Frequency North: The Visiting Writers Reading Series at The College of Saint Rose
Frequency North, the Visiting Writers Reading Series at the College of Saint Rose, calls itself "aggressively eclectic." Events at Frequency North feature fiction writers, memoirists, graphic novelists, poets, slam performers, singer-songwriters, even game shows.
The events this season are funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
All readings are free and are open to the public.
Announcing the 2010-2011 season!
Thursday, September 16, 7:30pm
Stephen Elliott
Location: Standish Rooms, second floor of the Events and Activities Center, Standish Rooms, which are on the second floor of the Events and Activities Center, 420 Western Avenue, Albany, NY.
Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books including The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder, which has been described as "genius" by both the San Francisco Chronicle and Vanity Fair. The Adderall Diaries was the best book of the year in Time Out New York, a best of 2009 in Kirkus Reviews, and one of 50 notable books in the San Francisco Chronicle. His novel, Happy Baby, was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lion Award as well as a best book of the year in Salon.com, Newsday, Chicago New City, the Journal News, and the Village Voice. Elliott's writing has been featured in Esquire, Spin, The New York Times, The Believer, GQ, Best American Non-Required Reading 2005 and 2007, Best American Erotica, and Best Sex Writing 2006. He is the editor of The Rumpus.
Website: http://www.stephenelliott.com
Thursday, October 14, 7:30pm
Meghan Daum
Location: Standish Rooms, second floor of the Events and Activities Center, Standish Rooms, which are on the second floor of the Events and Activities Center, 420 Western Avenue, Albany, NY.
Meghan Daum is the author, most recently, of Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, a memoir about real estate addiction, published in May 2010 by Knopf. Since 2005, she has been a weekly opinion columnist at the Los Angeles Times. That column is distributed widely to numerous newspapers across the country and in 2006 was a finalist for a National Journalism Award and the winner of the Southern California Journalism Award in column writing. Meghan is also the author of the essay collection My Misspent Youth and the novel The Quality of Life Report. She has contributed to public radio programs such as This American Life and Marketplace and her articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, GQ, Vogue, and The New York Times, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.
Website: http://www.meghandaum.com
Wednesday, October 20, 7:30pm
Scott Rosenberg
co-presented with the Writing Across the Curriculum committee as part of the National Day of Writing
Location: Saint Joseph Auditorium, 985 Madison Avenue
Scott Rosenberg is a writer, editor and website builder. He is a cofounder of Salon.com and author of Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters, (Crown). “Say Everything is where I'd tell you to start if you want to understand where blogging came from, and why it's important,” writes Jay Rosen, creator of PressThink.org and professor of journalism at New York University. He is also author of the book Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest For Transcendent Software. Co-founder of Salon.com, where he served as technology editor and later managing editor and VP/editorial operations for many years, he also started the Salon Blogs program in 2002 and began his own blog as part of it.
Before Salon he wrote on theater, movies, and technology for the San Francisco Examiner for a decade and was honored with the George Jean Nathan Award for his reviews. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wired, and many other publications. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and two sons.
Website: http://wordyard.com
Thursday, November 11, 7:30pm
Alexander Chee + Kathleen Rooney
Location: Standish Rooms, second floor of the Events and Activities Center, Standish Rooms, which are on the second floor of the Events and Activities Center, 420 Western Avenue, Albany, NY.
Alexander Chee was born in Rhode Island, and raised in South Korea, Guam and Maine. He is a recipient of the 2003 Whiting Writers’ Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in Fiction, a 2010 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House, the Hermitage and the VCCA. His second novel, The Queen of the Night, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in fall of 2011. His first novel, Edinburgh (Picador, 2002), is a winner of the Michener Copernicus Prize, the AAWW Lit Award and the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, and was a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year. In 2003, Out Magazine honored him as one of their 100 Most Influential People of the Year. His essays and stories have appeared in Granta.com, Out, The Morning News, The Man I Might Become, Loss Within Loss, Boys Like Us and Mentors, Muses and Monsters. He has taught writing at Wesleyan, The New School and Amherst College.
