Workshop Facilitator: Rommi Smith, writer and PhD Researcher, The University of Leeds, England English Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy states: ‘poetry is the music of being human.' In this writing and performance-based workshop, we will explore music, not only as prompt, stimulus and muse, but […]

Collected in this exhibit are text-based and visual art materials created out of a residency program that plunges writers from the Queens College MFA in Creative Writing and Translation into a single archive: the Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM). Residents are asked to engage with, […]

Rommi Smith, poet, playwright, performer, and the first British Parliamentary Writer in Residence, comes to the Graduate Center February 22 to present a stunning lecture-performance animated by her archival exploration of the lives of women jazz and blues musicians. A John Barnard Scholar at The University of Leeds, UK, […]