Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Author of the novels Tragic Magic and Darktown Strutters; the plays Boogie Woogie and Booker T and Life During War Time; and the anthologies Imagining America and Visions of America.
President of The New World Foundation; former editor of Social Policy magazine; author of The Great School Legend; and co-author of Choosing Equality and A Call to Character.
Regents Professor of English at the University of Minnesota; author of Blue Arabesque, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory, Virgin Time, and A Romantic Education; recipient of numerous awards, including MacArthur, Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships.
Executive Director of The American Documentary/P.O.V.; has served on the board of directors of both Elders Share the Arts and East Harlem Block Schools; former associate director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
Author of a score of books, including 36 Children, Growing Minds, I Won’t Learn From You, and She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott; founding director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
First Vice President, Smith Barney (Citigroup).
Editor of The Art of the Personal Essay; author of Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, and Being with Children, about his experiences as a teaching artist with Teachers & Writers Collaborative; professor at Hofstra University.
Author of numerous novels for young adults, including The Young Landlords and Motown and Didi; the biography Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary; and the history book Now Is Your Time: The African-American Struggle for Freedom.
Author of many books of poems, including Great Balls of Fire, You Never Know, and How to Be Perfect, and the biographies Joe and Oklahoma Tough; Teachers & Writers Collaborative publications director from 1980-2000.
Professor in the Business School at New York University and author of 110 Livingston Street.
Author of the short story collections Crimes of Passion, On Sundays We Visit the In-laws, and Arriving at Work, and the memoir What We Deserved; publisher of Cane Hill Press; former Teachers & Writers Collaborative director.
Director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative from 1979-2005; co-editor of The Point: Where Teaching & Writing Intersect.
Editor, The New York Review of Books; a founder of Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
Author of Diarios robados (Stolen Diaries); De todo da la noche al que la tienta (The Night Gives All to Those Who Tempt Her); and El Entre La Vigilia y el Sueño de Las Fieras (Wild Animals Between Waking and Dreaming); professor at NYC College of Technology/City University of New York.
May 15 – 2020 Visions: DeWitt Henry, Greg Sanders, and Nickole Brown
May 23 – Poetry Reading: Naomi Replansky
May 27 – 2020 Visions: Matthew Sharpe and Elizabeth Hand
May 29 – T&W’s 40th Anniversary: Herbert Kohl and Phillip Lopate
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