Website: http://www.alexanderchee.net
Kathleen Rooney is a poet and a writer. Her latest work is the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs (Counterpoint Press), which has been described as “smart and subtly honed” (Publisher’s Weekly) and “captures the poignancy and absurdity of life at the turn of the twenty-first century” (Booklist). With Abby Beckel, she is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press. With Elisa Gabbert, she is the author of That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths, 2008). With her husband, the writer Martin Seay, she lives in Chicago.
Website: http://www.kaltheenrooney.com
February 24, 2011, 7:30pm
Aaron Belz + Melissa Broder
Location: Standish Rooms, second floor of the Events and Activities Center, Standish Rooms, which are on the second floor of the Events and Activities Center, 420 Western Avenue, Albany, NY.
Aaron Belz’s second full-length book, Lovely, Raspberry, was published by Persea Books in June 2010. He is the founder and former curator of Observable Readings in St. Louis and has given readings of his poetry all over the country as well as in numerous stand-up comedy venues in the Los Angeles area. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Fence, Painted Bride Quarterly, Black Clock, and other places He is also the author of The Bird Hoverer, and is an English professor at Providence Christian College in Ontario, California.
Website: http://belz.net
Melissa Broder is the author of When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother (Ampersand Books, February 2010). She is the chief editor of La Petite Zine and curates the Polestar Poetry Series. By day, she is a publicity manager at Penguin. Broder received her BA from Tufts University and is getting a slow, scenic MFA at CCNY. She won the 2009 Stark Prize for Poetry and the 2008 Jerome Lowell Dejur Award. Her poems appear, or are forthcoming, in many journals, including: Opium, Shampoo, PANK, Five Dials, The Del Sol Review, Word for/Word, Miracle Monocle and Swink. She lives in Brooklyn.
Website: http://www.melissabroder.com
Thursday, March 31, 7:30pm
Eboni Hogan + Jeanann Verlee
Location: Standish Rooms, second floor of the Events and Activities Center, Standish Rooms, which are on the second floor of the Events and Activities Center, 420 Western Avenue, Albany, NY.
A 24-year-old poet, actress and Bronx native, Eboni Hogan has performed in over 30 U.S. cities and facilitated workshops from refugee camps to prestigious universities. She is the reigning Women of the World Slam Champion, the 2008 Urbana Grand Slam Champion and a two-time representative of the Nuyorican Slam Team. She studied theater at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and in 2006 took part in a five-month artist residency as a part of NYU's Hip Hop Theater Initiative in Ghana, West Africa. Her work is published in two anthologies and her first book, Grits.
Jeanann Verlee is a former punk rocker who collects tattoos and winks at boys. She is author of Racing Hummingbirds, recipient of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in Poetry. Other publication credits include, The New York Quarterly, FRiGG, PANK, and Not A Muse. She curates the Urbana Poetry Slam Series at Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, has represented NYC six times at National Poetry Slam competitions, and has toured the U.S. performing and conducting workshops. She shares an apartment with her dog and a pair of origami lovebirds. She believes in you.
Website: http://jeanannverlee.com
Past Visitors to Frequency North
2009-2010 season
Darcey Steinke
Jessica Anthony
Peter Conners
Jericho Brown
Ernest Hilbert
CLMP's Capital Lit Festival
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Derrick Brown
“Mighty” Mike McGee
2008-2009 season
Marilin Nelson
Deborah Ager
Taylor Mali
Alice Fulton
David Rees
Rachel Shukert
2007-2008 season
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Shappy Seasholtz
Darcey Steinke
Gregory Pardlo
Wayne Koestenbaum
Nalini Jones
David Lehman
2006-2007 season
Patricia Smith
Janice Erlbaum
Jordan Davis
Jason Spiro
Tara Emelye of The Reverse
Drew Gardner
Joanna Fuhrman
Hal Niedzviecki
Nelly Reifler
2005-2006 season
Jenny Boully
Regie Cabico
Sparrow
Matt Madden
