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You are warmly invited to join us for a reading and conversation with writer Daphne Palasi Andreades, the Harman Writer-in-Residence for the Spring 2024 semester. A 2015 Baruch alumnus, Andreades is the author of Brown Girls, a New York Times Editor's Choice, and a finalist for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Andreades is the recipient of a 2018 O. Henry Prize and scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, where she won the Voices of Color Prize.

Roslyn Bernstein's novel follows a young woman's voyage of discovery in 1961 Israel. Roslyn Bernstein is the author of several books, including Boardwalk Stories, a collection of 14 fictional tales set from 1950 to 1970, and Engaging Art: Essays and Interviews from Around the Globe, a collection of 60 of her online avant-garde art pieces. She is also the co-author of Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo, written jointly with the architect Shael Shapiro. Her most recent novel is The Girl Who Counted Numbers. Since the 1980s, she has been reporting from around the globe for such print and online publications as the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, New York Magazine, Medium, Huffington Post, and Guernica, focusing primarily on cultural reporting, contemporary art, and in-depth interviews with artists and curators. Currently, Professor Emerita in the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College of the City University of New York (CUNY), she taught journalism and creative writing classes from 1974-2016. A devoted teacher, she served as an advisor to Ticker, the college newspaper and established Dollars and $ense, the Baruch College business magazine. During her time at Baruch, she served as the director of the Journalism Program and was the Founding Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, a residency that has brought over 30 distinguished poets, playwrights, critics, and journalists to campus to teach intensive classes for gifted students. Prof. Bernstein is a recipient of the College's Distinguished Awards for Teaching and Service. Before coming to Baruch, she worked at Esquire and attended graduate school. She holds a Masters and Ph.D in English Literature from New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Moderated by Ester Allen, the Spring 2023 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program invites Sam Pollard, who is not only Emmy award-winning filmmaker but also a Baruch alum in 1973.  The program is introduced Bridgett M. Davis, also a filmmaker and novelist. Mr. Pollard will be teaching a class on screenwriting and documentary filmmaking. 

This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on May 8, 2018, in collaboration with Feminist Press, with Chaya Babu (Go Home!), YZ Chin (Though I Get Home), and Bridgett Davis (The World According to Fannie Davis). About the Readers: CHAYA BABU is a Brooklyn-based writer, journalist, educator, and healer. Her work has been featured in The Margins, Open City, BuzzFeed, CNN, The Feminist Wire, Huffington Post, and more. She is completing a creative writing MFA at Pratt, where her thesis manuscript focused on diaspora, loss, and the intergenerational trauma of migration and exile. Chaya contributed to the anthology Go Home!, published by Feminist Press in March 2018. YZ CHIN is the author of Though I Get Home (Feminist Press, 2018), premier winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She has also written two poetry chapbooks, out or forthcoming from Anomalous Press and dancing girl press. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she now lives in New York. She works by day as a software engineer, and writes by night. BRIDGETT M. DAVIS is the author of the forthcoming memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), and the novels Into the Go-Slow (Feminist Press, 2014) and Shifting Through Neutral (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2005). She is director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program and Professor of Journalism and Creative Writing at Baruch College, CUNY. * This event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on May 8, 2018, in collaboration with Feminist Press, with Chaya Babu (Go Home!), YZ Chin (Though I Get Home), and Bridgett Davis (The World According to Fannie Davis). About the Readers: CHAYA BABU is a Brooklyn-based writer, journalist, educator, and healer. Her work has been featured in The Margins, Open City, BuzzFeed, CNN, The Feminist Wire, Huffington Post, and more. She is completing a creative writing MFA at Pratt, where her thesis manuscript focused on diaspora, loss, and the intergenerational trauma of migration and exile. Chaya contributed to the anthology Go Home!, published by Feminist Press in March 2018. YZ CHIN is the author of Though I Get Home (Feminist Press, 2018), premier winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. She has also written two poetry chapbooks, out or forthcoming from Anomalous Press and dancing girl press. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she now lives in New York. She works by day as a software engineer, and writes by night. BRIDGETT M. DAVIS is the author of the forthcoming memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis (Little, Brown and Company, 2019), and the novels Into the Go-Slow (Feminist Press, 2014) and Shifting Through Neutral (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2005). She is director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program and Professor of Journalism and Creative Writing at Baruch College, CUNY. * This event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst sections. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother.A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" to provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, granddaughter of slaves, Fannie Davis became more than a numbers runner: she was a kind of Ulysses, guiding both her husbands, five children and a grandson through the decimation of a once-proud city.Bridgett M. Davis is Professor of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College, CUNY, where she teaches creative, film and narrative writing and is Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. A graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she is the director of the award-winning feature film Naked Acts, as well as the author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow and Shifting Through Neutral.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.Recorded On: Wednesday, April 10, 2019

