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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 1d

TONIGHT!
Join us to hear about the incredible life of Randall and other "outrider" artists.

www.eventbrite.com/e/letters-fr...
@newvillagepress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 3d

And WEDNESDAY: Margaret Randall on artists, writers, and activists who risk everything to confront censorship, injustice, and the constraints of convention.

@newvillagepress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 14d

Join legendary poet, activist, oral historian, and translator Margaret Randall for a reading and conversation based on her newest books chronicling her correspondences with fellow “outrider” artists.

www.eventbrite.com/e/letters-fr...
@newvillagepress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 9d

Next week!

Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 14d

Join legendary poet, activist, oral historian, and translator Margaret Randall for a reading and conversation based on her newest books chronicling her correspondences with fellow “outrider” artists.

www.eventbrite.com/e/letters-fr...
@newvillagepress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 14d

Join legendary poet, activist, oral historian, and translator Margaret Randall for a reading and conversation based on her newest books chronicling her correspondences with fellow “outrider” artists.

www.eventbrite.com/e/letters-fr...
@newvillagepress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 20d

TONIGHT!

The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ammiel Alcalay‘s highly-anticipated, monumental new book: a mix of memoir, poetry, auto-critique, prose narrative, history, and investigative journalism by other means.

www.eventbrite.com/e/controlled...
@cunypoetics.bsky.social @zohrasaed.bsky.social

Book Launch & Reading
CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: Book Launch & Reading with Ammiel Alcalay
Fri, Sep 19, 2025
6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Martin Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. Registration required.

Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 20d

SUNDAY!

Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 21d

We hope you can come say hi! We're tabling with our friends at Birds, LLC. We'll have books of archival work and poetry for sale, and lots to chat about!

brooklynbookfestival.org/event_type/f...
#brooklynbookfestival

LOST & FOUND & FRIENDS @ THE BROOKLYN BOOK FAIR. THIS SUNDAY SEPTEMBER, 21 TABLE 230. BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL

Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 21d

TOMORROW!

The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ammiel Alcalay‘s highly-anticipated, monumental new book: a mix of memoir, poetry, auto-critique, prose narrative, history, and investigative journalism by other means.

www.eventbrite.com/e/controlled...
@cunypoetics.bsky.social @zohrasaed.bsky.social

Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 21d

We hope you can come say hi! We're tabling with our friends at Birds, LLC. We'll have books of archival work and poetry for sale, and lots to chat about!

brooklynbookfestival.org/event_type/f...
#brooklynbookfestival

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 27d

Next Week!

The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ammiel Alcalay‘s highly-anticipated, monumental new book: a mix of memoir, poetry, auto-critique, prose narrative, history, and investigative journalism by other means.

www.eventbrite.com/e/controlled...
@cunypoetics.bsky.social @zohrasaed.bsky.social

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · 28d

Next week!

The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · Sep 2

Celebrate new poetry! Two extraordinary book-length poems confronting violent colonial histories. The poets will read from their new books, followed by a conversation.

www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-rea...
@cunypoetics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @futurepoem.bsky.social

Poetry Reading and Conversation with Cristina Pérez Díaz and Isabel Sobral Campos
Wed, Sep 17, 2025
6:30 PM–8:00 PM
Martin Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. Registration required.

A blue and white figurative image captioned: Detail from cover art by Suzanne Goldenberg from Cristina Pérez Díaz's book "From the Founding of the Country"

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · Sep 2

CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books combines three of Ammiel Alcalay’s previously published poetic texts—Scrapmetal (2007), the cairo notebooks (1993), and from the warring factions (2002)—with a new work.

@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.com/e/controlled...

