This spring, the Center for the Humanities teamed up with Hunter College to lead the CUNY Climate Assembly Project on Waste at @huntercollege.bsky.social—the first climate assembly at a public university in the US! centerforthehumanities.org/new-york-foc... @humanitiescuny.bsky.social

CUNY Graduate Center in the Press: New York Focus Highlights the CUNY Climate Assembly Project - Center for the Humanities

This spring, the Center for the Humanities teamed up with Hunter College to lead the CUNY Climate Assembly Project on Waste at Hunter College—the first climate assembly at a public university in the U...

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THURSDAY!

Lost & Found@cunypoetics.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This series seeks to reinstate Griffith’s essential role as a founder, and honor Griffith’s stewardship of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s archive. Please join us! centerforthehumanities.org/event/lost-f... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

This series seeks to reinstate Griffith’s essential role as a founder, and honor Griffith’s stewardship of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s archive. Please join us! centerforthehumanities.org/event/lost-f... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

We are excited to announce a partnership w/ the Chicago Review! These pieces introduce the significance of understudied poets for New American Poetry through fellows’ archival objects. We are thrilled to share our first collaboration by @julysses000.bsky.social www.chicagoreview.org/cuny-lost-an...

"If I were to answer, I might say this: my relationship with Theresa is different from my relationship with kimchi. And yet, both are layered, complicated, and impossible to disentangle from who I am." Read @julysses000.bsky.social on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha centerforthehumanities.org/between-deli...

Between Delivery: Letter Threads After the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Archive (Part II) - Center for the Humanities

This series of letters emerged from Ju Ly Ban’s work as a Fellow for Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative from the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, grounded in arch...

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Coming up soon! An event co-organized by @cunypoetics.bsky.social fellow Lucien Baskin. www.eventbrite.com/e/antiracist...

This is just a fragment of letters between writers Kevin Killian & Samuel Delany. They are taken up here as part of an archival research project by L&F fellow Rebecca Teich, from which she offers proliferations, detours, and provocations. Read more: centerforthehumanities.org/samuel-r-del...

Next, we have the video from the post-screening Q&A after TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, chronicling the incendiary life of one of CUNY’s most beloved teachers. centerforthehumanities.org/event/toni-c... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing - Center for the Humanities

Toni Cade Bambara. Photo courtesy of the filmmakers.

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We are excited to share photos and video from some of our latest events. First, the @cunypoetics.bsky.social Fellows Showcase, where they were able to share their in-progress archival projects. centerforthehumanities.org/event/lost-a... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

2026 Lost & Found Fellows Showcase: New Poetics and Archival Research Projects - Center for the Humanities

Watch the video recording and photographs from the event in the slideshow below. Watch Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Graduate Center doctoral student fellows Ju Ly Ban, Cortnie Be...

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TOMORROW! Excited to share this project that came out of L&F Fellowship research by Cortnie Belser! @manifoldscholar.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Poetry at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ! centerforthehumanities.org/event/mother...

A celebration of new and ongoing work, together, we will think through the newest surge of attacks on the arts, capitulation of art institutions to conservative demands, and the tensions between art as liberatory cultural front and as liberal assimilation. centerforthehumanities.org/event/poetic...

TOMORROW! Presentations on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa’s unpublished poetry and “Tongues of Fire” manuscript; Stuart Hall, Richard Pryor, Free Jazz and the Black Arts Movement, and Gwendolyn Bennett, Claudia Jones, and Mae Mallory! centerforthehumanities.org/event/lost-a...

Apply for a fellowship and then come see the amazing work our past fellows have done!

Lost & Found@cunypoetics.bsky.social · 9mo ago

For students in all disciplines who interested in archival research in or around 20th century poetry, poetics or other art forms (see link for more), and will range from $500 to $3,000. Due Feb. 13th! Learn more! centerforthehumanities.org/2026-lost-fo... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Deadline is FRIDAY! We are so excited to see your proposals! See some examples of past projects at this link, but please do not feel limited by them! We want to see *your* passion, *your* project. centerforthehumanities.org/2025-lost-fo... @cunyenglish.bsky.social @complitgccuny.bsky.social

2025 Lost & Found Archival Research Fellows and Projects - Center for the Humanities

Each year, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative offers Archival Research Fellowships and Grants to CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students conducting archival research on poets, writers, ...

