Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, novelist, translator, critic, scholar, and activist who teaches at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. His books include Islanders (City Lights), and neither wit nor gold: from then (Ugly Duckling). His After Jews and Arabs (University of Minnesota), was the subject of a 20th anniversary conference at Georgetown in 2012. He has translated widely, including Sarajevo Blues and Nine Alexandrias by Bosnian poet Semezdin Mehmedinović, both from City Lights. A new book of essays, a little history, and a 10th anniversary reprint of from the warring factions came out in 2013 from re:public / UpSet. He is the initiator and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, a series of student and guest edited archival texts emerging from the New American Poetry, for which he has just received an American Book Award.

Programming

gatherings, readings, performances, screenings and workshops
Wed, May 17, 2023 –
Thu, May 18, 2023
Islands & Rivers: Poetry and the Art of the Possible in the Age of Climate Change

Conversation
Wed, Apr 14, 2021,
03:00 PM –
04:30 PM
John Wieners' Letters for the Voices: A Conversation with Michael Seth Stewart, Ammiel Alcalay & Eileen Myles


Reading
Wed, Feb 20, 2019,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Turnstyle Reading Series: Ammiel Alcalay & Catherine Barnett





Reading and Conversation
Tue, Oct 31, 2017,
06:30 PM –
08:30 PM
Puerto Rico/New York/Morocco: Poet’s Journey—Victor Hernández Cruz in Conversation with Dorothy Wang & Ammiel Alcalay

Reading and Conversation
Fri, Oct 21, 2016 –
Fri, Oct 21, 2016
Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016), A Celebration
Reading and Conversation
Tue, Jun 7, 2016,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Beat & Beyond: "Lost & Found" at Bowery Poetry Club

Event
Fri, Apr 15, 2016,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
Living Room: A Gathering on June Jordan’s Life and Work


Event
Wed, May 20, 2015,
07:00 PM –
07:00 PM
"Derelict Air": A Celebration of Edward Dorn’s Uncollected Poems

Event
Wed, Apr 1, 2015,
06:30 PM –
06:30 PM
Five Years of Lost & Found: New American Poetry & Beyond

Panel Discussion
Fri, Feb 6, 2015,
04:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Teaching CUNY at CUNY: Engaging with CUNY Histories and Archives
Event
Fri, Dec 5, 2014,
04:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Editing Archival Materials: Robin Blaser’s Astonishment Tapes









Event
Fri, Oct 12, 2012,
01:00 PM –
01:00 PM
Encounters in the Archives: A Transdisciplinary Discussion



Event
Fri, Sep 23, 2011,
04:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Back & Forth / Poetry & Jazz: A Conversation and Performance with David Meltzer & Marty Ehrlich
Publications

Paul Blackburn & Julio Cortázar: “Querido Pablito"/"Julissimo Querido," Selected Correspondence, 1958-1971 (Parts I & II)

Ted Joans: Poet Painter / Former Villager Now / World Traveller (Part I & II)

Vincent Ferrini: Before Gloucester

Joanne Kyger: Letters To & From

Diane di Prima: The Olson Memorial Lecture

Charles Olson Memorial Lecture: Robert Duncan

The 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference: Robert Creeley's Contexts of Poetry with selections from Daphne Marlatt's Journal Entries