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · Sep 2

Celebrate new poetry! Two extraordinary book-length poems confronting violent colonial histories. The poets will read from their new books, followed by a conversation.

www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-rea...
@cunypoetics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @futurepoem.bsky.social

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · Aug 28

We were thrilled to host two packed events on Tuesday to start the Fall 2025 Friday Forum schedule, featuring visiting scholar Caleb Ward! Thank you to @humanitiescuny.bsky.social and
@cunypoetics.bsky.social for co-sponsoring the events, and to Ph.D. in English candidate Ju Ly Ban for organizing 🎉

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · May 19

"...a voice that speaks, in the absence of memory about the unbearable weight of memory, and another that has to bear the weight of language, of signification, of the impossible task of making memory, the ineffable, effable."

read more
centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

Apartment buildings in Gangnam, taken by Isabelle, March 29th 2024

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · May 15

"Even now, our thoughts and tomorrow’s to-do lists might be worlds apart. Yet, there’s this moment. a connection I call “click.” For me, that click began with Theresa’s work."

Read more:
centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · May 13

When Ju Ly Ban first arrived at the @bampfa.bsky.social, Theresa’s letters spoke to her most. Her correspondences seemed to breathe, their voices rippling across time.

The letters that follow continue this conversation.
centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Untitled (Theresa and family), 1974-1981; 11 color slides.; 0 x 0 in.; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · May 13

Amongst other things, Distributaries will highlight @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social student projects and work, @cunypoetics.bsky.social archival research projects and journeys, @cunygcps2.bsky.social Research Fellows, and CUNY student fellows work and projects for the NYC Climate Justice Hub!

Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · May 13

DISTRIBUTARIES IS BACK! The @humanitiescuny.bsky.social blog returns with a new series highlighting what our Fellows find in the archive, and the feelings, artistry, and scholarship that arises from that work. First up is Ju Ly Ban on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

A 1921 Pashishi 4-6-2 steam locomotive, built in Japan for the Korean Government Railway (Sentetsu). The locomotive, numbered 923, represents Japan’s shift to domestic railway engineering and its expansion of rail networks throughout its colonies, including Korea and Manchuria, as part of its broader imperial ambitions in the early 20th century. World History Commons, [accessed March 1, 2025]

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · May 13

DISTRIBUTARIES IS BACK! The @humanitiescuny.bsky.social blog returns with a new series highlighting what our Fellows find in the archive, and the feelings, artistry, and scholarship that arises from that work. First up is Ju Ly Ban on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · May 5

ALSO WEDNESDAY!

Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · Apr 24

Preceding the event Tonya M. Foster will facilitate a free related writing workshop, and participants will be invited to briefly share their writings at the start this event. Map the array of influences that shape your intellectual and creative practices.

centerforthehumanities.org/event/influe...

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · May 5

WEDNESDAY!

Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · Apr 24

Three poets will read from their work and consider their own lineages, influences, inspiration, and show how they extend their work to writing communities and beyond.

centerforthehumanities.org/event/influe...
@scryptkeeper.substack.com
@mdurandpoet.bsky.social
@humanitiescuny.bsky.social

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · Apr 24

Preceding the event Tonya M. Foster will facilitate a free related writing workshop, and participants will be invited to briefly share their writings at the start this event. Map the array of influences that shape your intellectual and creative practices.

centerforthehumanities.org/event/influe...

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · Apr 24

Three poets will read from their work and consider their own lineages, influences, inspiration, and show how they extend their work to writing communities and beyond.

centerforthehumanities.org/event/influe...
@scryptkeeper.substack.com
@mdurandpoet.bsky.social
@humanitiescuny.bsky.social

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · Apr 25

To mother is to inhabit a form of acute sociality, one of deep dependence and need, attachment and love—a vulnerability to all the ways the system continues to fail us. Join these two poets for their writing on the affective and social bonds of childraising
centerforthehumanities.org/event/kendra...

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · Apr 24

Preceding the event Tonya M. Foster will facilitate a free related writing workshop, and participants will be invited to briefly share their writings at the start this event. Map the array of influences that shape your intellectual and creative practices.

centerforthehumanities.org/event/influe...

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Lost & Found @cunypoetics.bsky.social · Apr 24

Three poets will read from their work and consider their own lineages, influences, inspiration, and show how they extend their work to writing communities and beyond.

centerforthehumanities.org/event/influe...
@scryptkeeper.substack.com
@mdurandpoet.bsky.social
@humanitiescuny.bsky.social

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