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Lost & Found@cunypoetics.bsky.social · 9mo ago

For students in all disciplines who interested in archival research in or around 20th century poetry, poetics or other art forms (see link for more), and will range from $500 to $3,000. Due Feb. 13th! Learn more! centerforthehumanities.org/2026-lost-fo... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Two on Toni! First a workshop on how to ignite learning spaces with inspiration from Bambara’s own teaching practices. Then a new film that highlights how we can learn from Bambara in a time of renewed questions. centerforthehumanities.org/event/toni-c... centerforthehumanities.org/event/toni-c...

Featuring presentations on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa’s unpublished poetry and “Tongues of Fire” manuscript; Stuart Hall, Richard Pryor, Free Jazz and the Black Arts Movement, and Gwendolyn Bennett, Claudia Jones, and Mae Mallory! centerforthehumanities.org/event/lost-a...

A huge congratulations to our Director on her AWARD WINNING poetry collection! “My book draws from my experiences getting to know the New York City archipelago from the perspective of its many rivers, creeks, and tidal kills."  www.gc.cuny.edu/news/directo... @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social

Director of the Center for the Humanities Wins Pushcart Poetry Prize

The award honors alumna Kendra Sullivan’s debut poetry collection exploring narrative, memory, and climate justice.

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Please join us also for @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Shorts: An Evening of Films and Discussion! A program showcasing the talent of GC film artists, whose creative work reflects their groundbreaking research and distinctive viewpoints. centerforthehumanities.org/event/gradua...

Graduate Center Shorts: An Evening of Films and Discussion - Center for the Humanities

Still from Las Olas, a short film by Fernando Vieira.

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Ronaldo will also be hosting a creative workshop for @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social students. Inspired by brief in-class readings, conversation, and related exercises, we will create new works. Space is limited so please register here to attend. centerforthehumanities.org/event/instan...

Join us for a performance lecture by poet, artist, and CUNY Graduate Center alum Ronaldo V. Wilson embodying form and place through language, dance, song, and video. Introduced by poet and artist @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/still-cand... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

“Candy” first debuted in 1982, yet “Candy” still lingers, often flourishing in Wilson’s art, recently in improvised dialogues, drawings and site-specific urban and land art performance videos. Join for this form-fluid event: centerforthehumanities.org/event/still-... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Youtube link to the Cascadia Poetics Lab interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1u...

Sam O'Hana Cascadian Prophets Interview

YouTube video by Paul E Nelson

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@samohana.com looks at Allen Ginsberg’s tax returns to understand how Ginsberg supported himself, and the point at which he finally started getting paid for the poetry he created. Read his findings, or listen to him on @cascadiapoeticslab.bsky.social. centerforthehumanities.org/dear-future-...

For students in all disciplines who interested in archival research in or around 20th century poetry, poetics or other art forms (see link for more), and will range from $500 to $3,000. Due Feb. 13th! Learn more! centerforthehumanities.org/2026-lost-fo... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

@onuraayaz.bsky.social visited the Charles Olson Research Collection at @uconn.bsky.social in search of poetry and teachings, but unexpectedly discovered Olson’s trip to Key West where his poetic genius was born. Below are Ayaz’s experiences and findings: centerforthehumanities.org/discovering-...

TOMORROW! Please join us for a bilingual dialogue and reading put together by L&F Fellow Natasha Tiniacos, alongside poets, scholars, and translators to discuss the phenomenon of literary exophony: the experience of existing outside one’s mother tongue. centerforthehumanities.org/event/exopho...

Exophony in New York o el inglés como lengua literaria - Center for the Humanities

Please join us for a bilingual dialogue and reading put together by Lost & Found Fellow Natasha Tiniacos as part of the Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York (FILNYC), alongside poe...

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A thank you to everyone who came out to this fantastic wide-ranging and brilliant discussion with legendary poet and activist Margaret Randall! It was such a privilege to witness life-long commitment to activism, friendship, poetry, and all @newvillagepress.bsky.social@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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

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 · 10mo ago

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