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Writers Featured in New York City Literary Magazines Participate in Free Readings at The New York Public Library
Periodically Speaking Fall Series Focuses on the Senses, Including Seeing, Listening, and Tasting
The Council for Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) and The New York Public Library present Periodically Speaking, a free reading series providing a major new venue for emerging writers to present their work while highlighting the riches of literary magazines in New York City and the magazine collections of The New York Public Library. Each event presents writers from three influential literary magazines, introduced by their publisher/editors. The themes for the fall series of readings will focus on the senses, starting off with poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction that address 'seeing' in different and innovative ways.
Periodically Speaking: Speaking on Seeing will be presented Tuesday, October 11th, 6 p.m. to 7:30 pm, in the DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room of The New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd St. (Please use Fifth Avenue entrance). For more information, please call (212) 930-0876.
Literal Latté Literal Latté is in its 10th year of publishing and recently became an online magazine. It publishes stories, poetry, and essays, by both known and emerging writers from around the world.
Editor Janine Gordon Bockman will introduce Janice Gary reading her essay Sight Unseen.
Summerset Review The Summerset Review, a quarterly online literary journal of fiction and essays, is dedicated to publishing unsolicited work and featuring new voices.
Editor Joseph Levens will introduce Michael F. Smith reading his short story Anywhere.
Hanging Loose Since its inception in 1966, Hanging Loose has stressed work by new writers and by older writers whose work deserves a larger audience.
Editor Robert Hershon will introduce Joanna Fuhrman reading her poem Swing-Set Moraine.
Look for the next two programs in the Periodically Speaking Fall Schedule:
Tuesday, November 8th: Speaking on Listening
Tuesday, December 13th:Speaking on Tasting
About the Humanities and Social Sciences Library Housed in the magnificent Beaux-Arts landmark building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, the Humanities and Social Sciences Library is renowned for collecting, preserving and making freely accessible to the public an astounding range of documents charting human history and cultural expression. Counted among its literary treasures, for example, are the first Gutenberg Bible to come to the New World; Shakespeare's first folio; a copy of the first printed book in North America, the so-called Bay Psalm Book; the manuscripts of George Washington's Farewell Address; and Thomas Jefferson's handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independence.
About The New York Public Library The New York Public Library was created in 1895 with the consolidation of the private libraries of John Jacob Astor and James Lenox with the Samuel Jones Tilden Trust. The Library provides free and open access to its physical and electronic collections and information, as well as to its services. It comprises four research centers - the Humanities and Social Sciences Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; and the Science, Industry and Business Library - and 85 Branch Libraries in Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx. Research and circulating collections combined total more than 50 million items, including materials for the visually impaired. In addition, each year the Library presents thousands of exhibitions and public programs, which include classes in technology, literacy, and English as a second language. The Library serves some 13 million patrons who come through its doors annually and another 13 million users internationally, who access collections and services through the NYPL website, www.nypl.org.
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This series is made possible in part by support from The New York Community Trust, The Greenwall Foundation; the New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency; and Friends of CLMP, a diverse group of individuals committed to supporting independent literary publishing.
Contact: Jamie Schwartz 212-741-9110 x16 | Tim Farrell 212-704-8600