In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst sections. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother.A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" to provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, granddaughter of slaves, Fannie Davis became more than a numbers runner: she was a kind of Ulysses, guiding both her husbands, five children and a grandson through the decimation of a once-proud city.Bridgett M. Davis is Professor of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College, CUNY, where she teaches creative, film and narrative writing and is Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. A graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she is the director of the award-winning feature film Naked Acts, as well as the author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow and Shifting Through Neutral.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.

Bridgett M. Davis is the author of Into the Go-Slow, the acclaimed story of a young woman traveling from Detroit to Nigeria as she mourns the death of her sister, and Shifting Through Neutral, a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is a professor of journalism and the writing professions at Baruch College and Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program at CUNY. Davis's newest book is a tribute to her mother, a jill-of-all-trades bookie, banker, wife, and parent who bucked the ‘60s and ‘70s decay of Detroit to lead her family into prosperity. (recorded 1/29/2019)

Bridgett Davis is a journalist, essayist, novelist, memoirist, filmmaker, teacher and director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program at Baruch College. Her newest book, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers (Little, Brown in January 2019) is a compelling and touching tribute to her mother and to the business that supported her family for decades. 

INTO THE GO-SLOW is a novel about sisters, the legacy of the Black Power Movement, and the troubled bond between African Americans and Africans.  It’s 1986, and twenty-one-year-old Angie is adrift in her hometown of Detroit. Her older sister, Ella, had disappeared in Lagos a decade earlier, and Angie decides to retrace her steps. Against a backdrop of Nigeria’s infamous go-slow—traffic as wild and surprising as a Fela lyric—Angie begins to unravel the mysteries of the past, and opens herself up to love and life after Ella. BRIDGETT M. DAVIS’s debut novel, Shifting Through Neutral (Amistad 2004), was a finalist for the 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Davis is the books editor at Bold As Love Magazine, a black-culture website, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Essence, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Root.com, among other publications. She is a professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, where she is the director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in Residence Program, and she is the curator of the popular monthly Brooklyn reading series, Sundays @ . . .http://bridgettdavis.com/

"The Spring Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features George Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, which was named one of the 10 best books of 2005 by the New York Times Book Review. He is the author of two novels, The Half Man and Central Square; and two works of non-fiction, The Village of Waiting and Blood of the Liberals. The latter was a recipient of the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He is the editor of The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World. His reporting from Iraq and West Africa for The New Yorker has won three Overseas Press Club awards. His play, Betrayed, based on a New Yorker article, won the 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for best Off Broadway play. Packer was a 2001-2002 Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Brooklyn. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, makes the opening remarks. Ervand Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on March 24, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th floor. [Part I -- 46 min.] Opening Remarks by Roslyn Bernstein; Introduction of the Speaker by Professor Ervand Abrahamian; and Reading and Conversation with George Packer. [Part II -- 50 min.] Reading and Conversation with George Packer (cont.) and Q & A session"

"The Spring Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features George Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, which was named one of the 10 best books of 2005 by the New York Times Book Review. He is the author of two novels, The Half Man and Central Square; and two works of non-fiction, The Village of Waiting and Blood of the Liberals. The latter was a recipient of the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He is the editor of The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World. His reporting from Iraq and West Africa for The New Yorker has won three Overseas Press Club awards. His play, Betrayed, based on a New Yorker article, won the 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for best Off Broadway play. Packer was a 2001-2002 Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Brooklyn. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, makes the opening remarks. Ervand Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on March 24, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th floor. [Part I -- 46 min.] Opening Remarks by Roslyn Bernstein; Introduction of the Speaker by Professor Ervand Abrahamian; and Reading and Conversation with George Packer. [Part II -- 50 min.] Reading and Conversation with George Packer (cont.) and Q & A session"

"The Spring Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features George Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, which was named one of the 10 best books of 2005 by the New York Times Book Review. He is the author of two novels, The Half Man and Central Square; and two works of non-fiction, The Village of Waiting and Blood of the Liberals. The latter was a recipient of the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He is the editor of The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World. His reporting from Iraq and West Africa for The New Yorker has won three Overseas Press Club awards. His play, Betrayed, based on a New Yorker article, won the 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for best Off Broadway play. Packer was a 2001-2002 Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Brooklyn. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, makes the opening remarks. Ervand Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on March 24, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th floor. [Part I -- 46 min.] Opening Remarks by Roslyn Bernstein; Introduction of the Speaker by Professor Ervand Abrahamian; and Reading and Conversation with George Packer. [Part II -- 50 min.] Reading and Conversation with George Packer (cont.) and Q & A session"

