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Synthesis Readings brings you "Endings/Beginnings" as its swan song at the 11th Street Bar on Sunday, August 22. Readers include Mary Giaimo, Leigh Shulman, Estha Weiner and Lisa Barelli, founder and curator of the series.
When: Sunday, August 22, 6:00 pm
Where: 11th Street Bar, 510 East 11th Street, Between Avenues A & B
Subway: L to 1st Avenue, 6 to Astor Place
Phone: (212) 982-3929
Reader Bios:
Mary Giaimo is a graduate of the poetry program at City College of New York. Currently teaching elementary school, she has taught poetry workshops in the public schools through Teachers & Writers Collaborative, has published poetry in The Naples Review, and is also a freelance editor. She lived in Florence, Italy, for four years, where she was a creative writing teacher and a travel writer for Vista magazine.
Leigh Shulman left her job as an MTV producer when she realized she wanted to be writing. Since then, she received her MA from CCNY and won a NY Times Fellowship for Creative Writing. As part of the fellowship, she teamed with Ed Rivera, author of FAMILY INSTALLMENTS: GROWING UP HISPANIC IN AMERICA, to teach undergraduate creative writing and literature. She teaches creative writing and composition at Yeshiva University and City College and runs poetry workshops at Booker T Washington Middle School. Leigh’s poetry and short stories have been published in a number of magazines and journals both online and in print. These days, you can find her working on a translation of the short stories of the Persian writer Ali Fadain when she is not working on her new novel.
Estha Weiner is co-editor and contributor to BLUES FOR BILL: A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM MATTHEWS, forthcoming from Akron Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the anthologies: NEVER BEFORE: POEMS ABOUT FIRST EXPERIENCES (Four Way Books), THE POETS GRIMM (Story Line Press), and SUMMER SHADE: A COLLECTION OF MODERN POETRY. Magazine publications include: THE NEW REPUBLIC, BARROW STREET, RATTAPALLAX, BRILLIANT CORNERS, LIT, and, forthcoming in RIVENDELL. A finalist for "Discovery"/THE NATION prize, Estha is founder and director of The NY Writers Nights Series for Sarah Lawrence College, The Marymount Writers Nights (Marymount Manhattan College), a Speaker On Shakespeare for The New York Council For The Humanities, and an actor/reader for The National Library Series/Library of Congress. A member of the English faculties at City College of NY and Marymount, she also teaches Creative Writing/Poetry for The Writers Voice and The National Book Foundation. WNET, Public Televsion, has recently made her a consultant.
Lisa Barelli is founder and curator of the Synthesis Reading Series. Her novel-in-progress, DEAD GIRL IN THE HUDSON, received the Geraldine Griffin Moore Award and was one of two recipients of the 2002 Jerome Lowell Dejur Award from City College, where she also received the Malinche Literary Prize for her translation of Grazia Livi's story, "La Trecce Tagliate." Her short fiction has appeared in PROMETHEAN and on girlcomic.net. She is a graduate of the City College creative writing program, as well as a former City College basic writing teacher. In September, she will be leaving New York for Italy for a year to complete her novel.
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