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Once a semester, Our Word invites an author of color to spend a week as a cultural Author-in-Residence. We're very excited to welcome Monica De La Torre to Columbia University this fall. During her week-long residency, Monica will meet with OW members one-on-one to discuss their manuscripts. She will also have a dinner with a select number of OW students to discuss her collection of poetry, Talk Shows.

Monica De la Torre has published poetry and conceptual art books in Spanish and English, including the artist book Appendices, Illustrations and Notes (Smart Art Press) and the poetry books Acϊfenos (Taller Ditoria) and Talk Shows (Switchback Books). She is co-editor of the multilingual anthology Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon P) and translator and editor of the bilingual volume Poems by Gerardo Deniz (Taller Ditoria/ Lost Roads). She is the senior editor at BOMB Magazine.

Past Authors-in-Residence include:
•• Hari Kunzru
•• Ed Park
•• Aracelis Girmay
•• Uzodinma Iweala
•• Emily Raboteau
•• Victor LaValle
•• Hilton Als
•• Ernesto Quinonez
•• Laura Restrepo
•• Malcom Gladwell
•• Colson Whitehead

Please join us this Thursday, February 4, 2010 at the Underground Lounge from 6-8pm for happy hour with Ed Park and Hari Kunzru. Come, drink, be merry!

The Underground Lounge
955 West End (at 107th)

We are excited to welcome Hari Kunzru for dinner and conversation with OW students this month. Hari Kunzru is the author of The Impressionist, Transmissions, and My Revolutions.

Date: Monday, November 23, 2009
Time: 6pm
Place: Campo (Broadway b/t 112th &113th)

Once a semester, Our Word invites an author of color to spend a week as a cultural Author-in-Residence. We're very excited to welcome Hari Kunzru to Columbia University this fall. During his week-long residency, Hari will meet with OW members one-on-one to discuss their manuscripts. He will also have a dinner with a select number of OW students to discuss his novel My Revolutions.

Hari Kunzru is the author of The Impressionist, Transmission, and My Revolutions. He was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. He won a Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award for The Impressionist. Transmission was named one of the New York Times's notable books of the year.

Past Authors-in-Residence include:
•• Ed Park
•• Aracelis Girmay
•• Uzodinma Iweala
•• Emily Raboteau
•• Victor LaValle
•• Hilton Als
•• Ernesto Quinonez
•• Laura Restrepo
•• Malcom Gladwell
•• Colson Whitehead

Every year OW hosts an annual reading that showcases creative work by our second-year members. Come join us for a banquet dinner and a serious show of POC writing.

Where: Philosophy Hall
When: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 @ 8pm
Why: OW second-years kick ass

•• Yuka Igarashi
•• Cesar Polonia
•• Tamara Llosa-Sandor
•• Roberto Taddei
•• Bilal Tanweer
•• Ruchika Tomar


Funding is made possible through generous gifts from The Gatsby Charitable Foundation and the Artist Student Council.

Listen to readings from previous years here!

Come join us for dinner and conversation with our Artist in Residence Tania James, author of ATLAS OF UNKOWNS.

Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Time: 7pm
Place: Campo (Broadway b/t 112th &113th)

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Once a semester, Our Word invites an author of color to spend a week as a cultural Author-in-Residence. In April we’ll be very honored to bring author and OW alum Tania James to the Writing Division. During her week-long residency, Tania will meet with OW members one-on-one to discuss their manuscripts. She will also have a dinner with a select number of WD students to discuss her first book, ATLAS OF UNKNOWNS.


Past Authors-in-Residence include:
•• Ed Park
•• Aracelis Girmay
•• Uzodinma Iweala
•• Emily Raboteau
•• Victor LaValle
•• Hilton Als
•• Ernesto Quinonez
•• Laura Restrepo
•• Malcom Gladwell



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Before everyone runs off to the uttermost parts of the world for the holidays, let's have a drink(s)!

What: OW Holiday Happy Hour
When: Monday, December 15th, 7:30pm
Where: Underground Lounge (107th & West End)

Hope to see y'all there!

Come join us for dinner and conversation with our Artist in Residence Ed Park, author of PERSONAL DAYS.

Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Time: 7pm
Place: Camille's (Amsterdam at 116th)

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