"The Spring Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features George Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, which was named one of the 10 best books of 2005 by the New York Times Book Review. He is the author of two novels, The Half Man and Central Square; and two works of non-fiction, The Village of Waiting and Blood of the Liberals. The latter was a recipient of the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He is the editor of The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World. His reporting from Iraq and West Africa for The New Yorker has won three Overseas Press Club awards. His play, Betrayed, based on a New Yorker article, won the 2008 Lucille Lortel Award for best Off Broadway play. Packer was a 2001-2002 Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Brooklyn. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, makes the opening remarks. Ervand Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on March 24, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th floor. [Part I -- 46 min.] Opening Remarks by Roslyn Bernstein; Introduction of the Speaker by Professor Ervand Abrahamian; and Reading and Conversation with George Packer. [Part II -- 50 min.] Reading and Conversation with George Packer (cont.) and Q & A session"

"The Fall 2008 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Francine Prose, author of more than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction. Her works include the novels Blue Angel (nominated for a National Book Award) and A Changed Man (winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize), Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, a book on gluttony, and another on the life of the painter Caravaggio. She has written books for children and young adults, and contributes to The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper's, where she is a contributing editor. A film of her novel Household Saints was released in 1993. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, she has taught at The New School, Harvard, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and as a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bard College. Prose is currently president of PEN American Center. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, makes the opening remarks. Jeffrey M. Peck, Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, makes the welcoming remarks. John Brenkman, Distinguished Professor of English, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on October 21, 2008, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th floor."

"The Spring 2008 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Charles Simic, U.S. Poet Laureate, the author of numerous collections of poems, including My Noiseless Entourage; Selected Poems: 1963-2003, for which he received the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize; The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems; The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Classic Ballroom Dances, which won the University of Chicago's Harriet Monroe Award and the Poetry Society of America's Di Castagnola Award. His books of prose include Memory Piano, Metaphysician in the Dark, A Fly in My Soup, Orphan Factory, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs, Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, as well as several translations of poets from the former Yugoslavia. Simic has received two PEN Awards for his work as a translator, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the poetry editor of The Paris Review. His new book of poems, That Little Something, will be published in Spring 2008. The event takes place on March 18, 2008, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th floor."

Poet April Bernard is a scholar in the Fall 2003 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program. She discusses the poems from her latest book, Swan Electric. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

This lecture includes a reading of the works by Yehuda Amichai, an Israeli poet and a scholar of the Fall 1998 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program at Baruch College. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

Lorrie Moore, a distinguished fiction writer and scholar in the Spring 2000 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program, discusses her works and includes reading from her publications and writings. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

The Spring 2010 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Major Jackson, the author of Hoops and Leaving Saturn and the poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. Grace Schulman, Poet and Distinguished Professor at Baruch College, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on March 16, 2010, at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, co-sponsored by Poets & Writers.

Jane Kramer, the Fall 1999 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College, is the European correspondent for The New Yorker and writes on the "Letter from Europe" column for the magazine. The lecture covers readings from her works. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

A reading and conversation with Danzy Senna, author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, a personal history of her biracial roots: her white blue-blood mother's family (the Howes of Boston) and her black activist father's family, the Sennas. Ms. Senna is also the author of Caucasia and Symptomatic. Professor Roslyn Bernstein and Professor Bridgett Davis offer introductory remarks. A Q&A session and reception follows. This event is sponsored by the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program. The event takes place on December 1, 2009, in the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.

"The Fall 2009 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Joseph O'Connor, the author of six novels: Cowboys and Indians, Desperadoes, The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, and Redemption Falls; four collections of non-fiction, and an award-winning stage play, Red Roses and Petrol. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, makes the welcoming remarks. Mary McGlynn, Professor of English specializing in British, Irish, and Anglophone postcolonial literatures of the twentieth century, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on October 20, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Baruch College, co-sponsored by Poets & Writers."

William Finnegan, a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of four critically acclaimed books, reads selected passages from his work, he is the Fall 2004 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. Geanne Rosenberg, a professor in Journalism, introduces the speaker.

