-presented with the
Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase
Wednesday,
October 8, 6:30-8:30pm
Tayari Jones
Novelist
Tayari Jones is the author of Leaving Atlanta and
The Untelling, winner of the Hurston/Wright and Lillian
C Smith Awards. Her work has appeared in Callaloo,
McSweeey's, The Believer, and The New York
Times. She is on the MFA faculty at Rutgers University.
Tayari Jones will read from her work and then be joined by
poet Nicole Sealey for a conversation about Tayari's work
and writing process.
MoCADA
80 Hanson Pl (at South Portland Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Free event.
Contribute $10 and receive a one-year subscription to
Mosaic.
Friday, October 3,
6:30-9pm
Thomas Glave, R. Erica Doyle,
and
Rosamond King
The
first book of its kind, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of
Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles is an
anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the
Antilles. The author and activist Thomas Glave has gathered
outstanding fiction,
nonfiction, memoir, and poetry by little-known writers along
with selections by internationally celebrated figures.
Our Caribbean editor Thomas Glave, and R. Erica Doyle
and Rosamond King will read from their contributions to the
anthology.
Harlem School of the Arts
645 St. Nicholas Avenue (bet 141st and 145th Sts)
New York, NY 10030
$20 contribution welcomed.
Contributors will receive a one-year subscription to
Mosaic
These events were
funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds
from the New York State department of Cultural Affairs.
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