Events

Where does fact end and fiction begin? Join us for an evening with celebrated writer Lucy Sante, whose work defies traditional literary boundaries by blending genres and crafting rich, multidimensional accounts of lives past and present. Sante will read from her latest book, I Heard Her Call My Name, a personal history that explores her experience of gender transition and much more. Following the reading, Sante will discuss her journey as an author and the creative process behind her writing with Ryan Purcell, History faculty. Together, they'll explore the challenges she has faced and highlights from her previous works, including Low Life and The Other Paris. Lucy Sante's award-winning career includes acclaimed books and honors such as a Whiting Writers' Award, a Grammy, and Guggenheim and Cullman fellowships. This event will be held on Sarah Lawrence's campus and is open to the public. 

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Dr. Trent Masiki, Director of Black Studies and Assistant Professor of English at Suffolk University, will give a talk on Afro-Latin memoirs based on his most recent book, The Afro-Latin Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism, focusing especially on the works of Marta Morena Vega and Raquel Cepeda.

In this reading and craft talk, Miller Oberman will read from and discuss poems from his new book Impossible Things (Duke UP, October 22, 2024). This book investigates themes of masculinity, trans identity, and grief, and engages through erasure poetry with an unpublished memoir written by the poet's father. This reading and talk will focus on the pleasures and challenges of working in a hybrid form, and the artistic opportunities that can arise when things don't work out at all as we planned.

Miller Oberman is the author of Impossible Things, forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2024 and The Unstill Ones, Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2017. He has received a number of awards for his poetry, including a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Prize, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, and Poetry magazine’s John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation. Poems from Impossible Things have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Hopkins Review, Poem-a-Day, and Foglifter. Poems from The Unstill Ones appeared in Poetry, London Review of Books, The Nation, Boston Review, Tin House, and Harvard Review. Miller is an editor at Broadsided Press, which publishes visual-literary collaborations and teaches at and serves on the board of Brooklyn Poets. He teaches writing at Eugene Lang College at The New School in New York. Miller is a trans Jewish anti-Zionist committed to the liberation of all. He lives with his family in Queens, New York.

This event is colloquium credit eligible. Register HERE for the Zoom livestream. 

This event is open to prospective students interested in the MFA Theatre program.  Hosted by Program Director, Caden Manson and Program Manager, Lauren Reinhard with a current graduate student. Participants will get an overview of the program, opportunities they can expect as SLC Theatre Grad students, and have an opportunity to ask questions of Caden, Lauren, and a current grad student. Register here.

Join us for an in-person information session to learn more about the MFA Dance program at Sarah Lawrence College. After the session, you are invited to join us for our Winter Dance Performance beginning at 6:00 PM. We look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful campus soon! Register here.