An evening of Russian poetry read in both English and Russian by distinguished poets. Russian poets Vera Pavlova, Irina Mashinski, Vladimir Gandelsman and Julia Kunina read their works. Translators Richard Sieburth, Professor of Comparative Literature NYU; and Steven Seymour translate. American poets Mark Strand, Carol Muske-Dukes (2006 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence) and Grace Schulman read excerpts of their favorite Russian poems. Dean Myrna Chase of the Weissman School of Arts and Science introduces the event. The event takes place April 3, 2006 at the William and Anita Newman Vertical Campus as part of the 2006 Russian Festival at Baruch College.

Readings from the distinguished playwright and scholar, Edward Albee, of his "Counting the Ways" in the Reader's Theatre Workshop, directed by Jeffrey Stocker. Edward is the 2004 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. It was followed by a conversation between Albee and Mel Gusso, New York Times reporter and the author of Edward Albee: A Singular Journey: A Biography. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

Video montage of the 10th anniversary celebration of Baruch's Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, April 22, 2008.

The Fall 2010 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Richard Price, an American novelist and screenwriter. In his self-penned biography, Richard Price, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and author most recently of Lush Life, speaks of his upbringing and the influences on his writing Jeffrey M. Peck, Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, makes the opening remarks. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, makes the welcoming remarks. Tim Aubry, Professor of English, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on October 19, 2010, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th floor.

The faculty seminar with Joseph O'Connor is held on November 10, 2009, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-270. The event begins with traditional Irish music featuring Mary Courtney of Morning Star. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event.

Colum McCann, a scholar in the Spring 2004 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program at Baruch College, is the award-winning author of three novels and two short story collections. The lecture includes readings and short stories extracted from his works. The event begins with an introduction by Professor Paula Berggren.

Readings from the prize winning author and a New Yorker correspondent, Philip Gourevitch, of his book entitled: We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: stories from Rwanda, the Fall 2002 Sidney Harman Writer-in Residence at Baruch College. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

Award winning poet and novelist Carol Muske-Dukes reads an excerpt from her upcoming novel Channeling Mark Twain. Muske-Dukes is Baruch College's Spring 2006 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence. The reading takes place March 14, 2006 at Baruch College's Engleman recital hall.

The Fall 2010 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Richard Price, an American novelist and screenwriter. In his self-penned biography, Richard Price, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and author most recently of Lush Life, speaks of his upbringing and the influences on his writing Jeffrey M. Peck, Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, makes the opening remarks. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, makes the welcoming remarks. Tim Aubry, Professor of English, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on October 19, 2010, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th floor.

The Spring 2010 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Major Jackson, the author of Hoops and Leaving Saturn and the poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. Grace Schulman, Poet and Distinguished Professor at Baruch College, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on March 16, 2010, at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, co-sponsored by Poets & Writers.

The Spring 2010 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Major Jackson, the author of Hoops and Leaving Saturn and the poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. Grace Schulman, Poet and Distinguished Professor at Baruch College, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on March 16, 2010, at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, co-sponsored by Poets & Writers.

Readings from the prize winning author and a New Yorker correspondent, Philip Gourevitch, of his book entitled: We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: stories from Rwanda, the Fall 2002 Sidney Harman Writer-in Residence at Baruch College. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

"The Fall 2009 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Joseph O'Connor, the author of six novels: Cowboys and Indians, Desperadoes, The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, and Redemption Falls; four collections of non-fiction, and an award-winning stage play, Red Roses and Petrol. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, makes the welcoming remarks. Mary McGlynn, Professor of English specializing in British, Irish, and Anglophone postcolonial literatures of the twentieth century, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on October 20, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Baruch College, co-sponsored by Poets & Writers."

A reading and conversation with Danzy Senna, author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, a personal history of her biracial roots: her white blue-blood mother's family (the Howes of Boston) and her black activist father's family, the Sennas. Ms. Senna is also the author of Caucasia and Symptomatic. Professor Roslyn Bernstein and Professor Bridgett Davis offer introductory remarks. A Q&A session and reception follows. This event is sponsored by the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program. The event takes place on December 1, 2009, in the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.

"The Fall 2009 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Joseph O’Connor, the author of six novels: Cowboys and Indians, Desperadoes, The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, and Redemption Falls; four collections of non-fiction, and an award-winning stage play, Red Roses and Petrol. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, makes the welcoming remarks. Mary McGlynn, Professor of English specializing in British, Irish, and Anglophone postcolonial literatures of the twentieth century, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on October 20, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Baruch College, co-sponsored by Poets & Writers."

Lorrie Moore, a distinguished fiction writer and scholar in the Spring 2000 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program, discusses her works and includes reading from her publications and writings. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

William Finnegan, a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of four critically acclaimed books, reads selected passages from his work, he is the Fall 2004 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. Geanne Rosenberg, a professor in Journalism, introduces the speaker.

"The Spring 2008 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Charles Simic, U.S. Poet Laureate, the author of numerous collections of poems, including My Noiseless Entourage; Selected Poems: 1963-2003, for which he received the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize; The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems; The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Classic Ballroom Dances, which won the University of Chicago’s Harriet Monroe Award and the Poetry Society of America’s Di Castagnola Award. His books of prose include Memory Piano, Metaphysician in the Dark, A Fly in My Soup, Orphan Factory, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs, Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell, as well as several translations of poets from the former Yugoslavia. Simic has received two PEN Awards for his work as a translator, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the poetry editor of The Paris Review. His new book of poems, That Little Something, will be published in Spring 2008. The event takes place on March 18, 2008, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th floor."

Award winning poet and novelist Carol Muske-Dukes reads an excerpt from her upcoming novel Channeling Mark Twain. Muske-Dukes is Baruch College's Spring 2006 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence. The reading takes place March 14, 2006 at Baruch College's Engleman recital hall.

An evening of Russian poetry read in both English and Russian by distinguished poets. Russian poets Vera Pavlova, Irina Mashinski, Vladimir Gandelsman and Julia Kunina read their works. Translators Richard Sieburth, Professor of Comparative Literature NYU; and Steven Seymour translate. American poets Mark Strand, Carol Muske-Dukes (2006 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence) and Grace Schulman read excerpts of their favorite Russian poems. Dean Myrna Chase of the Weissman School of Arts and Science introduces the event. The event takes place April 3, 2006 at the William and Anita Newman Vertical Campus as part of the 2006 Russian Festival at Baruch College.

The faculty seminar with Joseph O'Connor is held on November 10, 2009, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-270. The event begins with traditional Irish music featuring Mary Courtney of Morning Star. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event.

Readings from the distinguished playwright and scholar, Edward Albee, of his "Counting the Ways" in the Reader's Theatre Workshop, directed by Jeffrey Stocker. Edward is the 2004 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. It was followed by a conversation between Albee and Mel Gusso, New York Times reporter and the author of Edward Albee: A Singular Journey: A Biography. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

Jane Kramer, the Fall 1999 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College, is the European correspondent for The New Yorker and writes on the "Letter from Europe" column for the magazine. The lecture covers readings from her works. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

"The Fall 2009 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Joseph O’Connor, the author of six novels: Cowboys and Indians, Desperadoes, The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, and Redemption Falls; four collections of non-fiction, and an award-winning stage play, Red Roses and Petrol. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, makes the welcoming remarks. Mary McGlynn, Professor of English specializing in British, Irish, and Anglophone postcolonial literatures of the twentieth century, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on October 20, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Baruch College, co-sponsored by Poets & Writers."

The Spring 2010 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Major Jackson, the author of Hoops and Leaving Saturn and the poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, introduces the event. Grace Schulman, Poet and Distinguished Professor at Baruch College, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on March 16, 2010, at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, co-sponsored by Poets & Writers.

Colum McCann, a scholar in the Spring 2004 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program at Baruch College, is the award-winning author of three novels and two short story collections. The lecture includes readings and short stories extracted from his works. The event begins with an introduction by Professor Paula Berggren.

Poet April Bernard is a scholar in the Fall 2003 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program. She discusses the poems from her latest book, Swan Electric. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

This lecture includes a reading of the works by Yehuda Amichai, an Israeli poet and a scholar of the Fall 1998 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program at Baruch College. The event begins with an introduction by Roslyn Bernstein, director of the program.

"The Fall 2008 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College features Francine Prose, author of more than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction. Her works include the novels Blue Angel (nominated for a National Book Award) and A Changed Man (winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize), Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, a book on gluttony, and another on the life of the painter Caravaggio. She has written books for children and young adults, and contributes to The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s, where she is a contributing editor. A film of her novel Household Saints was released in 1993. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, she has taught at The New School, Harvard, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and as a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bard College. Prose is currently president of PEN American Center. Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, makes the opening remarks. Jeffrey M. Peck, Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, makes the welcoming remarks. John Brenkman, Distinguished Professor of English, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on October 21, 2008, at the Newman Conference Center, 7th floor."

Video montage of the 10th anniversary celebration of Baruch’s Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, April 22, 2008.